Tag: fossil fuel
‘Major victory:’ Landowner’s legal challenge halts construction of Bayou Bridge Pipeline...
"We have been tased, pepper sprayed, put into choke holds, and beaten with batons to stop this illegal construction that ETP was carrying out despite not having an easement for the land."
We can no longer afford a fossil fuel economy
The costs of not acting are high. The benefits of investing in a clean energy economy would be widespread. We need to keep building the movement.
UK councils invest billions in fracking, including companies tied to Donald...
Without that gift from the GOP and Trump, EOG would have lost approximately $700 million between those two years.
Trump administration admits 1,400+ more people will die each year following...
Trump recently announced a massive rollback of Obama-era environmental regulations on coal-fired power plants and carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to climate change.
5 Virginia officials involved in regulating Dominion Energy are invested in...
According to financial disclosures, four of them directly own stock in the company, while the wife of a fifth official works for Dominion.
A Koch-fueled attack on electric buses picks up speed
Despite these efforts by Koch affiliates and oil industry consultants, the electrification of bus transit is firmly underway.
How One West Virginia Supreme Court justice gave natural gas a...
Justice Beth Walker voted to reopen an already decided case around the time her husband owned stock in a variety of energy companies. And that’s not even why she’s been impeached.
Another set back for TransCanada: Keystone XL pipeline in Nebraska to...
Since the pipeline will now follow an alternative route and not its original route, Morris wrote the government "cannot escape their responsibility."
ALEC Sets the table for gerrymandering, union busting, protecting fossil fuels,...
A breakdown of ALEC’s menu of policy proposals at the New Orleans conference.
DNC takes donations from fossil fuel industry contrary to original resolution...
This is “an absolute failure by the DNC.”
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Nearly half of US hospitals no longer deliver babies, new report finds
Rural hospitals keep losing the fight over leaner Medicaid budgets, and a separate analysis finds reaching the nearest labor and delivery unit already takes an hour or more in fourteen states.
F is for Failure and Fascism
On leadership, character, climate, prices, trade, alliances, militarism, health, civil/voting rights, even law and order.
Pentagon Iran War Report admits to Worst Drubbing since Vietnam
The Pentagon puts the war's cost at 33.4 billion dollars, independent estimates put it at more than three times that, with strikes across roughly twenty Middle East bases.
Kennedy Center board warns of bankruptcy unless Trump’s name returns to building
A 57-page draft resolution ties the center's fundraising future to ten proposed inscriptions honoring the president, as a federal judge who already ruled the board overstepped weighs a related case.
Judge orders Labor Department to rewrite farmworker wage rule after finding it unlawful
The ruling forces new minimum pay rates for the guestworker visa program that brings in most of the country's legal farm labor, with back pay possible for hundreds of thousands of workers.