Minneapolis Set to Vote on Dissolving Police Department
Minneapolis was a landmark last year after George Floyd’s brutal murder by police on a busy street corner sparked riots against racism and police violence that swept across the country. The marches and “reforms” following previous police killings in Minneapolis did not stop former officer Derek Chauvin from taking Floyd’s life in broad daylight, or […]
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Climate Advocates Fear Supreme Court May Undo EPA’s Ability to Tackle Emissions
As the U.S. President Joe Biden prepares to attend a consequential United Nations climate summitThe Supreme Court of Scotland on Friday caused widespread alarm in Scotland agreeing to review the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to limit planet-heating pollution. “The Supreme Court could destroy the planet. Pass it on,” tweetedRep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), as a response […]
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Here’s How Conservatives Can Be Convinced to Blame Big Oil for Climate Change
This story first appeared in Vice NewsCovering Climate Now includes this. What is it that a Republican needs to believe to convince them that oil and gas companies lied to them about climate change, and are responsible for contributing to it. Some were convinced by just a few sentences. That’s according to a new poll […]
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Democrats Add $775 Million Oil and Gas Subsidy to Bill After Lobbyist Campaign
In a move that bucks climate advocates’ cries to end fossil fuel subsidies once and for all, House Democrats included a large handout to the oil and gas industry in the newly released draft text of the White House’s Dismally lowProposed reconciliation package of $1.75 trillion The new proposal for a methane fee amends an […]
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Adam Kinzinger, One Of Trump’s Fiercest GOP Critics, Quitting Congress
Rep. Adam Kinzinger is a prominent Republican critic of President Donald Trump. He announced his retirement from Congress on Friday. Kinzinger, R-Ill., delivered the news in an announcement video, saying that he remembered “saying that if I ever thought it was time to move on from Congress, I would. And that time is now.” He […]
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Shell CEO Refuses to Recognize Climate Crisis as “Existential Threat” in Hearing
On Thursday, House Democrats held a historic hearing that required big oil and gas executives to testify before Congress about how much they had lied to the public in the past about the climate crisis. During the hearing, CEOs from Exxon, BP, Chevron, Shell and industry group American Petroleum Institute emphasized their supposed commitments to […]
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Fossil Fuel Interests Continue to Block Climate Action in Europe Ahead of COP26
After a one year delay due to the pandemic, COP26 will be held next Sunday, 31 October. These past weeks were filled with attention-grabbing demonstrations. sit-in Outside the Dutch parliament in The Hague, and a harbour blockade of Shell’s refinery in Rotterdam. The message to world leaders from civil society remains the same: Stop talking […]
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Meadows’s Delay to Comply With Jan. 6 Subpoena May Lead to Contempt Charges
The House select committee investigating the attack on the Capitol building in January is growing weary of Mark Meadows, a former Trump aide who delayed sending key documents and giving testimony. Meadows, who served as Trump’s chief of staff during the Capitol attack, Was first subpoenaed in September by the January 6-commission. Since then, the […]
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The Centerpiece of the Build Back Better Climate Plan Has Been Stripped Out
Months into the Democrats’ messy, public internal debates on President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better spending plans — and despite a massive effort by Biden, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speak Nancy Pelosi to seal the deal this week — it is still far from clear whether the factions of the party will […]
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As Pharma Cash Rained Down, Sinema Killed Democrats’ Prescription Drug Plan
It was the “ugliest night” the late Rep. Walter Jones, a North Carolina Republican, said he had witnessed in two decades in politics. It was 2003 when members of his party, who were allied with Big Pharma, orchestrated a daring late night coup to pass a bill that industry lobbyists had written. This bill would […]
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