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House GOP Defends Fossil Gas Exports as Industry Profits at Consumers’ Expense
2024-02-15 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismFossil industry-backed House Republicans advanced a bill to undo Biden's pause on climate-warming LNG export terminals.
Tagged under: Global Warming
House GOP Would Have Taxpayers Pay for Cleanup When Fracking Boom Goes Bust
2023-12-06 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismLauren Boebert’s bill could saddle taxpayers with up to $17.7 billion in oil and gas cleanup costs on public lands.
Tagged under: Fracking
Our Fixation on Green Technology Harms Our Ability to Confront Climate Crisis
2023-10-23 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismGreen technology “solutions” to the climate crisis distract us from the deep structural changes that we need to make.
Inside the High-Security “Black Site” Where Leonard Peltier Is Incarcerated
2023-09-28 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismThe prison where Leonard Peltier is incarcerated has been in a near-constant state of lockdown for almost four years.
RICO Charges Attempt to Paint Stop Cop City Movement as a Criminal “Conspiracy”
2023-09-06 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismThe sweeping 109-page indictment presents acts of mutual aid and zine reading as evidence of a criminal “conspiracy.”
Tagged under: Activism
There Is a Climate Conspiracy — But Not the One Climate Denialists Are Peddling
2023-08-06 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismEnvironmentalists and elites aren’t in cahoots to destroy the U.S. But fossil fuels’ damage on the world is undeniable.
Tagged under: Fossil Fuels
State-Level GOP Measures Focus on Adapting to Climate Crisis, Not Preventing It
2023-08-05 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismThis paradoxical approach is part of the GOP’s desperate commitment to a climate denialist agenda.
Fossil Fuel Exec Is Slated to Lead COP28. We Must Decolonize Climate Governance.
2023-08-03 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismCurrent climate governance is rooted in the same colonial mindsets that led us to this very crisis.
Tagged under: COP28
New Details From Leonard Leo’s Trust Fund Expose the Inner Workings of the Right
2023-06-17 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismNewly obtained documents shed light on a vast and corrupt right-wing influence network.
Nearly Every Major Move by GOP-Controlled House So Far Has Had an Anti-Climate Angle
2023-06-14 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismFrom the debt ceiling to their latest tax plan, the GOP has been taking pot shots at the climate movement at every turn.
Tagged under: Finance
Colorado River Is on Life Support, and 40 Million People Depend on It for Water
2023-05-31 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismVulnerable communities may be at risk of reduced water supply under a new Colorado River agreement.
Tagged under: Rivers | Colorado River
Senator Whitehouse: 275 of 315 Pages of GOP Debt Limit Bill Are Big Oil Favors
2023-05-09 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismThe proposal contains the entirety of Republicans’ H.R. 1, a major pro-fossil fuel package.
Tagged under: Finance
What Would It Take to Defeat Big Oil? A Progressive Economist Weighs In.
2023-04-19 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismTo be successful, climate mitigation policies must not exacerbate global inequality, economist Gregor Semieniuk says.
Tagged under: Climate Change Mitigation
Atlanta’s “Stop Cop City” Movement Is Spreading Despite Rampant State Repression
2023-03-26 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismPolice and prosecutors have used every tool in their arsenal to crush the spreading movement against Atlanta’s Cop City.
20 Years After US Invasion, Iraq Faces Cascading Climate and Water Crises
2023-03-20 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismA defender of Iraq’s southern marshlands was recently kidnapped amid extreme drought and fierce competition for water.
Tagged under: Drought
$340 Million Anti-Labor Consulting Industry Is Behind Contemporary Union-Busting
2023-02-06 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismUnion-busting firms are teaching corporations to cynically co-opt progressive rhetoric as they crush worker organizing.
Massive Inequality Is a “Concerted Elite Class Project,” Says Heather Gautney
2023-02-04 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismIt’s no accident that inequalities have widened under entrenched corporate power, says sociologist Heather Gautney.
Billionaire’s Lawsuit Against O’Rourke May Stifle Criticism of Money in Politics
2023-01-28 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismThe lawsuit shows the oligarchic desire to wield political influence without being subject to public accountability.
Fracking Firm Agrees to Pay a Small Town’s Water Bills for 75 Years
2022-12-01 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismA fracking company has been convicted 14 years after polluting water wells in Dimock, Pennsylvania.
Tagged under: Fracking
Right-Wing Dark Money Flooded the Midterm, But Young Voters Beat the Red Wave
2022-11-15 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismGOP-aligned dark money groups spent big trying to generate a “red wave” in the midterms — but they lost instead.
Europe Is Trying to Solve Its Energy Crisis With Fossil Fuel Projects in Africa
2022-08-20 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismStruggles for social justice and climate justice must be united to transform society amid government inaction.
Tagged under: Africa | Climate Justice
Carbon Capture Won’t Work, But It Will Funnel Billions to Corporations
2022-07-31 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismFossil fuel interests persuaded the government to waste billions on false schemes that don’t solve the climate crisis.
Those Who Face Record Heat Wave in India and Pakistan Did Not Create the Crisis
2022-05-02 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismHistorical emitters must step up as region reaches limits of adaptation to worsening heat waves, climate scientist says.
Manchin Just Delivered Another Blow on Climate. He’s a Threat to Humanity.
2022-03-16 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismThe absence of Manchin's support was a death knell for Sarah Bloom Raskin's nomination. Her crime: caring about climate.
Tagged under: Rivers | US Politics
Activists Are Using the “Climate Necessity Defense” in Court — and Winning
2021-12-24 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismAn upcoming court appeal is attempting to challenge the branding of Water and Land Protectors as eco-terrorists.
Tagged under: Activism
How Big Oil Rigs the System to Keep Winning
2021-12-10 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismThe oil and gas industry has refined its techniques to stay a step ahead over decades and it has no plans to stop soon.
Trees and Crops Don’t Have to Compete. Climate Crisis Calls for Agroforestry.
2021-11-27 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismAgroforestry holds the technical potential to sequester a significant percentage of total global emissions.
Tagged under: Trees
The Tragic Cycle of Bottled Water
2021-11-14 (or before) by JP Sottile in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismThe iconic image of governmental failure is the arrival of corporate-branded bottled water.
It’s Joe Manchin vs. the World, and Manchin Is Winning
2021-10-18 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismFor the time being and the foreseeable future, Manchin and his corporate sponsors hold the top cards.
Tagged under: Rivers | US Politics
Boebert Failed to Disclose Husband’s Nearly Half-Million Energy Company Salary
2021-08-20 (or before) by Sharon Zhang in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismThe lawmaker has also spent her first months in office pushing pro-fossil fuel bills and statements.
Exxon-Influenced Senators Carved Climate Out of Infrastructure Almost Entirely
2021-07-30 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismThe latest infrastructure negotiations cut about $29 billion from the previous draft, taking most from climate funding.
Tagged under: Exxon
Evidence of Fracking Chemicals Found in Bodies of Pennsylvania Children
2021-03-23 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismOne 9-year-old had 91 times the average level of biomarkers for toluene, a chemical that can damage livers and kidneys.
Tagged under: Children | Fracking | Women and Children
Bitcoin Could Push Global Emissions Above 2 Degrees Celsius, Scientists Say
2021-02-15 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismBitcoin mining may consume more than 120 terawatt-hours of electricity globally this year — more energy than Argentina.
Tagged under: Argentina | Electricity
Plutocrats Control the US Political System, But They Can Still Be Defeated
2020-09-03 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismUntil we climb out of our silos and mount a massive cross-issue campaign, we will continue to lose our democracy.
How Individualist Economics Are Causing Planetary Eco-Collapse
2020-08-19 (or before) by Richard Smith in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismWhile capitalism has brought unprecedented development, this same motor of development is now driving towards ecological collapse, threatening to doom us all.
Tagged under: Economics | Capitalism | Collapse
Richard Smith
2020-08-19 (or before) by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismRichard Smith is an economic historian. He wrote his UCLA history Ph.D. thesis on the transition to capitalism in China and held post-docs at the
Tagged under: Capitalism
Green Capitalism: How Multinationals Use Climate Change to Impose an Industrial Agricultural Model
2020-08-19 (or before) by Translated by Leslie Thatcher in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismAdvocates are questioning whether Big Ag's "climate-smart agriculture" will reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Capitalism
The GOP's “Southern Strategy” Shows How White Supremacy Fuels Class Exploitation
2020-07-18 (or before) by Peter Montague in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismA deliberately created racial hierarchy makes poor whites align with the superrich against their own interests.
It’s Time to Nationalize the Fossil Fuel Industry
2020-06-26 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismWe must institute public ownership of the fossil fuel industry to avert catastrophe, says economist Robert Pollin.
Georgia Primary Sends Us a Warning -- November Could Be a Voting Rights Disaster
2020-06-12 (or before) by Sasha Abramsky in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismThe U.S. witnessed a voting debacle that has been repeated throughout history, and which threatens the general election.
Four More Years of Donald Trump Could Delay Global Emissions Cuts by 10 Years
2020-06-02 (or before) by Josh Gabbatiss in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismTrump’s call to step back from international climate action endangers any prospect of hitting global emissions targets.
Tagged under: Donald Trump
Trump Adviser Calls Workers “Human Capital Stock,” Says We Should Get Back to Work
2020-05-26 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismTo them, we are only meat for the machine, nothing more than an entirely expendable commodity.
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Rivers
McConnell’s Pandemic Priority Is Appointing Conservative Judges
2020-05-06 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismMcConnell and Trump’s appointees threaten not only the COVID-19 recovery, but also federal programs for decades to come.
Tagged under: Donald Trump
Court Requests Probe Into Whether McConnell Unethically Pressured Judge to Retire to Pave Way for His Unqualified Protégé
2020-05-05 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismMcConnell has made pushing through right-wing judicial picks his top priority even amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Despite COVID-19, Trump Keeps on Gutting Protections for Workers
2020-04-26 (or before) by Mike Ludwig in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismPlummeting labor standards and enforcement under Trump has made workplaces even more dangerous during the pandemic.
Tagged under: Donald Trump
Climate Change Multiplies the Threats of Infectious Diseases
2020-04-19 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismGlobal warming can lead to compromised immune systems, which in turn makes individuals more susceptible to diseases.
Tagged under: Global Warming | Climate Change
Coronavirus Shows Us What Our Future Could Look Like During Climate Crisis
2020-03-29 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismCOVID-19, like climate, isn’t just about a singular crisis — it's about multiple crises unfolding all at once.
None of the 2020 Frontrunners Go Far Enough on Climate
2019-06-13 (or before) by Dahr Jamail in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismWe must look to the grassroots for guidance in order to ensure the survival of all life on this planet.
Killing Plants Is the Fastest Way to End the World
2018-11-20 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismA recent study underscores how human-caused warming could annihilate life through co-extinction of species.
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