The last time this happened, it was after a lot of secret administration happy talk about how much removal of protections could mean gobs more public land could be mined, logged, drilled, and otherwise exploited by their industry pals.
More pollution means worse health impacts, meaning more medical bills. Less clean energy means higher electricity and transportation bills. Being less competitive globally means a $2.3 trillion loss of GDP by 2040.
“The US having to cancel major 4th of July celebrations because of extreme heat is almost too spot on as a metaphor for the country’s failure to combat global warming.”—Fossil Free Media director Jamie Henn.
Chances are strong that prohibitions on the sale and possession of AR-15s and other semi-auto firearms will be overturned by the justices
How long before teachers get disciplined or fired for failing to take the right line when discussing these biblical excerpts?
In 1991, when the National Parks Service renamed the Little Bighorn battlefield site, removing Custer's name, it sparked hate mail from Americans who still viewed him as a hero.
What does It say about our national zeitgeist that the most famous and revered quote from an American Indian was part of a surrender speech?
What are purportedly provisions of the memorandum of understanding regarding ending the Iran-US-Israel war looks to make it the "worst deal ever."
Big Five nuclear nations ignore key element of non-proliferation treaty as they enhance and expand their atomic arsenals while telling non-nuclear nations to obey it to the letter. There's growing disgruntlement over that.
WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo: “Extreme heat is increasingly defining the conditions under which agrifood systems operate."
The post-Cold War nuclear weapons reductions that once lent credibility to the disarmament project have reversed.
The Iranian mullahs aren't good guys. They slaughter their own people. But the war on Iran over its nuclear program is very much our Outlaw Prez's fault motivated at least partly by his antipathy for all things Obama
UN Secretary-General António Guterres: "Humanity has just endured the 11 hottest years on record. When history repeats itself 11 times, it is no longer a coincidence. It is a call to act."
Energy Secretary Wright and other “energy dominance” muckety-mucks dismiss the burned towns, flooded neighborhoods, disrupted harvests, displaced communities, and sea-level rise. But they cannot ignore the economics.
The U.S. and four other nuclear-armed nations spend trillions to upgrade and expand their arsenals of thousands of nukes while war is made on Iran, which has zero.
Will our Outlaw Prez order attacks, or won't he? He abandons promises remorselessly, so maybe he’ll do the same with his threats and just be TACO man again.
A cabal of activists eager to see an end to all climate initiatives are getting oodles of help from the Trump regime
The question people mutter is no longer who knew, but whether anyone in power did not.
The researchers projected three scenarios. The severe cuts scenario was considered keeping in mind the implicit trajectory of policy platforms being advanced by ever more powerful rightwing parties gaining power across Europe.