Cleantech Creates Higher Paying Jobs — Millions Of Them
One of the greatest side benefits of climate action is that it creates a lot of jobs. Not only that...
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ExxonMobil Continues to Fund Climate Science Deniers
After decades of public denial, ExxonMobil now acknowledges that “the risk of climate change is real” and says it is “committed to...
Low-income Mississippi county is a favorite IRS target — and residents pay more than Trump in taxes
When the late New York City real estate magnate Leona Helmsley infamously said “only the little people pay taxes,” she spoke the...
Billionaire wealth rises to more than $10 trillion for first time ever amid pandemic
Billionaire wealth increased to $10.2 trillion through the end of July, setting a new record amid the coronavirus pandemic even...
James Murdoch says his family media empire at Fox News legitimizes disinformation
James Murdoch, the former CEO of 21st Century Fox and the youngest son of Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch, has admitted that he...
Studies Show 8 Million Forced Into Poverty Since McConnell Let Relief Expire
The authors of two separate poverty studies out of three top universities said Thursday that their findings make the unmistakable...
Dark Money Behind Supreme Court Nominee Amy Barrett
The Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court are one part comedy,...
Leaked Docs From Inside ‘Omnicidal’ ExxonMobil Reveal Plan to Increase Climate-Killing Emissions
New reporting Monday based on leaked internal documents reveals ExxonMobil has been planning to notably increase annual carbon dioxide emissions—a revelation that...
Mike Pence Lied BIG LEAGUE About Trump’s Environmental Record
I just watched most of the US vice presidential debate. There were several gigantic lies that Vice President Mike Pence...
Obamacare repeal would bring a huge tax cut for the rich
The fate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), known as Obamacare, lies with the Supreme Court: The nation’s highest court will...
Rep. Katie Porter eviscerates pharma CEO with a math lesson about his $13 million salary
Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) never wastes an opportunity to roast a CEO. On Wednesday, three pharmaceutical executives, including former Celgene...
Our Tax Code Is Designed To Create Donald Trump
In 2011, The New York Times published what was, at the time, the most shocking expose on tax policy in...
Taxpayers looking at their monthly bills have a lot of thoughts about Trump’s $750 tax bill
The $750 in federal income taxes that Donald Trump paid in 2016 and 2017 is an attention-grabbing number—in large part...
Outrage as Pentagon Funnels Hundreds of Millions Meant for Covid Supplies to Private Defense Contractors
Instead of adhering to congressional intent by building up the nation’s inadequate supply of N95 masks and other equipment to combat the...
GOP Leaders on Trump Post-Election Threats: Trust Us!
Top Republicans on Thursday vowed to ensure a peaceful transfer of power should President Donald Trump lose the November election,...
Dirty Louisiana Politicians Get Paid To Push Pipeline Through Black & Indigenous Communities
Southerly has reported that public records show a Louisiana lawmaker is getting paid to push a proposed 280-mile Delta Express pipeline through Black...
Millions of Children Go Hungry as Mitch McConnell Blocks Stimulus Bill
Millions of children across the United States are already going hungry amid the economic recession spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic,...
‘Delay, Distract, and Derail’: New Report Reveals How Plastic Polluters Avoid Regulation
Analysis released Thursday of the world’s top 10 biggest plastic polluters in 15 countries reveals how major corporations hide behind...
Faced With Consequences of Climate Crisis, Low-Lying Delaware Sues 31 Fossil Fuel Companies
Joining the trend of city, county, and state governments trying to make polluters pay for their significant contributions to the...
Progressives Demand McConnell ‘Get Serious’ About Coronavirus Relief
After Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s attempt to pass the so-called “skinny” coronavirus relief plan—prioritizing corporations over the health,...
Donald Trump is a Threat to the Planet
President Trump is a threat not just to America, but to the planet. I’m not talking about his radicalization of...
Minivans at the Food Pantry: Meet America’s New Needy
LAKESIDE, Calif. — This is America: a family crammed in a minivan driving mile after mile across San Diego County,...
Notorious liar Trump promised a health care plan before the end of August. It never came.
President Donald Trump has long promised to release a health care plan that could replace Obamacare, but with just two months to...
Anger grows at GOP over economic pain: ‘I blame Mitch McConnell the most’
With jobless Americans growing increasingly desperate and furious at congressional Republicans for skipping town for summer recess without approving Covid-19 relief, House Speaker Nancy...
Big oil is lobbying the Trump administration to push plastic waste across Africa
A lobby group representing oil and chemical companies, including Shell, Exxon, Total, DuPont and Dow, has been pushing the Trump...
‘Wage theft’: Millions of workers will earn less in 2021 under Trump’s payroll tax deferral
Days after the payroll processor for the federal government—one of the nation’s largest employers—announced it would implement President Donald Trump’s plan...
Paul Krugman: Stocks are soaring. So is misery.
On Tuesday, the S&P 500 stock index hit a record high. The next day, Apple became the first U.S. company...
‘I don’t trust him’: How Trump abandoned workers when they needed him the most
Kenny Overstreet scrounges every penny—and even sells the eggs his chickens lay—to make ends meet after Packaging Corporation of America...
Another Sleazy Trump Crony Arrested
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon was arrested Thursday after being charged with defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors...
Paul Krugman debunks right-wing myths about the US Postal Service
When he isn’t writing his New York Times column, Paul Krugman often addresses economic matters on Twitter. The liberal economist,...
McConnell’s refusal to help states likely to hurt US economy and result in 4 million more job losses
During the coronavirus crisis, Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell has stressed that he has no interest in “bailing out” blue...
‘A Homeless Pandemic’ Looms As 30 Million Are At Risk Of Eviction
Cruz Santos thought her life was finally turning around in early March when she found a job at a shoe...
Trump admitted on television he will ‘terminate’ Social Security and Medicare if he wins reelection
President Donald Trump on Saturday afternoon openly vowed to permanently “terminate” the funding mechanism for both Social Security and Medicare...
Why the idea of jobless benefits scares the conservative mind
When Congress passed the CARES Act earlier this year, lawmakers gave some low-wage Americans who lost their jobs an income...
Trump still trying to destroy Obamacare — a crucial lifeline during the pandemic
Ten years after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the Trump administration is now asking the Supreme Court to overturn it....
Filing by NY Prosecutors Indicates Broader Probe Into Alleged Trump Tax Fraud
Court filings by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. on Monday led to renewed speculation that prosecutors in New York have targeted...
Anger With GOP Growing as $600 Unemployment Benefit Lapses
Americans angry with inaction from Senate Republicans and President Donald Trump on extending $600 a week unemployment benefits are accusing the...
A Majority Of People In The US Say The Federal Gov’t Should Do More About Climate
The US federal government should be doing a whole lot more to reduce the impacts of climate change. Those are the findings...
New Analysis Details How Electrifying the US Economy by 2035 Could Create 25 Million Green Jobs
A report released Wednesday by a new nonprofit—in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the resulting economic disaster, and calls...
Paul Krugman: ‘Cult of selfishness’ behind GOP’s destructive response to coronavirus pandemic
Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore has reported a COVID-19 death count of more than 148,000 for the United States, which has...
‘For a Greener Future’: Omar, Sanders Lead Bill to End Destructive Taxpayer Subsidies for Fossil Fuels
Progressive Democrats led by Rep. Ilhan Omar and Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday introduced a bill to eliminate fossil fuel...
Trump’s Reelection Strategy Involves Terrorizing Us With Secret Stormtroopers
Donald Trump and his cohort of propagandists at Fox News would have us believe the major cities of the United States have...
GOP COVID Relief Plan Includes Romney Bill to Slash Social Security and Medicare
Shortly after publicly ditching one attack on Social Security — the payroll tax cut — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell confirmed Thursday...
Trump family business profits from reelection bid amid pandemic
While President Trump faces bruising poll numbers amid the coronavirus pandemic and financial crisis, his family business continues making money off his...
McConnell’s Corporate Immunity Plan Sparks Alarm
Consumer and workers’ rights advocates are warning that new details of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s plan to shield businesses...
‘Resounding’ Win for Public Health and Climate as Judge Blocks Trump Attempt to Gut Methane Restrictions
Green groups celebrated a “resounding victory for taxpayers, public health, and the environment” late Wednesday after a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from...
