Minnesota Sues Exxon, Koch, American Petroleum Institute Over Climate Change
WASHINGTON, June 24 (Reuters) – The state of Minnesota on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the American Petroleum Institute, Exxon...
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Sanders Unveils Amendment to Slash Bloated Pentagon Budget
With the Senate preparing to vote on an annual defense policy bill calling for $740.5 billion in military spending for...
The Trump Disaster Has Many Republican Women Bailing
It’s understandable that women, many of whom are overtaxed in this crisis with jobs, full-time child care and vulnerable elderly...
Republicans ramp up bid to rig election maps
A little-known Republican group is ramping up millions of dollars in funding from major US corporations such as CitiGroup and...
People of Ogoniland Still Waiting for Big Oil to Clean Up Devastating Pollution
In 2011, a ground-breaking report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) on oil pollution in Ogoniland highlighted the devastating impact of the...
The North Face Joins Civil Rights Boycott Urging Brands To Pull Facebook Ads
Outdoor clothing company The North Face became the highest-profile brand to join the #StopHateforProfit movement, which encourages large advertisers to...
Former Buffalo Officer Says ‘Cariol’s Law’ Could Stem Police Brutality
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Cariol Horne, who was fired from the Buffalo Police Department in 2008 after stopping a fellow officer...
Student Movement Leads To 100% Renewable Energy Policy For Salt Lake City Schools
Ready for a dollop of good news in an otherwise bleak world? A movement begun by high school students in...
US billionaires have regained $565 billion in wealth since the pit of the crisis
The past three months have been financially painful for many Americans — but not for billionaires.US billionaires have become $565 billion richer...
Shady US Department Trump official used his position to get his son-in-law an EPA job
An inspector general report published Friday found that Assistant Interior Secretary Douglas Domenech at the U.S. Department of the Interior used...
Groups Challenge Financial Sector to ‘End Support for Fossil Fuels and Climate Chaos’
Ahead of oil and gas giant ExxonMobil’s virtual annual shareholders meeting Wednesday morning, scores of international climate, human rights, faith, and Indigenous...
New Trump public land rules allows hunters to kill bear cubs in their dens
The Trump administration is finalizing rules that will allow hunters in Alaska’s national preserves to shoot bears and wolves, and their cubs...
Billionaires’ Net Worth Rises During Pandemic As Millions Go Unemployed
U.S. billionaires’ wealth grew substantially over the last two months even as tens of millions of Americans lost their jobs,...
Big Oil Takes $1.9 Billion in Tax Breaks Intended for Small Businesses
Sen. Bernie Sanders was among critics outraged that the fossil fuel industry is using tax breaks in the CARES Act...
Hundreds Of McDonald’s Workers Strike Over Company’s Response To Coronavirus
McDonald’s workers in 20 cities nationwide went on strike Wednesday, protesting against the company’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and...
Trump’s new coronavirus vaccine czar owns $10 million in stock options in company developing vaccine
The former pharmaceutical executive named by President Donald Trump to lead a federal coronavirus vaccine development project owns more than $10 million...
Trump made the Secret Service ‘captive customers’ in transactions at his businesses
Last week in the Washington Post, journalists David A. Fahrenthold and Joshua Partlow reported that according to federal records the...
Essential Sanitary Workers Strike for Hazard Pay and PPE in New Orleans
The severe outbreak of COVID-19 in southern Louisiana was the last straw for a group of sanitation workers who pick...
Trump Wanted Less Testing Because Jared Kushner Said It Would Spook Wall Street
On March 6, President Donald Trump issued out the now-infamous proclamation about coronavirus testing, in order to ease rising fears...
Fossil Fuels Already Get Billions in Bailouts — They’re Called Subsidies
Recently, the Federal Reserve announced that it would be loosening its lending guidelines so that more corporations, even those with...
Trump Vows To ‘Terminate Health Care’ Despite The Increase In COVID-19 Deaths
The GOP has nothing with which to replace Obamacare, but that does not concern Trump. He just wants to destroy...
‘Criminal negligence’: Trump officials ignored company’s offer to make 7 million N95 masks per month
Progressives on Saturday denounced an “infuriating” report which detailed the Department of Health and Human Services’ refusal to take an American company...
Facebook’s Double Standard on Political Ads
The Lincoln Project, a super PAC run by Republicans who oppose President Donald Trump, contacted Facebook to push the social...
Fossil fuel firms linked to Trump get millions in coronavirus small business aid
US fossil fuel companies have taken at least $50m in taxpayer money they probably won’t have to pay back, according...
Climate science deniers at forefront of downplaying coronavirus pandemic
Fringe climate science deniers who spread online disinformation are now actively downplaying the seriousness of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to...
Trump Campaign Secretly Paying $180,000 A Year To His Sons’ Significant Others
President Donald Trump’s campaign is secretly paying one Trump son’s wife and another one’s girlfriend $180,000 a year each through...
Nobel laureates condemn harassment of environmental lawyer
Twenty-nine Nobel laureates have condemned alleged “judicial harassment” by Chevron and urged the release of a US environmental lawyer who...
Coal Industry Seeks Cuts to Payments for Miners With Black Lung Amid Pandemic
Some of the largest coal companies in the United States are using the coronavirus crisis to pressure Congress to slash...
How the Republicans are stealing everything for the 1 percent
Enjoy your $1,200 one-time consolation prize for losing your livelihood, your way of life, and your economic security in this...
Trump Labor Secretary Condemned for Efforts to Roll Back Unemployment Benefits, Paid Leave
From his guidance rolling back paid leave benefits to his attempt to limit who qualifies for beefed up unemployment insurance, Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia’s...
Fox News Clan Is Preparing For Lawsuits Over Its Coronavirus Lies
Amid the mushrooming coronavirus crisis, Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch are girding for a pandemic of public-interest lawsuits over misinformation and conspiracy theories...
FEMA is now distributing medical supplies, but it’s still the Donald-and-Jared corrupt clown show
The Trump administration has gone from telling governors they’re on their own in fighting coronavirus to sweeping in and taking equipment that state or local...
Right-Wing Austerity Set New Orleans Up to Be a Coronavirus Disaster
New Orleans — Back in 1997, when Steve Scalise was a Louisiana state representative, he joined other right-wing lawmakers in...
The Billionaires Putting Their Wealth Above Public Health Amid the Pandemic
While millions are facing health and financial uncertainty and unemployment rolls are reaching record levels due to the novel coronavirus...
Under Cover of Pandemic, Trump’s NLRB Moves to Make Unionizing ‘Nearly Impossible for Workers’
The National Labor Relations Board finalized a rule this week that critics warn could make unionizing “nearly impossible for workers” at a moment when...
Republican’s sabotaged Florida’s unemployment system putting Trump’s re-election bid in jeopardy
Republicans are furious that Florida’s broken unemployment system was working exactly as former Gov. Rick Scott intended — and it...
Exxon Now Wants to Write the Regulatory Framework for Methane Emissions
ExxonMobil is a company capable of contradictions. It has been lobbying against government efforts to address climate change while running ads touting its own...
Trump Approves $4.5 Trillion in Welfare for Corporations; Objects to $1 Billion Price Tag for 80,000 Ventilators
President Donald Trump is expected as early as the end of this week to sign legislation that would establish a $4.5...
Rand Paul’s Office Won’t Say How He Got Coronavirus Tested Before Sick People
Sen. Rand Paul’s office has refused to say how the Senator from Kentucky was able to get tested for coronavirus...
Trump Taps Former Attorney Of Trophy Hunting Group For Key Wildlife Job
The Trump administration has hired Anna Seidman, formerly a longtime lawyer at the trophy hunting advocacy group Safari Club International,...
Virus Relief Bill Would Allow Mnuchin To Hand Out $500 Million ‘Slush Fund’ To Secret Corporations
The White House on Sunday reportedly refused to back down from its demand that a coronavirus relief package include $500...
It’s morally repulsive how corporations are exploiting this crisis. Workers will suffer: Robert Reich
Societies gripped by cataclysmic wars, depressions, or pandemics can become acutely sensitive to power and privilege. Weeks before the coronavirus...
How the coronavirus crisis revealed the danger of the decades-long conservative movement
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell smelled an evil liberal conspiracy on Thursday, one designed to steal away his decades of...
Trump blocks states from expanding Medicaid to fight coronavirus
As states across the U.S. struggle to contain the novel coronavirus and treat those who have been infected, the Trump...
How Mitch McConnell and the do-nothing Republican senators serve the will of Trump and GOP fat cats: Robert Reich
Led by the self-proclaimed Grim Reaper, the Republican-controlled Senate has refused to take up nearly 400 bills passed by the...
Sanders Applauds New Medicare for All Study: Will Save Americans $450 Billion and Prevent 68,000 Deaths
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday applauded a new study published today by a team of epidemiologists in the peer-reviewed medical...
