US Republicans oppose climate funding as millions suffer in extreme weather
Swaths of the US are baking under record-breaking heat, yet some lawmakers are still attempting to block any spending to...
ONE PERCENT TAKERS -- THE SITE THAT EXPOSES THE GREED AND TAKING BY AMERICA'S RICHEST ONE PERCENT AND REVEALS HOW ORDINARY AMERICANS ARE FIGHTING BACK
Inflation Reduction Act Already Lowering US Greenhouse Gas Emissions
For those of us following the cleantech industry closely, we already know this: the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 is...
Red state ‘welfare queen’ oligarchs accused of mooching off of blue states
America is rapidly bifurcating — becoming two nations — and one of the main drivers of the process is a...
Analysts Say Solar Is Saving Texans From Widespread Power Outages Amid Extreme Heat
A sweltering heatwave has gripped Texas over the last two weeks, pushing temperatures to 115 degrees F in parts of...
Power companies spend millions to fight Maine’s proposed non-profit utility
Residents in Maine are about to be bombarded with a multimillion-dollar public relations campaign aimed at saving the state’s two dominant electric...
Newly obtained documents shed light on a vast and corrupt right-wing influence network
Newly obtained documents show that the billion-dollar trust fund given to Leonard Leo — the right-wing attorney and longtime leader...
74 Percent of Voters Support Raising Federal Minimum Wage to $20 an Hour
New polling reveals that a majority of Americans recognize the growing crisis of low teacher pay and poor treatment despite...
Huge Drop in Oil Demand as Electric Vehicle Sales Rise
We focus a lot on electric cars here at CleanTechnica, but while replacing conventional cars with battery-electric ones will help reduce...
Exploitative Child Labor Is Hurting Kids’ Ability to Stay in School
When Guatemalan immigrant Jose Velasquez was 13, he began spending his summers working alongside his mother in North Carolina’s tobacco...
To End ‘Disgrace’ of Poverty Wages, Sanders Bill Would Hike Federal Minimum to $17
Decrying the “national disgrace” of poverty wages in the world’s richest country, Senator Bernie Sanders on Thursday introduced legislation that...
How union workers are breaking new barriers
The device failed to turn on, so Sapien picked up another. When it also failed, he reached for a third....
Revealed: Texas billionaire had at least one case before the Supreme Court — despite Thomas’ claim
Harlan Crow, the Texas billionaire who showered U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas with lavish gifts and even purchased the...
Senate finance chief: Nothing unites GOP more than ‘helping rich people cheat on their taxes’
The Democratic chair of the Senate Finance Committee said Wednesday that the House GOP’s newly released debt ceiling legislation shows that the...
1,300 Scientists Urge JPMorgan Shareholders to Vote for End to New Fossil Fuel Financing
As the fossil fuel-driven climate crisis continues to wreak havoc around the globe, more than 1,300 scientists and researchers on...
Clarence Thomas must be impeached over revelations of megadonor gifts, says AOC
New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has called for conservative supreme court justice Clarence Thomas’s impeachment. AOC’s calls follow reports that...
Watch: Bernie Sanders blasts Starbucks CEO for ‘waging’ a ‘vicious and illegal union-busting campaign’
On Wednesday morning, March 29, the Senate HELP Committee (Health, Education, Labor and Pensions) held a hearing of Starbucks’ labor...
Exxon in the classroom: how big oil money influences US universities
The lecturer looked, and sounded, the part. Sporting a pale blue shirt and Princeton University ID badge, he had his...
Biden Tax Boost Targeting the Rich Called ‘Fair, Popular, and Long Overdue’
While far-right Republicans continue threatening to blow up the global economy unless Congress makes cuts to popular social programs, progressive...
Kevin McCarthy Attempts To Blame Biden For Bank Failures McCarthy Helped Cause
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy plans to blame President Biden for the Silicon Valley Bank failure, even though he...
Biden Plans To Shore Up Medicare By Making The Rich Pay Their Share
President Biden’s plan to save Medicare raises taxes on the wealthy and eliminates a loophole that allows the rich to...
‘Biggest conservation victory ever!’ Global ocean protection treaty terms established
Ocean conservationists expressed elation late Saturday after it was announced—following nearly two decades of consideration and effort—that delegates from around...
Democrats Dismiss Solvency Fearmongering While Offering Social Security Fix
Following a dramatic State of the Union moment in which President Joe Biden called out Republican proposals to slash Social...
The Fossil Fuel Industry Is “Immorally Undermining Climate Action”
Can 2023 be “a year of reckoning,” so that “game-changing climate action” permeates every government and industry, every local community...
While Ron DeSantis Is Fighting Culture Wars, Millions Of Floridians Are Losing Their Health Care
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis keeps making news with his self-described campaign to fight “woke” ideology. The latest headlines came about...
Chuck Schumer And Hakeem Jeffries Rip GOP’s National Sales Tax Plan Disaster
Majority Leader Schumer said, “It’s very important, first, to make sure this plan dies, as I said. The right wing...
Manchin-Romney attack on Social Security is ‘last thing we need’: Sanders
Progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday slammed right-wing Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin’s widely panned proposal to explore slashing Social Security...
Call for new taxes on super-rich after 1% pocket two-thirds of all new wealth
Oxfam has called for immediate action to tackle a post-Covid widening in global inequality after revealing that almost two-thirds of...
Watchdog Calls for Investigation Into IRS Over Repeated Failure to Audit Trump
A government watchdog group has filed a complaint calling for an investigation into the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) after the...
Republican proposal to add $114 billion to deficit by enabling tax cheats
Progressive U.S. lawmakers on Monday took House Republicans to task after the Congressional Budget Office said the erstwhile deficit hawks’...
Chipotle Borrows From Starbucks’ Playbook As Workers Push To Unionize
In December 2021, Winifer Pena Ruiz got a new job at a Chipotle in the Bronx. She was an aspiring...
Trump’s Taxes Are the Best Case Yet for Putting Him in Prison
Don’t let the cynics who know little about our tax system trick you into thinking there was nothing all that...
Trump Got Stunningly Lax IRS Treatment While POTUS, House Finds
For years during Trump’s presidency, the losers and haters wondered: might there be a conflict of interest in having a...
Starbucks Union Workers Have a Holiday Wish: Don’t Buy Starbucks Gift Cards
Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) has a birthday on Friday, and is holding ten rallies across the country to celebrate with the...
Keystone Pipeline Dumps 14,000 Barrels Of Crude Oil Into Kansas Stream
Approximately 14,000 barrels of crude oil escaped from the Keystone pipeline in northeast Kansas not far from the Nebraska border...
Advocacy groups, lawmakers call out Big Oils’ clean energy lies
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform released findings from an investigation into Big Oil companies showing that giants like...
Senator Raphael Warnock’s re-election is a victory for Social Security
Social Security was on the ballot in Georgia’s December 6 run-off election. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock’s re-election is a win...
How Much Is Too Much To Pay A Pastor?
Franklin Graham’s annual compenstion of $880,000, revealed in a Charlotte Observer story, has some worrying that too many top Christian...
Over 100 Starbucks Stores Go on Strike to Protest Company Union Busting
Workers for more than 100 Starbucks locations nationwide are staging a strike on the company’s “Red Cup Day” on Thursday...
Former Twitter VP urges companies pull advertising from platform — citing Elon Musk’s ‘toxic takeover’
Twitter’s former Vice President of Global Media Katie Jacobs Stanton is urging advertisers to pull their money from the microblogging...
Watch Katie Porter Explain What’s Really Driving Inflation
During a House hearing this week, Katie Porter interviewed Mike Konczal, a director at the Roosevelt Institute, the progressive economic...
Exxon Swims in Unprecedented Windfall Profits While Americans Suffer at the Pump
Yesterday it was Shell making news for huge profits, today it’s Exxon – but Exxon pulled far ahead of Shell...
Republicans want working-class voters — without actually supporting workers
After years of struggle, America’s labor unions enjoy greater public approval than at any time in more than 50 years....
Harvesting Solar Energy Is a Big Win for Farmers
America’s solar industry has boomed in recent years, and is slated for a big boost from the Democrats’ recently passed climate bill....
Eric Trump’s Huge Lie About What Trump Org Charged Secret Service
This story would be breaking news if one of the Trumps told the truth for a change. No, this is...
Why is trickle-down economics still with us?
Within weeks of taking office, Britain’s new prime minister, Liz Truss, and her chancellor of the exchequer, Kwasi Kwarteng, proposed...
California’s newest law is historic progress for fast food workers
On Labor Day morning, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 257, regulating fast food workers’ rights. The bill, otherwise known...
The US ultra-rich justify their low tax rates with three myths: Robert Reich
On Tuesday, the Congressional Budget Office released a study of trends in the distribution of family wealth between 1989 and...
Analysis explains how Trump manages to pay fewer taxes than Americans with a household income of $20K
Former President Donald Trump manages to pay a substantially low amount in taxes each year despite his ultra-wealthy status. Now,...
UN Chief Blasts PR Industry for Spearheading Big Oil’s Propaganda Machine
During his wide-ranging plea for fundamental change delivered Tuesday at the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, U.N....
Democrats Target Big Oil for Stifling Free Speech to Block Climate Action
Civil libertarians applauded Wednesday as a U.S. congressional committee held a hearing to “examine how the fossil fuel industry is...
