New York City Plans to Divest $5 Billion from Fossil Fuels and Sue Oil Companies
New York City is seeking to lead the assault on climate change and the Trump administration with a plan to...
New York City is seeking to lead the assault on climate change and the Trump administration with a plan to...
A new report has determined that investments in energy-efficient and renewable energy sources yield more jobs for a set amount...
Powerful interests are facing off on the future of renewable energy in North Carolina. A bill to freeze the state’s...
Environment / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published March 6, 2015 · Last modified November 27, 2015
A map released by the San Francisco-based International Forum on Globalization (IFG) shows that the U.S. billionaire Koch brothers own...
There are a bunch of great things about solar. Socio-economically, one of those things is that people on all sides...
by onepercenttakers · Published December 3, 2014 · Last modified November 22, 2015
You remember Fillmore. He’s the resident hippie of Radiator Springs in the Pixar blockbuster Cars. Much to the chagrin of...
Environment / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published October 14, 2014 · Last modified November 25, 2015
The Walton family—who, as heirs to the Walmart fortune, have more wealth than 42 percent of American families combined—are impeding...
Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) will join community, health, labor, student and environmental groups to kick start the People’s Climate March...
Environment / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published September 9, 2014 · Last modified November 28, 2015
“Lifestyles of the Rich Environmentalists,” produced by a group called the Institute for Energy Research, is a slick web video...
Environment / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published August 17, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
The good news for US Atlantic coast offshore wind power just keeps rolling along. Earlier this year, renewable energy fans...
Big Oil has always been a bad, bad loser. And it is therefore no surprise that it has threatened to...
Wind energy has a significant impact on wholesale prices, particularly in those peak demand events when fossil fuel generators used...
by onepercenttakers · Published July 12, 2014 · Last modified August 8, 2014
Fossil fuel and utility interests, concerned about the rise of cheap clean energy, are financing attacks on pro–clean energy policies,...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published June 23, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
A Republican state legislator in Kansas is being targeted by a new Koch-funded effort to oust those who want to...
Environment / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published June 19, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
Renewable energy took a major hit in Ohio last week. Republican Gov. John Kasich signed into law Senate Bill 310,...
by onepercenttakers · Published May 15, 2014 · Last modified September 2, 2014
Fossil fuel divestment campaigns are working. They’re working so well that Big Coal is scared and striking back, frantically trying...
Environment / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published April 24, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
Citizens across the U.S. are attempting to break free of the fossil fuel industry and do what state and federal...
Environment / Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published April 22, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
A bill designed to repeal Kansas’ clean energy law is moving quickly through the state legislature this week — an...
"Ronald Reagan's theory was really 'trickle down' economics...and renamed 'supply side.' Cut tax rates for the wealthy; everyone else will benefit. As Reagan's budget director David Stockman confided at the time, the supply-side rhetoric 'was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate.'" —The Gipper's Economy. To see how the Trickle Down Con was sold to the public click here.