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June 08, 2023

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As Canada Burns, Docs Reveal Oil Giant Weighed In on Government Carbon Plan

"Carbon capture and storage is a scam, and as these documents show, the call is coming from inside the house," said one campaigner.

Jessica Corbett

Converging on White House, Progressives Tell Biden to Cancel Mountain Valley Pipeline

The president "can stop MVP just like he stopped Keystone XL" and "can reclaim his climate legacy by stopping all new fossil fuel projects."

Kenny Stancil

After UK Rejects Appeal, Press Freedom Groups Say Biden Must Drop Assange Extradition Push

"If Biden lets this case proceed," said one advocate, "future administrations will surely use the precedent of the Assange prosecution... to go after journalists they don't like."

Julia Conley

Snowden Warns Today's Surveillance Technology Makes 2013 Look Like 'Child's Play'

"We trusted the government not to screw us," said Edward Snowden. "But they did. We trusted the tech companies not to take advantage of us. But they did. That is going to happen again, because that is the nature of power."

Julia Conley

Big Oil Shill Tells Fox Viewers There Is 'No Health Risk' From Inhaling Toxic Smoke

Fox News brought on a contributor with a history of downplaying the dangers of secondhand smoke and dismissing climate science to tell viewers that particulate matter is "innocuous."

Jake Johnson

'Wake Up Call': Climate-Warming Emissions Reached Record This Decade

"If we don't want to see the 1.5°C goal disappearing in our rearview mirror, the world must work much harder and urgently at bringing emissions down," one scientist behind the findings said.

Olivia Rosane

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State Republicans Have Introduced Nearly 200 'Election Subversion' Bills This Year

'Huge Surprise' as US Supreme Court Declines to Further Gut Voting Rights Act

140+ Groups Demand Insurers End Support for 'Toxic' LNG Terminals

Gargantuan Pentagon Budget Puts 'Special Interests Over the National Interest,' New Reports Warn

CFPB Warns End of Student Loan Payment Freeze Could Spell Disaster for Millions

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Opinion

The US Shouldn’t Stand in the Way of an Ambitious Global Plastics Treaty

The United States has so far backed country-specific over global plastic-reduction targets, but relying on national targets alone undermines the sincerity and cohesiveness of a global effort to reduce plastics and their associated emissions.

Christine Keating

Through the Smoky Haze, Can We See Clearly Now the Climate Emergency?

Today is our chance to understand what it really feels like every day on a fossil-fueled planet, for the billions of people unlucky enough to really bear the brunt. My eyes are stinging a bit from the smoke, but I’ve never seen more clearly.

Bill Mckibben

Science, Corporate Secrets, and the Dangers of Deep Sea Mining

There can be no commercial confidentiality in the global commons.

Paul Johnston,David Santillo

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