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News & Views | 9/14/20

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US President Donald Trump speaks during a briefing on wildfires with local and federal fire and emergency officials at Sacramento McClellan Airport in McClellan Park, California on September 14, 2020. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"I thought I'd find it funny watching this, but instead it's just chilling: as the West Coast faces a climate catastrophe, the president laughs at them and denies the problem exists."

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Climate activists protested outside ExxonMobil's annual meeting of shareholders in Irving, Texas. (Photo: 350.org/flickr/cc)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"This avalanche of climate litigation is Exxon's worst nightmare. The public increasingly understands Big Oil's role in causing and lying about the climate crisis."


Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has come under fire for raising drug prices even after securing a $1.2 billion taxpayer handout to develop a Covid-19 vaccine. (Photo: Democracy Now screen grab/CC)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
Big drug companies don't need more subsidies. We need to end their greed." —Sen. Bernie Sanders



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Climate scientists were aghast Monday at the news that David Legates, who has repeatedly questioned the scientific consensus that human activity is causing the climate crisis, was named over the weekend to a leadership role at the federal government's climate research agency.


BP's annual report on the future of energy, released Monday, says demand for oil may have peaked last year and projects significant growth in renewables over the next three decades. (Photo: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/26287008@N05/4816633755">tolkien1914</a>/flickr/cc)</p>

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Welcoming news that oil demand may never recover to pre-pandemic levels, Greenpeace noted that "a #GreenRecovery will hasten its demise."


Protesters holding a banner reading, "U.S. Immigration Policy Is A Crime" at a silent protest in January 2020. (Photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"This court decision is doubling down on the Trump administration's anti-immigrant policy agenda."



by Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
"We're calling on voters to make a plan, request their ballot where they can, and to encourage their friends to do the same."


Medical professionals, medical students, ACTUP New York, and their supporters held a rousing protest rally outside Pfizer World Headquarters in New York. At the beginning of 2019, the corporate giant announced price increases for 40 of its drugs. (Photo: Erik McGregor/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
Latest move called nothing more than a public relations stunt "intended to distract Americans from the president's broken promises to seniors and the 200,000 Americans that have died from the coronavirus as a result of his failed Covid-19 response policies."



by Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
"We need leaders who step up and propose solutions. Instead, we get President Trump's version of the EPA."


A new letter to congressional leaders from 24 groups urges lawmakers to weigh extension of expired FISA authorities into traditional legislation as opposed to a Continuing Resolution or a coronavirus emergency bill.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
The organizations sound alarms about potential "dragnet surveillance of domestic internet activity."


A burned Valero gas station smolders during the Creek fire in an unincorporated area of Fresno County, California on September 08, 2020. (Photo: Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
Researchers behind the comprehensive study of Earth's atmospheric record over tens of million of years say "immediate and stringent action" could prevent most dire outcomes.

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A polar bear keeps close to her young along the Beaufort Sea coast in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (Photo: Susanne Miller/USFWS/Flickr)

by Subhankar Banerjee
Our nonhuman relatives need us and, we need them.



by John Morlino
Without your fervent defiance of safety protocols—especially by you president Trump—I might well be on my last legs by now.


"Continuing to prioritize the Pentagon over the needs of every other agency and Americans more generally keeps us on a glidepath to disaster," writes Smithberger. (Photo: Peace Education Center/Flickr/cc)

by Mandy Smithberger
A post-coronavirus economy can no longer afford to put the pentagon first.


U.S. President Donald Trump turns around to greet supporters after speaking at a campaign event at Xtreme Manufacturing on September 13, 2020 in Henderson, Nevada. Trump's visit comes after Nevada Republicans blamed Democratic Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak for blocking other events he had planned in the state. (Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

by Thom Hartmann
Holding giant rallies, as he did over the weekend, will lead to increased infection spreads and more deaths. There will be other Herman Cain’s who will die in a few months because of what Trump is doing right now.



by Michael Winship
Playwright and screenwriter Richard Wesley on Black Lives Matter, Black Power, Trump and the noise from the balcony.



by Sarah Cords
In the 1960s, the military had been illegally spying on protesters until Christopher Pyle, a former Army intelligence officer, spoke out.

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