by Jessica Corbett "We must take immediate action to sharply reduce heat-trapping emissions to limit the worst climate change impacts, protect public health and lives, and limit economic harms."
by Jessica Corbett "Choosing a FERC nominee that will reject new fossil fuel development would be a strong sign that Biden intends to take our climate crisis seriously."
by Brett Wilkins "Getting the vaccine is the best way to protect yourself and others around you, especially as the more contagious Delta variant spreads around the country," said CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky.
by Julia Conley "I'm not trying to talk down to you," said Travis Campbell from his hospital bed. "I'm trying to talk to you so you understand that I don't want to go to your funeral and I don't want you to come to mine."
by Julia Conley "If President Biden reneges on his commitment and sides with the Saudi government, we would be compelled to publicly stand in objection to any participation by his administration in any memorial ceremony of 9/11."
by Jake Johnson "Mark my words," warned former Labor Secretary Robert Reich. "If we don't pass the For the People Act, the GOP is going to gerrymander their way to a House majority—and they may never give it up."
by Brett Wilkins "Nuclear weapons are the ultimate human violence," said Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui. "If civil society decides to live without them, the door to a nuclear-weapon-free world will open wide."
by Kenny Stancil "Cutting methane is the biggest opportunity to slow warming between now and 2040," says one leading scientist. "We need to face this emergency."
by Robert Dodge These weapons do not make us safer and benefit no one except the multibillion dollar arms production corporations who build these immoral instruments of death.
by Fred Wertheimer There is an urgent need for action to protect the vote and our democracy, and it’s time that our leaders started acting like they understand this.
by C.J. Polychroniou Unless we can tame our irrational economic system and, above all else, do away with capitalism's addiction to fossil fuels, the collapse of civilized social order is a near certainty.
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