by Kenny Stancil "The Federal Reserve's role is not to surrender our planet to corporate polluters and shepherd our financial system to its destruction," said Rep. Rashida Tlaib, among the Democrats urging the Fed to end fossil fuel financing.
by Jessica Corbett "Jessica Cisneros will take bold action to fight back against unyielding attacks from anti-choice politicians in Texas and across the country."
by Andrea Germanos "An increasing number of people around the world are suffering from ever more severe and frequent impacts of climate change, yet government action continues to lag behind what is needed."
by Jake Johnson "Newsom's victory belongs to the environmental activists and constituents who delivered their support when it mattered most," Alexandra Nagy, California director of Food & Water Watch, said in a statement. "Newsom must return that support to Californians in the midst of this climate crisis."
by Jane Vosburg Fires, floods, killer heat-waves, droughts, and hurricanes are ravaging homes and families throughout the world. Some fear that this might be the new normal; however, the truth is that this is just the start of something much worse.
by Steven Singer The resulting credibility vacuum has enabled unscrupulous politicians, agents of chaos, and other charlatans to position themselves as experts.
by Richard Heinberg Unless we're willing to give up some of our power over nature—our power to extract and transform resources and deliver the goods that we have come to rely on—then we're destined to careen from one disaster to the next until our worst fears are realized.
by Bob Lord, Chuck Collins The latest tax proposals in Congress are an okay first step, but don't go far enough to address one of the biggest enablers of dynastic wealth.
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