Dispatches from COP 24 Climate Change Summit in Poland
COP24 meets in Katowice, Poland, Dec. 3-14, 2018.
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Wisconsin Loophole Lets Legislators Destroy Embarrassing Emails
At the heart of this exemption from the retention rules for state lawmakers are arrogance and cowardice. Arrogance that legislators don't think they should be subject to the same scrutiny as other public officials. Cowardice that they're afraid of the scrutiny.
Facebook creates fact-checking exemption for climate deniers
A group with ties to the fossil fuel industry plans to use Facebook's op-ed loophole to spread climate misinformation.
Black Voters Continue to Face Voter Suppression 155 Years After Juneteenth
“Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Shelby County v. Holder (2013).
Supreme Court Will Have Chance to Review Case Seeking to End Super PAC Spending in U.S. Elections
Federal lawmakers are petitioning the Supreme Court to review a lawsuit challenging SpeechNow.org v. Federal Election Commission, the 2010 appeals court ruling that created super PACs
This Earth Day, Stop the Money Pipeline
We’re cooked unless investors stop funding fossil fuel companies.
COVID-19 'Liberate' Groups Are the Same Ones Pushing Climate Denial
The well-funded machinery that sowed doubt about climate is now sowing seeds of doubt over the economic and public health response to COVID-19.
Dispatches from COP 25 Climate Change Conference in Madrid
Scientist’s concerns over “abrupt climate system change” lead him to reluctant support for controversial Solar Radiation Management strategies and show urgent need for climate restoration.
Dispatches from the People's Summit in Santiago, Chile
Indigenous women aim to unite Latin America around equality for women and agroecology.
Eli Broad Pays $100M to Move His Ed-Reform-Producing “Broad Center” from LA to Yale
Eli Broad is one of the chief billionaires pushing education reform.
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