Eastern North Pacific Right whale MML# 84 “Cuatro” (female) in the Bering Sea in August 2017. Credit: K. Matsuoka/International Whaling Commission and NOAA Fisheries Eastern North Pacific right whales once numbered in the tens of thousands; today there are estimated to be fewer than 50. Studying these extremely rare whales across their vast ocean range is an […]
Raleigh, North Carolina — Kamala Harris unveiled plans for a federal ban on food and grocery “price gouging,” a tax credit that would provide $6,000 per child to families for the first year of a baby’s life, and up to $25,000 toward a down payment for first-time homeowners — populist proposals the vice president has embraced […]
“The U.S. faces a fork in the road starting in January of 2025 with two climate and energy policy pathways that are highly divergent.” The California-based think tank Energy Innovation on Wednesday published a report showing that the right-wing Project 2025 manifesto, if implemented by a Republican administration, would increase U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by […]
A watchdog group secretly recorded Russell Vought, a former Trump administration official, explaining his plan to get confidential Project 2025 plans into the Republican nominee’s hands if he wins in November. A key architect of Project 2025 believed he was speaking to relatives of a wealthy right-wing donor when he described his plan to share […]