“Our elected officials are sold out to Big Oil,” said Public Citizen Dozens of Republican lawmakers who oppose President Joe Biden’s executive order temporarily halting new oil and gas leasing on federal lands have taken tens of millions of dollars in career campaign contributions from fossil fuel, energy, and natural resources industry interests, a report published […]
Citizens must “demand… that their governments reorder their priorities and cooperate… to reduce the risk of nuclear war, climate change, and other global disasters, including pandemic disease.” One hundred seconds to midnight. That’s how close humanity is to the apocalypse, and it’s as close as the world has ever been, according to Wednesday’s annual announcement from the […]
Fully 79% of all respondents, including two-thirds of Republicans and Trump voters, described the president’s supporters who attacked the Capitol on Wednesday as “criminals” or “fools.” A majority of Americans want President Donald Trump removed from office after he played a leading role in inciting Wednesday’s deadly right-wing mob attack on the U.S. Capitol, according […]
“The delisting of gray wolves is the latest causality of the Trump administration’s willful ignorance of the biodiversity crisis and scientific facts.” A family of gray wolves tends to their pups. After 45 years, gray wolves were delisted from the Endangered Species Act by the Trump administration on January 4, 2021. (Photo: Chad Horwedel/Flickr/cc) Wildlife advocates […]