“Louisiana has given industrial polluters open license to poison Black and brown communities for generations,” and the new ruling from a Trump-appointed judge will only magnify the problem, a campaigner said. A right-wing federal judge in Louisiana on Thursday permanently blocked two federal agencies from enforcing civil rights legislation that could protect Black communities from […]
“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 […]
“I think there’s almost no question that this is going to happen,” an expert said of county official obstructionism in 2024. “And it seems to be happening in a way this year that is more systematic than it has been in the past.” Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a watchdog group, released a […]
“The administration is cracking down on all the ways that companies—through paperwork, hold times and general aggravation—waste people’s money, waste people’s time,” a White House official said. The Biden administration on Monday launched a wide-ranging consumer protection campaign called “Time Is Money” aimed at cracking down on hard-to-cancel services, deliberately poor customer service, and other […]