“The Tongass National Forest’s indispensable habitats serve as home to a multitude of species and also play a vital role in helping fight global warming,” said one conservation advocate. Environmental protection groups on Friday applauded the United States Department of Agriculture’s proposal to reinstate a 20-year-old rule protecting North America’s largest temperate rainforest, the Tongass […]
“Biden can’t be the climate president when he is actively selling our water to the highest bidder and lobbying oil states to produce more fossil fuels.” As the Biden administration moved ahead Wednesday with an auction of more than 80 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas companies—the largest-ever sale of fossil fuel […]
Lawmakers in Ohio and Wisconsin are pushing to allow 14- and 15-year-olds to work longer hours as exorbitantly wealthy corporations pay their adult employees less than $15 per hour on average. Months into the United States’ so-called “labor shortage”—which progressives and economists have repeatedly said is actually the result of weak worker protections during the coronavirus pandemic […]
Following Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s objection to raising the corporate tax rate, the party has turned to Sen. Ron Wyden’s proposal. ; As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi indicated the Democratic Party was close to a deal on the social spending package whose passage right-wing Democrats have obstructed for weeks, economic justice advocates ramped up pressure on […]