“Trump is getting Americans coming and going. He’s forcing higher power bills on them by blocking clean energy, then he’s fattening the wallets of his cronies,” said former Democratic Washington Gov. Jay Inslee. President Donald Trump’s obsession with canceling clean energy projects is bad not just for the climate, but for the US economy as a whole. An analysis released Thursday by […]
“I’ve never seen a more dangerous and purposeful attempt to make people sick and hungry,” said one Pennsylvania state lawmaker. Last week marked the first anniversary of President Donald Trump signing H.R. 1, known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. But a new report from the progressive advocacy group Defend America Action, obtained exclusively by Common Dreams, […]
The head of the group behind the analysis called the report “a damning indictment of tariffs’ impact on the US economy.” A US small business coalition on Wednesday released a state-by-state analysis detailing how President Donald Trump’s capricious tariffs have cost American businesses and consumers upward of $317 billion since March 2025. We Pay the Tariffs […]
Putting an “utterly unqualified” person like Matthew Wielicki in charge of the National Climate Assessment, said one critic, “would jeopardize the integrity of one of the nation’s most important climate science resources.” The Trump White House has quietly reconstituted the US Global Change Research Program—but that doesn’t mean the administration has turned over a new leaf […]