“Biden campaigned on eliminating fossil fuel giveaways, and voters agree by a huge margin,” said one climate activist. In a speech Wednesday outlining his new executive actions aimed at confronting the “existential threat” of the climate crisis, President Joe Biden said he plans to ask the Democrat-controlled Congress to pass legislation eliminating the tens of billions […]
JUNEAU, Alaska — The Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) payment of $600 per week for unemployed workers will soon expire. The last payable week of FPUC will be July 25, 2020. The payment was retroactive to the week of March 29-April 4, 2020. Individuals received the additional $600 payment with their regular weekly state […]
“We need to be guaranteeing healthcare for all, not gutting it from millions.” The Trump administration late Thursday night filed a legal brief asking the Supreme Court to invalidate the entirety of the Affordable Care Act, a move that would strip health insurance from more than 20 million people in the middle of a […]
“Turning over these spectacular wild places to dirty drilling and fracking will sicken Californians, harm endangered species, and fuel climate chaos.” The Trump administration on Friday moved to open more than 725,000 acres of California’s central coast to potential oil and gas drilling, a decision environmentalists condemned as a disastrous handout to big polluters at […]