By Valerie Volcovici, Reuters
The Obama administration on Tuesday released an updated report on how climate change requires urgent action to counter impacts that touch every corner of the country, from oyster growers in Washington State to maple syrup producers … Read more »
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By Robert Redford
On Friday we learned that a lot of Republican U.S. senators and a smattering of Democrats are once again trying to make an end run around a legitimate process to assess the impacts of the … Read more »
By Eleanor Clift, The Daily Beast
She’s a political novice—and that may be what it takes to knock off Wisconsin’s governor, of whose jobs plan she says: ‘I’ve seen eighth-graders’ term papers that are more thoughtful.’
Republicans call her “Millionaire … Read more »
WASHINGTON — In a major environmental victory for the Obama administration, the Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate the smog-causing pollution from coal-fired power plants that wafts across state lines from 27 Midwestern and … Read more »
By Dana Davidsen, CNN
Elizabeth Warren contends America’s middle class struggles against a system that’s “rigged” and favors those who wield power in money and politics.
It’s a refrain the freshman Democratic Massachusetts senator and former consumer protection advocate repeats … Read more »
“Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” the new book by the French economist Thomas Piketty, is a bona fide phenomenon. Other books on economics have been best sellers, but Mr. Piketty’s contribution is serious, discourse-changing scholarship in a way most best … Read more »
BY EMILY ATKIN
A Texas family claiming they were sickened because of pollution from hydraulic fracturing operations near their home should be awarded $2.95 million for their troubles, a jury ruled on Tuesday.
The Parr family had sued Aruba Petroleum … Read more »
By Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone
24 April 14
The president came into office promising to make fighting climate change a priority. Now, he finally seems to be getting serious about it
President Obama is not even halfway through his second … Read more »
