Month: September 2020

House and Senate Democrats on Wednesday introduced legislation that would fully restore net neutrality protections in a bid to rescue the open internet from corporate throttling, discrimination, and censorship. “The Save the Internet Act is one of the few pieces of congressional legislation that actually does what it says in the title,” Evan Greer, deputy…

Expressing deep frustration and anger over President Donald Trump’s ongoing refusal to unequivocally condemn white nationalism, critics on Sunday pushed back against the White House’s dismissal of reports that the suspect in last week’s Christchurch mosque attacks admired the president—even as Trump once again expressed support for white supremacist views. White House Chief of Staff…

Urgent calls for international aid and climate action mounted Friday after the stongest cyclone to ever hit Mozambique made landfall just weeks after another powerful storm ravaged the impoverished African country. “The families whose lives have been turned upside down by these climate-related disasters urgently need the generosity of the international community to survive over…

Rep. Marsha BlackburnMarsha BlackburnGOP senators introduce resolution opposing calls to defund the police GOP senators dodge on treatment of White House protesters Five things to know about Trump’s legal power under the Insurrection Act MORE (R-Tenn.) has a five-point edge against former Gov. Phil Bredesen (D-Tenn.) in The Volunteer State’s race to replace retiring Sen. Bob…

New actions from the Trump administration are complicating efforts of vulnerable Republicans to show their support for pre-existing condition protections heading into Tuesday’s midterm elections. The Trump administration moved last week to allow states to waive certain ObamaCare requirements and pursue conservative health policies that were previously not allowed under the Obama administration. “States know much better…

Sen. Sheldon WhitehouseSheldon WhitehouseKey Democrat accuses Labor head of ‘misleading’ testimony on jobless benefits Sheldon Whitehouse leads Democrats into battle against Trump judiciary Bill aims to help farmers sell carbon credits MORE (D-R.I.) easily defeated his Republican opponent in his bid for a third term in the upper chamber on Tuesday. Whitehouse beat his challenger, former…

In a victory for consumers and yet another massive blow to Monsanto, a federal jury on Wednesday found the company liable for causing a California man’s cancer and ordered it to pay $80 million in damages. “Bayer-Monsanto has known for decades the cancer-causing properties of Roundup, and I applaud the jury for holding the company…

Click:小型辦公室 A new study highlights the importance of ensuring that the global transition to 100 percent clean power—which scientists say is necessary to avert climate catastrophe—doesn’t rely on dirty mining for metals used in renewable energy and storage technologies. “As we scale up clean energy technologies in pursuit of our necessarily ambitious climate goals, we…

Foreign policy observers said the Trump administration is sowing the seeds of war on Monday after it designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard a “foreign terrorist organization.” The new desingation for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told media, “an important step to counter the Iranian regime’s terrorism.” The IRGC, which…

The Welsh government on Monday declared a climate emergency in hopes that doing so would “trigger a wave of action at home and internationally.” The declaration comes a day after the Scottish first minister made a similar pronouncement. “Tackling climate change is not an issue which can be left to individuals or to the free…