About $11 million a minute. That’s the amount of direct and indirect subsidies the International Monetary Fund calculates the global fossil fuel industry receives to ensure that cooking the planet remains profitable for them. If you do the math, it comes to about $5.9 trillion a year. As The Atlantic’s …
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A week after Democrats took back the House in the 2018 midterm elections, Varshini Prakash and a then-little-known youth organization called Sunrise Movement held a sit-in protest at the office of former House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who would go on to become the Speaker of the House. “I remember …
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A fresh hazard has been uncovered in the oil and gas industry: For the past decade, the Environmental Protection Agency has knowingly allowed oil companies to use chemicals that could break down into PFAS — a class of highly toxic, long-lasting compounds also known as “forever chemicals,” which have been …
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W e’ve lived for the past four years under a man categorically unfit to be president. Fortunately for America, Joe Biden is Donald Trump’s opposite in nearly every category: The Democratic presidential nominee evinces competence, compassion, steadiness, integrity, and restraint. Perhaps most important in this moment, Biden holds a profound …
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This article was originally published by Grist and is republished here as part of an ongoing collaboration. The Minnesota legislature has spent the last five years preparing for the kind of protests that have rocked the city over the past week in the wake of the police killing of George …
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In honor of Rolling Stone’sClimate Crisis Issue, we asked artists to contribute messages about what they, their governments, and everyday people can do to stand up to the threat of climate change. From England to Jamaica to the United States, we are hearing from artists and activists around the world …
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DAVOS, SWITZERLAND — Hours after President Trump kicked off the 2020 World Economic Forum on Tuesday by bashing climate activists as “prophets of doom,” Greta Thunberg countered with yet another scathing indictment of government and corporate leaders for failing to take meaningful action to combat climate change. “Our house is …
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The second night of the Democratic primary debates in Michigan paid off with a genuine fight night, featuring Joe Biden against all comers. For more than three hours Wednesday night at the Fox Theater in Detroit, Democratic rivals took jabs at the former vice president, seeking to portray the the …
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