We told you earlier this month about the fossil fueled fascist Trump regime’s plan to make climate denial the law by repealing the EPA’s Endangerment Finding. As part of that evil scheme, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released a bogus report that relies on a handful of climate cranks to argue that climate change “appears …
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September 15 – Just a quick update, this week is the last chance to tell the EPA: The Endangerment Finding must stay. Resounding public testimony in opposition convinced the EPA to add additional days of public hearings and allow a bit more time for us to file comments. But the outcome appears the same. This …
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With millions of users Facebook has a fundamental obligation to promote transparency, fairness, and combat misinformation like climate and election denial. But Meta — which owns Facebook, Instagram and Threads — has proposed shutting down a key transparency tool called CrowdTangle just weeks before the 2024 election! Meta has a history of failing to shut …
Read more “Facebook lies are melting the planet. Sign now to protect Meta’s transparency tools.”
FOX News lies. A lot. FOX News lies about climate change, about the pandemic, and about elections and democracy. But while freedom of speech guarantees FOX News the right to say hateful, dangerous, untrue things – freedom of the press does not require us to pay them for the privilege. But that’s exactly what happens …
Read more “DePlatform FOX News, and take back the cable airwaves for climate justice.”
On the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s landfall, another climate-fueled superstorm — Ida — hit the Louisiana coast just outside New Orleans. It’s one of the strongest storms in recorded history, but it wont be the last. While those with the means are escaping, those without in New Orleans, especially poor, black, brown and indigenous …
Read more “The names and addresses of the people who made Hurricane Ida worse”
False claims about the climate crisis – like that climate change is a hoax – are spreading rapidly across social media. But big tech companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google are still resisting the call from politicians and the public to constrain their power to shape the public narrative on everything from climate change to …
Read more “Big Tech is wrecking the climate, and your newsfeed”
Trump’s second impeachment trial in the Senate continues today, with House Impeachment managers expected to wrap up their presentation. In a crucial, early, vote six Republicans joined all 50 Democrats in voting that the trial is constitutional and should proceed. We’ve got just a few more days to convince 17 Republicans to join all 50 …
I’ve been struggling to pull myself away from the news and twitter to talk about the coup attempt this week. As someone who’s planned and participated in dozens of events and actions at the Capitol – many where we peacefully and non-violently risked arrest and were met with a substantially larger, armed, and violent response …
Tomorrow marks Katrina 15, a decade and a half of ongoing recovery from Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf South. And just as organizers were gathering to mourn, remember, rally and act together – Hurricane Laura slammed into the petrochemical hub West of New Orleans. Today, thousands are without access to power, or clean water and …
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198 methods was born out of the ‘election’ of Donald Trump. It seemed clear, three years ago, that we needed new kinds of action and campaigning. Trump represents all our worst fears of fossil-fueled-fascism. Now, for a moment, he’s being held accountable for (some) of his mis-deeds. Only two presidents have ever been impeached by …