By Glynn Wilson – The Biden administration issued a final regulation Thursday aimed at cutting emissions that lead to global warming and climate change by announcing the establishment of a program to cap and phase down the production and consumption of hydrofluorocarbons in the United States by 85 percent over the next 15 years, according…
There is little doubt this is caused by political rhetoric and media coverage – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — If there are any communications scholars out there still trying to figure out how to accurately measure political and media influence on public opinion, look no further than a new survey out from the…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Buried under the sad news on the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on America on Saturday, and an inconclusive declassified report on the role of Saudi Arabia in the attacks, the U.S. Capitol Police quietly published a short report on the role some officers played…
By Isaac Arnsdorf, Doug Bock Clark, Alexandra Berzon and Anjeanette Damon – ProPublica – One of the loudest voices urging Donald Trump’s supporters to push for overturning the presidential election results was Steve Bannon. “We’re on the point of attack,†Bannon, a former Trump adviser and far-right nationalist, pledged on his popular podcast on Jan.…
Sierra Club’s Michael Brune Resigns Amid Accusations of Racism by John Muir – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Buried under the avalanche of disaster news of late — hurricanes, floods, wildfires, earthquakes, the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Covid surge — there are a few important developments in the headlines that most news…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Back in the 1980s, into the 1990s and as recently as this year, scientists, science writers and environmental activists warned people and governments that human industrial activity fueled a catastrophic greenhouse effect that was warming the planet and changing the climate. The United Nations led the early warning…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — At the risk of giving Georgia’s nut job Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene more of the kind of press and attention she craves, and her followers more reason to double down and give her money like they do former White House con man Donald Trump, let’s just say Green…
By Glynn Wilson – CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — This city was not a pivotal location during the Civil War from 1861-65, but the often violent and deadly battle over removing the statue of Robert E. Lee in 2017 put Thomas Jefferson’s home town front and center in the national war on Confederate monuments and how today’s…
By Lydia DePillis – ProPublica – Late last summer, after churning along through the pandemic with only a two-week pause, managers at FreightCar America called hundreds of workers into the break area at the company’s factory near Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to tell them that the plant was closing for good. For some employees, the news…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It will come as no surprise to college educated Democrats, liberal college professors and experienced journalists that American conservative Republicans who supported Donald Trump are subject to right-wing propaganda, political manipulation and suffer from authoritarian tendencies in the name of a mixed up anti-government philosophy based on a…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the state of Georgia on Friday accusing the Republican controlled legislature of intentional discrimination for passing a voting law with strict constraints on ballot drop boxes that would bar election officials from sending absentee ballot applications to voters,…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Democrats launched a series of legislative efforts this week to try tackling the monopoly power of Big Tech. But are they asking the right questions? And will the efforts simply fail because Republicans won’t go along? Led by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, a Democrat from…
By Jesse Eisinger, Jeff Ernsthausen and Paul Kiel – ProPublica – In 2007, Jeff Bezos, then a multibillionaire and now the world’s richest man, did not pay a penny in federal income taxes. He achieved the feat again in 2011. In 2018, Tesla founder Elon Musk, the second-richest person in the world, also paid no…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Biden administration suspended oil and gas drilling leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska on Tuesday, reversing another pro-big business, anti-environment move by former President Donald Trump and delivering on a promise by presidential candidate Joe Biden to protect the amazing and critical ecosystem from…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON — The Biden-Harris administration submitted the President’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2022 to Congress on Friday, and it calls for a new investment of $3.5 billion in the National Park Service to help modernize the parks and park infrastructure. It calls for new investments in conservation efforts, expanding visitor access…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Democrats on the House Oversight and Reform Committee had their first shot this week at questioning Trump’s acting Secretary of Defense Christopher C. Miller about his role in botching the military response to the U.S. Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6., along with the questionable advance intelligence handling of…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – What a difference a respect for science makes. After four years of being gutted and corrupted by the influence of polluting industry insiders with their heads all stuck up the hole in Donald Trump’s cult of personality backside, the Environmental Protection Agency is back in the Biden administration.…
By Glynn Wilson – SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK, Va. — How do you tell the difference between a black bear and a grizzly? Don’t try this at home or in a national park. Sneak up on the bear and kick it in the rump, then run and climb a tree. If the bear climbs up the…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a clean break from the anti-nature politics and policies of the previous administration, the Biden-Harris administration has begun to outline a different vision for how the United States can work collaboratively to conserve and restore public lands, waters and wildlife that in many ways support and sustain the…
By Glynn Wilson – President Joe Biden delivered a sweeping address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday making a case to the world that the American government is back on the job after four years of disastrous craziness. His speech calling on Congress to act on climate change, a major infrastructure bill and…
