Month: September 2020

Two Pennsylvania children and a Philadelphia-based environmental organization filed suit on Monday against the Trump administration for its gutting of climate regulations, laws, and policies—actions which show the government’s “reckless and deliberate indifference to the established clear and present dangers of climate change.” “We must hold the federal government accountable for the long-term environmental harm …

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Daniel Ricciardo is looking to uphold the positive momentum he enjoyed on Renault’s opening day of practice at the Russian Grand Prix. Ricciardo’s best effort in FP2 delivered the third fastest lap behind the dominant Mercedes squad, a time that was nevertheless over a full second slower than pacesetter Valtteri Bottas’ best. But the Aussie …

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Chanel has raised a 699-million-dollar bond with clauses linked to its environmental and climate goals. The news was reported by Reuters. As sustainability continues to be one of the key topics in the fashion industry, Chanel is making sure it’s on board with the industry shift to going green. The company is working on switching …

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Republican candidate Arthur Jones, a Holocaust denier who has been disavowed by his own party, will be the GOP’s nominee in a suburban Chicago congressional district after he ran in Tuesday’s primary unopposed. Jones’s campaign website contains a section called “The Holocaust Racket” in which he argues that there is “no proof such a so-called ‘Holocaust’ ever took …

Read more “Holocaust denier wins GOP nomination in heavily Democratic seat”

Billionaire investor Robert Mercer pumped $2 million into a conservative nonprofit group that used Facebook and Google to target anti-Muslim ads toward certain voters in swing states in 2016, according to tax records obtained by the Center for Responsive Politics. The ads — three in all — mimic travel advertisements intended to stoke fears of Muslim influence in …

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A PowerPoint presentation by the fossil fuel industry front group Your Energy—obtained and published Tuesday by the Huffington Post—revealed an orchestrated plan to create a fake grassroots organization as a way to promote natural gas obtained through hydraulic fracturing as a safe energy source.  The August presentation, which was briefly available on the website of …

Read more “Fracking Industry Front Group's Secret Playbook Reveals Orchestrated Astroturf Effort”

If Republicans successfully ram through unnecssary and damaging tax cuts for multinational corporations this week, but Democrats wrest back control of Congress in next year’s mid-term elections, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Sunday said he would certainly press to claw back those giveaways as a way to reverse the “massive attack on the middle class” …

Read more “Claw Back GOP Tax Giveaway for Corporations If Dems Win Back Congress? Sanders Says: "Absolutely"”

Overnight viewership for last night’s SmackDown on Fox saw the show average 1.954 million viewers, the lowest total since July 31. Last night’s SmackDown opened by averaging 1.922 million viewers in hour one. The show then climbed 3.3 percent in hour two to 1.986 million. It’s the first time the overnight viewership for SmackDown has been below two million …

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With the world’s oceans more severely threatened than ever before, President Donald Trump’s Interior Department is recommending even less protection for the fraction of ocean life the U.S. has guarded from commercial fishing and other activities in recent years. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has proposed that three ocean monuments in the Pacific and Atlantic be …

Read more “With Oceans Under Greatest Threat Ever, Trump Administration Urges Even Less Protection for Marine Life”

As the U.S. moves closer to fulfilling its threat to withhold tens of millions of dollars from a U.N. refugee aid agency in order to pressure Palestinians back to peace talks, an indignant Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of the Palestinian Authority, blasted U.S. President Donald Trump in a fiery speech on Sunday and sent this …

Read more “'Damn Your Money!': Abbas Slams Trump for Using Refugee Aid as Cudgel”