It has been one of the most tumultuous and significant weeks in the global political battle over the war in Ukraine. It began last Friday, with the cringe-worthy summit in Alaska between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, followed just three days later by seven of Europe’s most …
Read More »Every Dirty Gift Trump's Big Bill Gives the Fossil Fuel Industry
Last week, President Donald Trump signed what is likely the most regressive U.S. tax-and-spending bill in U.S. history, giving the top one percent of families more than $1 trillion in tax cuts while slashing Medicaid health coverage and food assistance for the poor. It is also one of the worst …
Read More »Is Trump's 'Minerals Deal' a Fossil Fuel Shakedown?
It has been one week since a calamitous Oval Office meeting between President Donald Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine ignited one of the most tumultuous periods in U.S.-Ukrainian relations since the 2022 Russian invasion. Overnight, Russia conducted one of its largest ever missile and drone strikes against Ukraine …
Read More »Will Biden Pardon This Human Rights Lawyer Who Beat Big Oil in Court?
In the last few days of Joe Biden’s presidency, Steven Donziger hopes Biden will pardon him — as do dozens of progressive lawmakers in Congress, as well as human rights and environmental activists across the world. Donziger’s story is unique. “I’m the only person in the country to be criminally …
Read More »Here's How Big Oil Guides Global Climate Negotiations
This story was published in partnership with Drilled, a global multimedia reporting project focused on climate accountability, and was supported by the Pulitzer Center. It’s become increasingly common in coverage of the annual United Nations climate negotiations — the Conference of the Parties, or COP — to see stories about …
Read More »Trump's Tax Plan Is Another Giant Boon for the Wealthy
Former President Donald Trump can’t stop touting his 2017 “Trump tax cuts” as his signature economic achievement, claiming vast benefits delivered to average Americans. He’s pledged to both continue and expand the cuts if elected president. But new research shared exclusively with Rolling Stone and extensive existing studies reveal Trump’s …
Read More »'Make Polluters Pay': Big Oil Slammed in Satirical US Billboards
Across the United States this week, the climate disasters fueled by Big Oil will be displayed on billboards in California, New York, Arizona, and Philadelphia. The bold campaign, launched by non-profit organization Fossil Free Media, calls out the decades of misinformation spread by oil and gas companiesas they sowed doubt …
Read More »Trump's Environmental Agenda: Embrace Big Oil, Ignore the Climate Crisis
This article was produced by Capital & Main in collaboration with Rolling Stone. “It could be two steps forward or 20 steps back, cautious optimism or completely hopeless.” The next meeting of the largest annual climate conference in the world takes place in Baku, Azerbaijan, just six days after the …
Read More »Supreme Court Helps Big Oil, Delays Historic Climate Lawsuit
The Biden administration has been asked by the Supreme Court to weigh in on Big Oil‘s request to review theHawaiiSupreme Court’s ruling that allowed Honolulu’s pivotal lawsuit against the companies to go to trial. In 2020, Honolulu sued major oil and gas companies, accusing them of knowing for decades that …
Read More »Supreme Court Architect Demands Justices Shield Big Oil From Historic Climate Trial
Leonard Leo is known as the architect of the Supreme Court for good reason: He helped Donald Trump pick three Supreme Court justices, and his dark money network led PR campaigns to install five of its six conservative justices. Leo’s network also funds politicians and organizations pressing the court to …
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