President Joe Biden joined guest host Kal Penn on The Daily Show Monday for an interview covering student loan forgiveness, LGBTQ rights, and climate change. It was the latter that found the president in a contradiction, who called upon the country to take action against climate change despite his administration’s …
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Democratic lawmakers are condemning the Biden administration’s approval of ConocoPhillips’ massive Willow oil drilling project on Alaska’s North Slope. The decision represents a clear reversal of Biden’s 2020 campaign promise to end the approval of new oil and gas permits on federal lands and waters. In a joint statement released …
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“We need to imagine a different version of our future,” says Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. The photogenic Danish actor from Game of Thrones and the upcoming Apple TV+ series The Last Thing He Told Me is set to feature in a new Bloomberg Originals series, Rolling Stone can exclusively reveal. An Optimist’s …
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Dear M. Night Shyamalan: Are you doing ok? We completely sympathize if you’re not. Look, the last seven or so years have not been easy for anyone, and no one would blame the Oscar-nominated filmmaker if, like so many of us, his faith in humanity has taken a few massive …
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I was trying to do something I never do: take a two-day vacation. I had been in Peru for a month, deep in the Amazon, documenting the Achuar Tribe’s epic battle against the oil industry for my new HBO Documentary on climate refugees. I was exhausted, but I listened to …
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Climate change is a global problem that requires cooperation between all nations. That’s why today more than 30 newspapers and media organizations in more than 20 countries have taken a common view about what needs to be done. Time is running out. Rather than getting out of fossil fuels and …
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War is about power, but it is also about money. For Big Oil, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has been a dream come true, disrupting oil markets and sending prices soaring. And they have reaped the rewards. Exxon’s profits for the third quarter of this year were $18.7 …
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A 1952 rookie card of baseball legend Mickey Mantle recently sold for $12.6 million. It’s the most anyone’s ever paid for a single piece of sports memorabilia, making it a rare gem. When you consider the scarcity of the card and its provenance, it’s likely to sell for even more …
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Yvon Chouinard, the founder of apparel brand Patagonia, is handing over his company, valued at $3 billion, over to trusts and non-profit organizations focused on fighting climate change. The unprecedented move makes his family some of the most charitable business owners in the U.S. “Hopefully this will influence a new …
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Decades of willfully moronic Republicans bringing snowballs onto the Senate floor to argue that climate change is a hoax. Decades of debate about carbon taxes and carbon offsets. Decades of rallies in D.C. and hoping that the next hurricane or drought or heat wave will wake up Americans to the …
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