This morning,theHouse of Representativespassed Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which takes a sledgehammer to Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA),a law that created hundreds of thousands of clean energy jobs and over billions in green energy investments across the nation. The reconciliation bill enshrines Trump’s 2017 tax cuts into law …
Read More »Republicans Can't Help But Love Biden's Signature Piece of Legislation
Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act —the president’s signature piece legislation with provisions spanning climate change, infrastructre, health care, inflation reduction, job creation, and more — on Aug. 16, 2022, two years ago on Friday. Republicans have spent the time since its signing publicly bashing it, but many of …
Read More »Adam McKay Explains His Made-You-Look Take on Climate Activism
Adam McKay would like to bring to your attention that the world is burning. “We’re living in a ridiculous farcical comedy, but the consequences are real,” says the director who turned a planet-ending comet into a metaphor for climate change in his film Don’t Look Up. “We can’t seem to …
Read More »Adam McKay Explains His Made-You-Look Take on Climate Activism
Adam McKay would like to bring to your attention that the world is burning. “We’re living in a ridiculous farcical comedy, but the consequences are real,” says the director who turned a planet-ending comet into a metaphor for climate change in his film Don’t Look Up. “We can’t seem to …
Read More »Biden Calls Out Big Pharma's Big Scam
President Joe Biden called out Big Pharma’s biggest scam during his State of the Union speech Thursday: charging Americans far more for the same drugs than patients in other countries. “I’m gonna get in trouble for saying it,” Biden said. “But if any of you want to get into Air …
Read More »Big Profits, Big Demands: The Autoworker Strike, Explained
The United Auto Workers want the Big Three automakers to share the wealth. The powerful union went on strike on Thursday after making aggressive demands including big raises and a restoration of old benefits. It’s the first time in history the UAW has gone on strike against the three manufacturing …
Read More »Ithaca's Crazy Plan to Be Our First All-Electric City
PICK A COLLEGE town that would be at the forefront of the climate revolution, and Berkeley is probably top of mind. But the real action is happening more than 2,700 miles away, in snowy Ithaca, New York. The city has one of the most aggressive climate plans in the country, …
Read More »Herschel Walker Bashes New Climate Law: 'Don't We Have Enough Trees?'
Step aside, “How can global warming be real if it’s cold outside?” Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker has a fresh and no less baffling justification for climate inaction: We already have enough trees. Discussing the Inflation Reduction Act recently signed into law by President Biden, which included the largest environmental …
Read More »It's Real Now: Joe Biden Has Signed the Climate Bill Into Law
President Joe Biden signed a landmark $750 billion spending bill — which includes provisions for climate change, healthcare, and inflation reduction — into law on Tuesday. “With this law the American people won and the special interests lost,” Biden said before the signing. The Inflation Reduction Act will provide nearly …
Read More »House Democrats Pass Historic Climate, Healthcare Bill over Republican Opposition
The House of Representatives passed the Inflation Reduction Act on Friday, clearing the way for President Biden to sign the landmark climate and healthcare bill into law. The legislation passed along party lines, as Democrats overcame unified GOP opposition. Republicans banded together to vote by proxy in order to deny …
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