Senators Warren, Sanders, Blumenthal, and Durbin, has asked the DHS IG to expand an investigation into misallocation of funds budgeted for repair of hurricane-damaged homes and profit-skimming in Puerto Rico
Read more...Big Brexit events of the week are underway, starting with the ECJ ruling on unilateral reversal of an Article 50 notice.
Read more...While parties to the 2015 Paris Accord conduct negotiations in Katowice, Poland, the EPA has opted to weaken coal emission standards promulgated during the administration of Trump’s predecessor.
Read more...In this Real News Network interview, Jane Sanders discusses the climate crisis and tells Paul Jay that voters shouldn’t support candidates who claim to be progressive, but don’t prioritize the fight against fossil fuel interests.
Read more...The new IPCC Report is overly optimistic about global productivity growth and fossil fuel energy use. More dramatic, immediate action on climate change is needed
Read more...Wishful thinking and tinkering like “green growth” won’t cut it. Nothing short of a mass mobilization for deep de-carbonization across the global economy can avert the looming climate catastrophe.
Read more...The Brexit situation has developed not necessarily to the advantage of Theresa May.
Read more...Correcting revisionist history about Bush the Senior and the first Gulf War.
Read more...Theresa May continues to exhibit her remarkable capacity for taking punishment. Too bad it’s not for good ends.
Read more...The latest take on the increasingly frantic Brexit state of play.
Read more...Two-week UN climate change summit kicks off in Poland, to flesh out details of the 2015 Paris Accord. Politicians have dithered about what action to take, in part diverted by the disinformation spread by fossil fuel companies.
Read more...A short discussion of why economists’ efforts to model the impact of Brexit leave a lot to be desired.
Read more...America’s falling life expectancy is a symptom of rising social distress.
Read more...A brief recap of the newly-released Federal report on climate change.
Read more...Earth to economists: you are a big part of the climate change problem.
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