The court ruled that the city’s ban on new fossil fuel terminals within its borders did not violate the Commerce Clause, which is the main argument the oil industry has used against bans like the ones in Portland, Oregon and other cities.
Read more...Climate change, aging cars, signals, and tunnels, plus looting by the political class and the bankers.
Read more...Google, Twitter, and Facebook are anti-democratic for both readers and writers.
Read more...Recapturing the lost history of the FDR administration
Read more...The EU is rethinking its policies on foreign direct investment. Recent Chinese investment into ports may impact the final rules.
Read more...What might a win in the July 1 presidential election by the charismatic, anti-neoliberal Andres Manuel Lopez Obrado mean for Mexico and the US?
Read more...Why the death toll in Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria was so disgracefully high.
Read more...As Bernie Sanders’s proposal for a federal job guarantee attracts criticism, it is worth mulling India’s successful rural job guarantee program, enacted in 2005.
Read more...China sees a nation-building opportunity in Syria that the US won’t consider.
Read more...Michael Hudson discusses monopoly capitalism on the Laura Flanders show.
Read more...The likely failure of Tesla’s hyper-automated manufacturing process, and the externalities of battery fires in electric vehicles.
Read more...Report documents how the self-regulation fairy proved itself as inept in protecting the public from dysfunctional management decisions that compromised safety and led to the Alito Canyon natural gas disaster.
Read more...Two large British outsourcers are also on the verge of collapse, and the vultures are circling.
Read more...The public-private partnerships Trump proposes are a sick neoliberal joke.
Read more...New study on the EHR debacle shows that our multiple payer system creates the complexity that prevents cost-saving and makes EHRs so hard to implement
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