Proving Power of Renewables, Wind Making Dirty Fuels Obsolete in Northern Europe
By The wind power boom in Nordic countries is making fossil fuel-fired power plants obsolete and is pushing electricity prices down, according to reporting by Reuters published Friday. Power prices in Finland, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden have dropped sharply as renewable energy floods the market, efficiency measures lower energy use overall, and growth remains stagnant, reporter […]
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Big Oil Spending Millions to Kill Local Anti-Fracking Measure
Fossil fuel energy companies have spent over $7.6 million to defeat a measure that would ban fracking in California’s Santa Barbara County. Measure P, which was brought forth by the Santa Barbara County Water Guardians, would ban “high-intensity petroleum operations,” including fracking, acidizing and steam-injection methods. Among those donating to the committee against the measure, […]
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Low-Wage Workers Retake National Stage in 'Fight for 15'
Thousands of workers in several different low-pay industries—including fast food, airlines, and health care—staged protests throughout the country on Thursday to demand a $15 an hour minimum wage, improved benefits, and collective bargaining rights, marking the two-year anniversary of the movement that has come to be known as the Fight for 15. Protests and walkouts […]
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Conway: Trump won't talk to his kids about business
President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE will not talk to his children about business, his top aide says. “Donald Trump is going to […]
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G20 Countries Spending $88 Billion a Year to Subsidize Climate Disaster
Despite pledging in 2009 to phase out public subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, G20 countries have disregarded those promises and are currently spending $88 billion a year in taxpayer money to fund the discovery of new gas, coal, and oil deposits around the world, according to a new report published Tuesday by the Overseas […]
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US Aid Worker Peter Kassig, Syrian Soldiers Reportedly Killed by ISIS
The Islamic State (ISIS) has reportedly released a video that shows the beheading deaths of several of its hostages, including U.S. aid worker Peter Kassig and a number of captured Syrian soldiers. Kassig, a 26-year-old from Indiana, had been held hostage by ISIS for over a year and went by the name Abdul-Rahman after converting […]
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Chuck Hagel Resigns as Secretary of Defense
U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is stepping down from the top post at the Pentagon “under pressure” reports the New York Times on Monday. Other outlets report that Hagel’s resignation has been accepted by President Obama. The official announcement of the resignation is expected to come from Obama later today. According to the Times: […]
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At Home and Abroad, UN Report Details Abysmal US Record of Abuse
An official report by the United Nations Committee Against Torture released Friday found that the United States has a long way to go if it wants to actually earn its claimed position as a leader in the world on human rights. Following a lengthy review of recent and current practices regarding torture, imprisonment, policing, immigration […]
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Attorneys General, Energy Companies Formed Secret Alliance to Kill Regulations: NYT
Attorneys general in at least a dozen states have formed secretive alliances with “energy companies and other corporate interests” to fight Obama administration regulations, a new investigation by the New York Times has found. The Times notes that though individual attorneys general have before pushed for changes following lobbyists’ interventions, “never before have attorneys general […]
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Kerry Offers 'Fancy Words,' But US Inaction Blasted as Lima Talks Limp To End
As the U.N. Conference of the Parties (COP20) talks enter their last scheduled day in Lima, Peru on Friday, remarks delivered by U.S. Secretary of State late Thursday to climate negotiators from around the world, though welcomed by some, seemed to do very little in terms of moving the talks closer to the kind of […]
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