Methane Detectives: Can a Wave of Technology Slash Natural Gas Leaks?
A rig drills for natural gas, framed by the cliffs of the Roan Plateau. Steven D Starr/Getty This story was originally published by Yale Environment360 and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Driving along County Road 28 south of Platteville, the signs of Colorado’s oil and gas boom are everywhere you look. Storage tanks…
Amazon Spent a Ton of Money on Seattle Elections. It Probably Wasn’t Worth It.
Ted S. Warren / AP When Amazon pumped $1.5 million into influencing Seattle’s City Council elections in its final weeks—a rather startling bump on the $25,000 spent four years ago, according to Reuters—it begged the question: Can Amazon buy an election? (And, uh, is Prime delivery worth your complicity?) Jeff Bezos and Amazon think they can buy elections. They spent…
Jim Jordan Joins the Intelligence Committee as a New Lawsuit Says He Shrugged Off Sexual Misconduct Claim at Ohio State
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, speaks to media after Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Laura Cooper arrived to testify as part of the House impeachment inquiry.Patrick Semansky/AP Ardent Trump defender Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is joining the House Intelligence Committee tasked with marshaling the impeachment inquiry. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Cali.) delivered the news on…
Trump Is Trying to Woo Black Voters by Saying What He Always Says
John Bazemore/AP The election is one year away, the impeachment inquiry is heating up, and Donald Trump wants those black votes. On Friday, the president went to Atlanta for the launch of Black Voices for Trump. The new grassroots coalition is an attempt by Trump’s reelection campaign to win over more black voters than he did…
Steve Bannon Says Trump Team Saw Roger Stone as “Access Point” to Assange
Stev Bannon, during an interview in Berlin on May 15, 2019.Kay Nietfeld/picture alliance via Getty Images Donald Trump and members of his campaign have said many times that they never colluded with Russia in 2016. But according to bombshell testimony in federal court Friday, the Trump team did believe that it was collaborating with WikiLeaks,…
A German Princess, a Cardinal, and an Anti-LGBT Activist Walk Into the Supreme Court…
Pope Francis greets indigenous representatives in Puerto Maldonado, Peru, Friday, Jan. 19, 2018. Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo Last week, two of the Supreme Court’s most ardent Catholic justices, Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh, met at the court with an odd trio of visitors: Brian S. Brown, who runs several anti-gay advocacy groups; German Princess Gloria von…