Power Plant Explosion Casts New Light on New York’s Addiction to Dirty Fuel
This story was originally published by HuffPost. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. ASTORIA, NY—The transformer explosion that illuminated the New York City skyline late Thursday night came from one of the state’s dirtiest plants, casting new light on the city’s dependence on antiquated oil-burning power stations and bolstering calls for cleaner electricity. This…
In 2018, Americans Took a Page From the Russian Disinformation Playbook
Getty Illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the week leading up to the 2018 midterm elections, two massive stories dominated the news: the migrant caravan approaching the southern US border and pipe bombs mailed to major liberal figures. As the stories spread online, so did a constellation of hoaxes and…
Amazon’s Bid on a $10 Billion Pentagon Contract Is Riddled With Conflicts of Interest
Amazon could score a $10 billion Pentagon contract.Ken Lambert/ Seattle Times via Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After a drawn-out battle over a $10 billion contract, the cloud-computing company Oracle filed a lawsuit earlier this month alleging that the Pentagon rigged a major contracting process in favor of Amazon. Earlier this…
Should Donald Trump Be Bragging About Wage Growth?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A “friend” brings to my attention the latest column from Rich Lowry, editor of National Review. With the stock market tanking, he has some advice for Donald Trump: For a president who underlined the increasing importance of working-class whites to the GOP coalition and who…
Trump Threatens to Close Border and Cut Off Aid to Central American Countries
Zach Gibson/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Nearly a week into a government shutdown that has left an estimated 800,000 federal workers furloughed or working without pay, President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to close the US-Mexico border and cut off aid to three Central American countries if Democrats did…
45 Years After Nixon Signed It Into Law, the War on the Endangered Species Act Continues
The ocelot is an endangered, wild cat native to North America.Leonardo Prest Mercon Ro/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Forty-five years ago, on December 28th, 1973, President Richard Nixon, a Republican, signed a piece of monumental environmental legislation, the Endangered Species Act, into law. At the time, Nixon issued a…