The EPA Is Reportedly Proposing Its Strictest-Ever Limits on Auto Emissions
Evan Vucci/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Environmental Protection Agency is preparing a regulation that would ensure up to two-thirds of all new cars sold by 2032 will be fully electric, according to reporting from the New York Times and Washington Post. The proposal would go beyond…
Health Secretary Says “Everything Is on the Table” to Protect Abortion Pill Access
Mariam Zuhaib/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra said the administration is willing to do whatever it takes to protect access to the abortion drug mifepristone, after a federal judge in Texas suspended the FDA’s approval of…
Kamala Harris Leads a Furious Chorus Over Ouster of Black Tennessee Lawmakers
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn to support two Democratic lawmakers who were expelled from the Tennessee State Legislature.George Walker IV/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Public outrage was immediate and intense on Thursday following the Tennessee legislature’s Republican…
Biden Vows To Fight Unprecedented Abortion Pill Ban
Carolyn Kaster/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.President Biden slammed the unprecedented Friday-night ruling by a Texas judge that suspended the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone—a drug that has been used in medical abortions for over two decades. As my colleague Madison Pauly explained…
This Tiny Battery Could Supercharge Distance Driving for Electric Vehicles
John Walton/PA Wire/PA Images/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory and the Illinois Institute of Technology have created a solid-state battery that could…
A Federal Judge Just Blocked the Most Common Form of Abortion Nationwide
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A federal judge in Texas on Friday suspended the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone, a drug commonly used in medication abortions, in a closely watched case with potentially explosive implications for the availability of abortion nationwide, regardless…