Biden Wants $10 Billion for a Climate Army. That Isn’t Nearly Enough.
Mandel Ngan/Getty Images Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On March 31, President Joe Biden unveiled his long-awaited American…
Green Investing Is “Definitely Not” Going to Save Our Behinds
Tariq Fancy in Toronto, December 2014. Richard Lautens/The Toronto Star/Zuma Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. From his desk in midtown Manhattan,…
Oil-Exporting Nations Warned to Diversify Industries—or Face Civil Unrest
Oil workers in Kirkuk, Iraq, in 2004. Karim Sahib/AFB via Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters. This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Oil-dependent countries that are…
Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Is Much More Than That. But Does It Go Far Enough?
Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Yes, the $2 trillion proposal President Joe Biden is unveiling Wednesday would fix roads, transit stations, and bridges. But to simply call it an infrastructure plan understates its ambitions. It’s the…
This Lawyer Went After Chevron. Now He’s 600 Days Into House Arrest.
The nights are hardest for Donziger, when he has to struggle to get his jeans off over the boxy tag and lie in bed next to his wife “with the government still there on my ankle”. Each morning he wakes up in angst. A flag reading “SOS Free Steven” sometimes flutters defiantly from the window,…
Banning Pandemic Water Shutoffs Could Have Saved Thousands in US
Osman Raul restocks drinking water at a Jumbo Foods International Supermarket in Maryland.Linda Davidson/The Washington Post via Getty Images Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part…