NRA Ties to Russian Operatives Draw Growing Scrutiny From Congress
Alexander Torshin in Houston in May 2013Unknown Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As questions mounted last spring about two Russian operatives with ties to the National Rifle Association who tried to cultivate the Trump presidential campaign, the NRA made a rare public disclosure: The gun group said it had received about $2,500…
This Year’s UN Climate Talks—Brought to You by Coal?
Dominika Zarzycka/NurPhoto via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. KATOWICE, POLAND—There’s a specter hanging over the COP24 climate talks, that happened last week in the small city of Katowice, Poland. It’s not the goalpost-moving report that the…
This Cross-Border Town Has Faced Toxic Pollution for Years. Now Its Residents Are Fighting Back.
Guillermo Arias/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by High Country News and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Last September, Paloma Aguirre spent the day collecting bits of trash and tires in the Tijuana River Valley, which straddles the US-Mexico border south of San…
Trump Uses Paris Protests as an Opportunity to Blast International Climate Agreement
Rafael Yaghobzadeh/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. French police clashed with “yellow vest” protesters in Paris on Saturday as country-wide demonstrations of President Emanuel Macron’s leadership and economic policies continued for the fourth consecutive weekend. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets across the country, and nearly1,000 protesters…
Climate Policy That Ignores Class Doesn’t Work
France’s gas tax was was far less ambitious. Revenues from the levy, which would have raised prices by 24 cents a gallon on diesel and 12 cents a gallon on unleaded gas, were intended to pay down the country’s growing budget deficit. “A carbon tax should not be the leading force in any initiative.” “A…
Donald Trump, Who Only Hires the Best People, Says His Former Secretary of State Is as “Dumb as a Rock”
Cheriss May/Zumapress Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Friday to lambast Rex Tillerson, his own pick as his administration’s first Secretary of State, in unusually harsh terms, calling him as “dumb” and “lazy as hell.” Mike Pompeo is doing a great job, I am…