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…
“The United States Astonishes and Scares Me”: Members of the Migrant Caravan Share Their Stories
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A group of migrants met in mid-October in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, and formed a caravan. The men, women, and children committed to help each other travel toward the United States, with dreams of a better future. Strength in numbers was the idea behind this and other…
Trump Tries to Throw Gasoline on France’s Fuel Riots
Nicolas LiponnNurPhoto via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A series of violent protests that have rattled France in recent weeks have caught the eye of Donald Trump. Earlier today, @realdonaldtrump retweeted a post from Charlie Kirk, the founder of conservative nonprofit Turning Point USA, which attributed the “riots in…