The EPA Launches a Crackdown on Killer Soot
Stanton Energy Center, a coal-fired power plant, in Orlando.Paul Hennessy / ZUMA This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Environmental Protection Agency has finalized long-awaited new limits on soot, the tiny air pollution particles emitted by sources as varied as power plants, factories, car exhaust,…
Chris LaCivita Ran One of American Politics’ Most Notorious Smear Campaigns. Now He’s Working For Trump.
Mother Jones; Andrew Harnik/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.When he ran for president in 2004, Democrats were counting on Sen. John Kerry’s military service to define him as a strong leader after 2001’s terrorist attack and George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq. The…
Donald Trump’s Energy Plans “Potentially Disastrous” for the Climate
Andrew Harnik/AP This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The United States’s first major climate legislation dismantled, a crackdown on government scientists, a frenzy of oil and gas drilling, the Paris climate deal not only dead but buried. A blueprint is emerging for a second Donald Trump term that is even…
School Shooter’s Mother Convicted in Historic Manslaughter Trial
Jennifer Crumbley testifies in an Oakland County, Mich., courtroom, Feb. 1, 2024Mandi Wright/Detroit Free Press/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In a historic decision on Tuesday, a jury convicted the first parent ever to be tried on homicide charges for a mass shooting committed…
Will Nikki Haley Lose Nevada to “None of the Above”?
Meg Kinnard/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Today is Nevada’s presidential primary. But for Republicans, the vote will be largely meaningless. Even though the state legislature passed a law replacing party caucuses with a statewide primary election in 2021, the GOP balked and opted…
Here Are the Best Lines in the Court Decision Blasting Trump’s Immunity Claim
Mother Jones illustration; Yuri Gripas/Abaca/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Tuesday morning, a federal appeals court in Washington, DC, told Donald Trump to get lost. That is, it rejected his claim that as a former president he has total immunity for actions he…