SEC Wants Public Companies to Disclose Greenhouse Gas Emissions
SEC chair Gary Gensler.Evelyn Hockstein/CNP via ZUMA Press This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The US’s top financial watchdog proposed on Monday that publicly traded companies report information on their greenhouse-gas emissions, and even those of their suppliers and consumers, in one of the Biden administration’s most…
Republican Senator Lashes Out at Marriage Equality in Supreme Court Hearing
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) meets with Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson in Washington, DC, Thursday, March 10, 2022. Rod Lamkey/CNP via ZUMA Press Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.During the second day of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation…
Why Josh Hawley Is Smearing Ketanji Brown Jackson as Soft on Pedophilia
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.There is a big red button with the word “pedophile” scrawled on it that certain kinds of reactionaries like to press when things aren’t going the direction they want. For example: In July 2017, I…
Blame Big Oil for a Lot—But Not for Price Gouging at the Pump
A gas station in Los Angeles County, California, on March 20. Zeng Hui/Xinhua via ZUMA Press Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.A gallon of gas now costs nearly a dollar more than it did on January 1. Surging gas prices are generating…
500 Researchers Ask Universities to Reject Fossil-Fuel Cash
Harvard University. Zuma Press. This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Universities must stop accepting funding from fossil fuel companies to conduct climate research, even if the research is aimed at developing green and low-carbon technology, an influential group of distinguished academics has said. Rowan Williams, the…