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A Moral Monstrosity: Yet More Blood, Hate and Grief
Saturday September 05, 2026
The latest of thousands of innocent victims of inhuman ethnic cleansing carnage, Pierre Damas Bel was a 20-year-old Haitian honor student, soccer player, aspiring doctor and "beautiful soul" in Ohio who, overwhelmed by the shame of an ICE shackle and ...Trump Administration Takes Another Swing at Dismantling Clean Water Protections
Friday September 04, 2026The Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers today proposed a rule that would strip Clean Water Act protections from the vast majority of the country’s wetlands and streams. The proposal would generally protect only waters that ...Trump’s New “Waters Of The U.S.” Proposal Takes Sledgehammer To Clean Water Act
Friday September 04, 2026Today, Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Army Corps of Engineers announced a revised proposal that would gut bedrock Clean Water Act protections for nearly all wetlands and streams by drastically narrowing what waterways will be considered “Waters of the ...Noisy Jobs Report Offers Little Comfort for Jobseekers Across Stumbling Economy
Friday September 04, 2026Today’s jobs report shows the economy added 162,000 jobs in August, while the unemployment rate held steady at 4.1%. Job gains averaged just 31,000 per month over the past year and labor force participation remains near recent lows at 61.6%. ...Federal Judge Blocks Trump EPA’s Efforts to Attack Clean Air Waivers
Thursday September 03, 2026Yesterday, a federal judge granted California a preliminary injunction blocking EPA’s actions targeting four Clean Air Act preemption waivers previously granted to California.Senior U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell also denied EPA’s motion to dismiss the case.The preliminary injunction ordered EPA ...Nepal’s catastrophic floods must be a wake-up call on climate action as death toll passes 1,000
Thursday September 03, 2026The catastrophic floods in Nepal are a stark warning of what a hotter world will mean for communities on the climate frontline and why governments and donors must invest now in climate resilience, adaptation and disaster preparedness, rather than waiting ...Sanders, Casar Introduce Legislation to Ban Artificial Superintelligence and Temporarily Pause Advanced AI Development
Thursday September 03, 2026Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) today announced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, forthcoming legislation to stop AI oligarchs from building machines humans cannot control.The Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act would permanently ban the development and deployment of ...350.org responds to UN report confirming world set to breach 1.5°C: ‘Every fraction of a degree’ still worth fighting for
Wednesday September 02, 2026The world is on track to cross the 1.5°C global warming threshold, likely within the next few years, according to a major new UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report released today. Limiting Overshoot finds that even the most optimistic scenario now ...Trump’s Drug Pricing Deals Are a Farce
Monday August 31, 2026President Donald Trump is expected to announce more most-favored nation (MFN) drug pricing deals with additional pharmaceutical companies today. Public Citizen plans to immediately file a Freedom of Information request to obtain the texts of the newly claimed White House ...