Border walls are devastating for wildlife, period. Walls in Arizona slice through two national monuments, numerous wilderness areas, three fragile wildlife refuges, and a UNESCO biosphere reserve. The borderlands are not a barren wasteland. Pass that message on...

In the final years of South African Apartheid, the white government decided it must 1) overthrow the government of Angola 2) install a puppet regime in Namibia 3) attack Zimbabwe 4) attack Botswana 5) attack Zambia in order to survive. This did not work

Lobbyists for major companies including Meta, Dominion Energy and Verizon authored chapters of Project 2025, the massive conservative plan for an incoming Trump administration. Many of the proposals would benefit the authors' corporate clients. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Thomas Shannon, a top State Dept official under Trump, compared Trump's Venezuela sanctions to the firebombing of Tokyo "This is the point I made at the time: I said the sanctions were going to grind the Venezuelan economy into dust & have huge human consequences, one of which

Some House Republicans slam JD Vance as Trump’s VP pick: ‘The worst choice’ thehill.com/homenews/47938…

Blowing up a water station that serves a million-plus people

Good piece suggesting a way forward for Harris - both a campaign and a *governing* vision nytimes.com/2024/07/27/opi…

Destroying water treatment plants is a war crime in its own right. Doing so in full knowledge that it will contribute to the spread of polio is evidence of genocidal intent.

This is the sort of progressive policy required if we're serious about the climate crisis.

A legal filing to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by a group of NGOs alleges that tens of thousands of oil and gas injection wells pose threats to groundwater. EPA has launched an investigation. gasoutlook.com/analysis/oil-a…

Oil and gas injection wells risk to groundwater in Texas EPA has launched an investigation gasoutlook.com/analysis/oil-a…

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NEW STUDY: Swapping out your gas stove for an induction stove cuts NO2 in your house by 56%. NO2 is linked to asthma, increased ER visits and “premature mortality” aka fewer birthdays. Switching from Gas to Electric Stoves Cuts Indoor Air Pollution publichealth.columbia.edu/news/switching…

JD Vance said in 2021 that “we have to go to war” against the idea that women can decide not to have children huffpost.com/entry/jd-vance…

Dirty Gas: "The total derived emissions rate of 860 metric tons of methane an hour across the 12 basins included in the analysis is more than four times the corresponding EPA gridded inventory as of 2020, the most recent data available." Gas is Four Times Worse Than Reported!

very proud of this one! my first for The Lever on how J.D. Vance supported the steel industry --at the expense of its workers' health

Rio Grande LNG's legal setback could have “chilling effect” across the entire U.S. LNG industry. Dylan Baddour Martha Pskowski Pablo De La Rosa Gaige Davila Ira Joseph gasoutlook.com/analysis/rio-g…

🇺🇸 انخفضت أسهم شركة NextDecade بعد أن ألغت محكمة ترخيص لجنة الطاقة الفيدرالية (FERC)، مما وجه ضربة لثروات مشروع ريو جراندي للغاز الطبيعي المسال. ويقول المحللون إن القرار يمكن أن يكون له ”تأثير مخيف“ على صناعة #الغاز الطبيعي المسال الأمريكية بأكملها 👇 gasoutlook.com/ar/%D8%A7%D9%8…