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    Trump Unleashes Cultural Shift Among America’s Business Leaders

    Trump Unleashes Cultural Shift Among America’s Business Leaders

    One of the biggest impacts of President Trump’s election is not the direct damage he may do—but the cultural shift he has unleashed among American business leaders. Assaults on decency and health that would have been unthinkable a few months ago are now the expected response by corporate executives pressured by short-term market pressures and […]

    India Doubles Down on Renewables

    India Doubles Down on Renewables

    After a week in India, despite crowding, intensity and poverty, there is an undeniable lightness from plunging into a country firmly fixed on its future, not its past, moving forward however jerkily and energized. World's Largest Solar Farm Leapfrogs India to Third in Utility-Scale Solar https://t.co/25pE8C8quL @Solar_Builder @RealSolar — EcoWatch (@EcoWatch) December 3, 2016 Here’s […]

    ​Oroville Dam: A Wake-Up Call for America

    ​Oroville Dam: A Wake-Up Call for America

    The utterly avoidable, terrifying and still potentially catastrophic failures of the spillways of North America’s highest dam—California’s 170 foot, earth-filled Oroville—could, with the right national leadership, awaken America to the urgency of investing in our physical safety and future—our infrastructure. Sixty years old, Oroville single handedly provides one-third of the water for all of Southern […]

    Trump White House on Track to Be Most Scandalous in History

    Trump White House on Track to Be Most Scandalous in History

    It’s staggering to recall that one of Donald Trump’s main appeals to many of his voters was a pledge to “drain the swamp” and rid Washington of corruption. In only two weeks he has, instead, begun stocking the swamp with new and poisonous creatures, making it yet more deadly, much as sugar planters did in […]

    The Most Dangerous Bill You’ve Never Heard of Just Passed the House

    The Most Dangerous Bill You’ve Never Heard of Just Passed the House

    Last, week, under the cover of a media bliss-out except among Koch funded right-wing channels, the House of Representatives passed a bill which would effectively repeal future standard setting under every important environmental, public health, consumer protection, labor standards, occupational safety and civil rights law on the books. The bill, called the REINS Act, requires […]

    What’s Good for Exxon Is Bad for America

    What’s Good for Exxon Is Bad for America

    Whatever his voters intended, we can abandon the notion that President-elect Donald Trump is a right-wing populist. Right-wing, yes, authoritarian, probably, demagogue certainly. But his cabinet gives the lie to populism as part of his character. Wall Street may have paid Hilary Clinton hundreds of thousands of dollars to make speeches; but it is Trump […]

    Standing Rock: Native American’s Version of Gandhi’s 1930 Salt March

    Standing Rock: Native American’s Version of Gandhi’s 1930 Salt March

    Today was supposed to be the deadline for thousands of protesters encamped to prevent completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline across Lake Oahe on the Missouri River to evacuate their camp-sites. Instead it has become a moment of celebration, as the Army Corps of Engineers and the Obama Administration have concluded that a new Environmental […]

    Burning Less Coal = 19% Less Mercury in the Tuna You Eat

    Burning Less Coal = 19% Less Mercury in the Tuna You Eat

    I couldn’t, post-election, muster a plausibly big enough piece of good news to warrant a Thanksgiving blog—but then this morning one arrived. In an astonishingly short eight years, as a result of tougher emission rules on power plants and a declining use of coal, concentrations of mercury in Atlantic Bluefin tuna, the sushi sort, dropped […]