By Leanna First-Arai In a push to capture the rural vote, 62 percent of which went to Trump in 2016, both the Trump and Biden campaigns are ramping up efforts to appeal to farmers and ranchers. On September 22, the Biden campaign launched a new radio ad blitz in eight battleground states, in which Biden […]
By Brett Wilkins The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the meatpacking industry worked together to downplay and disregard risks to worker health during the Covid-19 pandemic, as shown in documents published Monday by Public Citizen and American Oversight. The documents, which the groups obtained through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, reveal that a […]
The climate crisis has wedged its way into the presidential campaign as President Trump, who has barely mentioned the fires raging on the West Coast, visited California on Monday. When pressed on global warming, Trump told a briefing, “I don’t think science knows, actually.” In the meantime, former Vice President Joe Biden, who has campaigned […]
By Julia Conley Climate scientists were aghast Monday at the news that David Legates, a University of Delaware professor who has repeatedly questioned the scientific consensus that human activity is causing the climate crisis and has claimed that carbon dioxide emissions are beneficial, has been named by the Trump administration to a top leadership role […]
By Brett Wilkins In the nearly six months since President Donald Trump declared a public health emergency over the coronavirus pandemic, he has rolled back at least 30 public protections, while proposing changes to at least 20 others, according to a report published Thursday by Public Citizen’s Coalition on Sensible Safeguards. The report—Pandemic Rollbacks: Slashing […]
A massive, first-of-its-kind report, commissioned by Trump appointees and compiled by dozens of analysts from firms across the economy, says “climate change poses a major risk to the stability of the U.S. financial system and to its ability to sustain the American economy.” The findings themselves are not entirely new, but the fact that they […]
By Jake Johnson After President Donald Trump on Monday suggested a COVID-19 vaccine could be fully developed and put to market “before a very special day” — apparently referring to the Nov. 3 presidential election — Sen. Bernie Sanders warned that Trump’s ongoing politicization of the vaccine process threatens to undermine public trust and safety. […]
By Julia Mahncke U.S. President Donald Trump has undone many major pieces of climate policy during his term, walking out on the 2015 Paris Agreement to limit global warming and eliminating numerous Obama-era environmental regulations. Trump’s Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, has promised as part of his presidential campaign to invest .7 trillion in a “clean […]
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator (EPA) Andrew Wheeler gave a speech Thursday where he accused Democratic efforts to stop the climate crisis as actions that have hurt poor and vulnerable communities. He also laid out a vision for a second Trump term, saying it would bring a new wave of deregulation and support for economic […]
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