Opponents of TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline—from indigenous and environmental groups to local farmers and ranchers—celebrated a win in court after a federal judge ruled on Friday that the fossil fuel giant cannot conduct pre-construction work on the pipeline until the full environmental review ordered last month is complete. “Somehow TransCanada still hasn’t gotten the message…
Keeping up the pressure on the Democratic leadership to embrace bold and popular solutions that are aligned with the science, youth climate leaders on Thursday occupied the D.C. office of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y) to demand that he either show true leadership by supporting a Green New Deal or “step aside.” “Real climate…
Following the “horrific” death last week of Jakelin Caal, the 7-year-old refugee from Guatemala who died while detained by the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol in Texas, human rights activist on Thursday night were confronted outside the home of CBP’s Commissioner Kevin McAleenan in Virginia as they projected pictures onto the house of Caal and…
Casino mogul and conservative mega-donor Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam donated $30 million to conservative groups in September as the GOP seeks to blunt a House Democratic wave in the midterms. New FEC filings show each Adelson contributed $10 million last month to the Congressional Leadership Fund, a super PAC linked to House Speaker…
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) holds an 18-point lead over her progressive challenger, California state Sen. Kevin de León (D), ahead of November’s midterms, according to a new poll. Feinstein has the support of 41 percent of likely voters to de León’s 23 percent, according to an Emerson College poll released Monday. The poll, which has a margin of error of…
SAN ANTONIO — Rep. Beto O’RourkeBeto O’RourkeBiden will help close out Texas Democrats’ virtual convention: report O’Rourke on Texas reopening: ‘Dangerous, dumb and weak’ Parties gear up for battle over Texas state House MORE’s chances of unseating Sen. Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward CruzSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote The Hill’s Morning Report –…
America is more polarized than ever. Just look at the states. The number of state legislatures where both Democrats and Republicans control one chamber is at an all-time low, after a deeply polarizing election made red states redder and blue states bluer. Only one state — Minnesota — has a bicameral legislature in which Democrats and Republicans…
“This is a very big deal,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) says about the official Green New Deal proposal—of which he is a “proud” original co-sponsor—in a new video shared to his social media profiles on Friday. Unveiled on Thursday by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), the proposal is not written “as…
Man Bahadur Thapa had his doubts about the safety of the travel arrangements. Taliban spies were everywhere in the Afghan capital, and the bus transporting him and the Canadian embassy’s other guards, all Nepalese and Indian, was unarmoured. But Thapa was used to pushing worries to the back of his mind. After all, he thought,…
She’s just 13 years old, but she’s “a threat.” That’s climate activist Alexandria Villaseñor, who explained in an interview Friday morning, “My generation is going to have to live in a climate-changed world, and the fact that nothing was done in order to make sure that we don’t live in planetary catastrophe—it’s very disappointing and…