WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, during the third day of her confirmation hearing for the Supreme Court, Judge Amy Coney Barrett twice refused to acknowledge and accept the reality of the climate crisis. Following her remarks yesterday that she is “not a scientist” and “has no firm views” on climate change, today she expanded to say she is “not competent to opine on what causes global warming or not,” doesn’t think that her “views on global warming or climate change are relevant to the job I would do as a judge,” and called climate change a “very contentious matter of public debate.”
OUC announced today that they would stop burning coal for power by 2027 and would get 92% of their energy from renewable sources by 2050
During the second day of Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearing for the Supreme Court, Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) asked her if she has “opinions on climate change.” Barrett responded by saying she’s “not a scientist” and that she does not have “firm views on it.”
WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Donald Trump later today is expected to sign an Executive Order creating an interagency council to coordinate the U.S.’s participation in the international One Trillion Trees Initiative. The Order follows repeated climate denial from the Trump administration and a proposal last month to open vast swaths of irreplaceable old-growth rainforest in the Tongass National Forest to clearcut logging.
La Corte de Apelaciones del Noveno Circuito dictó anoche que el uso por parte de Donald Trump de poderes de emergencia para desviar $3.600 millones en fondos militares y construir su muro fronterizo es ilegal.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee will begin the hearing for Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett. In just the past week, three Republican Senators, including two on the Senate Judiciary Committee, tested positive for COVID-19 following Trump’s super-spreader event announcing Barrett’s nomination. Two additional members of the committee, including Chairman Lindsey Graham, are refusing to be tested for COVID-19. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell delayed the full Senate’s return until October 19 but is allowing the Judiciary Committee to proceed with Barrett’s hearing. More than 210,000 Americans have died since the COVID-19 pandemic began, and a recent poll found that 74 percent of American voters want the Senate to prioritize COVID relief over confirming Trump’s Supreme Court pick.
SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals last night ruled that President Trump’s use of emergency powers to divert $3.6 billion in military construction funds for the border wall is unlawful. The ruling came in a lawsuit, Sierra Club v. Trump, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of the Sierra Club and Southern Border Communities Coalition challenging President Trump’s abuse of emergency powers to build a border wall using funds Congress explicitly denied.
FERC granted MVP permission to resume construction, even though the beleaguered fracked gas project still lacks some necessary authorizations
El ex cabildero de la industria carbonera y administrador de la Agencia de Protección Ambiental (EPA), Andrew Wheeler, presentó un nuevo debilitamiento de las protecciones de la limpieza del agua
Duke Energy released a plan to further commit itself to fossil fuels