TOP NEWS: 'We Will Never Stop Fighting': Pipeline Opponents Galvanized as Congress Clears Way for Dirty Project

 

June 02, 2023 Top News Lockheed Martin CEO Hails Pentagon Budget Boost in Debt Limit Deal The head of the major U.S. military contractor said the Pentagon top-line in the debt ceiling deal is "as good an outcome as our industry or our company could ask for at this point." Jake Johnson Amazon Fires Alabama Union Leader Who 'Lit the Spark of the Current Rise of Labor Activism' "Your termination of my employment will not stifle workers' organizing, for when you fire leaders, it only brings more people ignited into the movement," said Jennifer Bates. Kenny Stancil Groups Demand End to Drilling on 'All Public Land' as Biden Blocks New Oil Leases in Chaco Canyon "Today's decision just isn't enough to give our communities a fighting chance against the climate emergency," said one campaigner. Julia Conley 'Web of Deception': Syngenta Docs Show Company Tried to Hide Pesticide's Link to Parkinson's "It looks like the paraquat maker has adopted nearly every strategy we outlined in our book about bending science," said one author and former EPA legal adviser. Brett Wilkins GOP 'Fealty to Megadonors on Full Display': IRS Cuts Will Cost $40 Billion in Lost Revenue "After holding our entire economy hostage and threatening to trigger a global financial meltdown, Republicans protected wealthy tax cheats and creepy billionaires," said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse. Jake Johnson 'We Will Never Stop Fighting': Pipeline Opponents Galvanized as Congress Clears Way for Dirty Project "By voting for a dirty deal that fast-tracks the Mountain Valley fracked gas pipeline and guts bedrock environmental laws, Congress betrayed people and the planet," said one campaigner. Jake Johnson

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Opinion The Climate-Killing Mountain Valley Pipeline Was a Poison Pill Congress Should Not Have Swallowed West Virginia conservative Democratic Senator Joe Manchin, who has earned millions from his family-owned coal business and is Congress’s largest recipient of fossil fuel industry contributions, forced the MVP into this bill. Amy Goodman,Denis Moynihan Clarence "Private Jet" Thomas Is Getting People Killed Right-wing nuttiness has now been enshrined into the Constitution by Thomas and the five other extremist justices who signed onto his devastating ruling on guns. Miles Mogulescu Double Duty of Debt Ceiling Deal: A Gift to Wealthy Tax Cheats and Increases the Deficit Cutting critical IRS funding to enforce our tax laws better not only erodes the fairness and integrity of our entire tax system, but also reduces federal revenue. Jon Whiten

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