Ethics watchdogs on Wednesday welcomed passage of legislation tightening financial disclosure requirements for federal judges as a step in addressing a widespread crisis that requires broader reforms. The legislation has been named Courthouse Ethics and Transparency Act. According to House Judiciary Democrats, it challenges the alarming lack o...
As California faces the third year of record-breaking drought caused by the climate crisis, officials on Tuesday declared the state’s first-ever water shortage emergency and ordered outdoor use restrictions that will affect around six million people in three southern counties. The Metropolitan Water District (MWD) of Southern California...
A first-of-its-kind study revealed Wednesday that wildfires in U.S. and Canadian boreal forests could hinder efforts to meet global climate goals by using up a “sizable amount” of the world’s carbon budget through 2050. The analysis, published in the peer-reviewed journal Science Advances, was led by Carly Phillips, a fellow ...
Citing a “dramatic increase in labor activity” that’s straining staff at the National Labor Relations Board, nearly 150 U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday urged congressional leaders to boost the agency’s budget, which in real dollars has fallen by nearly a quarter over the past decade. In a letter led by Rep. Donald Norcross ...
A group of House Democrats on Wednesday sent letters to 13 of the top U.S. insurers, urging them to stop profiting “from the expansion of fossil fuels while ripping the rug out from under the communities most affected by climate change.” U.S. Reps. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) and Mondaire Jones (D-N.Y.) led 14 colleagues in urging the...
As inflationary pressure drives up costs throughout the economy, a new analysis out Wednesday reveals that corporations are raking in record profits by jacking up prices at the grocery store, gas pump, and beyond—hurting consumers while rewarding investors. The Guardian, which examined Securities and Exchange Commission filings for 100 U.S. co...
Sen. Bernie Sanders demanded Tuesday that President Joe Biden cancel Amazon’s federal contracts over the e-commerce giant’s aggressive and unlawful union-busting efforts in New York, Alabama, and elsewhere, a call that came as union voting kicked off at a second Amazon facility in Staten Island. In a letter to Biden, Sanders (I-Vt....
Advocates and Democrats who support sweeping student debt cancellation welcomed reporting Tuesday that President Joe Biden is exploring options for loan forgiveness after extending a pandemic-related pause on payments earlier this month. Multiple outlets, including CBS News and The Washington Post, reported that during a Monday meeting with me...
Hundreds of faith-based and civil rights groups and leaders across the United States on Tuesday called on members of Congress to “fiercely reject” a “dangerous” bill that would codify a rule used to deport more than 1.7 million asylum-seekers under the pretext of the Covid-19 pandemic. In a letter to congressional lawma...
Advocacy groups on Tuesday blasted new efforts by U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin to strike a deal with the GOP on climate legislation after months of the West Virginia Democrat preventing the House-approved Build Back Better Act from reaching President Joe Biden’s desk. Manchin and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) organized a Monday night meeting t...