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NPR's Copley: Companies Aren't Ditching ESG, They're Just Keeping It Quiet

On Monday’s edition of the NPR Politics Podcast, NPR Climate Desk Correspondent Michael Copley stated that companies investment firms like BlackRock aren’t changing their behavior around ESG investing due to anti-ESG pushes, they’re just being “a lot less eager to talk about what they’re doing publicly

United Auto Workers Call Out Biden's Green Agenda for Cutting Wages, Showering Automakers with Billions

The United Auto Workers (UAW) is going after President Joe Biden’s so-called “green energy” agenda for its wage-cutting outcomes while showering billions in American taxpayer money on the three largest automakers in the nation: Ford, General Motors (GM), and Stellantis. As part of Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, passed

Exclusive – The 1792 Exchange Exposes How Left Exploits 'Stakeholder Capitalism' to Advance Agenda

Paul Fitzpatrick, president of the 1792 Exchange, said on Breitbart News Daily that the left has exploited “stakeholder capitalism” to advance their agenda by using corporations.

Uganda: Oil Pipeline Project Impoverishes Thousands

(Nairobi) – The French fossil-fuel giant TotalEnergies’ planned oil pipeline in East Africa has devastated thousands of people’s livelihoods in Uganda and will exacerbate the global climate crisis, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. If completed, the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) project will have dozens

'Annoying as Hell:' Texas Tesla Owner Locked Out of Car After Battery Fails in Heat

Dennis Hegstad, a Tesla owner from Texas, was left stranded when he couldn’t access his Model 3.

New York Pizzeria Carbon Rules Could Shut Jewish Matzah Bakeries

New York City’s rules to force pizzerias that use wood- or coal-burning ovens to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 75% could put Jewish matzah bakeries out of business, affecting Jews’ ability to observe the Passover holiday. Matzah is unleavened bread made strictly of flour and water. It must be

Extreme Heat Signals Need for Inclusive Climate Action

As the Northern Hemisphere again experiences a surge in extreme heat, I wonder if this summer will be different from the last, which The New York Times described as a summer of climate disasters.

Quick Take: WEF’s “Summer Davos” kills the “Good Guy China” meme

Today marks the end of World Economic Forum’s 14th Annual Meeting of the New Champions, the three-day-long meeting in Tianjin, China known as “Summer Davos”. Really, the very fact this meeting exists should be the beginning and end of the “China are opposing globalism” conversation, but alas it likely

Sweden just scrapped their “Renewable Energy Targets”. Here’s why.

Buried behind the news of the supposed “attempted coup” in Russia this weekend, was the Swedish government’s announcement, last Wednesday, that they will be stepping back from their plans to go 100% renewable energy. According to finance minister Elisabeth Svantesson, wind and solar power are simply not efficient or

Spain: Inadequate Response to Heatwaves

(Brussels) – Extreme heat fueled by climate change and inadequate government response cause severe hardship and distress for people with disabilities, Human Rights Watch said today based on a study of the response in the summer of 2022 in Andalusia, Spain. More people face the risk of heat stress and even

NYC Tells Coal, Wood Oven Pizzerias to Cut Carbon Emissions by 75%

New York City has told pizzerias that use coal or wood-burning ovens to slice their carbon emissions by 75 percent or else face hefty fines.