Why Don’t More Companies Support Single-Payer Health Care?
Reading Time: 9 minutes Big business is standing in the way of health care reform.
If Corporations Are People, Can They Gain a Conscience?
Reading Time: < 1 minute Mitch McConnell pushed to give corporations First Amendment rights, freeing them to spend unlimited cash on campaign ads. His problem? Some now oppose his campaign agenda.
Chevron’s Ads Make Green Groups See Red
Reading Time: 6 minutes Chevron’s warm and fuzzy ads tout “the passion to be awed by nature” and the company’s pledge to meet people’s needs in “ever cleaner ways.” Environmental groups call the pitches greenwashing.
WhoWhatWhy Partners with Covering Climate Now
Reading Time: < 1 minute The climate emergency is already here. WhoWhatWhy environmental fellow Max Steiner breaks down the urgency that now comes with environmental journalism as Climate Emergency Week kicks off.
Florida Regulators Leave State Littered With Toxic Time Bombs
Reading Time: 6 minutes A toxic reservoir in Florida nearly burst this month, sending a wall of radioactive water towards homes and businesses. The state let it happen.
Chasing Carbon Unicorns
Reading Time: 6 minutes According to a new report, net zero targets many governments are pursuing are distractions from the urgent need to drastically reduce carbon emissions.
Forests Ablaze, Glaciers Melting: Climate Change Threatens US Parks
Reading Time: 9 minutes Whether it’s a mistimed wildflower bloom on Mount Rainier, scorched trees in Yosemite, or a lack of grizzly bears in Yellowstone, climate change is impacting national parks and their visitors.
Not-So-Strange Bedfellows: Corporate America and Mitch McConnell
Reading Time: < 1 minute CEOs gave Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) PAC a whopping $475 million last year. Do they have buyer’s remorse now that he’s warning them not to “become a vehicle for far-left mobs to hijack” the country?
McConnell to Corporate Donors: Keep Your Politics out of My Money
Reading Time: < 1 minute Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has done more than anyone to marry money and politics, helping free companies to spend as much as they please to influence elections. But when some CEOs came out against Republican-sponsored voter suppression laws he cried foul.
Autobiography of a Sock Puppet: The Mike Pence Story
Reading Time: < 1 minute Simon & Schuster promises a “revelatory” memoir by the former VP.