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Category: Environment & Climate Change

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Fueling Inequality: How US Government Subsidies Prop Up Fossil Fuels at the Public’s Expense

The U.S. government spends a shocking estimated $649 billion each year on fossil fuel subsidies, raising important questions about our values and priorities in fighting climate change. While electric vehicles offer a cleaner future, powerful interests continue to gain from taxpayer support for fossil fuels, leading to environmental harm and
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Petition for change at REI

As a long-time REI member, I’m deeply concerned about the direction the company is taking under its current leadership. Recent endorsements and decisions threaten our cherished natural spaces and wildlife, prioritizing fossil fuel development over conservation. With a board filled with corporate interests, there’s a crucial opportunity to advocate for
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The Assault on America’s Public Lands: Project 2025 and the Conservative Crusade to Dismantle Federal Stewardship

In the summer of 2024, the Heritage Foundation’s Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise—a 920-page blueprint for a second Trump administration known as “Project 2025”—laid bare a radical vision for America’s public lands. Framed as a corrective to “big government overreach,” the plan seeks nothing less than the dismantling of

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Preserving America’s Legacy: The Ongoing Battle for National Parks

Parks are critically understaffed, and seasonal workers are losing their jobs. What happens when there's no one to protect these places? 🔥 This isn't just about pretty views; it's about preserving vital ecosystems. Fight back!
Picture of Russel Vought with Project 2025 in the background
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Russell Vought – Maybe the most dangerous person in the Trump Administration

Russell Vought's rise within the Trump Administration marks a pivotal moment in American politics, where a stringent Christian nationalist ideology seeks to reshape governance at the expense of marginalized communities. From his early days at Wheaton College to his role in Project 2025, Vought's agenda threatens to dismantle civil rights
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Climate Change’s Growing Impact on Our Food Bills: A Crisis Already at Our Tables

Climate change is no longer a distant threat; it's reshaping our grocery bills and dinner tables today. With devastating crop losses reported across the globe—from Texas to the UK—working families and vulnerable communities are feeling the pinch. As extreme weather events disrupt agricultural systems, the ripple effects on food prices

Quick Takes:

Trump is attacking EVs: -Froze funding for EV charging infrastructure -Aims to end $7,500 EV tax credit -Shutting down 8,000+ federal EV charging ports -Selling off 25,000 government EVs Meanwhile we subsidize fossil fuels hundreds of billions a year. More here: https://leftofmiddle.com/slg9
Trump and Musk’s attacks on clean energy projects and funding wil

Trump and Musk’s attacks on clean energy projects and funding will hurt the country, and will most heavily impact jobs and manufacturing in traditionally red districts. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/climate/trump-clean-energy-republican-states.html
Most ironically prescient ad ever. From 1962. Humble Oil is now

Most ironically prescient ad ever. From 1962. Humble Oil is now Exxon. #climatechange

Day 1. Hard not to despair * Jan 6 pardons * End birthright citizenship * Halting refugee resettlement * End price protections on medicines * Withdraw from Paris climate agreement * Withdraw from WHO * Rescinding Biden admin actions to advance racial equity & combat gender discrimination
The only failure of government here was the federal (and some sta

The only failure of government here was the federal (and some state governments) not doing more sooner to combat climate change. More fire trucks would not have solved the issue.
“Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed thr

“Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you’re the one filming it”
“There’s no city or county in America that has the resources or

“There’s no city or county in America that has the resources or technology to fight a fire storm with 80 mph winds. It doesn’t exist – We’re in a new climate crisis territory. Don’t let them gaslight you into believing differently.” @brianrayguitar
Last summer was the hottest ever in Los Angeles. In what should b

Last summer was the hottest ever in Los Angeles. In what should be our rainy season, we have had 2% of the normal rainfall. Climate change models predict exactly this happening. More and more extreme weather patterns. Fires aren’t random. It’s not a conspiracy. It’s climate change.