The battle against climate change is increasingly being fought in the courtroom, as national governments, specific laws and individual companies are targeted over their role in the crisis—sometimes successfully.
The Federal Reserve (Fed), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) jointly established principles to ostensibly offer a framework for banks, savings associations, and nonbank systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs) with at least $100 billion in total consolidated assets to focus on material climate-related risks. The regulators indicated […]
The Hawks ran out of juice after coming back from a 15-point deficit and forcing extra periods against the Heat. They fell 117-111 on Tuesday night at State Farm Arena.
This sentiment was echoed in a poll commissioned by Greenpeace International, which found that 93% of Filipinos surveyed support a global treaty that cuts the production of plastics.
In a significant stride toward sustainability, the World Bank has extended a generous $750 million loan to Colombia.
When state Rep. Delisha Boyd was born in September 1969, abortion was illegal in Louisiana. Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision, was still more than three years away. So when her 15-year-old mother conceived her after a statutory rape by a 28-year-old man, Boyd said, she had few options. She could carry the pregnancy to term or flee to a state that allowed abortions. Today, a girl in Louisiana could face a similar choice. Understanding that reality prompted Boyd, a Democrat who has...
Tennessee is divided over reparations, with a black Memphis pastor leading the charge against a bill that would prohibit the funding of a proposed reparations study in the state.
On NBC News’s streaming platform NBC News NOW ahead of Monday’s total solar eclipse across large swaths of the U.S., correspondent Maura Barrett had to make the once-in-a-generation event political by invoking climate change alongside Star Trek legend William Shatner. Barrett reported from Bloomington, Indiana where Shatner would “be narrating the moments leading up to totality” and he “made a climate connection, that I think’s important to point out here” with the supposed argument about the...
On NBC News’s streaming platform NBC News NOW ahead of Monday’s total solar eclipse across large swaths of the U.S., correspondent Maura Barrett had to make the once-in-a-generation event political by invoking climate change alongside Star Trek legend William Shatner. Barrett reported from Bloomington, Indiana where Shatner would “be narrating the moments leading up to totality” and he “made a climate connection, that I think’s important to point out here” with the supposed argument about the...
Governor Gavin Newsom and Norway's Minister of Trade and Industry Jan Christian Vestre were in the Bay Area and pledged to combat climate change.
Former NFL running back Tevin Coleman and wife Akilah Coleman shared a heartbreaking health update about their daughter Nazaneen. The 6-year-old lives with sickle cell disease and was recently placed on a ventilator, the Colemans revealed Tuesday in a video posted to social media. The video showed Nazaneen in a hospital and spending time with her father. "A short story about the most resilient girl I know," Akilah captioned the Instagram video. She later shared that Nazaneen recently had a...
John Avery, 97, was one of thousands of men who were made to work in the mines to increase coal production - even though they put themselves forward for the military.