George Santos, who faces a slew of federal charges and was expelled from the House last year, attacked the GOP in a social media post and pledged to take “Ultra MAGA/Trump supporting values to the ballot in November as an Independent.”
Just 2% of continent’s gas capacity has planned retirement date despite pledges to decarbonise, study showsEurope’s “tone-deaf” expansion of fossil gas is accelerating climate breakdown and increasing reliance on hostile regimes, campaigners have warned.Just four of Europe’s gas-fired power plants have a retirement plan and new projects will increase the continent’s gas generation capacity by 27%, according to analysis from the campaign group Beyond Fossil Fuels. Continue reading
In an interview with CNBC's Jim Cramer, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said he's
The New England Patriots were looking to add wide receiver talent this offseason in the form of former Jacksonville and Atlanta pass catcher Calvin Ridley. While they did what they could in terms of an offer sheet, it appears they were negotiating at a disadvantage from the start. Robert Kraft addressed the media this week […]
South Africa wants to develop national biodiversity goals similar in scale to those it’s pursuing to transition its economy to the use of climate-friendly
Republicans have been saying a number of things publicly, and more in private, over the last few days to save face on their doomed impeachment inquiry into President Biden, which has served as a Trump
It may be tempting to look at new rules finalized Wednesday by the Biden administration boosting sales of electric vehicles as a big step toward slashing climate-changing pollution. But the Environmental Protection Agency rules are more an incremental move, too weak and slow to respond appropriately to the gravity of the unfolding environmental crisis. And that’s a shame, because with a divided Congress, administrative action is the only way for the federal government to do big things such as...
Republicans hated the Inflation Reduction Act and its climate-friendly provisions from the get-go. Not a single GOP senator or representative voted for it in 2022. Over the past few years, a number of congressional Republicans have given up outright climate change denial because facts on the ground have made that stance embarrassingly blockheaded. They now concede that the climate is changing. However, they remain wed to the idea that the IRA and various other Democrat-initiated measures to...
Former President Donald Trump officially locked up enough delegates to become the presumptive GOP presidential nominee after winning Tuesday's Republican primary in Georgia. However, he has yet to make any efforts to unite his party after dispatching his former UN ambassador Nikki Haley — his last remaining rival — on Super Tuesday.In her concession speech, Haley refused to endorse Trump and said the former president would have to "earn" the votes of her supporters between March and November....
Throughout his time on Capitol Hill, Rep. Darrell Issa has been known to rub some people the wrong way. In one especially memorable example from 2016, then-President Barack Obama publicly chided the California Republican for spending years recklessly going after him, only to pretend to be an Obama ally when running for re-election. But it’s not just Democrats who occasionally get annoyed with Issa. At a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing about the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, members...
The Electoral Matters Amendment Bill makes amendments to five electoral laws. But opposition parties say the changes have gone too far, and will impact multi-party democracy.
Trustee Bill Hullander said that as of Feb. 29 at the close of the 2023 property tax season that $305 million in property tax has been received by his office. That is approximately 90 percent of the total levy.