A lack of transparency has experts concerned that some firms might be winning narrow carve-outs behind closed doors.
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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Hundreds of marches, pickets, and cleanup events are taking place across the US in the run-up to Earth Day on Tuesday, as environmental and climate groups step up resistance to the Trump administration’s authoritarianism and its “war on the planet.” A […]
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Another Round of Anti-Trump Protests Slated for Earth Day Read Post »
For millions of disabled people, essential health devices known as durable medical equipment, or DME—think of CPAP machines or in-home dialysis equipment—help them both remain at home and stay alive. Donald Trump’s recent wave of tariffs, extremely broad in both the imports and countries they target, are still at a new 10 percent baseline in […]
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Tariffs Are About to Hit Lifesaving Medical Equipment Read Post »
For millions of disabled people, essential health devices known as durable medical equipment, or DME—think of CPAP machines or in-home dialysis equipment—help them both remain at home and stay alive. Donald Trump’s recent wave of tariffs, extremely broad in both the imports and countries they target, are still at a new 10 percent baseline in […]
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Tariffs Are About to Hit Lifesaving Medical Equipment Read Post »
Justin Wolfers teaches economics 101 at the University of Michigan. It’s an introductory course about supply, demand, and trade. The basics. He wishes President Donald Trump had attended. Wolfers, an Australian known for his research on how happiness relates to income, is one of the more prominent economists speaking out against Trump’s sweeping tariffs. He […]
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What Trump’s Tariff Shock Will Cost You Read Post »
A bipartisan bill to put a congressional “check” on Trump’s tariff powers faces steep odds of passage.
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A Majority of Americans Want Congress to Block Trump’s Tariffs — Poll Read Post »
The Trump administration’s only consistency with its tariff policy has been its inconsistency. On April 2—a day President Donald Trump dubbed “Liberation Day”—the president announced a baseline 10 percent tariff, but rates much higher than that on countries all over the world. The methodology used to calculate the seemingly haphazard rates was generally considered by […]
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When It Comes to Tariffs Trump Officials Can’t Get Their Message Straight Read Post »
On March 10, around 9:20 pm, Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou, an environmental health professor at Columbia University, got the email she’d been dreading: The Trump administration cut funding for a new center she had been tasked with co-leading called “Climate and Health: Action and Research for Transformational Change.” CHART focused on researching the effects of climate change […]
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How Does Climate Change Affect Our Brains? Trump’s NIH Just Cut Funding to Study It. Read Post »
Trump’s tariffs threaten to widen inequality in the US, making the rich richer and impoverishing the working class.
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Trump’s Tariffs Buck the Global Neoliberal Order — But Still Serve the 1 Percent Read Post »
President Donald Trump has not been particularly kind to the small African nation of Lesotho. His administration’s dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development hit the nation of about 2.3 million people hard, by cutting millions of dollars of funding for public health and other programs. In March, he ridiculed the country during […]
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How a Small African Nation Scrambled to Appease Trump on Tariffs Read Post »
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The world used clean power sources to meet more than 40 percent of its electricity demand last year for the first time since the 1940s, figures show. A report by the energy thinktank Ember said the milestone was powered […]
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Solar Has Been the World’s Fastest Growing Power Source for 20 Years Running Read Post »
Trump is using tariffs “to try to compel pledges of loyalty” from companies and industries in the US, Murphy says.
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