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Trump Promised No New Business Deals With Foreign Governments. He Lied.

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This story was originally published by Popular Information, a substack publication to which you can subscribe here. On January 10, 2025, President Trump released an “ethics agreement” detailing how he would handle his personal business interests while in the White House. It is remarkably weak and does not require Trump to divest any of his holdings. Unlike a similar […]

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Trump’s Rookie Moves Have Created Loads of Uncertainty—Even for Big Oil

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This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration Last week, the US Department of the Interior announced that it would speed up the approval process for certain fossil fuel projects, proclaiming that environmental analyses that previously would have taken years must now be taken down to, at maximum, a month. While the […]

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CEO Pay Is Up 50 Percent Since 2019 Compared to 0.9 Percent for Workers

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A new Oxfam analysis also warns that the global working class faces a new threat in the form of Trump’s tariff regime.

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Trump’s First 100 Days Have Unleashed an “All-Out Assault” on the Environment

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. One hundred days into the second Trump administration, many environmentalists’ worst fears about the new presidency have been realized—and surpassed.  Facing a spate of orders, pronouncements and actions that target America’s most cherished natural resources and most vulnerable […]

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China’s Xi Prepares to Eat America’s Lunch as Trump Cedes Leadership on Clean Energy

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. China will continue to push forward on the climate crisis, Xi Jinping has said while appearing to criticize the “protectionism” of Donald Trump’s tariff policies. The Chinese president was attending a closed-door virtual meeting with the UN secretary general, António Guterres, Brazil’s president, Luiz […]

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A 2-Minute Crash Course in America’s Most Disastrous Tariffs

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Donald Trump’s tariffs are wreaking havoc on the global economy while millions of Americans—including some of his own advisors—are furious. Even as many voters watch their retirement and education savings vacillate wildly, MAGA World maintains the president knows exactly what he’s doing—it’s just “the art of the deal,” they say. But as our new video […]

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Climate Groups Get a Reprieve From Trump’s Rumored Earth Day Massacre

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As Americans celebrated Earth Day on Tuesday, the nonprofit world was left anxiously wondering, “Will they or won’t they?” For the past week, rumors have abounded that the Trump administration would issue an Earth Day order seeking to revoke the IRS tax-exempt status of climate focused groups and foundations.  It could still happen, and if […]

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Another Round of Anti-Trump Protests Slated for Earth Day

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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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Tariffs Are About to Hit Lifesaving Medical Equipment

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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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