California Nursing Home Residents Told To Find New Homes
A nursing home case study in profiteering.
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‘Is This About the Oil Industry?’ House Oversight Hearing Explores Big Oil’s Role in Weakening Clean Car Standards
Oil industry lobbies to weaken emissions standards, deploying “public interest groups” that are mere mouthpieces for fossil fuel companies.
Read more...Phase One of Grenfell Tower Inquiry Released, Towers Not Up to Code, Suggestions for Firefighters
Hot takes on the Phase One Grenfell Towers report, which makes good suggestions for the firefighters and determines that the Towers were not up to code, and what should happen in Phase Two.
Read more...Waste Watch: Single Use Plastics, Please Ban Them, Now
Why we need single-use plastics bans: to save us from our worst selves; plus a positive development on the recycling front.
Read more...The Sanders Plan to Legalize Marijuana Does More Than Legalize Marijuana
Discussion of comprehensive Sanders plan to legalize marijuana: legal and political implications.
Read more...Elizabeth Warren’s Plan-itis: Excessive Lobbying Case Study
A hard look at a Warren plan reveals a lot not to like.
Read more...Wall Street Has Been Gambling With Student Loan Debt For Decades
As the student debt crisis continues to mount, major financial institutions are making record profits from student loan asset backed securities.
Read more...California Blackout: Turning the Lights Off
So first came the blackout….
Read more...Why Have Facebook and Other Tech Giants Gotten Away With Gobbling Up Competitors?
Why have regulators sat pat as Big Tech companies like Facebook and Google have done deals that look like violations of antitrust law?
Read more...Drug Watchdog Finds $5.1 Billion in Price Gouging on 9 Drugs
Another indictment of drug pricing.
Read more...Climate Change: New York AG Takes Exxon to Trial This Week; Massachusetts Poised to Follow
New York begins climate change trial against Exxon Monday; meanwhile, Massachusetts is readying its own action.
Read more...Will the Public End up Paying to Clean up the Fracking Boom?
Justin Mikulka continues his excellent coverage of fracking for DeSmogBlog.
Read more...SUVs Are Back, and They’re Spewing a Boggling Amount of Carbon
SUVs illustrate how the US is rejecting greenhouse gas reduction.
Read more...Facebook’s Libra Faceplant: Beware of CEO Bright Ideas
Libra is going nowhere fast.
Read more...Elizabeth Warren Wants Green Trade Deals. What Does That Mean?
Is what Democratic candidates mean by “green trade deals” what environmentalists and trade experts mean?
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