Daniel Moritz-Rabson
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Corporate Leaders Promote Plan to Become Carbon Neutral by 2050
"Demonstrating strong business support for this type of agenda certainly will help move" climate action, Diringer told Newsweek. "The ideas in the agenda could certainly help inform the thinking → Read More
Scientists See Tobacco Industry Playbook in Trump's Plan to Overhaul EPA's Public Health Rules
This concept of targeting the transparency of the scientific process "first appeared in tobacco industry documents in the 90s," Gretchen Goldman, the research director for the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists, told Newsweek. "It was never about transparency." → Read More
Trump Administration Issued Resounding 'Rebuke,' Environmental Group Says As Judge Halts Coal Mine Expansion
"It's a rebuke of this administration's pro-coal" agenda, Jeremy Nichols, of WildEarth Guardians, told Newsweek. → Read More
How Realistic Is Bernie Sanders' Climate Plan? Experts Say the Challenge Isn't the Implementation but Political Will
"Feasibility is just one weapon of the climate denier for inaction," a Sanders' campaign spokesperson told Newsweek. → Read More
Meeting President Trump Would be a 'Waste of Time,' Teen Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Says in 'Ellen' Interview
"I don't see what I could tell him that he hasn't already heard, and I just think it would be a waste of time, really," Thunberg said. → Read More
'Forever Chemicals' Found in Water Sources of 800,000 Kentucky Residents
PFAS exposure may affect growth in infants, increase cancer risks and affect individuals' immune systems, according to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. → Read More
Behind Coal's Decline: Cheap Natural Gas Threatens Industry, Despite Trump's Promises
While an average annual capacity of 5.6 GW was retired each year Obama was in office, 9.6 GW has been retired each year under Trump, Rhodium Group, an independent research firm, told Newsweek. → Read More
Eight Coal Companies Have Filed for Bankruptcy Since Trump Took Office
Murray Energy, the largest privately-owned coal company that employed almost 5,550 people in 2018, filed for bankruptcy Tuesday. → Read More
Pundits Decry 'Smear Campaign' Against Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman as Trump Allies Attempt to Undermine Witness
"I was concerned by the call. I did not think it was proper to demand that a foreign government investigate a U.S. citizen, and I was worried about the implications for the U.S. government's support of Ukraine," Vindman, who heard the call, planned to tell House investigators. → Read More
40 Percent of Americans Agree With President's Tweet Saying He is Victim of a 'Lynching,' Poll Finds
As for Republicans, 73 percent said they agreed with the president's comments. → Read More
Business Economists Blame Trade Tensions for Expected Decrease in Economic Growth As Hiring Slows
"The U.S. economy appears to be slowing, and respondents expect still slower growth over the next 12 months," NABE President Constance Hunter said. → Read More
George Conway Cites Articles of Impeachment to Republican Senators, Suggests They Have 'Keys' to Their Own Prison: 'Use Them'
While Trump's decision to withdraw troops from Syria has provoked vocal dissent from lawmakers in both parties and faced negative reviews from both Republican and Democratic leaning voters, the impeachment inquiry unfolding in Washington remains a largely partisan affair. → Read More
Rand Paul Argues Quid Pro Quo Is The Norm, Says Aid Is Meant To Influence Receiving Country's Behavior
"Democrats want people to be alarmed by a Latin phrase, but, really, making foreign aid contingent on behavior is actually the defining reason that countries supposedly give aid — to influence the behavior of the receiving country," Paul writes. → Read More
#ImpeachBarr Trends After Justice Department Reportedly Opens Criminal Inquiry Into Mueller's Russia Probe
""These reports, if true, raise profound new concerns that the Department of Justice under Attorney General William Barr has lost its independence and become a vehicle for President Trump's political revenge," Representative Jerry Nadler tweeted. → Read More
75 Percent of Americans Say They're Concerned About Syria and 50 Percent Disapprove of Trump's Troop Withdrawal
Despite the rebukes of what bipartisan lawmakers have described as a strategic error, President Donald Trump presented his recent decisions as a fulfillment of his campaign promises. → Read More
46 Percent of Americans Say Their Financial Status Has Stayed the Same Under Trump, And 21 Percent Say It's Deteriorated
"There's a fair number of people in the nation who look at things like the record low unemployment rate" and other positive indicators and "feel as if the boasting of those things is not consistent with their experience," Mark Hamrick, senior economic analyst at Bankrate, told Newsweek. → Read More
Almost Half of Americans Say Trump Is Making Recession More Likely as President Falsely Glorifies Economic Record
While nearly half—47 percent—of Democrats are anticipating a recession, just 13 percent of Republicans expect one. And 75 percent of Democrats think that the president is taking the U.S. toward a recession, while 20 percent of Republicans do. → Read More
Lynching Trends After Trump Uses Word For First Time in His Presidency to Describe Democrat Attacks
"Do you know how many people who look like me have been lynched, since the inception of this country, by people who look like you," Representative Bobby Rush responded. → Read More
Percentage of Americans Saying Government and Leadership Is Top Problem Rises Sharply Amid Impeachment Probe
Thirty-four percent of Americans say that the government, poor leadership or politicians rank as the nation's most important problem. → Read More
Trump Wanted Separate 'Victory Day' Holiday Because July 4th 'Is Too Hot,' Mattis' Speechwriter Says in Book
"I want a 'Victory Day.' Just like Veterans Day. The Fourth of July is too hot," the president reportedly said. "I want vehicles and tanks on Main Street. On Pennsylvania Avenue, from the Capitol to → Read More