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For the past four years, the UpgradeNY coalition of clean energy, environmental, and labor groups has been pushing New York regulators to approve projects that could switch entire neighborhoods from fossil gas to clean electric heating — and to do it without undermining fossil gas utility jobs and investments. The…

New Mexico boasts stark landscapes unlike anywhere else, a clearly defined regional cuisine built around fiery Hatch chiles, and cultural centers that predate the United States by several centuries. It’s unusual in another way, too: As many states struggle to advance on their path to a 100% clean electricity system,…

Why the SWP’s ultra-left moralism disarms the campaign for a data centre moratorium

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People are right to want control over their homes and their futures. Socialized housing, not private ownership, can make that promise a reality for everyone.

A death in ICE custody, a U.S. citizen injured by agents, body-camera failures, and a Supreme Court immigration appeal. ICEbreaker News: October 20, 2026.

Register here to the Transit Labor Roundtable Zoom event on Oct. 23rd, 2026. https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/0cwD5weDQ3iWaMhgvGYEkQ#/registration

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Powerful global markets for gold and cocaine are threatening the heart of the world’s largest tropical forest, and the international community is not doing enough to stop them.

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Trump’s California lawsuit is meant to die — then be resurrected

Walmart has long stymied attempts to unionize any part of its business. Which is why the breakthrough union victory won by 800 workers at a Mississauga, Ontario regional distribution center is worth closely examining.

The Sant Marti banner reads, in Catalan, “We’ll stop the housing business.” This is a play off a central slogan of the housing rights movement: “Housing is a right, not a business.” Photo: Kit Adam Wainer MONDAY, OCTOBER 12 I attended my neighborhood meeting for planning the general strike in the Spanish state on November… Continue reading A Month to Prepare for the General Strike

Alex Gibney’s Musk throws everything at the world’s first trillionaire, from an AI avatar in a gaming chair to first-person-shooter animation. The result is a four-hour slog that exhausts even Musk haters — and preaches a defeatism that serves the Right.

The world’s development banks continue to finance expansions of large climate-polluting livestock operations, but environmental advocates are notching a victory after they say the World Bank’s private lending arm has withdrawn funding for a controversial feed mill in Brazil. A coalition of environmental groups said the International Finance Corp. will not go forward with a […]

Climate group warns Virginia families could be left footing the bill for Big Tech’s power grab if merger goes through RICHMOND, VA — The staff of Virginia’s State Corporation Commission (SCC) recommended on Monday that regulators deny NextEra Energy’s proposed $67 billion acquisition of Dominion Energy as currently proposed, concluding that the companies have not […]

The post SCC Staff Right to Recommend Merger Denial as Data Center Costs Mount appeared first on Chesapeake Climate Action Network.

On October 19, 2026, the City of Albany joined Richmond, Emeryville, and Berkeley as East Bay city governments close ranks against coal transport, handling, and storage of coal in our […]

If the Trump administration succeeds in getting their hands on pro-Palestine donor Fergie Chambers via an extradition request to Spain, it will set a dark precedent for human rights advocates of all kinds.

Known for their distinctive black-ringed eyes, lipstick-like mouth markings and timid, elusive nature, the vaquita is the world’s rarest marine mammal. Last year’s survey—carried out by a team of international scientists and state environmental officials—estimated just seven to 10 remain in the waters of Mexico’s Upper Gulf of California. Yet Mexican authorities announced last week […]

More than 30 years ago, a young Susan Collins played a leading role in a battle to cut workers’ compensation that at one point led to the first government shutdown in Maine history.

The Israeli government has threatened to strip the NAZA directors of their citizenship and prosecute them. Their crime is making a film that confronts war guilt head on, something American culture has spent decades medicalizing out of existence.