Meteor Blades is a writer and contributing editor at DailyKos. He believes there is something profoundly wrong with our system — the unchecked accumulation of wealth and power into the hands of a very small group of corporate business interests has contributed to the wholesale corruption of our political system. For an understanding about the level of corruption in our country, he encourages you to view these two PBS documentaries: (1) The Untouchables; (2) The United States of ALEC.
October 6th, 2017 | by Meteor Blades
Sonali Kolhatkar is the founder, host and executive producer of “Rising Up With Sonali,” a television and radio show that airs on Free Speech TV and Pacifica stations. She is co-director of the Afghan Women’s Mission, a U.S.-based non-profit solidarity organization that funds the social, political, and humanitarian projects of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan.
October 6th, 2017 | by Meteor Blades
Twenty-seven companies that urged the Trump regime to stick with the Paris Climate Accord also contributed a total of $3.3 million to the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) that has worked assiduously to dump President Obama’s signature Clean Power Plan
October 6th, 2017 | by Meteor Blades
After several delays, the Trump regime Thursday surrendered in the face of an eight-state lawsuit demanding that it implement an Obama administration rule requiring hundreds of transportation agencies to measure and compare the impacts of proposed projects on vehicle emissions of greenhouse gases.
October 6th, 2017 | by Meteor Blades
EPA chief Scott Pruitt continues to dismantle the work of his own agency
October 6th, 2017 | by Meteor Blades
It’s not the perfect plan, but the Clean Power Plan developed by the Obama administration is the strongest U.S. effort yet to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from fossil-fuel power plants to address climate change. So, of course, the climate science-denying, fossil-fuel marionettes of the Trump regime are eager to get rid of it.
September 14th, 2017 | by Meteor Blades
A federal appeals court Monday granted the Trump regime’s request to stop implementation of an Obama era Environmental Protection Agency plan requiring new pollution controls at two of the nation’s oldest and dirtiest coal-fired power plants in Utah.
August 22nd, 2017 | by Meteor Blades
Until now, Ronald Reagan-appointed Anne Gorsuch Burford [mother of nepotastic stolen-seat Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch] was the worst administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in its nearly half-century of existence. She cut its budget by a fifth and worked diligently to please polluting industries that she claimed were over-regulated. She was just one appointee during Reagan’s terms chosen to run agencies or departments they didn’t even think should exist. But in six months, Scott Pruitt, the EPA-hating head of the EPA, has stolen the worst-ever title from her
April 17th, 2017 | by Meteor Blades
Originally published Red Green & Blue. By Meteor Blades The Environmental Protection Agency-hating chief of the EPA was on Fox & [&hellip
April 12th, 2017 | by Meteor Blades
A U.S. magistrate judge has rejected a jury’s March 2016 decision to award more than $4 million to two families in Dimock, Pennsylvania, fracking who claimed their well water had been tainted by methane released from underground rock formations by hydraulic fracturing -- fracking
April 12th, 2017 | by Meteor Blades
While it certainly seems true that the switch to renewables is irreversible, if Donald Trump were to succeed in the Koch-promoted efforts he’s already adopted to trash his predecessor’s climate-and-energy initiatives, the switch could be slowed in the states, giving China and Europe the same kind of advantage as the Danish Vestas company got when it moved ahead on wind technology after the Reagan administration abandoned America’s wind-power lead in the 1980s.
February 1st, 2017 | by Meteor Blades
On Monday, Rep. Paul Gosar, the Republican who represents Arizona’s 4th Congressional District, launched Example #117 in the Trump-era category of No Big Surprise
November 14th, 2016 | by Meteor Blades
Nobody who opposed Trump in this election needs to be reminded of his public stance on climate change. He is deeply in the denier camp of people who believe (or pretend to believe because it pads their bottom line) that climate change will go away if the scientists and activists will just shut up about it
August 22nd, 2016 | by Meteor Blades
By Meteor Blades A study commissioned by the Financial Times shows that the planet’s 20 largest national economies generated 8% of [&hellip
June 20th, 2016 | by Meteor Blades
Originally published on Red, Green, & Blue. By Meteor Blades The advocacy group Public Citizen released a report Tuesday showing how top executives [&hellip
June 19th, 2016 | by Meteor Blades
Originally published on Red, Green, and Blue. By Meteor Blades While megatons of attention are understandably being paid to Donald Trump’s latest fascist [&hellip
