Fossil Fuel Subsidies

Biden’s $Trillion Taxing the Rich Social Infrastructure Charade Crumbles

July 29, 2021 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Capitalism, The War at Home, U.S. Budget

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, July 18, 2021 Today the New York Times announced that the modified (gutted) bill had passed the Senate. The Biden administration is claiming success in bipartisan collaboration. [jb] If we are to believe the almost daily front-page major media headlines, President Joseph Biden has embarked on an historic congressional battle to massively fund[…]

Building On Victories For A Stronger Climate Justice Movement

July 26, 2020 UNAC Editor Climate Change, Environment, Organizing

by Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, published on Popular Resistance, July 19, 2020 While the climate justice movement has been winning important victories, stopping and slowing pipelines and other fossil fuel infrastructure, and putting the future of fossil fuels in doubt, the political system, long connected to the fossil fuel industry, is still fighting the urgently needed transition to clean[…]

Millions Say: Change the System, Not the Climate!

October 24, 2019 UNAC Editor Africa, Climate Change, Environment, South Africa

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, October 9, 2019 The week of unprecedented massive and worldwide climate mobilizations that began on Friday, Sept. 20, represented an historic breakthrough in the consciousness of the world’s people. An estimated 7.6 million people in 185 countries from every continent on earth except Antarctica mobilized in unprecedented numbers to condemn the governments and[…]

The Madness of Fossil Fuel Subsidies

June 11, 2019 UNAC Editor Environment

Solar farm in California desert. (Bureau of Land Management via Flickr) by Niklas Hagelberg, Published on Consortium News, June 7, 2019 Fossil fuels — oil, gas, coal and their derivatives — pollute the atmosphere and emit the greenhouse gases that are ramping up global heating to dangerous levels. And governments around the world are subsidizing this pollution. Historically, governments used[…]