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Trump's LNG Export Extortion Racket

Trump's LNG Export Extortion Racket
16.02.2025 8

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

DeepSeek Gives the Lie to the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Latest Stalling Tactic

31.01.2025 3

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

The Big Bang, Horrifying LA Fires, and Our Self-Destructive Species

09.01.2025 4

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

'Nobody Can Embargo Sunlight': Jimmy Carter and the US Solar Revolution That Wasn't

Why didn't we listen? We could so easily have listened.

07.01.2025 5

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

Jimmy Carter, Green-Energy Visionary

On June 20, 1979, President Jimmy Carter—sporting a bushy haircut and a wide necktie—invited dignitaries and reporters onto the roof of the White...

30.12.2024 30

The New Yorker

Bill Mckibben

The World’s 10th Largest Economy Just Signed on to Make Climate Polluters Pay

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s announcement that she would sign the climate superfund bill shows that a state-by-state approach can work in the Trump...

26.12.2024 5

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

A Trio of Small Christmas Gifts to Stave Off Climate Despair

From solar-powered data centers and balconies to a landmark legal victory, I hope these help set the holiday mood just a little.

24.12.2024 3

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

The DOE Finally Admits That LNG Isn’t a Get-Out-of-Climate-Crisis Free Card

A new report and statement won’t necessarily bind anything, but they do something almost as important: Finally a Democratic administration has been...

17.12.2024 6

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

What the Biden Admin Can Still Do to Defuse the LNG Bomb Before Trump Grabs the Trigger

At the very least what the administration can and must do is tell the truth: More LNG exports are not in the public interest.

04.12.2024 20

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

Hey America, the Fossil Fuel Industry Is Trying to Tell You What to Do

It’s time for the climate movement to speak to the nation’s inner teenager and persuade it that renewable energy is the true energy of freedom.

18.11.2024 2

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

As Trump Forfeits US Climate Leadership, We the People Still Have a Role to Play

Many of us can join in a genuinely global citizens’ fight for rapid action.

13.11.2024 7

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

Last Night the Cord Connecting Us to FDR Was Snapped

Everything is up for grabs now, including the basic entitlement programs that defined the New Deal. It’s time to look for where the next huge...

06.11.2024 2

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

Look Up: The Scariest Part When We See the Big, Big, Big Picture

As a new study once more makes clear, raising the temperature is by far the biggest thing humans have ever done; our effort to limit that rise must...

23.10.2024 20

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

Sleepless and Fearful When Hurricane Milton Made Landfall

There are important moments when fear is a crucial resource. And the fear of a planet where the old rules no longer hold is the ultimate...

10.10.2024 4

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

Death and Destruction From Helene Show Climate Crisis Isn't in a Bargaining Mood

We’re in a terrible corner now. That’s what all those pictures of floating cars really means. We don’t have room left to make tradeoffs and deals...

30.09.2024 10

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

To Avoid Utter Ruin, We Must Turn Off the Fossil Fuel Volcano

As a new study once more makes clear, raising the temperature is by far the biggest thing humans have ever done; our effort to limit that rise must...

22.09.2024 6

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

Some Bright News for a Dismal Week

Solar panels have, over the last months, suddenly gotten so cheap that they’re now appearing in massive numbers across much of the developing world.

17.09.2024 2

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

If Trump Wins in November, Life on Earth Is Likely to Get Far, Far Worse

Mother Jones illustration; Patrick Semansky/AP; Unsplash This story was originally published by the  Guardian and is reproduced here as part of...

13.09.2024 100

Mother Jones

Bill Mckibben

Solar Power vs. The Darkness of Trump

We desperately need clean energy now. That’s what this election is about.

08.09.2024 5

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

A Groundbreaking UK Climate Win Shows Why Elections Matter

On Wednesday Ed Milliband, the new Labour energy secretary, announced that the government would not back the companies that want to develop two...

30.08.2024 3

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

Democratic Climate Heroes... and Villains

The reminder that there’s no automatic connection between a D next to your name and some courage on climate comes from many spots around the...

23.08.2024 4

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

Trump and Musk Team Up for Absolute Stupidest Climate Discussion in World History

The two most dangerous men on Earth just got together for a little chat—and it was shocking to hear with your own ears just how casual they are...

13.08.2024 2

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

Senate Dems: Don’t Let Manchin Do Big Oil One Last Favor

Manchin’s latest attempt at permitting reform would try and force the approval of huge new LNG export terminals along the Gulf Coast, which are...

26.07.2024 2

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben