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Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Setting a timeline to eliminate petroleum vehicles is a big step, but Newsom's announcement provided rhetoric rather than real action on the other critical half of the climate problem—California's dirty oil production."
Richard Heinberg
Smoky skies from the northern California wildfires casts a reddish color in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. (Photo: Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)
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Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
"It is critical that every debate includes questions that ask the candidates what they would do to address climate change and environmental injustice."
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"We cannot perpetuate false solutions to the climate crisis that keep our reliance on fossil fuels—as this legislation proposes to do—and have any hope of ending the climate or environmental justice crises brought about by dirty energy."
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Thom Hartmann
Trump supporters wearing "make America great again" hats stand together in back of Vice President Mike Pence as he interviews with Fox news following a rally for President Donald Trump's re-election campaign in Gilford, NH on Sept. 22, 2020. (Photo: Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
Laura Flanders
An overview of Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Ga. (Photo: Google Maps)
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"BP, Shell, and Total are still drilling us into a deeper climate emergency, and that has to stop before they can claim any credibility."
Peter Andre Globensky
If current polls are predictive, Trump’s path to the White House remains strewn with obstacles of his own making. (Photo: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)
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Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"Did I hear that correctly? Only one officer is being held remotely accountable, and it's not for killing Breonna Taylor but instead for shooting apartments?"
Brett Wilkins, staff writer
The neurotoxin—which EPA scientists wanted to ban during the Obama administration—has been shown to damage children's brains and to harm farmworkers and animals.
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We cannot and will not let Trump and McConnell pack the Supreme Court without a fight."
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Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
"An American president does not praise violence against a reporter for doing his job. That is what an ugly, insecure two-bit dictator does."