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• Burgum’s Offshore Wind Halt of Questionable Legality
  The Secretary of the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) abrupt cessation of all leases for major offshore wind electric generation facilities under construction is not legally defensible and raises significant conflict of interest issues, according to a letter Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) sent to congressional committees today.Last week, DOI Secretary Doug Burgum announced […]
• The Least Among Us: The Elemental Heart of the Story
  This holiday season, writes John Pavlovitz, "it’s a Herculean task to let our hearts be light." Daily, we confront the afflictions of an impossibly dark time - the cruelties wrought by a vile assemblage of hacks, liars, racists, and sadists who delight in Christmas-decked thugs menacing brown people with, "YOU'RE GOING HO HO HOME." Instead, […]
• Wowza: Food Fight Clean-Up In Wingnut Aisle 47
  In what was dubbed a "grievance Olympics," "conference of clowns" and "Wrestlemania with Podcasters," the noxious mucky-mucks of MAGA assembled for the first time since Charlie Kirk's death at an ostensibly celebratory AmericaFest that swiftly cratered into a toxic mess of orcs hating on each other. Despite the blinding glitz, savage barbs flew: Anti-Semite! Islam […]
• Trump’s Energy Emergency Orders Should Prevent Morgan Stanley’s Electricity Exports
  In a formal protest filed today with the U.S. Department of Energy, Public Citizen challenged an application to export electricity by the Wall Street bank Morgan Stanley.Federal law mandates that “no person shall transmit any electric energy from the United States to a foreign country . . . [if] it finds that the proposed transmission […]
• Trump Administration Pauses Construction on All Offshore Wind Projects in US
  Trump’s Department of the Interior just halted construction on all five offshore wind projects underway in the United States. The pauses impact these projects: Vineyard Wind 1, Revolution Wind, Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind, Sunrise Wind and Empire Wind 1. In response, Legislative Director Melinda Pierce released the following statement: “Blocking construction on all offshore wind […]
• Facing Backlash and FTC Probe, Instacart Ends Pricing Experiments In Wake of Groundwork Report
  This morning, Instacart announced it will end its use of AI-powered pricing experiments on consumers. The announcement follows the release of a bombshell report from Groundwork Collaborative, Consumer Reports, and More Perfect Union revealing Instacart charging shoppers different prices for identical items, a practice that could cost families as much as $1,200 a year in […]