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If the administration takes a typical inside-the-beltway approach to implementing the Justice40 Initiative, people with money, connections and lobbyists will take advantage of the situation to pad their own bank accounts and cement their own power. The communities that are supposed to benefit will once again lose out. But if the administration centers communities already dealing with the effects of dirty energy and climate change by adapting and creating solutions that work for everyone, then t...

Montana is considering becoming the latest state to intensify its hunt for welfare overpayments and fraud, a move expected to remove more than 1,500 enrollees from low-income health coverage at a time when the pandemic has left more people needing help. With Republicans now controlling both chambers of the Montana legislature and the governor’s office, a lawmaker is reviving an effort to both broaden and increase the frequency of eligibility checks to search for welfare fraud, waste and ab...

Montana is one of the latest states looking to aggressively check welfare eligibility to cut costs.

This months bookshelf highlights writings illustrating the inconvenient truth that communities of color suffer most, and most severely, when disaster strikes. The COVID-19 pandemic has confirmed again a fundamental truth about the Anthropocene: When disaster strikes, the vulnerable take the hardest punches. Communities of color have suffered much higher rates of infection, hospitalization, and mortality, both because they are disproportionately represented in frontline service positions and bec...

 | June 10, 2015 Researchers at Stanford University and the University of California-Berkeley have developed a state-by-state plan for the United States to generate 100 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2050. The study – which was published last month in the journal Energy and Environmental Sciences – calls for major changes to infrastructure as well as current energy consumption practices. The study’s authors outline ways to combat climate change, eliminate air pollution...

Huron mayor teams up with Hollywood actors to promote message of using zero-emission cars KFSN FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The mayor of Huron has teamed up with Hollywood actors Mark Ruffalo and "Marvels Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." star, Chloe Bennet, to promote Californias zero-emission car campaign. "Rey Leons a mayor who cares, so he set up the green raiteros. He likes backing zero drives like a superhero." The cartoon video, "40 million reasons to go electric", was created by electricforall.org. G...

The Bezos Earth Fund and the charity of the oligarchs Amidst an unprecedented transfer of wealth from the working class to the billionaires this year, sections of the bourgeoisie have decided to “donate” a small fraction of these ill-gotten gains to philanthropic causes.  These donations have been prominently covered in the American media as though the billionaires have been visited by the Spirits of Christmas, like Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, and decided to ...

. "As we head into a new administration, we have a new opportunity to talk about how we cover climate change, and how we can do that equitably," said th and an MSNBC contributor, who moderated the webinars panel discussion.  Covering Climate Equitably contains information, practical tips and case studies for journalists who want to produce climate and clean energy stories that center the views, experiences, and leadership of people of color and low-income communities on the frontlines of t...