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Biden’s Trade Commission Pick Lina Khan Led Antitrust Efforts Against Big Tech Legal scholar Lina Khan has been nominated to the Federal Trade Commission by President Joe Biden. An Rong Xu for the Washington Post; Edited: Truthout By Politico reports. Progressives against big tech and for anti-monopolism praised this decision on Tuesday. Khan is a “progressive superstar,” ProPublica senior reporter and editor Jesse Eisinger wrote. She first became well known in the law and big tech spheres for her 2017 article published in The Yale Law Journal, “Amazon’s Antitrust ...

More Products Are Adding Carbon Labels. But What Do They Really Mean? An increasing number of consumer products—from bacon to body wash—now bear labels pertaining to their environmental impact. Here’s how to separate the truly meaningful claims from the marketing speak. Sarah Lazarovic Updated (Photo: istock) Carbon neutral, carbon zero, carbon offsetting…what does it all mean, and why should you care? Well, all these terms have a role to play in helping us understand and take action on the climate crisis. At the same time, their intense proliferation and deep incons...

The Atlantic Rich countries should mop up their climate pollution, the Georgetown professor Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò argues. Jared Rodriguez Every Tuesday, our lead climate reporter brings you the big ideas, expert analysis, and vital guidance that will help you flourish on a changing planet. Until a few years ago, the idea that humanity could suck carbon pollution out of the atmosphere at an industrial scale was deemed implausible, if not impossible. The technology didn’t exist to do it, and even if it did, scrubbing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere posed such huge thermodynamic problems...

Updated at 10:12 a.m. ET on February 24, 2021. The end of the coronavirus pandemic is on the horizon at last, but the timeline for actually getting there feels like it shifts daily, with updates about viral variants, vaccine logistics, and other important variables seeming to push back the finish line or scoot it forward. When will we be able to finally live our lives again? Pandemics are hard to predict accurately, but we have enough information to make some confident guesses. A useful way to think about what’s ahead is to go season by season. In short: Life this spring will not be substan...

Climate Action Alliance of the Valley climate, energy news roundup: Feb. 20 Published Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021, 10:11 pm Join AFP's 100,000+ followers on Facebook Purchase a subscription to AFP | Subscribe to AFP podcasts on iTunes News, press releases, letters to the editor: augustafreepress2@gmail.com Front Page » Local/State » Climate Action Alliance of the Valley climate, energy news roundup: Feb. 20 Climate Action Alliance of the Valley produces The Weekly Roundup of Climate and Energy News.  Excerpts from a recent Roundup follow; full Roundup is here. Politics and Policy President Bi...