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Bleeding Heartland Tuesday, Feb 19 2019 Matt Chapman has attended Iowa House and Senate subcommittee meetings nearly every day. These bills were among the most significant he has tracked lately. -promoted by Laura Belin Over the past week, Iowa Senate subcommittees considered five bills drafted to address fraud in Iowa public assistance programs. Each bill would direct revenue generated by Iowa taxpayers to private vendors, who are charged with finding fraudulent claims. If investigation supports the claims of fraud, those funds could be recovered, and criminal charges filed. It sounds like a...

Close Authorship From an ideological perspective, it’s curious that clean energy became a partisan issue. Looking at it as a technology, there is a ton to like about renewables across the political spectrum.  This hasn’t escaped political conservatives outside the beltway. A number of conservative groups champion clean energy, from the Conservative Energy Network (CEN) and Young Conservatives for Energy Reform (YCER) to the Christian Coalition for America.  As the federal government considers a massive infrastructure bill that would spur clean energy growth and decarbonize the economy, ...

The urgency of the Black climate agenda Vox.com 7 hrs ago Jariel Arvin © Steve Sanchez/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images The Rise and Resist activist group marches to demand climate and racial justice in New York, NY, on September 20, 2020. For a long time, the face of the climate movement was a white one. But with growing public awareness of climate change came the recognition that its impacts are disproportionately experienced by Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color. The problem, according to many Black climate advocates, is that awareness is not ...

Steve Sanchez/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images For a long time, the face of the climate movement was white. But with growing public awareness of climate change came the recognition that its impacts are disproportionately experienced by Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color. The problem, according to many Black climate advocates, is that awareness is not enough. Tamara Toles O’Laughlin is one of the best-known advocates for what she calls the “Black climate agenda”: a movement that seeks to correct the failures of the climate movement to include Black people and th...

Share this article Share this article WASHINGTON, April 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Special Envoy for Climate John Kerry will address Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC) scientists, organizations and funders during the upcoming BIPOC Climate Justice Dialogue 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. on Thursday, April 8, 2020. The day-long virtual event will provide an opportunity for climate leaders to discuss national climate goals and priorities with top administration officials and federal agency representatives in advance of the Biden-Harris Leader's Climate Summit taking place on Earth Day. Con...