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June 18, 2024
DEMS WARN AGAINST TEXAS CLASS VI PRIMACY: Seven Texas Democrats are warning EPA not to hand over permitting authority for carbon sequestration wells to the state of Texas, arguing the state agency charged with overseeing the industry has a “sorry history of lax regulations and enforcement.” Texas is among several states pursuing primacy over so-called Class VI wells as EPA struggles to speed up its permitting process, even as the fossil fuel industry and the Biden administration are turning to carbon capture to meet their climate goals.
Issues:Protecting Our Planet
May 17, 2024
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell opened a new front in his battle to shape the Trump-era GOP this week when he torched Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and called out Republicans who have sought to boost the far-right strongman.
Fresh off his victory on Ukraine aid, McConnell is making clear he isn’t finished trying to blunt what he sees as a dangerous foreign policy doctrine taking hold in the Republican Party under Donald Trump.
May 16, 2024
Student protesters: I admire your empathy for Gazans, your concern for the world, your moral ambition to make a difference.
But I worry about how peaceful protests have tipped into occupations of buildings, risks to commencements and what I see as undue tolerance of antisemitism, chaos, vandalism and extremism. I’m afraid the more aggressive actions may be hurting the Gazans you are trying to help.
May 10, 2024
Other presidents, including, Ronald Reagan, used the power of American arms to influence Israeli war policy. But the comparisons underscore how much the politics of Israel have changed over the years.
April 15, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is now selling Bibles as he runs to return to the White House.
April 15, 2024
Former Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) took shots at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Monday, attacking his former GOP colleague as “Moscow Marjorie.”
April 13, 2024
The suffering of civilians in Gaza — tens of thousands dead, many of them children; hundreds of thousands homeless, many at risk of starvation — has become more than a growing number of Americans can abide. And yet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and his ultranationalist allies in government have defied American calls for more restraint and humanitarian help.
April 8, 2024
A provision in the state’s budget passed in May 2023 prohibits any entity funded by the state health department from promoting COVID vaccines in fiscal years 2024 and 2025.
March 25, 2024
The U.S. must remove investor-state dispute settlement mechanisms from the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement and other trade deals in the region, nearly 50 House Democrats said last week.
In a March 21 letter to U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, a group of 47 House lawmakers called for the officials to work with CAFTA-DR partners to remove the agreement’s ISDS mechanism, arguing it facilitates “harmful corporate overreach in emerging economies.”
March 14, 2024
“History will prove Ken Paxton is a corrupt, sophisticated criminal. History will prove vouchers are simply an expensive entitlement program for the wealthy and a get rich scheme for voucher vendors. History will prove Governor Greg Abbott is a liar."
In the Weatherford newspaper Rep. Glenn Rogers, who avoided badmouthing Gov. Greg Abbott while Abbott was attacking him during the campaign, wrote: