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What Can The US Labor Movement Do To Build On Its 2024 Victories?

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Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2025 15:50:14 +0000

With the recent election upheaval in the US government, it’s important to remember that the labor movement flourished in 2024. Workers across sectors and interests challenged wage ceilings, sought job safety and security, and looked to unions to represent their collective interests. The ascendance of Donald J. Trump to the … [continued]

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US Auto Industry In Turmoil After First Week Of Trump 2

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Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2025 20:42:42 +0000

The America auto industry is in the middle of a transition to electric vehicles but new policies may disrupt its plans.

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Musk Needs A Wake-Up Call About Reworking The US Economy, Says Senator Elizabeth Warren

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Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 19:43:35 +0000

If there’s anyone who can offer a prescription to cure the US economy, it’s Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA). It was her idea to create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as a way to stop scams and hold financial firms accountable when they cheat people. Now billionaire Elon Musk has bought … [continued]

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Boundaries: Kryptonite To Narcissists & Tyrants Of All Sizes

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Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 04:59:44 +0000

For months, people have been saying that we need to give Donald Trump (another) chance. Now that he’s been in office again for a few days, it’s pretty clear that he’s no friend to clean technology industries. In this article, I want to discuss the best way to fight back … [continued]

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Today’s Political Rhetoric Rewards The Rich But Can’t Save The Planet

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Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 15:13:08 +0000

Language at its finest imparts information so humans can empower each other. It conveys expressions of emotions, warnings for self-preservation, offerings of social togetherness — and, most recently, misinformation/disinformation. The current global political climate is packed with rhetoric that persuades audiences to roil over perceived slights, including peer-reviewed evidence that … [continued]

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End of Green New Deal, Idiocracy, Social Media Opioids, & Tesla Risk — Video Chat

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Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 03:22:30 +0000

Vijay Govindan and I sat down today to discuss Democrats’ “Green New Deal” (the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law), Trump trying to destroy it despite all of the economic benefits it brings across the US (especially in red districts and states), the era of “Idiocracy,” social media as … [continued]

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Critical Minerals Global Expert Optimistic About Supply

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Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 23:52:51 +0000

Late in 2024 I had the privilege of sitting down with one of the world’s leading experts on critical minerals, Gavin Mudd, director of the centre for critical minerals intelligence at the British Geological Survey. The second half of the conversation included a great deal on why we’re both optimistic … [continued]

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Trump Tries to Demolish Biden’s “Green New Deal” on Day 1 — EV, Solar, & Wind Policies & Funding Attacked

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Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 17:04:25 +0000

Even a con man tells the truth once in a while. Donald Trump, for whatever idiotic reason, hates cleantech. He has long hated wind turbines, thinks solar power is stupid and hates it, and trashes electric cars with misinformation on a regular basis. He also hates his political opponents having … [continued]

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Why Is Europe So Obsessed With Green Hydrogen?

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Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 16:06:13 +0000

The green hydrogen market has seen plenty of stumbles ever since innovators, investors, and governments began exploring the idea of deploying renewable electricity to push hydrogen gas from water instead of extracting it from natural gas or coal. Nevertheless, interest runs high especially in Europe, where a domestic green hydrogen … [continued]

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