Celebrating the move, a StopEACOP activist said that “the climate crisis is not only enabled by the fossil fuel companies but those who provide the financing and those that help shape their narrative.”

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After an “enormous victory” in Kansas, some progressives argue that ballot measures “are the next frontier” for protecting access to reproductive healthcare.

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“This was a backdoor take-it-or-leave-it deal between a coal baron and Democratic leaders in which any opposition from lawmakers or frontline communities was quashed,” said one activist.

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“Walden Bello’s arrest is a violation of his fundamental rights, an affront to the institutions of Philippine democracy, and a threat to free expression everywhere,” said the Progressive International council.

Military contracting “obscures where and how taxpayer money flows,” and “makes it difficult to know how many people are employed, injured, and killed,” said the Costs of War Project report’s author.

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A leader at the anti-Trump group behind the advertisement targeting the U.S. Senate candidate said that “our campaign is built around the voices of Georgia Republicans who know that he’s unfit for office.”

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“We will never stop fighting to protect these sacred lands, the Porcupine caribou, and our communities,” vowed the Gwich’in Steering Committee’s executive director.

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“Ballot initiatives are a phenomenally powerful tool when there’s a disconnect between the popularity of an issue and what’s being enacted by politicians,” said Kelly Hall of the Fairness Project.

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“People have been making trade-offs to pay for healthcare for years. Inflation has only made things worse as people are also now struggling with the high price of gas, food, and electricity,” said the president of West Health, which conducted the new poll with Gallup.

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“It’s absolutely insane that a prosecutor elected by the people of his county can just be suspended by a governor for not carrying out the governor’s pet projects of reaction,” said one critic.

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“Schedule F would burn down the civil service system,” warned one public policy professor. “It would be a government of the lawless leading the incompetent.”

António Guterres outlined recommendations from a new report about how to handle the energy crisis exacerbated by Russia’s war in Ukraine while working to meet global climate goals.

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“We must codify the right to abortion in Congress,” said Rep. Pramila Jayapal. “Pregnant people deserve to make their own healthcare decisions.”

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“The House has acted: Now, the time has never been more urgent for the Senate to hold a vote for the passage of the PRO Act,” said one union leader.

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“Unless these senators are willing to end the filibuster to pass this measure, there’s no reason to take it seriously,” said the head of NARAL Pro-Choice America.

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The head of ICAN said that as “tensions between nuclear-armed states are increasing, hiding behind vague affirmations and empty promises is not enough,” and all nations should “join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons as the pathway to save the NPT.”

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“At a time when reproductive rights are under attack, Julie Rikelman is an exceptional nominee for this moment,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren. “She will be a welcome addition to the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals.”

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“As Americans stare down the abyss of a potential recession, Fortune 500 c-suite executives are doing better than ever,” noted one critic, “while their workers’ wages have severely lagged behind.”

Clarence Thomas, says a MoveOn petition, “has shown he cannot be an impartial justice and is more concerned with covering up his wife’s coup attempts than the health of the Supreme Court.”

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One progressive critic of the proposal charged that “it proves we need to elect more climate champions so that we can pass the policies actually needed to confront the crisis we all face.”

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One young activist asked whether the president will side with millions of Americans calling for action or “fold to a handful of fossil fuel executives and condemn my generation to a brutally warming world.”

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“For far too long, Big Tech has been allowed to regulate itself at great expense to the health and well-being of young Americans,” said the head of the advocacy group Fairplay.

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“It’s a very weak proposal” but “we’re dealing with the power of PhRMA over the Congress,” he said, taking aim at industry lobbyists.

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One co-author said the findings show the cost of cleaning up and replacing PFAS “is ultimately justified when considering the tremendous economic and medical risks of allowing them to persist in the environment.”

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The DOJ’s grand jury, said one legal expert, “is finally going for the jugular: It’s targeting Trump’s role in criminally pressuring his own VP to help him overturn his 2020 loss to Biden.”

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Advocates say that while renaming the BP Institute would be “symbolically important,” adopting a policy to reject “all fossil fuel industry funding and research partnerships” is what’s needed.

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