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Report on ChatGPT Model’s Emissions Offers Rare Glimpse of AI’s Climate Impacts
If AI is scaled up, the resulting carbon footprint could rival that of cryptocurrencies.
Is a Livable Future Still Possible? Chomsky and Pollin Discuss the IPCC Report.
The report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shows how capitalism undergirds the climate crisis.
MAGA Legislators Increasingly Force Taxpayers to Support Fossil Fuel Industry
Lawmakers take legal aim at private companies and local leaders considered insufficiently deferential to the industry.
Chemical Plant That Polluted Delaware River Forced My School to Evacuate in 2007
Who will guarantee our safety in the future when this inevitably happens again? Because it will, and it already has.
Biden’s Justice Department Sues Norfolk Southern Over Toxic East Palestine Crash
Rail workers hope the lawsuit is a “wake-up call” to rail companies who lobby for lax regulations and strict scheduling.
15 Million People May Lose Health Coverage as Medicaid “Purge” Begins
As Congress lets COVID-era coverage mandates expire, some states are jumping at the opportunity to take away benefits.
Week After UN Report Warning of Climate Disaster, GOP Passes Huge Pro-Oil Bill
The sweeping bill contains a litany of provisions long lobbied for by the oil and gas industry.
Bush-Nominated Judge Strikes Down Free HIV, Cancer Screenings in Major Ruling
The decision is a huge blow to the Affordable Care Act.
Fiery Derailment of Train Carrying Ethanol Forces Evacuations in Minnesota
The train’s operator, BNSF, has lobbied aggressively against safety regulations in recent years.
AOC Says GOP Energy Bill May as Well Have Been Written Entirely by Big Oil
The sweeping bill amounts to a “trickle down fantasy” to hand profits to fossil fuel companies, she said.