- Give Climate Change the Name It Deserves: Fossil-Fueled Destruction | “Climate Crisis” only identifies the symptoms of oil and gas dependence. As time runs out, we need a term that focuses on what — and who — is to blame. https://capitalandmain.com/give-climate-change-the-name-it-deserves-fossil-fueled-destruction 2 comments climate
- California Lets Companies Keep ‘Dangerous’ Oil Wells Unplugged Forever | An idle well fee program is masking vast cleanup costs while harming residents and the climate. https://capitalandmain.com/california-lets-companies-keep-dangerous-oil-wells-unplugged-forever 4 comments climate
- Oil and Gas Lobbying Threatens California’s Game-Changing Climate Bills https://capitalandmain.com/oil-and-gas-lobbying-threatens-californias-game-changing-climate-bills 3 comments climate
- Bay Area Plans to Refine Biofuels Could Derail Climate Goals, Warn Environmentalists https://capitalandmain.com/bay-area-plans-to-refine-biofuels-could-derail-climate-goals-warn-environmentalists 5 comments energy
- How Voter Suppression and Gerrymandering by the Texas GOP Derails Environmental Justice | Voter suppression blocks calls by Texans of color for regulation and climate action. https://capitalandmain.com/how-voter-suppression-and-gerrymandering-by-the-texas-gop-derails-environmental-justice 5 comments environment
- You Probably Aren’t Getting Paid Overtime. Here’s Why. https://capitalandmain.com/you-probably-arent-getting-paid-overtime-heres-why 11 comments economy
- California Oil and Gas Industry Leans on Political Heavyweights to Drill Wells | New well count rises as governor appoints oil lobbyist to top role. https://capitalandmain.com/california-oil-and-gas-industry-leans-on-political-heavyweights-to-drill-wells 6 comments politics
- As Evidence of Cap and Trade Problems Mounts, California Air Regulators Remain Defiant | The state is in danger of missing its 2030 emission goal, but the oil and gas industry is lobbying against changes. https://capitalandmain.com/as-evidence-of-cap-and-trade-problems-mount-california-air-regulators-remain-defiant 5 comments politics
- Will California Get Its Shot at Single-Payer Health Care? https://capitalandmain.com/will-california-get-its-shot-at-single-payer-health-care 118 comments politics
- Guess who'll get hit hardest by California's severe water shortage? : "Groundwater systems are key during California droughts, but certain communities are running dry — and there's no real solution in sight." [United States of America] https://capitalandmain.com/guess-wholl-get-hit-hardest-by-californias-severe-water-shortage 4 comments economy
- California Oil Industry Spends Millions Fighting Climate Bills: In the first three months of 2021, the petroleum industry spent over $4.3 million lobbying Sacramento. https://capitalandmain.com/california-oil-industry-spends-millions-fighting-climate-bills-0518 10 comments politics
- Georgia’s Other Runoff Could Weaken the South’s Dirty Energy Monopoly https://capitalandmain.com/georgias-other-runoff-could-weaken-the-souths-dirty-energy-monopoly-1127 7 comments politics
- Trump’s Capitol Death Grip Worsens COVID Surge | “We’re going into a very dark winter,” says President-elect Biden. By spring there could be nearly half a million COVID-19 American deaths. https://capitalandmain.com/trumps-capitol-death-grip-worsens-covid-surge-1117 7 comments politics
- Under Trump, Household Incomes Grew More Slowly in Majority of States Even Before COVID https://capitalandmain.com/under-trump-household-incomes-grew-more-slowly-majority-of-states-1022 41 comments politics
- Before COVID-19, the Number of Uninsured Americans Grew by 2.3 Million Under Trump https://capitalandmain.com/millions-of-americans-lost-health-insurance-under-trump-0915 18 comments politics
- A New Kind of Nuclear Option | Advances in technology have politicians on both sides of the aisle rethinking nuclear power. https://capitalandmain.com/new-kind-nuclear-option-0729 20 comments politics
- Income Growth Declines for Poor Americans Under Trump https://capitalandmain.com/poor-see-meager-gains-under-trump-0226 26 comments politics
- Under Trump, Income Growth Slows Across U.S. https://capitalandmain.com/under-trump-income-growth-slows-across-america-0222 36 comments politics
- Will Climate Help Torch Mitch McConnell’s Re-Election? https://capitalandmain.com/will-climate-change-kentuckys-2020-politics-0116 21 comments politics
- Can We Tackle Climate Change and Economic Inequality? A growing body of research indicates that many of the solutions to the climate crisis and economic inequality are the same. https://capitalandmain.com/can-we-tackle-climate-change-and-economic-inequality-0107 11 comments politics
- Two Years Later: What Has Trump’s Tax Law Delivered? Since the law’s passage, the federal government has seen the largest year-over-year drop in corporate tax revenue outside of a recession. https://capitalandmain.com/what-has-trumps-tax-law-delivered-0106 26 comments politics
- Bernie Sanders Interview: On Billionaires, Buttigieg & Biden https://capitalandmain.com/bernie-sanders-interview-1221 88 comments politics
- The Trump NLRB’s Anti-Labor Day https://capitalandmain.com/the-trump-nlrbs-anti-labor-day 4 comments politics
- Detained Immigrants Claim They Were Forced to Work Without Pay https://capitalandmain.com/detained-immigrants-claim-they-were-forced-to-work-without-pay-0826 663 comments politics
- Wall Street Investors Intensify Affordable Housing Crisis https://capitalandmain.com/wall-street-investors-intensify-affordable-housing-crisis-0108 8 comments politics
- Big Pharma Bankrolled Pro-Trump Group As Trump Pushed Pharma Tax Cut In 2017 the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America gave $2.5 million to America First Policies Inc. — a major dark money group supporting President Donald Trump’s political and economic agenda. https://capitalandmain.com/big-pharma-bankrolled-pro-trump-group-as-trump-pushed-pharma-tax-cut-1115 7 comments politics
- Will New York Fund Amazon Subsidies or Student Debt Relief? https://capitalandmain.com/will-new-york-fund-amazon-subsidies-or-student-debt-relief-1113 6 comments politics
- Wall Street Pumping Cash Through Loophole in Anti-Corruption Rule https://capitalandmain.com/wall-street-pumping-cash-through-loophole-in-anti-corruption-rule-1004 6 comments politics
- Cuomo Received $25,000 From Weinstein Lawyer’s Firm as He Suspended Probe https://capitalandmain.com/cuomo-received-25000-dollars-from-weinstein-lawyers-firm-as-he-suspended-probe-0829 27 comments politics
- Top Republican on Tax Subcommittee Received Yacht Loan From Foreign Bank Lobbying on 2017 Tax Bill https://capitalandmain.com/top-republican-on-tax-subcommittee-received-yacht-loan-from-foreign-bank-lobbying-on-2017-tax-bill-0821 7 comments politics
- Forget Old Glory — Why Betsy DeVos’s Family Yacht and Others Fly Foreign Flags https://capitalandmain.com/forget-old-glory-why-betsy-devos-family-yacht-and-others-fly-foreign-flags-0807 5 comments politics
- Why Is Colorado’s Public Pension System in High-Fee, High-Risk Investments? https://capitalandmain.com/why-is-colorados-public-pension-system-in-high-fee-high-risk-investments-0508 7 comments politics
- Trump’s No Immigrant Left Behind Policy Targets Vietnamese Refugees https://capitalandmain.com/trumps-no-immigrant-left-behind-policy-targets-vietnamese-refugees-0410 5 comments politics
- Study Shows California’s Single-Payer Bill Would Save Health Care Costs https://capitalandmain.com/study-shows-californias-single-payer-bill-would-save-health-care-costs-0601 6 comments economy
- Tesla factory workers intensify unionisation efforts, file charges with National Labor Board: Tesla employees are alleging illegal surveillance, coercion, intimidation and prevention of worker communications by Tesla in an effort to prevent or otherwise hinder unionisation http://capitalandmain.com/tesla-workers-file-charges-with-national-labor-board-as-battle-with-elon-musk-intensifies-0419 11 comments business
- Conversations on Trump’s America: Robert Reich Previews a New Era of Savage Inequality http://capitalandmain.com/conversations-on-trumps-america-robert-reich-previews-a-new-era-of-savage-inequality-1129 4 comments politics
- Ballot Bullies: Why Are Big Tobacco, Pharma and Plastic Doubling Down in California’s Election? http://capitalandmain.com/ballot-bullies-why-are-big-tobacco-pharma-and-plastic-doubling-down-in-californias-election-1024 3 comments politics
- How the Carried Interest Loophole Makes the Super-Rich Super-Richer http://capitalandmain.com/latest-news/issues/labor-and-economy/how-the-carried-interest-loophole-makes-the-super-rich-super-richer-0621/ 12 comments politics
- Fixing Flint - "It should be clear now that “running government like a business” (the privatizers trope) means you don’t invest in places that don’t have markets that can afford to buy your products. It didn’t work for Flint and it doesn’t work for America." http://capitalandmain.com/latest-news/issues/politics-and-government/fixing-flint-0125/ 59 comments politics
- The One Percenters: How A Handful Of California Power Brokers Work To Further Inequality. http://capitalandmain.com/inequality/californias-top-policy-powerbrokers 3 comments politics