Big oil is trying to make Europe “the excuse” for an unnecessary and planet-heating expansion in gas exports, 60 members of the European Parliament wrote in a Tuesday letter to President Biden. The letter from largely left-leaning members followed unverified reporting from The New York Times that the Biden administration is considering a pause on new gas…
Gov. Ned Lamont told environmentalists Tuesday to lobby their state legislators to push for stricter standards on car emissions in order to improve the environment and combat climate change. During a speech at the Connecticut Science Center in downtown Hartford, Lamont told the large crowd that he favors the stricter California standards on vehicle emissions that are being debated behind the .
The China Initiative sunset in 2022 following major concerns from the academic community over discrimination and targeting of scientists of Asian descent.
A group of Democratic lawmakers are vehemently opposing House Republicans' push to reinstate a controversial Trump-era program accused of sparking racial profiling and discrimination against Asian Americans. About the controversial program: The China Initiative, launched in 2018 to purportedly counter Chinese espionage, was discontinued by the Department of Justice (DOJ) in 2022. According to the dissenting lawmakers, the program is incompatible with civil rights values, noting that it resulted in unjust accusations against Asian American academics and scientists.