×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×AdvertisementAdvertisementwill review the bill and make a final decision on if he will sign it soon,” spokeswoman AdvertisementAdvertisement“This is just going back to slavery. These are some dirty dogs. Dirty, dirty dogs.”- Sharon Lavigne, founder of RISE St. JamesAdvertisementIn a statement, Formosa said it “will continue to work with the appropriate agencies... to conduct research on the property to learn more about the identities of the deceased persons and respectfully preserve the remains.”...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×AdvertisementAdvertisementwill review the bill and make a final decision on if he will sign it soon,” spokeswoman AdvertisementAdvertisement“This is just going back to slavery. These are some dirty dogs. Dirty, dirty dogs.”- Sharon Lavigne, founder of RISE St. JamesAdvertisementIn a statement, Formosa said it “will continue to work with the appropriate agencies... to conduct research on the property to learn more about the identities of the deceased persons and respectfully preserve the remains.”...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementWhile ALEC helped promote the bills, the oil and gas industry deployed its vast influence network to ensure their passage. Such was the case in Mississippi.AdvertisementThis article was updated to reflect an additional law passed in Iowa in 2018 that was not included in the ICNL tally. Suggest a correctionNewsletter Sign UpHuffPost's top politics stories, straight to your inbox.Successfully Subscribed!Realness delivered to your inbox…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementWhile ALEC helped promote the bills, the oil and gas industry deployed its vast influence network to ensure their passage. Such was the case in Mississippi.AdvertisementThis article was updated to reflect an additional law passed in Iowa in 2018 that was not included in the ICNL tally. Suggest a correctionNewsletter Sign UpHuffPost's top politics stories, straight to your inbox.Successfully Subscribed!Realness delivered to your inboxWW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×Black Americans are than white Americans to breathe air polluted by burning fossil fuels, to die from the lung and heart diseases that such pollutants cause, and to be killed by police. Those figures have more in common than just the victims.Oil and gas companies, fossil fuel-burning utilities and the banks that fund drilling donate heavily to police departments’ charity foundations, according to a new report published Monday by the anti-corruption watchdog Public Accountability Initiative and the nonprofit...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×Black Americans are than white Americans to breathe air polluted by burning fossil fuels, to die from the lung and heart diseases that such pollutants cause, and to be killed by police. Those figures have more in common than just the victims.Oil and gas companies, fossil fuel-burning utilities and the banks that fund drilling donate heavily to police departments’ charity foundations, according to a new report published Monday by the anti-corruption watchdog Public Accountability Initiative and the nonprofit...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Business. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×an exciting and nostalgic season for the most powerful unelected man in Virginia.In May of that year, Dominion Energy CEO Thomas F. Farrell II made his cinematic debut with “Field of Lost Shoes,” a Civil War drama following the victorious Confederate cadets at the Battle of New Market. He had co-written, produced and financed the film. In addition to being a lawyer and the boss of a $62 billion Richmond, Virginia-based utility that serves 6.7 million people in eight states, Farrell is a history buff who said...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Business. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×an exciting and nostalgic season for the most powerful unelected man in Virginia.In May of that year, Dominion Energy CEO Thomas F. Farrell II made his cinematic debut with “Field of Lost Shoes,” a Civil War drama following the victorious Confederate cadets at the Battle of New Market. He had co-written, produced and financed the film. In addition to being a lawyer and the boss of a $62 billion Richmond, Virginia-based utility that serves 6.7 million people in eight states, Farrell is a history buff who said...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×AdvertisementAdvertisementThe bill also calls for a halt to research spending on fossil fuels and financing for new projects overseas. The authors estimate the legislation would save $150 billion over the next decade, money it would earmark for subsidizing poor Americans’ utility bills and guaranteeing the Black Lung Disability Fund for coal miners. See GallerySuggest a correctionNewsletter Sign UpHuffPost's top politics stories, straight to your inbox.Successfully Subscribed!Realness delivered to your inbox…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×AdvertisementAdvertisementThe bill also calls for a halt to research spending on fossil fuels and financing for new projects overseas. The authors estimate the legislation would save $150 billion over the next decade, money it would earmark for subsidizing poor Americans’ utility bills and guaranteeing the Black Lung Disability Fund for coal miners. See GallerySuggest a correctionNewsletter Sign UpHuffPost's top politics stories, straight to your inbox.Successfully Subscribed!Realness delivered to your inboxWW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Environment. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×lawmakers this week advanced legislation to add new criminal penalties to nonviolent against pipelines and other fossil fuel projects, setting a course to become the fourth state to enact such measures amid the chaos of the pandemic. The bill would designate virtually any oil, gas or coal equipment or facilities in the state as “critical infrastructure” and severely prohibit where aerial drones that watchdog groups to track pollution can fly. The legislation would make any action that “interrupts or...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Environment. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×lawmakers this week advanced legislation to add new criminal penalties to nonviolent against pipelines and other fossil fuel projects, setting a course to become the fourth state to enact such measures amid the chaos of the pandemic. The bill would designate virtually any oil, gas or coal equipment or facilities in the state as “critical infrastructure” and severely prohibit where aerial drones that watchdog groups to track pollution can fly. The legislation would make any action that “interrupts or...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Environment. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×AdvertisementLate Friday afternoon, the state Department of Environmental Conservation denied the company’s second application for a permit to extend the pipeline from New Jersey via Raritan Bay through the southern portion of New York Bay. In an , Daniel Whitehead, director of the agency’s Division of Environmental Permits, cited the “apparent lack of need for the Project, as well as its increased impacts to water quality as compared to identified alternatives” to reject the proposal with prejudice,...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Environment. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×AdvertisementLate Friday afternoon, the state Department of Environmental Conservation denied the company’s second application for a permit to extend the pipeline from New Jersey via Raritan Bay through the southern portion of New York Bay. In an , Daniel Whitehead, director of the agency’s Division of Environmental Permits, cited the “apparent lack of need for the Project, as well as its increased impacts to water quality as compared to identified alternatives” to reject the proposal with prejudice,...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Impact. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×Advertisement“The thinking is that maybe we can do better in other things as well, not just COVID-19. There’s a lot of potential for a renewables industry,” said Daul Jang, a Seoul-based senior campaigner at Greenpeace East Asia.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThen came the devastating in 2011 ― when a tsunami struck a nuclear plant, setting off a reactor meltdown that displaced 50,000 people ― which dampened some of that nuclear fervor. The costs of building nuclear plants also mounted....…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Impact. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×Advertisement“The thinking is that maybe we can do better in other things as well, not just COVID-19. There’s a lot of potential for a renewables industry,” said Daul Jang, a Seoul-based senior campaigner at Greenpeace East Asia.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThen came the devastating in 2011 ― when a tsunami struck a nuclear plant, setting off a reactor meltdown that displaced 50,000 people ― which dampened some of that nuclear fervor. The costs of building nuclear plants also mounted....WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThe memo includes a novel section calling for the establishment of a new White House Office of Climate Mobilization, based on the World War II-era Office of War Mobilization, with a network of chapters in each state. Evergreen declined to name its exact funders, but a spokesman said it included “multiple environmental foundations.” Its formal launch, slated for later this year, comes as the Democratic Party seeks to unite its base ahead of what’s expected to be a...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThe memo includes a novel section calling for the establishment of a new White House Office of Climate Mobilization, based on the World War II-era Office of War Mobilization, with a network of chapters in each state. Evergreen declined to name its exact funders, but a spokesman said it included “multiple environmental foundations.” Its formal launch, slated for later this year, comes as the Democratic Party seeks to unite its base ahead of what’s expected to be a...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×five New York City police officers wrestled a 22-year-old mother to the ground in a Brooklyn subway station and arrested her in front of her young child for refusing to wear a mask. Like for not wearing a mask during the COVID-19 pandemic, the woman was Black. Less than a month later, New York cops themselves are overwhelmingly at protests against police brutality and racism ― so much so that Mayor Bill de Blasio, widely criticized for defending the New York Police Department’s violence against demonstrators,...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×five New York City police officers wrestled a 22-year-old mother to the ground in a Brooklyn subway station and arrested her in front of her young child for refusing to wear a mask. Like for not wearing a mask during the COVID-19 pandemic, the woman was Black. Less than a month later, New York cops themselves are overwhelmingly at protests against police brutality and racism ― so much so that Mayor Bill de Blasio, widely criticized for defending the New York Police Department’s violence against demonstrators,...WW…