After the hottest summer in recorded human history — along with Hurricanes Helene and Milton, flooding and wildfires — why isn’t there a greater push for action on climate change?
One reason is that big oil, gas and coal companies — and their allies in Congress — block the urgent action that’s required. They do this in part by denying basic climate science, and in many cases, they receive enormous, publicly subsidized tax benefits to do it. And in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election, millions in charitable donations poured into policy development at the Heritage Foundation, producing the Project 2025 Blueprint for the incoming Trump administration.
It’s true. Wealthy donors and fossil fuel corporations regularly make “charitable” donations to nonprofit organizations that deny science, sow doubt about the urgency of climate change and run out the clock for timely action. When they deduct those contributions from their tax bill, they’re effectively being subsidized by you — the taxpayer.
Many of these donors have built their fortunes in the oil, coal and […]
When Trump takes office, there will be huge changes in American government and people will begin to realize what a huge mistake they made. He inherited Obama’s good economy and then it fell apart—-because he doesn’t know anything about truly being the president of our country. He now is inheriting the best economy EVER EVER today and in the world and he’s going to screw that up as well once he begins deporting the necessary immigrants who take jobs Americans won’t do at lower wages and then, of course, his tariffs (the only economic idea he actually knows), and prices will skyrocket there as well. So with inflation flying off the charts, the 2026 elections come and, hopefully, the Dems will take over both Houses of Congress. Then they can stymie his cockamamie plans to run this country and we can get back to normal practices by vetoing nutty things he wants. That is the future!