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The Trump administration says the cities shouldn’t be penalized for unhealthy air because pollution can blow in from abroad. Some experts say that’s preposterous.

This is what happens when the EPA is run by the fossil fuels industry: they try to point fingers at somebody else, instead of cleaning up actual local problems.

With it out of the way, Louisiana's governor moved to cancel an in-progress election and take representation away from blacks

People are already voting, but he's super-excited about being able to take representation away from blacks

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the Callais decision is likely to trigger the largest drop in Black representation since the end of Reconstruction.

The US and a bunch of other petrostates were notably not invited.

A research lab in Washington State tracks ecological changes in a warming climate and provides scientific guidance for forest managers. It is one of 57 such facilities being shuttered.

Thanks to today's Supreme Court Decision:

In states with large Black populations that remain under Republican control—half of the Black American population resides in the South—lawmakers will now be able to draw districts that dilute Black residents’ voting power. In his opinion for the right-wing majority, Justice Samuel Alito wrote that “in considering the constitutionality of a districting scheme, courts must treat partisan advantage like any other race-neutral aim: a constitutionally permissible criterion that States may rely on as desired.” The Court’s decision is consonant with the philosophy, articulated by Kilpatrick in his earlier days, that the state is oppressive when it interferes with the right to discriminate, and respects liberty when it allows discrimination. And the decision fits just as well with Kilpatrick’s later spin on that philosophy: Attempts to ban racial discrimination are themselves discriminatory—against white people.

Thanks to today's Supreme Court Decision:

In states with large Black populations that remain under Republican control—half of the Black American population resides in the South—lawmakers will now be able to draw districts that dilute Black residents’ voting power. In his opinion for the right-wing majority, Justice Samuel Alito wrote that “in considering the constitutionality of a districting scheme, courts must treat partisan advantage like any other race-neutral aim: a constitutionally permissible criterion that States may rely on as desired.” The Court’s decision is consonant with the philosophy, articulated by Kilpatrick in his earlier days, that the state is oppressive when it interferes with the right to discriminate, and respects liberty when it allows discrimination. And the decision fits just as well with Kilpatrick’s later spin on that philosophy: Attempts to ban racial discrimination are themselves discriminatory—against white people.

The court’s conservative majority said it upheld the landmark law, but the liberals in their dissent accused them of gutting it. In the case, the justices ruled that a Louisiana voting map was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.

The court’s conservative majority said it upheld the landmark law, but the liberals in their dissent accused them of gutting it. In the case, the justices ruled that a Louisiana voting map was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.

A proposed copper mine in northern Minnesota has become a battleground for politicians and environmentalists — and a pressing reason to explore the waterways.