Dan Whittle

María Corina Machado of Venezuela wins the Nobel Peace Prize Opposition activist María Corina Machado of Venezuela has won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel committee praised her as a key figure in unifying Venezuela's political opposition.

BREAKING: For her work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela, María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

Manhattan’s $9 Toll Was a Win for the Climate. Trump Wants to End It. | Atmos The resounding success of New York City’s congestion pricing provides a blueprint for advancing social and environmental policies nationwide

Love it or hate it, Manhattan's $9 congestion pricing toll was a win for the climate. By 2045, the MTA predicts greenhouse gas emissions from the Central Business District will decrease by about 10%.

Now, Trump wants to end it.

Cuba opens first of 92 solar parks in bid to tame energy crisis Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel inaugurated the first of 92 solar parks on Friday as part of a Chinese-backed plan to ease hours-long blackouts across the Caribbean island nation.

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Opinion | Samantha Power: Killing U.S.A.I.D. Is a Win for Autocrats Everywhere (Gift Article) The attacks on the agency are cruel and counterproductive.

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President Trump’s executive order suspending foreign aid is reckless and cruel Compassion, not chaos, should guide foreign aid reform.

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Opinion | I Prosecuted the Capitol Rioters. I Know Why Trump Pardoned Them. Trump’s pardons will encourage more violence.

“The rest of us, too, must keep the horrors of Jan. 6 from being forgotten,” writes Brendan Ballou, a former federal prosecutor who resigned this week from the Department of Justice. "For in a time when many politicians’ careers depend on forgetting, memory itself is an act of resistance."

A third of the Arctic’s vast carbon sink now a source of emissions, study reveals Critical CO2 stores held in permafrost are being released as the landscape changes with global heating, report shows

“It is the first time that we’re seeing this shift at such a large scale.” Arctic tundra has passed a grim milestone, for the first time emitting more carbon than it stores. And nearly “half of the Earth’s soil carbon pool” hangs in the balance.
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Verkehrsabgabe: Widerstand gegen City-Maut in New York wächst Ab Januar muss zahlen, wer mit einem Fahrzeug nach Manhattan will. Doch es regt sich Widerstand, die Pläne könnten noch gekippt werden. Auch Donald Trump hat sich schon in Stellung gebracht.

Ab Januar muss zahlen, wer mit einem Fahrzeug nach Manhattan will. Doch es regt sich Widerstand, die Pläne könnten noch gekippt werden. Auch Donald Trump hat sich schon in Stellung gebracht.

Congestion Pricing Plan Set to Come to New York City on Jan. 5 The Federal Highway Administration gave its approval on Friday for the program, but the plan could still be stopped by lawsuits.

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