The Tories plan to open a new coal mine in England. Supposedly the reason is to reduce the cost of electricity, but the mine will produce coking coal to be exported to make steel. Meanwhile, the steel industry is looking to replace the use of coking coal to reduce its emissions.

US citizens: call on your congresscritter to stand up for keeping Ilhan Omar on the foreign affairs committee.i

The Capitol Switchboard numbers are +1-202-224-3121, +1-888-818-6641 and +1-888-355-3588.

If you phone, please spread the word!

US citizens: call on the US government to block Amazon's planned merger with One Medical.

At least four on the Supreme Court seem to lean towards the bizarre "independent state legislature" theory. The confrontation in Arizona, in which one country refused to certify its vote, is exactly the kind of situation where a state legislature could (under this theory) arbitrarily make up its own presidential election results.

The revised Electoral Count Act could close that mad loophole, if Congress passes it this month.

Qatar promises to vastly expand its fossil fuel exports; the resulting greenhouse gas emissions would imply global disaster.

The specific point that the total emissions from Qatar's exports would eventually add up to more than one year of the whole world's emissions seems like a red herring to me. I would expect that the same is true for the US too, and perhaps several other countries.

But even though this is just a red herring, I think the article's conclusions are plausible anyway.