The Federal Trade Commission is suing a data broker for selling location data and including data about visits to "sensitive" locations. This shows how fundamentally weak the US approach to privacy is.

Any location data record can be sensitive for some people. The way to truly protect people's privacy is to ensure that people's locations are not tracked.

US citizens: call on Congress to block any new fossil fuel handouts, including the Manchin deal.

*Prevent tree extinctions or face global ecological catastrophe, scientists warn.* Over 1/4 of tree species are endangered.

*Democrat Mary Peltola wins Alaska special election over Sarah Palin.*

Peltola will be a representative until the end of this year, and will have to run for reelection in November along with everyone else in the House of Representatives.

*Hawaii to close its only coal power plant in a step toward renewable energy.*