US citizens: phone your senators (each one) and call on them to explicitly enact the authority for the EPA to regulate total emissions of any greenhouse gas.

The Capitol Switchboard number is +1-202-224-3121.

If you call, please spread the word!

*Mark Meadows's associate threatened [Cassidy Hutchinson] before her testimony.*

Ecuador has reached a harmful deal to end indigenous protests: cutting the fossil fuel price.

This eases the immediate suffering of the poor, at the cost of making future suffering worse for them and everyone else.

The right way to help poor people cope with various kinds of high prices is to give them extra money which is independent of the amount of fossil fuel they use.

The desl also includes stricter geographic limits on search for and exploiting fossil fuel. That part is good.

*California passes first sweeping US law to reduce single-use plastic.*

Queensland, Australia, will ban some kinds of single-use plastics.

Helium is scarce and it is needed for some important uses. We should not permit it to be used for inflating balloons!

Senator Ron Johnson privately admitted participating in the fake electors scheme.