Biden has authorized sale of three fossil fuel leases over five years.

These would add to future US oil production -- when what survival requires is a massive reduction.

A UK thinktank published a report overestimating the cost of achieving "net zero" which was "full of errors that even a schoolboy would be embarrassed about." This should have been no surprise given that the thinktank -- or should we call it a "drunktank" -- hired a global heating denialist to prepare the report.

The article refers to him as a "climate skeptic", but that PR term is used to excuse climate denialism. A real skeptic applies rationality to check claimed conclusions. Clearly that denialist did not aim to qualify as a real skeptic.

*Investigation [of four Louisiana thugs] triggered by lawsuits alleging abuse and sexual humiliation of people taken to unmarked torture warehouse.*

*Disaster recovery projects stall nationwide as FEMA runs out of money.*

This is because it is compelled to prepare for the government shutdown.

How the Republican's secret commission to cut Social Security and Medicare would work.