Governor Brown of California went to open a business-oriented "climate summit", but thousands of activists protested him for permitting many new fossil fuel wells in the state.

Setting a target for 2045 is just talk. The new wells are real.

A study concluded that states, cities and businesses can bring about greenhouse gas reductions in the US that come close to this Paris agreement pledges.

Alas that means not enough.

Various countries including the US are competing to tax businesses less.

This is a "beggar thy neighbor" race which harms all the competing countries and benefits mainly the rich that own most of the stock.

The Democratic Party can't formulate what it stands for.

What it should stand for, above all, is to end plutocracy and restore democracy.

Some US government officials knew shortly after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico that the death toll was higher than the government claimed.