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Judge Orders Exxon To Turn Over Tillerson’s ‘Wayne Tracker’ Climate Emails

March 24, 2017 David Hasemyer, www.insideclimatenews.org , , , ,
By David Hasemyer for Inside Climate News - Exxon officials have been ordered by a New York judge to explain how the company overlooked a shadow email account used by its former chief executive Rex Tillerson while the company was under subpoena by the New York attorney general's office. Judge Barry Ostrager ordered Exxon to provide sworn affidavits describing the company's process for identifying and turning over documents. He also demanded an explanation of what documents may have been lost and how that happened. Ostrager also gave the company until March 31 to surrender documents associated with Tillerson, now serving as secretary of state, and five other members of Exxon's management committee.

Youth In Climate Lawsuit Seek Rex Tillerson Pseudonym Emails

March 21, 2017 Julia Olson and Phillip Gregory, wwwo.urchildrenstrust.org , , ,
By Julia Olson and Phillip Gregory for Our Children's Trust - While risk-management issues related to climate change are important to the New York Attorney General’s investigation, attorneys representing youth plaintiffs suspect the emails will also reveal the deep influence of the fossil fuel defendants over U.S. energy and climate policies, and the defendants’ private acknowledgement that climate change was caused by their product, both of which are important to the youth’s case. To the latter point, the fossil fuel defendants have refused to take a position on whether climate change is caused by burning fossil fuels, even when pressed by federal judges to answer that question.

Exxon Says Some Emails From ‘Wayne Tracker’ Alias May Be Lost

March 21, 2017 Erik Larson, www.bloomberg.com , ,
By Erik Larson for Bloomberg - Exxon Mobil Corp. says a technical glitch may have prevented it from automatically preserving emails in a secondary account used by former Chief Executive Officer Rex Tillerson to discuss climate change risks and other issues under the alias Wayne Tracker. Tillerson, now U.S. Secretary of State, used the pseudonym account for sending the most sensitive messages to company board members, according to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who is investigating whether the company misled investors for years about the possible impact of climate change on its business. Schneiderman this week accused Exxon of failing to alert his office to the existence of the Wayne Tracker email account

Trump Installs People To Monitor Cabinet Leaders’ Every Move

March 21, 2017 Staff, www.telesurtv.net ,
By Staff for Tele Sur - The senior aides will monitor how closely the secretaries’ allegiances lie with President Trump. As if the Trump administration hasn’t already operated bizarrely enough, its Cabinet will now have a new addition: senior aides who will monitor how closely the secretaries’ allegiances lie with U.S. President Donald Trump, according to a new report by the Washington Post. The political appointees have been assigned to agencies as far-ranging as the Environmental Protection Agency to the Pentagon to NASA. The news comes while most members of Trump’s Cabinet do not yet have leadership teams in place or even nominees for their top deputies.

‘Morally Obscene’ Trump Budget Proposal To Make America Cruel Again

March 17, 2017 Deirdre Fulton, www.commondreams.org , ,
By Deirdre Fulton for Common Dreams - In fact, warned Diane Yentel, head of the National Low-Income Housing Coalition, Trump's budget "would have a devastating impact on millions of the lowest income people across the country." As expected, the proposal would cut overall funding for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) by 13 percent or $6.2 billion compared to 2016 levels, resulting "in the most severe cut to HUD since President Reagan dramatically reduced funding in the early 1980s," she said. "Reagan's deep spending cuts ushered in a new age of homelessness with a dramatic increase in the number of people sleeping on the streets, in cars, and in shelters," Yentel added.

What Betsy DeVos Means When She Says ‘Public Schools’

March 17, 2017 Jeff Bryant, www.educationopportunitynetwork.org , ,
By Jeff Bryant for Education Opportunity Network - Betsy DeVos once called public schools a “dead end,” but now that she’s U.S. Secretary of Education, she’s suddenly all for them. At least that’s what she claims now. During her nomination process, numerous reporters noted DeVos’s obvious bias against public schools. As education journalist Valerie Strauss reported on her blog at the Washington Post, DeVos “made some controversial statements” about public schools, “calling the traditional public education system a ‘dead end.’” Strauss noted DeVos had once said, “government truly sucks.” But now she claims to be all for public schools, at least according to reports on her recent speech to a conference of big city school leaders.

RyanCare Undermines Medicare And Medicaid, Despite Trump Promise

March 17, 2017 Janine Jackson, www.fair.org , , ,
By Janine Jackson for CounterSpin - Like others, this story was about how right-wing Republicans might present hurdles to the plan’s passage, because it’s too much like the dreaded Obamacare, and how they might be appeased. So much coverage of healthcare is set in terms of the political process—who presents obstacles, what groups are being whistled to—that the specifics, the reality of how changes in policy could affect actual people, can sometimes get lost. And healthcare could hardly be a worse place for that to happen. Here to help us see some of what’s going on with this GOP bill is Nancy Altman. She’s co-director of Social Security Works and co-chair of the Strengthen Social Security coalition and campaign. She joins us now by phone from Maryland. Welcome back to CounterSpin, Nancy Altman.

Media Find Room For ‘Trumpcare Too Progressive,’ But Not For Single-Payer

March 16, 2017 Michael Corcoran, www.fair.org , ,
By Michael Corcoran for FAIR - In May 2009, at the infancy of the healthcare reform battle that led to the Affordable Care Act, a group of nurses and single-payer activists were arrested for disrupting a Senate Finance Committee meeting chaired by Sen. Max Baucus (D.–Mont.) (Democracy Now, 5/13/09). These activists had been ignored by politicians and corporate media for years (FAIR.org, 3/6/09), and hoped an arrest, or eight, would bring attention to their cause. Despite the efforts of the “Baucus 8,” the New York Times did not report on the event. Nor did much of the rest of the dominant media.

“Making America Great” At Americans’ Expense

March 15, 2017 Ralph Nader, www.blog.nader.org ,
By Ralph Nader. Donald J. Trump was a builder of casinos and high-priced hotels and golf courses. Now he is a builder of a tower of contradictions for the American people that is making “America Great” at their expense. He made many conflicting promises throughout his presidential campaign. He was going to be the “voice of the people.” He was going to make their safety and their job expansion his number one priority. He was going to make sure that everybody had health insurance under his then unannounced plan. He was going to deregulate businesses, cut taxes, increase the military budget, build and repair the country’s public infrastructure and not surge the deficit. He was going to scrap the trade agreements known as NAFTA and the WTO.

Tillerson Used Alias To Discuss Climate Change When CEO Of Exxon

March 15, 2017 David Hasemyer, www.insideclimatenews.org , ,
By David Hasemyer for Inside Climate News - While he was chief executive of ExxonMobil, current secretary of state Rex Tillerson used an alias email account for eight years to discuss climate change and the risks it posed to the company's business, according to investigators for New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. Those investigators say the company concealed the shadow emails despite a 2015 subpoena for Tillerson's communications issued as part of a sweeping investigation of the oil giant in connection with possible financial fraud. Schneiderman's office disclosed the existence of the email account assigned to Tillerson on Monday in a letter to Judge Barry Ostrager, which accused Exxon of failing to turn over all relevant documents required by the subpoena.

Fossil Fuel Industry Hired Guns Now Staffing Trump’s Federal Agencies

March 14, 2017 Steve Horn, www.desmogblog.com ,
By Steve Horn for Desmog Blog - On March 8, ProPublica obtained “beachhead team” rosters with the names of hundreds of temporary staffers the Trump administration has installed in federal agencies, including the Department of Interior (DOI), Department of Energy (DOE), the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and others. A DeSmog investigation shows that this list of staffers, largely undisclosed before this week, includes former operatives allied with Koch Industries, oil and coal industry employees, a former employee of a prominent climate denial group, and an advocate for a pro-trophy hunting organization funded by oil and gas.

Activists Already Scored Victories Against Trump’s Policies

March 8, 2017 Adam Gabbatt, www.theguardian.com ,
By Adam Gabbatt for The Guardian - The campaign was launched in October 2016, in response to Donald Trump’s infamous boasts that his fame allowed him to sexually assault women; specifically, to “grab them by the pussy”. GrabYourWallet lists dozens of companies which have ties to the president – either by selling his or his family’s products, or by endorsing him during the election campaign. Since the campaign started a number of companies have dropped Ivanka Trump’s clothing line, including Shoes.com, Shopstyle and most recently Nordstrom. In addition to delivering a financial hit to Ivanka Trump, the campaign succeeded in upsetting the president, who tweeted that his daughter had been “treated so unfairly” by Nordstrom

Regime Change Agenda Of US Continues With ‘New’ NED Chair

March 8, 2017 Joseph Thomas, www.globalresearch.ca , ,
By Joseph Thomas for Global Research - While supporters of recently elected US President Donald Trump believe steadfastly that among other things, his administration will role back what has been essentially a century of American expansionism worldwide through overt wars and more “covert” methods toward achieving “regime change,” by all metrics it appears such methods will only expand. Not only do observers note continued subversive activities coordinated through local US embassies around the world since Trump’s presidency began, including across Southeast Asia as part of America’s continued attempts to isolate and contain China...

EPA’s Scott Pruitt: The Great Disruptor

March 3, 2017 Diane Wilson, Brian Grenoble, www.commondreams.org ,
By Diane Wilson for Common Dreams - On January 17, 2017, a congressional hearing to confirm Scott Pruitt, Donald Trump’s chosen appointee to head the Environmental Protection Agency, was held in Washington, D.C. Now, anybody who knows anything about fracking or oil well drilling knows that wherever there’s a roomful of well-dressed executives, oil probably ain’t far behind. So, I figured there was going to be a lot of oil in that room just listening to themselves talking to each other. I also thought they needed a little education from someone who also knows a lot about oil but from a somewhat different perspective. Namely, me.

Jeff Sessions’ Alternative Facts About Marijuana

March 3, 2017 Tony Newman, www.alternet.org , ,
By Tony Newman for AlterNet - Attorney General Jeff Sessions became the second member of the Trump administration in less than a week to provide “alternative facts” and backward analysis when it comes to marijuana. Yesterday, in a meeting with reporters, Sessions spoke out against marijuana legalization and implied that it’s leading to more violence. “I’m dubious about marijuana. I’m not sure we’re going to be a better, healthier nation if we have marijuana sold at every corner grocery store.” "Experts are telling me there's more violence around marijuana than one would think,” said Sessions. "You can't sue somebody for a drug debt. The only way to get your money is through strong-arm tactics, and violence tends to follow that."
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