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July 8, 2017

UN Adopts Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Despite US Opposition

Max Greenwood The Hill

The treaty is intended to bar countries from developing, testing, manufacturing, acquiring or even possessing any kind of nuclear weapon.

July 8, 2017

Trump Is Trying to Make NAFTA Even Worse

Ethan Earle In These Times

But now, in an act of political judo, Trump is trying to use the same anti-establishment, pro-American rhetoric from his campaign to craft a neoliberal NAFTA renegotiation that will include everything demanded in the recently scuttled TPP—and more. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, as well as others in Trump’s administration, have been surprisingly straightforward about these intentions.

July 8, 2017

Behind the Smokescreen: the End Goal of Trump’s War on Science

Emily Atkin The New Republic

EPA Director Scott Pruitt wants to undermine climate science not only because the best available science bolsters the policies he wants to repeal, but also because it will likely show his policies will cause preventable deaths due to pollution and higher temperatures. So, Pruitt and his allies are, among other tactics, trying to stack the EPA’s Scientific Advisory Board, which evaluates the science behind agency regulations, in his (and the polluters’) favor.

July 7, 2017