A good read here on how the oil and gas industry skips out of town with the profits and leaves abandoned wells to the taxpayers for cleanup…

From High Country News: https://www.hcn.org/issues/54.8/south-energy-industry-how-oil-companies-endlessly-avoid-cleanup-costs? fossil fuels, taxpayer ripoff, chemicals in ground, private profits social responsibility, Colorado

From The New Republic: “[the GOP knows] they cannot win hearts and minds [since] the demographics of the U.S. are inexorably shifting towards nonwhites and secularism,” so the GOP’s only hope is undermining democracy…

From The New Republic: https://newrepublic.com/article/167100/republican-party-turning-america-into-hungary? Trump, treason, January 6, Jan 6, Big Lie, evangelicals, white supremacy

Like elections, climate change has consequences (as we know all too well in our region): killer heat wave to hit Northwest…

From whdh.com: https://whdh.com/news/heat-wave-to-hit-northwest-as-northeast-sees-some-relief/?utm_source=ground.news&utm_medium=referral climate change denial, greatest threat to mankind, global warming, drought, extreme weather events, flooding

Pseudo-Christian fascism is alive & well in Montana (as it is in the rest of the country): the GOP wants to destroy democracy, tell you how to live & take away your freedoms & public lands…

Montana Congressman Rosendale says no to public lands, no to the freedom to choose your marriage partner, no to democracy and freedom: https://dailymontanan.com/2022/07/19/more-outdoors-groups-call-for-rosendale-to-remove-his-name-from-return-act/? Montana Senator...