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I Want My Climate Back: The Promise of Climate Restoration
By Alex Carlin, September 18, 2019

Emissions reductions alone cannot avert climate ruin, so it's good news that C02 removal is feasible and affordable.

Wisconsin Legislators Seek to Criminalize Climate, Environmental Protests with Latest Bill
By David Armiak, September 16, 2019

The Wisconsin bill echoes similar "critical infrastructure protection" model bills pushed out by the American Legislative Exchange Council and the Council of State Governments over the last two years.

Convention of States Fires Up Base for Push to Rewrite U.S. Constitution
By David Armiak, August 23, 2019

Right-wing group holds its first "Leadership Summit" in Colonial Williamsburg as part of drive to radically curtail the federal government's ability to safeguard civil rights, protect the environment, and regulate big business.

Election Manipulators Use ALEC To Push Their Partisan Power Grabs Against Voters
By Jay Riestenberg, August 20, 2019

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is up to it again: promoting new ways to restrict political representation and under one of the central foundations of American democracy.

Workers Lose in Koch's Georgia-Pacific Restructuring
By Don Wiener, August 20, 2019

Koch Industries' paper subsidiary cuts more than 2,100 jobs in the past two years, with taxpayers left holding the bill.

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There is a "sucker punch" aspect of this entire episode, that has been used in the past, that makes it doubly despicable. The now dead open records issue was so completely outrageous and unexpected that it served its intended purpose – to draw attention away from the many other very contentious and controversial aspects of this budget. And that was exactly what Walker and the majority Republicans wanted to happen.

--Jay Heck, Common Cause in Wisconsin

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