Environment

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At Trump’s first presidential inauguration in 2016, Silicon Valley was openly hostile to Trump. “Tonight we cry, we despair, and we fear,” tweeted Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, at the time. Read More

Energy Transfer LP, which is based in Dallas, Texas, is one of the five biggest pipeline companies in the U.S. with a presence in 44 states (predominantly in the Texas-Oklahoma-Louisiana corridor) as well as internationally. It specializes in “transportation, storage and terminaling for natural gas, crude oil, NGLs, refined products and liquified natural gas.” Read More

One of the biggest beneficiaries of the presidency of Donald Trump is a Wall Street services firm named Cantor Fitzgerald, which has become a major source of funds for crypto executives and AI infrastructure such as data centers. (Click here for the table of contents of MAGA Inc.: A Guide to Trump's World of Crypto Czars, Tech Titans and Prison Profiteers.)  Read More

Across the country, resistance to Trump’s maverick actions is mounting. A tidal wave of protests is unfolding notably against Big Tech companies like Amazon, Oracle, OpenAI and Palantir as well as other Trump administration-affiliated businesses like CoreCivic, CSI Aviation, GEO Group and Energy Transfer. (Click here for the table of contents of MAGA Inc.: A Guide to Trump's World of Crypto Czars, Tech Titans and Prison Profiteers.)  Read More

Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A., one of the world’s largest insurance companies, pledged not to provide insurance to “transition laggards” (companies that are failing to tackle global warming) for new fossil fuel terminals and power plants, in response to a campaign by activist groups like Greenpeace, InsureOurFuture and ReCommon in Italy. Read More

Baotou Iron & Steel Group in China’s Inner Mongolia province is planning to spend 2 billion yuan (US$280 million) to expand a huge manmade lake near Baotou city that contains toxic historical “tailings” (waste left behind after processing ore) from the world’s largest rare earth mine and refinery. Read More

The Western Australia Environmental Protection Authority has agreed to conduct a full environmental assessment of Talison Lithium’s plans for a major expansion of the Greenbushes lithium mine, the largest in the world, after 95 percent of the 364 comments submitted to the agency demanded action. Read More

Dateline Resources has been granted U.S. government approval to mine for gold and rare earths at the Colosseum project inside the Mojave National Preserve in California, despite the fact that major questions about the project being raised by the agency that manages U.S. national parks and monuments. Read More

Indigenous communities in Chile are trying to strike a deal with Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM), based in Santiago, Chile, and Albemarle, which is based in Charlotte, North Carolina, to reduce the environmental impact of the world’s largest lithium mines. Read More