He Wanted a Data Center Ban. He Got Banned From City Council.Tennessee state Rep. Justin J. Pearson, a congressional candidate and high-profile opponent of local data center sprawl, filed suit Thursday against his hometown’s City Council after the council threw him, his brother, his mother, and other locals out of a meeting earlier this month for protesting delays to a vote on a data center moratorium—and […]Mother Jones1d agoWhole story →GovernmentTechnologydata center moratorium vote
The Many Ways Trump Is Kneecapping White-Collar Crime EnforcementEarlier this week, Bloomberg broke the news that the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, which helps regulate the securities market, was told to stop investigating an eye-popping case of potential insider trading. The direction came from a top adviser to the agency’s Trump-appointed chairman, who ordered investigators to retract a referral to the…Mother Jones1d agoWhole story →EconomyJusticetrump administration policy change
Trump’s SEC is Threatening Big Investors That Pushed ExxonMobil on Climate RiskThis story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The US Securities and Exchange Commission issued an unusual warning this week to the country’s largest asset managers and a climate-focused investor group over their roles in a 2021 campaign that replaced board directors at…Mother Jones2d agoWhole story →Planet
Build, Baby, Build? California’s Hottest Races Are Battles About Housing.Nithya Raman and Scott Wiener believe voters want more homes. Karen Bass and Connie Chan believe voters want more homes…somewhere else.Mother Jones2d agoWhole story →BuildKaren Bass
