Despite controlling the White House and both chambers of Congress, the divide within the Democratic Party is keeping it from passing President Biden’s agenda. The legislation stagnation has frustrated the commander-in-chief for months. “I hear all the folks on TV saying, ‘Why doesn’t Biden get this done?’ Well, because Biden only has a majority of,…

Oil company leaders at ExxonMobil, BP America, Chevron and Shell testified on climate change in front of the House Oversight and Reform Committee Thursday. Their testimony, shown in the video above, was in response to allegations the oil industry concealed evidence about the dangers of climate change. Thursday’s hearing came after months of public efforts…

President Joe Biden made another push to get his spending plan passed on Capitol Hill Thursday, hours before heading out on an overseas trip. The larger part of the plan comes in the form of a $1.75 trillion spending bill. That price tag is higher than the $1.5 trillion key Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin wants.…

According to a report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) released Monday, greenhouse gas concentrations hit another record high in 2020. The 2020 increase was higher than the annual average over the last decade. The video above shows a news conference where WMO officials discussed the Greenhouse Gas Bulletin. “At the current rate of increase in…

Ahead of planned summits in Europe, as well as expected campaign appearances for Democratic gubernatorial candidates, President Joe Biden spent his weekend in discussions over his two spending bills. Those discussions happened at the president’s Delaware home Sunday. They involved Biden, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and Sen. Joe Manchin. According to Politco, the three…

Now that Congress has temporarily handled the debt ceiling, negotiations on President Joe Biden’s spending bill have resumed. The biggest remaining hurdles include what the final dollar amount should be and what the bill should include. The original proposed price tag for the bill was $3.5 trillion. However, centrist Democratic senators said that was too…

About 25 percent of all critical infrastructure in the United States is at risk of becoming inoperable due to flooding, that’s according to a report released on Monday from the science and technology nonprofit First Street Foundation. The report, titled “The 3rd National Risk Assessment: Infrastructure on the Brink“, also takes a look at the…

Microsoft has released its second annual Digital Defense Report, which examines hacking reports on a global scale. This includes the countries Microsoft has found to be the most affected by hacking as well as the ones who account for the most state-sponsored hacking. According to the Microsoft report, which covers July 2020 through June 2021, 46 percent…

An American took home a Nobel Prize for the third time in as many days for his work developing a more environmentally-friendly way to build molecules. American David W.C. MacMillan joined German Benjamin List in winning the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis”. The video above shows the Wednesday announcement, as…

A professor at Princeton University was announced Tuesday as one of three people to win the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on climate change. The video above shows the announcement, as well as reaction from all three winners. Syukuro Manabe, originally from Japan, joined Klaus Hasselmann of Germany and Giorgio Parisi of Italy…