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URGENT: Stop the Desert Southwest Pipeline and AI data centers ONLY 2 DAYS TO RESPOND! PLEASE SPEAK OUT!

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  Just 2 days to stop a massive gas pipeline for data centers Big Tech and notorious Dakota Access Pipeline developer Energy Transfer are pushing a huge new fossil fuel project. The 516-mile Desert Southwest Pipeline would run from Texas' Permian Basin through southern New Mexico and into suburban Phoenix. Why build another pipeline? Big tech and energy companies want to power a rapid buildout of massive AI data centers. If approved, the pipeline and data centers would devastate communities, Indigenous sacred sites, wildlife, and the environment. Working people will get higher electric bills. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) opened public comments on the pipeline’s environmental impacts—and the deadline is just two days away. Submit a comment now. The Southwest is experiencing a severe water crisis. Data centers require millions of gallons of water for cooling. What little water the region has will become even scarcer for people and wildlife. Fracking in the Permia...

News Alert | Maine's Troy Jackson Has Message for Elon Musk

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  MAINE'S TROY JACKSON MESSAGE FOR ELON MUSK: Monday, August 3, 2026 ‘You Don’t Get to Buy the Government That You Want,’ Troy Jackson Tells Elon Musk Troy Jackson, the Democratic nominee for US Senate in Maine, delivered a video response on Sunday to mega-billionaire Elon Musk’s plan to spend at least $100 million to aid Sen. Susan Collins and other Republicans in key races across the country.   The New York Times reported that Musk, through his America PAC, intends to “spend $100 million to $120 million on a new field program in at least eight states to help elect Republicans in November.” The group, according to the Times, “plans to initially target Senate races in at least five states— Alaska, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, and Ohio —and is having conversations about the contests in North Carolina, Georgia, and Texas.” READ THE FULL STORY Read all the latest news from Common Dreams Thank you for reading Common Dreams! Our independent journalism is funded by people like you, not...

Week in Review | Big Oil Makes a Killing as Trump's Iran Quagmire Deepens

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  Support independent journalism Without readers like you, we wouldn’t exist. DONATE Sunday, August 2, 2026 Exxon, Chevron Post $26.5 Billion in Combined Profits as High Gas Prices Pummel Americans "While Americans suffer from high prices and the Iran war imposes tens of billions of dollars of new costs on the American public, the oil industry wins big." July 31, 2026       'Corruption on Steroids': Republicans Kill Effort to Prevent Trump Tax Audit Immunity "Trump’s sweetheart audit immunity deal is perhaps the most brazenly corrupt action taken by a president in American history," said one top Senate Democrat. July 31, 2026 Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee voted Thursday to block a Democratic amendment that would have prohibited the Internal Revenue Service from giving sweeping tax audit immunity to President Donald Trump , his family, and their businesses. If passed, the amendment would have nullified a central element of the deal that the US...