Jessica Corbett

Critics have accused South Dakota's Kristi Noem—who's expected to run for president—of "playing games with vulnerable children."

As the Biden administration continues to warn of a "looming" attack, anti-war advocates urge diplomacy and dedication to playing "a cooperative and constructive role in this new multipolar world."

"This empirical work by independent scholars," said one environmental scholar, proves what climate activists have argued all along.

"We cannot wait for Congress. Lives are at stake," said Be a Hero co-founder Ady Barkan. "President Biden and Secretary Becerra have the authority and must act now."

"I am not sure that members of Congress have the willingness or the courage to stand up to the powerful special interests who control the economic and political life of this country," he said on the Senate floor.

"Their investments in the fossil fuel industry—an industry whose actions place the health and future of students and the entire planet at risk—amount to nothing less than complicity in the climate crisis."

"Ranking Member Toomey chose to abdicate his duty to the American people and put our economic recovery at risk, instead of doing his job," said a top Democrat.

The Senate Budget Committee will examine Wall Street greed through the case study of Warrior Met Coal in Alabama, where workers have been on strike for nearly a year.