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Lawmakers and Groups Demand 'Urgent Action' by Fed to Protect Economy From Climate Risks

An aerial view shows Marathon Petroleum Corp.'s Los Angeles Refinery, the state's largest producer of gasoline, on April 22, 2020 in Carson, California. (Photo: David McNew/Getty Images)

GOP Push to End Emergency Lending Programs Condemned as Effort to 'Sabotage the Economy,' Undermine Biden

Jake Johnson, staff writer

Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) is seen in the basement of the Capitol before a Senate vote on Tuesday, September 22, 2020.

"Republicans are threatening to blow up an agreement to provide basic relief to Americans now if they can't cripple the ability of Biden administration and the Fed to offer more help next year."

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Question: How Should the Left Judge Biden's Success? Answer From a Leftist: 'How Many People Stop Going Hungry' Is One Good Way

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Local residents line up outside the food pantry Bed-Stuy Campaign Against Hunger to receive free food during the Covid-19 pandemic on April 23, 2020 in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. (Photo: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

"Honestly, if Biden is able to keep his own campaign promises," says Justice...

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Warren Presses Biden to Enact 'Effective Economic Stimulus' With Single Pen Stroke: Cancel Student Debt

Kenny Stancil, staff writer

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) listens during a news conference on Capitol Hill on October 20, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Stefani Reynolds/Getty Images)

"All on his own," Warren said during a hearing with Fed chairman Jerome Powell...

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Climate activists and many economists say governments should be funding a Green New Deal, not fossil fuel bailouts. (Photo: Andrew Hart/Flickr cc)

"Time to Cut Dirty Energy's Lifeline": Report Details How Fossil Fuel Industry Feasted on Covid-19 Relief Programs

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks about climate crisis and the wildfires on the West Coast at the Delaware Museum of Natural History on September 14, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Climate Groups Push Biden to Ensure Financial Appointees Are Committed to Actions That 'Match the Scale of the Crisis'

President Donald Trump waves after introducing his then-nominee for the chairman of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell during a press event in the Rose Garden at the White House, November 2, 2017 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

'Finally': In Potential Nod to Biden Win, Federal Reserve Applies to Join Climate Network for Central Banks

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) speaks while Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) listens at the NAACP town hall during the Congressional Black Caucus Foundations (CBCF) 49th Annual Legislative Conference at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. on September 11, 2019. (Photo: Cheriss May/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

'Banking for the People': Tlaib and Ocasio-Cortez Unveil Bill to Foster Creation of Public Banks Across US

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell testifies about the CARES Act and the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on September 24, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Bolstering Progressive Demand, Fed Chair Says More Stimulus Crucial to Avoid Even More 'Unnecessary Hardship'

Oil pump jacks in Los Cerritos Wetlands, Long Beach, California. (Photo: Citizen of the Planet/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

'A $100 Billion Lifeline While Most Americans Are Being Left Behind': Report Details Massive Fed Bailout of Fossil Fuel Industry

Unemployed airport workers and others hold a demonstration on August 13, 2020 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

'Anti-Poverty Programs: They Work!' Experts Declare After Fed Survey Reveals Benefits of Covid-19 Relief

A view of the Wall St street sign and the New York Stock Exchange during the coronavirus pandemic on May 25, 2020 in New York City. (Photo: Noam Galai/Getty Images)

Fed Program Meant to Help Workers Amid Pandemic Prioritized Wall Street Investors Instead: Analysis

With Dirty Energy Sector Crashing, Nearly 70 Groups Urge Fed to Stop Buying Up Wasteful Fossil Fuel Industry Debt

'The Public Has a Right to Know': Fed Refuses to Release Documents on Fossil Fuel Industry's Covid-19 Bailouts

Pumpjacks on Lost Hills Oil Field in California on Route 46.

Former Federal Reserve Governor Rebukes Central Bank for Using Covid-19 Lending Power to Bail Out 'Dying' Fossil Fuel Industry

Watchdog Demands Probe After Energy Secretary Admits WH Pressed Fed to Give Oil Companies Access to Covid-19 Funds

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Public Citizen

64 Orgs Write to Fed Chair Powell Calling for More Action on Climate Change

Sierra Club

Sierra Club Statement on President-Elect Biden’s Nomination of Janet Yellen for Treasury Secretary

Western Values Project

Trump’s Controversial Anti-Public Lands Federal Reserve Pick to be Approved by Senate Tomorrow

Public Citizen

Trump’s Corporate Bailout Spurs $100 Billion Fossil Fuel Borrowing Binge

The Sunrise Project

69 Organizations Tell Fed to Stop Buying Fossil Fuel Debt

Food & Water Watch

Federal Reserve Fails to Disclose Information About Oil and Gas Industry Bailouts

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Dean Baker

Are Debt Whiners Fools or Just Liars?

Ellen Brown

Will 2021 Be Public Banking’s Watershed Moment?

Yanis Varoufakis

Biden Must Go Beyond Fiscal Stimulus

Ellen Brown

Why the Fed Needs Public Banks

Timi Iwayemi, Miranda Litwak

Biden’s Treasury Could Fight Climate Change, But Would Lael Brainard’s?

Josh Bivens

No, The Federal Reserve Cannot Make Up for the Senate GOP's Inaction

Alexander Reed Kelly

Here’s How We Remake the Economy

Ralph Nader

Fed Guarantees Unproductive Debt and Perilous Speculation

Ellen Brown

Meet BlackRock, the New Great Vampire Squid

Raúl Carrillo

We Need a Public Option for Banking