Amazon pledged to stop using its unrecyclable plastic bags.

This is a change for the better but it doesn't alter the many reasons to refuse to buy from Amazon.

Additional charges have been added to the insurrectionist's indictment for holding secret documents and concealing them from the government.

US citizens: call on Biden to end government bailouts for Big Oil.

The White House comments lines are +1-202-456-1111 and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213.

If you phone, please spread the word!

*Florida ocean records "unprecedented" temperatures similar to a hot tub.*

It is too hot for serious swimming. But what is more serious is that the heat puts marine species in danger. They have never experienced such heat, and it can kill them.

Some will be able to move away from the tropics to find cooler water. But those in the Gulf of Mexico can't get to any — they are trapped.

*More than 170m Americans under heat alerts as heatwave expands.* That is half the population. 3/4 of the population will face unpleasant heat. Here in Boston, one of my friends has to stay in bed when it is hot, because her air conditioner isn't strong enough to deal with this level of heat.