An Australian mining magnate estimates that only 15% (at most) of supposed carbon offsets offered for sale correspond to real avoidance of carbon emissions. He is converting his iron mining business to zero emissions for real, rejecting the use of offsets.

I've been criticizing emissions trading as ineffective, and vulnerable to cheating, since 2007,

US citizens: call on the Department of the Interior to eliminate sales of fossil fuel leases.

US citizens: call on your members of Congress to keep Manchin's environmental sabotage deal dead.

The Capitol Switchboard number is +1-202-224-3121.

If you call, please spread the word!

*Chicago Fourth of July parade shooting survivors sue Smith & Wesson*, alleging that it practiced *illegally targeting ads at young men at risk of committing violence.*

India has banned the Popular Front of India, whose stated purpose is to defend the rights of minorities. The government said it is involved in Islamist terrorism. The organization says it isn't.

I know nothing about the facts of the matter, but I am sure that it is unjust for any government to declare arbitrarily that a group is "terrorist." Such condemnation should require a trial.