Bernie Sanders

This morning, I received an exciting press release from the Department of Energy: The federal agency now has a strategy in place to significantly expand the U.S.’s offshore wind capacity. Under the shiny new “Advancing Offshore Wind...” plan, the DOE hopes to support the Biden administration’s existing goal of deploying 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2030.This Summer’s Hottest UmbrellaWow, sounds great! We love a clear roadmap for a federal agency. Plus, if we make it to 40 GW of offshore wind, that would be…

Longtime Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is currently under investigation for the coffee chain’s labor practices and he has some choice words for lawmakers on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee. He doesn’t like being referred to as a billionaire. Like seriously...stop calling him that. He just has billions of dollars and grew up poor.Does Beyond Meat’s Plant Have a Mold Problem?Schultz is currently the subject of a Senator Bernie Sanders-led Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee hearing into the…

A Norfolk Southern train traveling in Calhoun County, Alabama derailed early Thursday morning. Thirty-seven train cars jumped off the tracks around 6:50 a.m. ET, according to local news reports.The incident is at least the freight company’s fourth derailment in just over a month—starting with the disastrous East Palestine, Ohio derailment in early February. That earlier accident forced the evacuation of thousands of people, polluted the local environment, killed an estimated 43,000 animals, and has led to ongoing health…

Sen. Bernie Sander’s new bill will cap drug prices to what Eli Lilly’s Humalog cost when it was first released in 1996.Photo: Spencer Platt (Getty Images)On Thursday, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and a gaggle of Democrats introduced a new bill that would cap insulin drug prices to just $20 per vial no matter which company is making it.The bill, called the Insulin for All Act of 2023, caps the price at what the major pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly originally setfor a month’s supply of its insulin treatment Humalog back…

Photo: Steffi Loos (Getty Images)Senate Democrats introduced new legislation Tuesday attempting to, once again, outright ban facial recognition use by federal agencies and officials, particularly law enforcement. If passed, the Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act would cut the feds off from a variety of other sensitive biometrics identifiers, like voice and gait recognition, and limit federal grant funding only to states with their own “substantially similar” facial recognition or biometric…

Starbucks Chairman and former CEO Howard SchultzJason Redmond | AFP | Getty ImagesSen. Bernie Sanders is making good on his threat of a subpoena for Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz on what Sanders has called union-busting activity at the company's coffee shops.Sanders said Wednesday that the Senate's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, or HELP, Committee will vote March 8 on whether to issue a subpoena for Schultz, who previously declined to appear in front of the committee.Sanders said in a statement that Schultz has…

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) (L), Starbucks CEO Howard SchultzReuters (L) | Getty Images (R)Sen. Bernie Sanders hinted that lawmakers could subpoena Howard Schultz to compel the outgoing Starbucks CEO to testify in front of a Senate panel about how the coffee chain is handling its baristas' push to unionize."One way or another, he will be there," Sanders, a pro-union Vermont independent, told reporters on Capitol Hill. "But as you know, that's not the decision of the chairman alone."Sanders, who chairs the Senate's…

Southwest Airlines Executive Vice President Bob Jordan speaks as he is interviewed by CNBC outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., December 9, 2021.Brendan McDermid | ReutersFifteen senators, including Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker, sent a letter to Southwest CEO Bob Jordan on Friday demanding answers about the airline's management of 2022 holiday travel disruptions, which left thousands of passengers stranded in airports.The questions push for details about the causes of the…

Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday urged Moderna not to quadruple the price of its Covid-19 vaccine once distribution of the shots moves to the commercial market.In a letter to Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel, Sanders called the price increase "outrageous." The independent senator from Vermont and incoming chair of the Senate's health committee said such a steep price increase would make the shots unavailable for millions of uninsured Americans, potentially putting their lives at risk as Covid continues to spread.related…

Pharma company Eli Lilly has been criticized heavily in the past for the price of insulin, but the company has claimed it is not profiting off those increases.Photo: Darron Cummings (AP)As much as last week’s $8 Twitter verification chaos warped many public faces into gross parodies of their sterilized brands, one pharma company that has long hiked the price of a life-saving drug was caught in the crossfire and may have lost millions because of one fake post. New reports reveal just how much chaos one single tweet from a…