Thursday - April 30, 2026
Politics: President Jimmy Carter (Weekly) Newsletter for Sunday April 26, 2026 ( 3 items )  

Earthjustice: Trump Administration Offers Vast Tracts Within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to Big Oil Drilling
SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 21 -- Earthjustice issued the following news release on April 20, 2026: * * * Trump Administration Offers Vast Tracts within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to Big Oil Drilling Today's lease sale notice sets into motion this administration's radical agenda to industrialize the Refuge to benefit oil companies - not the American people * Anchorage, AK -- The Bureau of Land Management today announced a sweeping lease sale in the Coastal Plain of the Arctic   more

ICYMI: Domestic Production Plus Refining Equals Dominance
WASHINGTON, April 20 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: * * * ICYMI: Domestic Production Plus Refining Equals Dominance * BISMARCK, N.D. - American energy markets are experiencing a full-circle moment nearly 50 years in the making. In 1977, President Jimmy Carter delivered an "unpleasant talk" calling "the energy crisis" "the greatest challenge our country will face in our lifetime... the moral equivalent of war." Two years later, Iran's revolution spark  more

Rutgers-Newark Marks 80th Anniversary With Jazz, Celebration of History
NEWARK, New Jersey, April 24 -- Rutgers University issued the following news: * * * Rutgers-Newark Marks 80th Anniversary With Jazz, Celebration of History By Carrie Stetler In 1908, 30 students attended the first class of New Jersey Law School, which decades later would become part of Rutgers-Newark. The course was held at night to accommodate the ambitious working- and middle-class students who enrolled--many of whom were the children of immigrants in Newark and nearby towns. Classes were  more