Yearly Archives: 2021
Managing climate panic after the IPCC Report
It’s even more definitive now, so the world has to pay attention.
9 Black labor leaders and advocates reflect on the pandemic and what comes next
We asked nine leading Black labor organizers and policy advocates how to advance racial equity in the Covid recovery—and beyond. Here are their responses.
In unanimous ruling, Mexican Supreme Court decriminalizes abortion
One reproductive rights organizer called the historic decision "an enormous step toward legalization in the entire country."
Fossil fuel leaks, spills, flaring & chemical releases after Hurricane Ida may be worst...
The damage done after Hurricane Ida from the fossil fuel and petrochemical industry could be among the worst of such events ever recorded.
Divers find likely source of oil spill in Gulf of Mexico after Hurricane Ida
The spill is located 2 miles south of Port Fourchon, Louisiana and has so far remained at sea and has not impacted the shoreline.
Abortion bounty hunters in Texas are not ‘whistleblowers’ — they’re cruel vigilantes
Aided by the U.S. Supreme Court, the state of Texas has now codified misogyny.
DOJ vows to protect abortion seekers in Texas after ban goes into effect
“We will not tolerate violence against those seeking to obtain or provide reproductive health services, physical obstruction or property damage in violation of the FACE Act.”
The decline and fall of the Roman… whoops!… American empire
What really matters in the U.S. of A.1
220+ medical journals unite to demand urgent action on climate emergency
“The greatest threat to global public health is the continued failure of world leaders to keep the global temperature rise below 1.5°C and to restore nature,” warn journals in unprecedented joint editorial.
“9/11’s unsettled dust”: Bush’s EPA hid health risks from toxic dust at ground zero...
“My only mistake was believing that it would take 20 years for people to get sick.”