Pipeline permit scandal highlights confusion amid push to build plastics plants
“I hope Gov. Wolf will shut down all pipeline construction projects and have a major investigation, not only in this county but in other places where conservation districts are issuing permits.”
The huge tax heist
The moneyed interests who run the GOP depend on the Trump bomb to divert attention from their huge heist.
20 million acres of U.S. cropland may be contaminated by PFAS ‘forever chemicals’
“The EPA could today require treatment plants to test sludge for PFAS and warn farmers that they may be contaminating fields, but it has refused to do so.”
Forests thrive when Indigenous people have legal stewardship of their land
The fate of intact forests is closely linked to that of Indigenous peoples.
Canada steps up surveillance of Indigenous peoples to push fossil fuel pipelines forward
An international human rights body condemned Canada’s treatment of Indigenous communities opposing two major oil and gas pipelines.
Native American leaders: Keystone spill highlights the need to oppose Dakota Access Expansion, KXL
“The era of fossil fuels must end."
Hillary’s Exploitation of Democratic Institutions (Including Superdelegates) Exposed
It is a world best achieved through a functioning democracy. And it is a world that will be aided by Bernie’s nomination.
VICTORY: Washington DC Raises Minimum Wage to $15
Several other cities have passed minimum wage laws, promising to have a minimum wage of $15 an hour by 2020 or 2021.
What’s hiking the heat up so high this summer?
Economic inequality helps generate such wide temperature differentials.
Susan Sarandon & Linda Sarsour speak out as 630 women arrested protesting U.S. immigration...
Protesters, chanted “We care” and “Abolish ICE,” and wore mylar emergency blankets like those given to immigrants imprisoned in U.S. detention centers.