Tag: environment
Turning away from fossil fuels: Lessons from the anti-apartheid movement
The rhetorical battle over turning away from investments in companies contributing to climate change, it seems, has been won.
Huntington Beach oil spill shows why we need to be free...
"Big Oil's offshore drilling puts the health of our communities, our local economies, and our planet at risk."
One of the world’s oldest rainforests returns to Indigenous control
The hope is that the most recent handover will provide a model for other groups in Australia's wet tropics hoping to regain control of their traditional lands.
Links from the brink: 8 good environmental news stories you might...
Hard work and persistence can pull us back from the brink just as greed and indifference can push us toward it.
Victory: PennEast Pipeline stops development of natural gas pipeline
“This is a huge victory. Today, water, the environment, and people spoke louder than fossil fuels.”
How an ancient irrigation method makes sustainable life possible in the...
Time-proven acequia irrigation systems already in use in New Mexico make it possible for people to thrive in arid regions.
Imagining New York in 2050: How a flood-prone metropolis could win...
Econo-diversity makes cities resilient in times of crisis.
California passes landmark bill moving state closer to target offshore wind...
“Investing in offshore wind is an essential piece of the puzzle when it comes to California building an electricity grid that is resilient, reliable and renewable."
Extreme weather devastating US raises calls to pass Biden’s infrastructure bill
The infrastructure bill may not be enough to address the climate crisis; some lawmakers are urging the president to declare a national emergency.
How the world’s first CO2 pipeline explosion turned a Mississippi town...
Effects from Satartia Gas Leak still linger for some in town.
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Nearly half of US hospitals no longer deliver babies, new report finds
Rural hospitals keep losing the fight over leaner Medicaid budgets, and a separate analysis finds reaching the nearest labor and delivery unit already takes an hour or more in fourteen states.
F is for Failure and Fascism
On leadership, character, climate, prices, trade, alliances, militarism, health, civil/voting rights, even law and order.
Pentagon Iran War Report admits to Worst Drubbing since Vietnam
The Pentagon puts the war's cost at 33.4 billion dollars, independent estimates put it at more than three times that, with strikes across roughly twenty Middle East bases.
Judge orders Labor Department to rewrite farmworker wage rule after finding it unlawful
The ruling forces new minimum pay rates for the guestworker visa program that brings in most of the country's legal farm labor, with back pay possible for hundreds of thousands of workers.
Kennedy Center board warns of bankruptcy unless Trump’s name returns to building
A 57-page draft resolution ties the center's fundraising future to ten proposed inscriptions honoring the president, as a federal judge who already ruled the board overstepped weighs a related case.