Tag: environment
Coronavirus and climate change: How eco-activists can use this terrible moment...
One major lesson from the pandemic is that we can save the planet from climate change.
Coal industry group asks federal lawmakers to cut funding for Black...
I find it appalling that coal companies are attempting to kneecap critical programs that help former coal regions and sick miners during this #COVID19 crisis.
Following house approval, U.S. has a chance to ban the cruel...
Sharks are killed 30 percent faster than they can reproduce, including for the inhumane fin trade.
Increased coverage on climate change last year
Hopefully, with more media coverage, we will all be able to join together and change the topic from a climate change armageddon to having solutions we can work towards.
US Forest Service broke law when opening 4,900 acres of Colorado...
“The Forest Service failed to provide a logically coherent explanation for its decision to eliminate the Pilot Knob Alternative.”
Oil execs, anxious about public support, claim halting fossil fuel production...
“As a legal matter this claim is laughable so it’s better thought of as a PR stunt.”
Mexico is letting an oil company destroy protected mangroves for an...
Satellite images posted on Quartz show the cleared land to accommodate the construction.
Wells Fargo announces its ban on financing oil and gas drilling...
"Wells Fargo is committed to accelerating the transition to a low-carbon economy, in addition to continuing to support the responsible development of conventional energy."
As capitalism drives us toward extinction, what does real climate justice...
Climate justice demands bold actions by communities to build a new regenerative economy and expose false solutions that allow some to take the easy way out.
Helena, Montana commits to 100 percent renewable energy by 2030
"Cities are filling the void in climate action in the absence of state or federal leadership."
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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.