Tag: environment
Tread carefully, think big: Impressions on AOC and the Green New...
It will be up to the activist communities she came from to defend the Green New Deal and push for it to become a reality in 2020 and beyond.
As cleanup dispute looms, Peabody-linked group pushes Navajo Nation to buy...
If the Navajo Nation were to buy the plant and mine, Peabody could shift liability for the shutdown onto the shoulders of the Nation.
Environmental defender murdered in Mexico days before vote on pipeline project
"This is a political crime for the human rights defense that Samir Flores Samir and the FPDTA carried out against the [project] and for people's autonomy and self-determination."
Answering the attacks on the Green New Deal
But now it seems that someone in Congress is listening. The Green New Deal is America’s last best chance to get it right.
EPA grants bee-killing pesticide ’emergency’ approval; a ‘routine abuse of emergency...
"The EPA is routinely misusing the 'emergency' process to get sulfoxaflor approved because it's too toxic to make it through normal pesticide reviews."
Saving the future
Only immediate climate action can save the future. If we don’t take action, the collapse of our civilizations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.
Real climate coverage names names, avoids false hope and probes solutions
But mostly, real climate journalism is about asking the right, and sometimes vexing, questions.
Senate passes massive public lands conservation bill
The measure is the largest public lands bill considered by Congress in a decade.
Enbridge gave Massachusetts studies by climate denier, ALEC associate in gas...
“To be taking the work of climate deniers at this time is unconscionable."
Polar bear ‘invasion:’ How climate change is making human-wildlife conflicts worse
Unfortunately, climate change is only going to make these negative interactions between humans and wildlife more common.
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DOJ plans 1,000 election monitors in all 50 states for Election Day
The Justice Department told a court no FBI or ICE employees will serve and monitors will not carry firearms; the NAACP calls the plan voter intimidation.
An epic backlash to defy Trumpism, its lying hypocrisy and pigheaded failures
This election isn’t about choosing a favorite ice cream but between ice cream and rat poisoning.
“Chaos” in the Air: Five Ways Voting Could Be Disrupted on Election Day
The Trump administration has initiated a string of unprecedented actions to assert more federal control over elections. While courts have thwarted most of the plans, voting experts remain concerned about potential problems at the polls.
EPA sets Dec. 31 end date for its archive of past agency records
The archive holds tens of thousands of documents dating to the 1990s; the agency says historical material will remain in “snapshot collections.”
Rural Charms Drew Residents to Taylor, Texas. Then Came the Data Centers.
A local family sold an 87-acre tract to a parks foundation for $10 “to be held in trust for future use as a parkland.” Later, the city’s Economic Development Corporation sold the land to a data center developer for $10 million.