Tag: pollution crisis
Fast fashion pollutes the Atacama Desert in Chile
With nearly 60,000 tons of unsold clothes arriving globally from Europe, Asia and North America to the port town of Iquique, about 39,000 tons of fast fashion ends up in the landfill in the desert.
Our planet versus plastic bags—a tale of two cities
Americans discard 100 billion plastic bags annually, the equivalent of 12 million barrels of oil.
‘Plastic rain’ is pouring down in national parks
The plastic is trapped in fundamental atmospheric processes and falling all over the world, making plastic rain the new acid rain.
Global audit reports just how much pollution giants like Coca-Cola and...
Break Free From Plastic bins to end global plastic pollution by identifying these giant polluters and making them accountable.
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House bill would let Marco Rubio strip passports over political speech
Provision would let the Secretary of State deny or revoke passports over alleged “material support” as critics warn of thought policing and unchecked authority.
Tlaib and Sanders push bill to tax excessive CEO pay
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Rashida Tlaib unveiled legislation that would impose higher taxes on corporations paying executives more than 50 times their workers, citing billion-dollar gaps at firms like Walmart, Starbucks, and Tesla.
Free speech under siege as Trump FCC forces cancellation of Kimmel
ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel’s show after threats from Trump’s FCC, raising alarms about corporate capitulation, censorship, and the systematic erosion of First Amendment protections.
Brainwashed nation part I: Assault and battery upon the American brain
An ongoing visitation on the issue of propaganda in the current political environment.
How the rich and their right-wing cronies plot to break working people
They’re plotting to hijack democracy and put working people under the feet of CEOs, the ultra-wealthy, and other Republican fanatics.