Pollution

(Informed Comment) – While Trump’s xenophobic and protectionist agenda, thankfully often blocked by the courts, has received the lion’s share of media attention, his henchmen have enacted a whole series of game changing initiatives in the area of federal regulation. Deregulating such domestic concerns as transportation, occupational health and safety, the environment is hardly new. […]

Pollution

Suffocating Ourselves: Dumping Plastic into Ocean Poisons the Bacteria that Produce 10% of our Oxygen, underpin Marine Life

The Conversation

By Petra Cameron and Philippa Kearney | – We’ve all seen the impact of our plastic addiction. It’s hard to miss the devastating images of whales and sea birds that have died with their stomachs full of solidified fossil fuels. The recent discovery of a plastic bag in the Mariana Trench, at over 10,000 metres […]

Pollution

No Insects, No Food: Pesticides, Deforestation have Caused Largest Extinction Event since Die-off of Dinosaurs

Marlowe Hood

The recent collapse, for example, of many bird species in France was traced to the use insecticides

Climate Change

With World on Precipice of Climate Catastrophe, US CO2 Emissions Skyrocketed in 2018

ProPublica

By Abrahm Lustgarten | – ( ProPublica) – A report by a private research company found that U.S. emissions, which amount to one-sixth of the planet’s, didn’t fall in 2018 but instead skyrocketed. The 3.4 percent jump for 2018, projected by the firm, would be second-largest surge in greenhouse gas emissions from the U.S. since […]

Pollution

Trump’s EPA to Kill 11,000 a Year with Mercury Nerve Poison

Olivia Alperstein

Younger generations deserve to grow up protected from these harmful and deadly substances.

Pollution

In Setback for Trump’s Imperial presidency, Judge halts Keystone XL Oil Pipeline

AFP

“An agency cannot simply disregard contrary or inconvenient factual determinations that it made in the past”

Pollution

93% of the World’s Children Breathe Toxic, Polluted Air every Day

Maan News Agency

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Nearly 2 billion children, about 93% of the world’s children under the age of 15, breathe toxic air, which is polluted to such an extent that it puts their health and well-being at serious risk. According to a new report by the World Health Organization (WHO), it estimated that 600,000 children died […]

Coal

Killing for Coal (Literally)

Basav Sen

(Otherwords.org) – Shocking as this sounds, the U.S. government is — by its own admission — willing to murder up to 1,600 Americans a year to enrich a few coal billionaires. By Basav Sen | August 28, 2018 In August 1921, sheriff’s deputies in West Virginia — later joined by federal troops — massacred striking […]

Pollution

It’s Official: Burning Coal, Auto Exhaust & Air Pollution Making us Stupid

TeleSur

(TeleSur) – Sam Myers said how we live has decreased the nutritional value of our staple food source, “putting our health at risk.” Increasing levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) produced by human activity are stripping away the nutritional benefits of staple food sources such as rice and wheat. The study, which was conducted by the […]