Pollution

By Sarah van Gelder | Yes! Magazine | – – The companies responsible for the climate crisis should cover the costs of fighting wildfires and recovering from hurricanes. Pacific Northwest forests are on fire. Several blazes are out of control, threatening rural towns, jumping rivers and highways, and covering Portland, Oregon, Seattle, and other cities […]

Environment

Is Deregulation behind explosions at Texas Chem Plant, polluting of Air and Water?

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By Jake Johnson, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org) | – – “People don’t know what’s seeping into their air and their homes.” “Now the thing’s exploded, and people don’t know what’s seeping into their air and their homes.” —Lydia DePillis‏, Houston Chronicle Two explosions and “plumes of black smoke” were reported early Thursday morning at […]

Coal

Rethink Coal! Australia emits nerve poison Mercury at double Global Average

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Robyn Schofield | (The Conversation) | – – A report released this week by advocacy group Environmental Justice Australia presents a confronting analysis of toxic emissions from Australia’s coal-fired power plants. The report, which investigated pollutants including fine particles, nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide, also highlights our deeply inadequate mercury emissions regulations. In New South […]

Coal

1 in 9 Deaths are from Air Pollution & Trump is making it Worse

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The Tree | – – Air pollution is driving a global public health crisis. It is responsible for one in nine deaths worldwide, and touches everyone given 92% of the human race live in places that do not meet World Health Organisation guidelines. As it is also driving a climate crisis – with increasingly heavy […]

Climate Change

People Power is only way to Oppose Scott Pruitt’s Anti-EPA

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By Adam Lynch | ( Yes! Magazine) | – – A Former EPA Adviser on How to Push for Environmental Justice Under Trump “In our country there are two things that move policy. One is money. The other is the power of people.” Clean-air crusader Mustafa Ali spent more than two decades and most of […]

Climate Change

The 6th Mass Extinction is beginning & there isn’t Much time

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Robert J. Burrowes | ( GlobalVoices.net | – – The sixth mass extinction is already here and the window for effective action is very short. Human beings are now waging war against life itself as we continue to destroy not just individual lives, local populations and entire species in vast numbers but also the ecological […]

Children

Is Scott Pruitt Helping a Corporation Poison Your Kids? (TYT)

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Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, Ben Mankiewicz | (The Young Turks Video) | – – “Does Scott Pruitt know how evil he is? Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, and Ben Mankiewicz, hosts of The Young Turks, discuss. “Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt reportedly met Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris in March before his office announced […]

Drought

How Soon until we’re Using More Than The Earth Can Provide?

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By David Korten | ( Yes! Magazine ) | – – Forget the GDP, it’s time for our leaders to pay attention to metrics that matter. Four days after President Trump announced the United States would withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, the Global Footprint Network (GFN) reported that Earth Overshoot Day 2017 will fall […]

Climate Change

Allies Furious as Trump w/draws from G7 Climate Commitment, May leave Paris Accord

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump bombed at the G7 summit in Italy. Despite an “intense” discussion with Germany, France and the others, who made it clear as sunshine that they wanted the US to meet its Paris Climate obligations, Trump refused to join in the issuance of a joint statement […]