Industrial waste from a mill is leaching into the groundwater and polluting the Clark Fork River. A major flood could cause an even bigger catastrophe. by Sam Dwyer / The Revelator The Place: The Smurfit-Stone pulp mill site along the Clark Fork River […]
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Rush to Export Gas Is Making Gulf Coast an Industrial Wasteland
from Truthout [Editors note: some words have been changed to make the article more represent reality] The rush to export fracked gas to energy-strapped allies in Europe and the rest of the world threatens to create an “industrial wasteland” in southern Louisiana. […]
Continue readingKeystone Pipeline Shut Down After Oil Leaks Into Kansas Creek
by Julia Conley / Common Dreams Climate campaigners on Thursday were outraged but unsurprised as TC Energy in Canada—the company behind the Keystone XL pipeline proposal defeated last year—announced the 22nd spill from its original pipeline. The company said it had shut down the […]
Continue readingWhen The Floods Come: Mutual Aid in the Face of Rising Waters in Appalachia
from It’s Going Down A personal reflection of the recent floods in Appalachia and their impact on autonomous and mutual aid organizing. I hate floods. The unstoppable rush of water, waste, runoff, debris, trash, and lives, overtaking everything. Taking the path of […]
Continue readingSouth African Water and Electricity Supply Crises Grow After Deadly KZN Riots and Floods
by Dingane Xaba / Unicorn Riot As the global climate change steadily increases, so too have its negative effects on the overall health of the world’s living species and their environments. Global temperatures measured in the first-half of 2022 alone have only confirmed […]
Continue reading70,000 Acres of Federal Land Were Just Handed to the Fossil Fuel Sector
by Leanna First-Arai / Truthout In direct violation of warnings by the International Energy Agency that new oil, gas and coal development should have ceased in 2021, and by UN Secretary General António Guterres that government support for fossil fuel production is “delusional,” the federal […]
Continue readingUS supreme court rules against EPA and hobbles government power to limit harmful emissions
by Oliver Milman / The Guardian The US supreme court has sided with Republican-led states to in effect hobble the federal government’s ability to tackle the climate crisis, in a ruling that will have profound implications for the government’s overall regulatory power. […]
Continue readingMining Company Faces its Worst Days in Chile
from London Mining Network Anglo American is one of the largest mining companies in the world. In Chile, it has mining operations in three regions of the country: Los Bronces in Lo Barnechea, the Metropolitan region, El Soldado in El Melón in […]
Continue readingEPA Confirms Three Widely Used Neonicotinoid Pesticides Likely Harm Vast Majority of Endangered Plants, Animals
from The Center for Biological Diversity WASHINGTON— The Environmental Protection Agency released final biological evaluations today confirming that three widely used neonicotinoid insecticides likely harm roughly three-fourths of all endangered plants and animals, including all 39 species of amphibians protected under the […]
Continue readingPlan to Discharge Fukushima Water Into Pacific Gets OK From Regulators
by Julia Conley / Common Dreams Despite outcry from local leaders and the Japanese public and warnings from environmental campaigners, Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority on Wednesday gave its approval for a plan to discharge contaminated water from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the […]
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