NEWS
Preparing National Guards for Protests: Foresight or Suppression?
Editor's Note: A week after the killing of a land-defender, the Governer of Georgia has signed an executive order to prepare national guards for protests against police brutality. Georgia has one of the highest incarceration rates in US. The protestors were defending...
Forever Chemicals in Every River in the US
Editor's Note: Plastic is not found in nature, so no microorganisms evolved to break it down completely. Microplastics are often too small to pick up or even notice, but they are everywhere: in the air, dust, and rain. They have been found in placentas and breast...
An Environmental Defender Is Killed Every Two Days
Editor's Note: Although it is taught in college, there are no business ethics. Industries have no morals. Their only purpose is to make money. There is no honor among thieves. If they have to kill to make a profit, so be it. It is most easily seen in the military...
ACTION
How Many More Dead Whales?
By Carl van Warmerdam In the last few years whales stranded on the beaches of the East Coast have become common. In just the past two months there have been over a dozen. And that does not include the whales who have died in that time and sank to the bottom of the...
Wisconsin Town Gets Sued for Regulating Factory Farms
Editor's Note: Even when local governing units make decisions for the welfare of the environment, state laws are designed to crush them. The following story covers how a small town is getting sued for passing a local ordinance to prevent pollution from factory farms....
Thacker Pass Sacred Sites Are Already Being Damaged
Tribal Chairman: “It’s Our Responsibility to Protect Sacred Sites” RENO, NV — The Thacker Pass Lithium Mine in northern Nevada is headed back to Federal Court on January 5th as the lawsuits against the project near completion, but project opponents are raising the...
ANALYSIS
Dumping Nuclear Waste in the Pacific
Editor's note: The 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima, triggered by an earthquake and a tsunami, was one of the worst nuclear accidents of the twenty-first century to date. Nevertheless, worse ones might come in the future. In the quest for energy to fuel the machine,...
Renewable Energy Isn’t Replacing Fossil Fuel Energy
Editor's note: It is true that wind and heat from the sun are renewable but the devices used to capture that energy are not. Creating such devices only adds on to a non-existing carbon budget. Richard Heinberg, the author of the following article, is an advocate for...
Social Movements in Defense of Our Territories Are Our Hope
Editor's Note: The mainstream environmental movement has been co-opted not only into believing that renewables can save the planet, but also in the tactics used to accomplish that. A lot of the movement uses advocacy as the one and only strategy against systems of...
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