Report: How Many Environmental Activists Were Killed Last Year By Amanda Schupak, Huff Post. July 30, 2020 Report: How Many Environmental Activists Were Killed Last Year2020-07-302020-07-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/5f2035e62500009110c2a736-e1596125914629.jpeg200px200px Above photo: Marivic “Tarsila” Danyan overlooks coffee plantations near her village of Tabasco in the Philippines. Her father protested a coffee plantation linked to one […]
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Alarm had earlier been voiced over the abandoned tanker, which has continued to erode, unattended, off the war-torn Yemeni coast of Al Hudaydah since 2015; it is believed to contain 1.14 million barrels of oil. An eroding unattended oil tanker in the Red Sea near the Houthi-controlled coast of war-torn […]
The president of metal giant Norilsk Nickel and Russia’s richest man, Vladimir Potanin, has seen his fortune reduced by $4.1 billion after two environmental disasters in Russia’s far north, according to business magazine Forbes. On May 29, about 20 thousand tons of diesel leaked from a thermal power plant owned […]
‘Black Lives Matter’ Demonstrations Continue Long Quest For Environmental Justice By James Bruggers, Inside Climate News. June 23, 2020 ‘Black Lives Matter’ Demonstrations Continue Long Quest For Environmental Justice2020-06-232020-06-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/roosevelt-roberts-e1592925567221.jpg200px200px Above photo: In 2002, the late Roosevelt Roberts used a bullhorn to address people protesting a police officer’s shooting of a handcuffed […]
President Trump proposes changes to the National Environmental Policy Act in January. His latest executive order allows agencies to waive requirements of the bedrock law to speed up infrastructure projects. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption toggle caption Evan Vucci/AP President Trump proposes changes to the National Environmental Policy Act in January. […]
Connecting The Dots Between Environmental Injustice And The Coronavirus By Kagtherine Bagley, Yale Environment 360. May 18, 2020 Connecting The Dots Between Environmental Injustice And The Coronavirus2020-05-182020-05-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/people-wait-in-line-to-receive-masks-and-food-in-new-york-city-on-april-18.-by-bebeto-matthews-ap.-e1589816457754.jpg200px200px Above: People wait in line to receive masks and food in New York City on April 18. By Bebeto Matthews, AP. Scientist Sacoby Wilson has […]