Report: Aerially Sprayed Pesticide Causes Significant Environmental Issues By Ashley Curtin, Nation of Change. December 3, 2020 Report: Aerially Sprayed Pesticide Causes Significant Environmental Issues2020-12-032020-12-03https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/plane-e1606993159927.jpg200px200px Above photo: T. P. Martins. “Once again, the EPA has failed to protect the American people from harmful pollution by absurdly designating PFAS as ‘inert’ and allowing corporations to withhold crucial information about it.” A new study concluded that high levels […]
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Crypto M&A is up, CoinList set a record mint of wrapped bitcoin and the CFTC Chairman is “impressed” with Ethereum. Not to mention, Filecoin has pivoted to mainnet. Top shelf Filecoin fliesThe Filecoin network mainneted at 14:44 UTC, beginning its FIL token distribution. Filecoin is a system from Protocol Labs meant to be both a decentralized file storage and content distribution network in one. The new token is very likely […]
twitter.com Thousands Allowed to Bypass Environmental Rules An AP investigation has found that thousands of oil and gas operations and other sites in the U.S. have won permission to bypass environmental rules because of the pandemic. https://t.co/kA1vrJ7OTx — The Associated Press (@AP) August 24, 2020 Health Editor’s Note: As if ignoring the coronavirus which has long since reached pandemic proportions was not enough of an assault […]
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 of the country’s most powerful families. In 2017, he was killed, along with Danyan’s husband and […]
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 Yemen is believed to contain over 1 million barrels of crude and has the potential to […]
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 by Norilsk-Taimyr Energy Company, a Norilsk Nickel subsidiary. The fuel entered into the soil and contaminated […]
‘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 man. With Roberts, at far right, is the late Rev. Louis Coleman. Coleman and Roberts were […]
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. His latest executive order allows agencies to waive requirements of the bedrock law to speed up […]
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 long focused on health issues related to environmental injustice. In an e360 interview, he discusses how social and […]