Above Photo: A Marathon Oil well site in Texas. Jennifer Hiller / Reuters. Washington — Conservation groups submitted formal comments today urging cancelation of February’s federal oil and gas lease auctions, saying the Biden administration is legally required to prevent harm from the leasing program’s greenhouse gas emissions, not just disclose it. “The Biden administration must do more than simply talk about climate change, it has a duty to take action on a scale and with a sense of urgency that the climate crisis demands,” said Kyle Tisdel, attorney and Climate & Energy Program director with Western Environmental Law Center. “The ongoing sale and development of federal oil and gas […]
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Above Photo: Nation of Change. Washington – The Environmental Protection Agency has determined that the endocrine-disrupting pesticide atrazine and cancer-linked pesticide glyphosate are each likely to harm more than 1,000 of the nation’s most endangered plants and animals. The finalized evaluations found that use of the herbicide glyphosate is likely causing harm to 1,676 of the plants and animals protected under the Endangered Species Act. Atrazine is likely harming 1,013 protected species. “It’s no surprise that these chemical poisons are causing severe harm to imperiled wildlife since U.S. use exceeds 70 million pounds of atrazine and 300 million pounds of glyphosate every year,” said Nathan […]
Above Photo: Shipping container trucks sit in traffic as the International Longshore and Warehouse Union strikes, putting a halt to most of the work at the busiest seaport complex in the nation on November 29, 2012 in Long Beach, California. David McNew/Getty Images. Diesel Vehicles Represented 5 Percent Of Traffic Through The Urban Areas But Emitted Up To Half Of All Nitrogen Dioxide Pollution. One Solution: Electrify Freight Trucks, School Buses And Other Heavy-Duty Vehicles. Studies have long pointed to air pollution in the United States disproportionately harming poor and minority communities. But a pair of recent studies that examined tailpipe […]
A small asteroid is headed towards Earth at over 25,000 miles per hour just in time for the US election, but if something kills us all in 2020, it won’t be this particular space rock, famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson says. With an estimated diameter of 2 meters (6.5 feet, or roughly one ‘refrigerator’), the asteroid known as 2018VP1 is just “not big enough to cause harm” when it buzz-cuts within 5,000 kilometres of Earth on November 2, celebrity scientist deGrasse Tyson wrote on Twitter and Instagram. So if the World ends in 2020, it won’t be the fault of the […]
Brad Parscale, a former election campaign manager for Donald Trump, stepped down from the role in July 2020, substituted with former White House political director Bill Stepien, who is now leading the Trump 2020 re-election campaign. On Sunday, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported that former a former re-election campaign manager for US President Donald Trump, Brad Parscale, had been admitted to hospital after his wife called the police, saying that he came home brandishing loaded guns and threatening to harm himself. According to the report, he willingly let the police to detain himself under the Florida’s Baker Act that allows police to […]
Around two-thirds of Oregonians disapprove of the protests that have gripped the state’s biggest city for over 100 days, while the majority see them as ‘mostly violent’ and police response as too lax, a poll has found. Conducted by the non-partisan, Portland-based DHM Research firm this week, the survey has revealed that Oregonians have grown increasingly disenchanted with the unrest, with 66 percent of the voters taking a dim view of the protests and only about 31 percent approving of it. Among those who live in the Portland metro area, sixty-one percent disapproved of the protests while some 36 percent were […]
A poll worker in Sun Prairie, Wis., is seen during the state’s April 7 primary. A record number of Wisconsin voters are expected to vote by mail this fall, but polls indicate Republicans are far more likely to vote in person, which has some GOP officials worried it could hurt the party’s chances. Andy Manis/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andy Manis/Getty Images A poll worker in Sun Prairie, Wis., is seen during the state’s April 7 primary. A record number of Wisconsin voters are expected to vote by mail this fall, but polls indicate Republicans are far more likely to […]
Musk has faced several lawsuits, one for falsely claiming that he was going to take Tesla private, another for denigrating a British diver, and still another over his and his directors’ hefty compensation packages. Tesla Inc. shareholders have been advised to vote against re-electing Elon Musk as Tesla’s chief executive because of his enormous compensation package and tweets that sometimes get him in trouble. The UK-based investment advisory Pensions Investment Research Consultants (PIRC) wrote in a Tuesday report, seen by The Guardian, that Musk’s pay deal “unfairly enriches” the company’s founder. Musk, who embarked on a quest to get rid of […]
The US has been rocked by over two weeks of protests over the police killing of an unarmed black man in a Minneapolis street in broad daylight, with the incident adding to strains stemming from the deaths of over 100,000 Americans from coronavirus, and lockdown measures which have thrown over 40 million people out of work. Trump National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien has accused Washington’s enemies of seeking of using the explosive political situation in the US to cause harm to America and its allies. “Our adversaries are attempting to take advantage of the current circumstances to do us harm or […]
German international certificate of vaccination with missing records for measles and polio Abstract The World Health Organization (WHO) has just listed the anti-vaccination movement as one of the top health threats for 2019. This article addresses the major public health concern regarding misinformation, confusion and outright hoax involving recommended childhood vaccinations and resultant anti-vaccination attitudes of large segments of the general population. Recent studies show an alarming number of adults are not getting the flu shot and not getting their children vaccinated for the measles, a highly contagious and dangerous disease once considered eliminated by Public Health officials. Main Article As […]