As Cost Of Climate Crisis Grows, Climate Movement Escalates
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-14
Activists run towards the Garzweiler open-cast mine (David Young/picture alliance via Getty Images) The warnings of climate chaos are coming so fast they are difficult to keep up with. Storms, heatwaves and climate-related weather disasters are increasing at a rapid pace. The leadership of the two corporate-dominated political parties are trying to keep the climate …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/07/as-cost-of-climate-crisis-grows-climate-movement-escalates/
September Candidates Climate Forum to Go On Despite Dropping Sponsor
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-07-14
"The voters deserve to know where all of the Democratic candidates stand on this issue, and how exactly they would address the climate crisis if elected." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/mayor_pete_buttigieg_0.jpg …
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The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides
LaborFest 2019 | indybay.org | 2019-07-14
The Green Arcade | 1680 Market Street | San Francisco, CA 94102 | 415-431-6800…
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No War, No Warming with Rev. Lennox Yearwood
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-14
The president of Hip Hop Caucus speaks with Dharna Noor at Netroots Nation 2019 on fighting for climate justice and a Green New Deal–and fighting against militarization…
therealnews.com/stories/no-war-no-warming-with-rev-lennox-yearwood
Governor Newsom orders firing of top oil regulator after fracking increases by 103%
Dan Bacher | indybay.org | 2019-07-14
The announcement of Ken Harris' firing came several hours after two watchdog groups, Consumer Watchdog and the FracTracker Allliance, released a report revealing that eight DOGGR officials own stock in corporations they are responsible for regulating. | It also came after the many scores of articles I wrote and radio interviews I did documenting the expansion of oil and gas drilling and fracking and numerous conflicts of interests by oil and gas regulators in California under Governor Jerry Brown and now Gavin Newsom.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/13/18824655.php
Environmental Activists Claim Victory After Detroit Incinerator Closes
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-13
The recent shutdown of the largest municipal trash incinerator in the U.S. marks the end of a long-fought battle for a majority Black neighborhood that has for decades fought a constant stream of pollutants and pungent odors of trash. | Activists have spent decades fighting the incinerator, known as Detroit Renewable Power, which burned one million tons of solid waste from 13 counties in southeastern Michigan each year to create steam and electricity, according to Breathe Free Detroit. | "Most of the waste [came]…
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Rebelling From a Nonviolent Heart
Skeena Rathor | commondreams.org | 2019-07-13
Extinction Rebellion activists temporarily block the A23 at Lewisham Station on June, 14 2019 in London, England. (Photo: Ollie Millington/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/xr_0.jpg …
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Philanthropists raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for groundbreaking Climate Emergency Fund
Alexandra Jacobo | nationofchange.org | 2019-07-13
Some of the wealthy are taking matters into their own hands when it comes to climate activism. A group of US philanthropists has created a Climate Emergency Fund (CEF) to help fund climate activists groups that are working hard for climate justice. | So far Trevor Neilson, an investor and philanthropist, Rory Kennedy, daughter of Robert Kennedy, and Aileen Getty, whose family is in the oil industry, have raised over $600,000. The group plans to raise at least 100 times that over the next several months. | The philanthropists have a wide range of wealthy contacts across the globe that they plan to appeal to for…
nationofchange.org/2019/07/13/philanthropists-raise-hundreds-of-thousands-of-dollars-for-groundbreaking-climate-emergency-fund/
Sleep-walking into "mass extinction"
Andy Rowell | nationofchange.org | 2019-07-13
Next year, the British Government will host the UN Climate talks in London, known as COP26, which are the most important climate talks since Paris in 2015. | So for the next year, the UK will be a critical leader in the global fight against climate change. | For the UK to ask other nations to act, it also has to step up to the plate. And yet it is failing. Badly. | Today, the UK Government's own experts, the Climate Change Committee (CCC) outlined in its annual report to Parliament, how "Our credibilit…
nationofchange.org/2019/07/13/sleep-walking-into-mass-extinction/
The 'historical jigsaw of climate deception': Private notes show how Big Oil spread climate science denial
Mat Hope | nationofchange.org | 2019-07-13
"These documents are another stain on the fossil fuel industry's track-record as a disingenuous rogue agent in climate science and politics."
nationofchange.org/2019/07/13/the-historical-jigsaw-of-climate-deception-private-notes-show-how-big-oil-spread-climate-science-denial/
Current investigation of ExxonMobil could spur broader climate action
Patti Lynn | nationofchange.org | 2019-07-13
On January 7, 2019, after two years of struggle in the lower courts, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey received some good news: The U.S. Supreme Court had cleared the way for her to investigate one of the largest fossil fuel corporations in the world–ExxonMobil–regarding what it knew, and when, about climate change. | The rapid heating of our planet poses an existential threat to all of us. Over the next decade, we must make significant cha…
nationofchange.org/2019/07/13/current-investigation-of-exxonmobil-could-spur-broader-climate-action/
550,000 acres on fire in Alaska in latest sign of the climate crisis
Olivia Rosane | nationofchange.org | 2019-07-13
Two small communities near Anderson, Alaska were ordered to evacuate late Thursday due to a wildfire, as the state's summer of heat and smoke continues. | The Kobe Fire was reported at 6: 45 p.m. Thursday and by 10: 50 p.m. had grown to 600 acres, The Alaska Division of Forestry reported. There are no reports that anyone was burned, but multiple buildings were threatened, prompting the evacuation of the Kobe and And…
nationofchange.org/2019/07/13/550000-acres-on-fire-in-alaska-in-latest-sign-of-the-climate-crisis/
Heavy Rainfall Barry's Real Danger—and Climate Crisis is to Blame
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-07-13
"When the air is warmer, it can hold more water vapor. So that when a storm moves through an area that has warmer, wetter air, there's more of a source for the precipitation." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/barry.png …
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Earth Over the Brink
David Swanson | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-12
Glacier National Park is drip, drip, dripping into a puddle. People and companies and governments are cutting down trees to burn them to save the planet from global warming, mixing the sacrificial trees with oh-so-clean coal, and in Detroit with tires, and in North Carolina with chicken shit. Others are hacking down old forests to…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/12/earth-over-the-brink/
Noam Chomsky says 'there is not much time' to avert global catastrophe
John McEvoy | thecanary.co | 2019-07-12
In an interview published on 12 July, Noam Chomsky told Jacobin that "there is not much time" to avert global catastrophe. He also talked about Iran, Venezuela, and antisemitism allegations aimed at the UK Labour Party. | Climate crisis and the Green New Deal: | Most importantly, he attended to the issue of global climate crisis. On the subject of rising sea levels, he said: the ca…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2019/07/12/noam-chomsky-says-there-is-not-much-time-to-avert-global-catastrophe/
First group of Extinction Rebellion protesters appear in court
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-07-12
More than 20 climate change protesters have appeared in court charged with a public order offence after Extinction Rebellion demonstrations in central London.The defendants were asked to enter guilty or not guilty pleas during hearings at City of London Magistrates' Court on Friday.The protesters, who range in age from 20 to 76, are accused of failing to comply with an order to stick to an allocated area near Marble Arch in central London.The hearings, which are continuing into the afternoon in two court rooms simultaneously, have recorded a mixture of pleas, resulting in a number of trials scheduled for Septembe…
thecanary.co/breaking-news/2019/07/12/first-group-of-extinction-rebellion-protesters-appear-in-court/
Planetary emergency: Climate crisis and nuclear danger threaten humanity's existence
John Bachtell | peoplesworld.org | 2019-07-12
This is part 2 of the full main report, "Unity to save people and planet: For full equality, democracy, peace, and green socialism," to the 31st National Convention of the Communist Party USA held in Chicago, June 21-23. Other installments available here. The abbreviated oral presentation is available here. John Bachtell served as CPUSA national …
peoplesworld.org/article/planetary-emergency-climate-crisis-and-nuclear-danger-threaten-humanitys-existence/
It's Raining Sand in Rayalaseema
P. Sainath | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-12
It's a classic Indian cinema fight-in-the-desert scene. Against the background of dunes and depressions with a tiny sprinkling of scrub vegetation, the hero rises from the burning sands of a barren wasteland to beat the bad guys to a pulp. Adding plenty of heat and dust to that already bestowed by nature, he brings the…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/12/its-raining-sand-in-rayalaseema/
Breaching a "carbon threshold" could lead to mass extinction
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-07-12
Carbon dioxide emissions may trigger a reflex in the carbon cycle, with devastating consequences, study finds. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/07/12/breaching-a-carbon-threshold-could-lead-to-mass-extinction/
While climate breakdown destroys one of the ocean's most important ecosystems, a new study shows there may be some hope
Glen Black | thecanary.co | 2019-07-12
Back-to-back heatwaves in the central Indian Ocean killed more than two-thirds of corals in two years, a study has shown. But research by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) suggests some corals were more resilient to the high sea temperatures, which could provide hope for the important habitat as the planet warms. | Heatwave statistics: | Scientists studied reefs in the remote Chagos Archipelago of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT…
thecanary.co/discovery/analysis-discovery/2019/07/12/while-climate-breakdown-destroys-one-of-the-oceans-most-important-ecosystems-a-new-study-shows-there-may-be-some-hope/
Too Horrible to Understand, Too Horrible to Ignore
Kathleen Wallace | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-12
The Lolita Express……"I'm not for impeachment. The green dream or whatever."…… "maybe toilet water is a step up….." As if it wasn't obvious before, surely now the commingling interests of the wealthy should be evident to anyone with even rudimentary brain stem function. Like our worsening climate situation, the fact that the wealthy are simply…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/12/too-horrible-to-understand-too-horrible-to-ignore/
We Were Already Over 350 ppm When I Was Born
Jamie Margolin | thenation.com | 2019-07-12
We Were Already Over 350 ppm When I Was Born…
thenation.com/article/climate-change-zero-hour-colonization/
Developing countries should not be liable for emissions 'accumulated throughout history', key UN development forum hears
United Nations | un.org | 2019-07-12
Citing climate change as being caused by "emissions accumulated throughout history", the head of China's Xiamen Airlines told the United Nations High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) in New York on Friday that heavy carbon dioxide emitters should "take on greater responsibility" to ameliorate the problem.
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Amazon in Danger of Total Destruction Under Brazil's Right-Wing President Bolsonaro
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-12
If another 20 percent of the Amazon rainforest is destroyed, it could start a vicious cycle of self-destruction, unleashing enormous amounts of CO2 and massively impacting regional and global climate, says Alexander Zaitchik…
therealnews.com/stories/amazon-in-danger-of-total-destruction-under-brazils-right-wing-president-bolsonaro
Bring down the global fences
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-07-12
As the Titanic sank in 1912, the wealthy were given safety on lifeboats while the poor were left to die, locked in the sinking ship. | Today, the countries of the Global North are taking a similar approach to the climate crisis. | Going full steam ahead, countries such as Australia continue to burn fossil fuels, ignore the warnings of scientists and, when crises hit, turn people away from safety. | There were more than 70 million displaced people around the world last year according to conservative United Nations figures — the highest this figure has ever been. | Many were displaced as a direct or indirec…
greenleft.org.au/content/refugees-first-victims-climate-change
In Mozambique, it's 'a matter of the heart' says Guterres, lauding the cyclone-struck nation's 'undeniable moral authority'
United Nations | un.org | 2019-07-11
Arriving in Mozambique to express solidarity and see for himself the damage wrought by two back-to-back cyclones earlier this year, UN chief António Guterres on Thursday said "undeniable moral authority" lay with its people, who had borne the brunt of a disaster linked inexorably to climate change, and a warming world.
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America's Colonial Climate Crisis
Chris Gelardi | thenation.com | 2019-07-11
America's Colonial Climate Crisis…
thenation.com/article/marshall-islands-climate-puerto-rico/
We need everyone to strike on September 20
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-07-11
School Strike 4 Climate released the following statement on July 3. | * * * | On Friday September 20, three days before world leaders meet in New York for the United Nations Emergency Climate Summit, school strikers, together with our friends, communities and families, are holding our biggest Global Climate Strike yet. | Everyone is invited and everyone is needed as we build the biggest social movement the world has ever seen to tackle the climate crisis. | We often get asked by adults if it's OK f…
greenleft.org.au/content/we-need-everyone-strike-september-20
We're invited to support student strikers
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-07-11
The Socialist Alliance National Council voted on June 30 to encourage its members and supporters to support of the September 20 climate strike and put motions along the following lines to their trade unions and other community-based organisations. | * * * | The School Strike 4 Climate has asked adults worldwide to come out onto the streets alongside them and make our voices heard. | To do that we too must strike for climate action. We must break with business as usual, leave our workplaces and rally with the students. | Yes, we will then cross a line. The rules do not let us strike when we want, for what we need…
greenleft.org.au/content/were-invited-support-student-strikers
Maritime union backs student-led climate strike
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-07-11
The following motion was passed unanimously at the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) Sydney Branch monthly member's meeting on June 25. | * * * | The MUA Sydney Branch welcomes the call from the School Strike 4 Climate movement for workers to join their next global strike. We will build for the widest possible stoppage of work to join demonstrations on September 20. We call on our national union to support this action and campaign for stoppages across the global union movement. | We note with anger that the climate crisis is already affecting millions in Australia and around the world. We reaffirm MUA policy that…
greenleft.org.au/content/maritime-union-backs-student-led-climate-strike
Mexico: The devious ways one water company is profiting from the poor
susan_p | greenleft.org.au | 2019-07-11
Water is becoming a coveted currency. As a basic need that is increasingly scarce in some regions due to climate disruption and abusive industrial and agricultural practices, it is the new gold that the wealthy want to get their hands on. | Companies like Nestlé and even drug gangs in Mexico are harnessing the profit and power potential of water, with trails of violence and corruption left in their wake. | In Puebla, two hours to the south of Mexico City, a private water company has plans to break up the streets…
greenleft.org.au/content/mexico-devious-ways-one-water-company-profiting-poor
Five new books for ecosocialists
susan_p | greenleft.org.au | 2019-07-11
Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus looks at five new books of interest to ecosocialists. | Vanishing Fish: Shifting Baselines & the Future of Global Fisheries | By Daniel Pauly | Greystone Books, 2019 | Award-winning biologist Daniel Pauly examines the parlous state of today's global fisheries. Starting with the rapid expansion that followed World War II, he traces the arc of the fishing industry's ensuing demise, offering insights into how and why it has failed. His practical recommendations for a way forward incorporate a vision of a vib…
greenleft.org.au/content/five-new-books-ecosocialists-6
How the Climate Crisis Is Pushing Central Americans Out of Their Homes Toward the U.S
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-10
As the U.S. continues to crack down on migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border, we look at one of the underreported driving factors leading people to flee their home countries: the climate crisis. John Carlos Frey, author of "Sand and Blood: America's Stealth War on the Mexico Border," spent time with Central American climate refugees traveling in a caravan toward the United States. He says, "If this drought continues, we're looking at all-out famine from Central America. …That's one of the major reasons why they're coming. … The government doesn't even acknowledge the fact that there is a climate c…
www.democracynow.org/2019/7/10/john_carlos_frey_immigration_us_mexico
Alberta Government Declares War On Environmentalists
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-09
Environmentalist Tzeporah Berman says Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is a "climate change denier"
therealnews.com/stories/alberta-government-declares-war-on-environmentalists
An Hour with Noam Chomsky on Fascism, Nuclear Weapons, Climate Change, Julian Assange & More
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-05
In April, hundreds of people packed into the Old South Church in Boston to hear the world-renowned dissident and linguist Noam Chomsky speak. In this hour-long special, we air an excerpt of Chomsky's speech and his on-stage interview with Amy Goodman.
www.democracynow.org/2019/7/5/an_hour_with_noam_chomsky_on
Eco-Socialism Conference to be held in Albuquerque: For the Earth to Live, Capitalism Must End!
PSL Albuquerque | liberationnews.org | 2019-07-03
Climate change and ecological devastation must be reversed as a matter of survival.
liberationnews.org/eco-socialism-conference-to-be-held-in-albuquerque-for-the-earth-to-live-capitalism-must-end/
Climate protesters force BP oil rig to make second U-turn amid ongoing direct action
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-06-17
An oil rig at the centre of a protest by environmental campaigners has been forced to make a second 'U-turn' on its way to a North Sea field. | The Transocean PBLJ rig was heading to the Vorlich oil field after being occupied by activists in the Cromarty Firth, north of Inverne…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2019/06/17/climate-protesters-force-bp-oil-rig-to-make-second-u-turn-amid-ongoing-direct-action/
Zero Waste: The Global Plastics Crisis
Graham Peebles | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-06-17
Plastic pollution is everywhere. It litters beaches, clogs up oceans, chokes marine life, is ingested by seabirds that then starve to death, and has even been discovered embedded in Arctic ice. It's in the air we breathe, the water we drink (bottled and tap), and last year plastic was found in human stools for the …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/06/zero-waste-the-global-plastics-crisis/
Navy Contaminates Local Groundwater and Sewer System in Maryland
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-17
The U.S. Navy has contaminated the groundwater at Maryland's Patuxent River Naval Air Station (NAS) with 1,137.8 parts per trillion (ppt) of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), according to a report published last July by the engineering firm CH2M Hill. PFAS have been associated with a variety of cancers and are known to jeopardize human reproductive health. The contamination was not reported on the…
truthout.org/articles/navy-contaminates-local-groundwater-and-sewer-system-in-maryland/
Letter to Wolf Demands Fracking Permit Pause, Investigation of Cancer Cases
commondreams.org | 2019-06-17
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Oregon Tackles Climate Change With Cap-and-Trade Proposal
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-06-17
SALEM, Ore. — Oregon is on the precipice of becoming the second state after California to adopt a cap-and-trade program, a market-based approach to lowering the greenhouse gas emissions behind global warming. | Supporters call it the United States' most progressive climate policy, saying it not only cuts emissions but invests in transitioning the state economy and infrastructure to better prepare for more intense weather events as climate change worsens. | "We have an opportunity to invest a substantial amount into low-income communities off the backs of the 100 or so major polluters that caused this proble…
truthdig.com/articles/oregon-tackles-climate-change-with-cap-and-trade-proposal/
Climate talks held as Arctic ice melts, concerns grow
Frank Jordans | peoplesworld.org | 2019-06-17
BERLIN (AP) — Diplomats and climate experts gathered Monday in Germany for U.N.-hosted talks on climate change amid growing public pressure for governments to act faster against global warming. Officials meeting in the western city of Bonn for the June 17-27 talks are focusing on resolving issues that couldn't be agreed upon at last December's …
peoplesworld.org/article/climate-talks-held-as-arc/
Climate crisis and the 2020 elections
John Scales Avery | nationofchange.org | 2019-06-17
Trump and his party must be defeated | : | There are so many things wrong with Donald Trump that one hardly knows where to begin. He is a racist, habitual liar, tax evader, cruel cager of infants, misogynist, narcissist, bully, violator of numerous laws, both national and international, a friend of rich oligarchs and enemy of the poor, to mention only a few of his faults. He has made the United States resemble Germany, Italy or Spain in the 1930's, when fascism was on the rise. | However, most importantly for the future of human civilization and the biosphere, Trump has denied the reality of the climat…
nationofchange.org/2019/06/17/climate-crisis-and-the-2020-elections/
Paying farmers fairly could curb climate change and hunger
Eric Holt-Giménez and Heidi Kleiner | nationofchange.org | 2019-06-17
During a recent campaign stump through the Midwest, Bernie Sanders | walked the fields in Iowa, posed on a tractor, and galvanized the rural | crowd with a word not spoken by a presidential candidate in many | decades: parity. | Though foreign to most of the voting public, parity is at the core of | agriculture's potential to address the farm, food, and climate crises. | Parity is the notion that family farmers should be paid a fair price | for their product–one that covers their costs and provides them with a | decent livelihood. According to the National Agricultural Statistics | Service, "The idea of…
nationofchange.org/2019/06/17/paying-farmers-fairly-could-curb-climate-change-and-hunger/
Dallas storm leaves 350,000 without power, exposes system unprepared to deal with the consequences of climate change
Marissa Rodriguez | liberationnews.org | 2019-06-17
Due to a natural disaster, over 350,000 Dallas residents lost electricity on June 9. A powerful storm blew in around 1: 30 PM, downing power lines, uprooting trees and causing accidents. The storm itself only lasted 15 minutes with wind gusts initially clocked at over 71 miles per hour (later investigation may increase that estimate.) As …
liberationnews.org/dallas-storm-leaves-350000-without-power-exposes-system-unprepared-to-deal-with-the-consequences-of-climate-change/
UN oceans treaty 'essential' to combat 'unprecedented pressure' on the world's seas — UN chief
United Nations | un.org | 2019-06-17
The oceans are not only under "unprecedented pressure" due to climate change, but "half of all living coral has been lost in the past 150 years", United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said on Monday, addressing the latest gathering of nations which are party to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.
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Global Inequality in a Time of Climate Emergency
Tom Athanasiou | commondreams.org | 2019-06-17
Extreme economic inequality turns out to be a social poison that makes it almost impossible for us to mobilize to save ourselves and our civilization. (Photo: STAN HONDA/AFP/GettyImages) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/gettyimages-152211297.jpg…
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How Unions and Climate Organizers Learned to Work Together in New York
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-17
Several years before Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) elevated the climate, jobs and justice framework to the national level, a coalition of labor, environmental and community groups joined together to push for a pioneering climate bill in New York. | The idea for the legislation came in the immediate aftermath of the 2014 People's Climate March, when organizers decided to build on the momentum of the historic demonstration. In 2016 the Climate and Community Protection Act (CCPA) was born, an expansive bill that would require New York to…
truthout.org/articles/how-unions-and-climate-organizers-learned-to-work-together-in-new-york/
Because 'This Is a Public Health Crisis,' Pennsylvania Gov. Urged to Investigate Link Between Fracking and Childhood Cancers
Jake Johnson, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-06-17
"Fracking presents clear threats to our drinking water, our air quality, and to the health and safety of residents in these sacrifice zones." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/fracking_13.jpg…
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'Huge Victory' for Grassroots Climate Campaigners as New York Lawmakers Reach Deal on Sweeping Climate Legislation
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-06-17
Grassroots climate campaigners in New York applauded on Monday after state lawmakers reached a deal on sweeping climate legislation, paving the way for the passage of what could be some of the country's most ambitious environmental reforms. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/screen_shot_2019-06-17_at_5.16.56_pm1.jpg…
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