(2022-02-05). [World Report] WHO concerned over COVID-19 health-care waste. thelancet.com In a new report, the agency calls for global action to deal with huge amounts of waste produced by personal protective equipment and other material. John Zarocostas reports from Geneva.
(2022-02-04). Pipeline Politics Hits Multipolar Realities: Nord Stream 2 and the Ukraine Crisis. strategic-culture.org 
By John FOSTER | Amid escalating tensions between US/NATO and Russia, all eyes are on Ukraine, but Nord Stream 2, a pipeline built to bring Russian gas under the Baltic Sea directly to Germany, is an integral part of the story. | US Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Victoria Nuland,
(2022-02-04). How Israel's Occupation Of Palestine Intensifies Climate Change. popularresistance.org Al-Naqab — On Sunday, roughly 200 activists demonstrated outside Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's office in Jerusalem against the Jewish National Fund's (JNF) tree-planting project in al-Naqab, maintaining the forestation is an attempt to displace the indigenous Bedouin population. | Contracted by the Israeli government, the JNF razed fruit trees and seeded fields in al-Naqab in January to "make the desert bloom" with non-native plants. The purported environmental project has been met with fierce protest from the local villagers, with more than 60 Bedouin arrested in the last few weeks. | JNF mainta…
(2022-02-04). Appalachians Are Building A Green New Deal Blueprint For Themselves. popularresistance.org The Green New Deal proposal is one of the only effective, broadly recognized pathways to tackle the climate crisis and address its social and economic consequences. It is technologically possible and economically sustainable. Yet although the Green New Deal project is already under way in some shape or form in various states, it has yet to be scaled up to the national level. In fact, climate policy as a whole has been stalled in Congress, and the Biden administration has so far engaged more in symbolic gestures than in living policy processes. | With time quickly running out to prevent a greenhouse apocalypse, ac…
(2022-02-04). Tuesday 2/8: Climate Crisis: Help Stop Wall Street's Toxic Money Gamble w/ Our Economy & Planet. indybay.org Online event via Zoom…
(2022-02-04). GOP Suggests Biden's Fed Pick Shouldn't Be Confirmed Due to Climate Views. truthout.org 
We speak with Rep. Jamie Raskin about his wife Sarah Bloom Raskin's grilling by a Senate panel Thursday over her qualifications to be President Biden's nominee for the top bank regulator, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Republicans argue her past comments on climate change show she could use her position to discourage banks from lending to fossil fuel companies. Raskin said if she was confirmed, she would not be able to take such actions. "What they're attacking is the idea there can be citiz…
(2022-02-04). GOP Grill Fed Nominee Sarah Bloom Raskin over Climate Views; Her Husband Rep. Jamie Raskin Responds. democracynow.org 
We speak with Rep. Jamie Raskin about his wife Sarah Bloom Raskin's grilling by a Senate panel Thursday over her qualifications to be President Biden's nominee for the top bank regulator, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Republicans argue her past comments on climate change show she could use her position to discourage banks from lending to fossil fuel companies. Raskin said if she was confirmed, she would not be able to take such actions. "What they're attacking is the idea there can be citizens who are fully aware of climate change and take it seriously, who can serve honorably and lawfully in other capa…
(2022-02-04). How SUVs came to be a massive climate problem. mronline.org 
Or, the complex political economy of auto manufacturing.
(2022-02-04). Friday 2/4: Global Coastline Rebellion: Stop Fossil Fuel Destruction of Marine Life & Coastal Lands! indybay.org Online global coverage of protests & actions…
(2022-02-04). Friday 2/4: Rebelión global de la costa: No a la destrucción petrolera de la vida marina y las costas. indybay.org Online global coverage of protests y actions…
(2022-02-04). What a Waste, and You're Paying for it: $778 Billion for the Pentagon and Still Counting. juancole.com 
( Tomdispatch.com) — 2021 was another banner year for the military-industrial complex, as Congress signed off on a near-record $778 billion in spending for the Pentagon and related work on nuclear warheads at the Department of Energy. That was $25 billion more than the Pentagon had even asked for. It can't be emphasized enough just …