_____ (2022-03-18). Progressives Hand Biden List Of 55 Executive Actions. popularresistance.org The CPC's new list of executive order recommendations is broad in scope, aiming to address a variety of pressing issues including sky-high drug prices, the worsening climate emergency, the coronavirus pandemic, mounting student loan debt, and a rigged tax system—priorities that Biden vowed to tackle on the campaign trail in 2020. | While Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), the CPC chair, has said she would prefer ambitious legislation such as the Build Back Better package to more limited executive orders, that bill is dead in the Senate due to opposition from Republicans and corporate-backed Democrats such as S…

Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (2022-03-18). Shireen Al-Adeimi on Yemen, David Arkush on Fed Climate Veto. fair.org Sanaa, Yemen (cc photo: Yahya Arhab/European Pressphoto Agency) | This week on CounterSpin: It's worth our while to think about why everyone we know is talking about Ukraine and Russia's unlawful incursion—and equally worthwhile to ask why the same principles of concern don't seem to apply in other cases. Those feelings don't have to fight. But to hear Yemen is not a rhetorical device. It's a country of human beings in c…

Lina Tran (2022-03-18). First a hurricane, now wildfire: Climate disasters are colliding in Florida. peoplesworld.org All week, a trio of wildfires has blazed through more than 34,000 acres in the Florida Panhandle, gorging on downed trees that Hurricane Michael left in its wake more than three years ago. The fires have forced more than 1,100 people from their homes. The three wildfires, collectively called the Chipola Complex, represent a collision …

W. T. Whitney, Jr. (2022-03-18). Climate research strike? Linking up environmental science with the 'science of society'. mronline.org Hundreds of IPCC scientists provide the United Nations periodically with reports on adverse impacts of climate change. The most recent report, issued in February, details rising seas, terrible droughts, atypical weather events, thawing permafrost, dying forests, and massive displacement of populations.

ecns.cn (2022-03-18). CDC: U.S. wastewater samples show rise in coronavirus. ecns.cn Samples from U.S. wastewater sites have shown an increase in the coronavirus this month in a third of locations, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed, suggesting that cases in key cities including New York are rising.

_____ (2022-03-17). Legal Action Against Shell Board Previews Wave Of Lawsuits. popularresistance.org Boards should prepare for legal action based on their response to climate change, a DeSmog investigation has found. | Lawyers, insurers, and campaigners have been anticipating litigation against company directors for some time and say the chances are only growing as corporate requirements to address climate risks get tougher. | Today, March 15, ClientEarth announced it was taking legal action against energy giant Shell's board of directors, arguing that their failure to properly prepare the company for net zero carbon emissions breaches their legal duties. | The environmental law non-governmental organization, wh…

WSWS (2022-03-17). Climate scientist Michael Mills describes the devastation of a nuclear detonation. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site five years ago interviewed Michael Mills, an expert on the dangers of nuclear war. Today we are republishing that interview.

Isabella Kaminski (2022-03-17). Legal action against Shell board previews wave of lawsuits against company directors. nationofchange.org Individuals are expected to be a growing target of legal action on climate change, with activists, investors, and regulators looking carefully at how companies and their boards disclose and respond to climate risks.

teleSUR, yart, JGN (2022-03-17). Temblor en Japón deja al menos cuatro muertos y 200 heridos. telesurtv.net Minutos antes del terremoto de magnitud 7.4, tuvo lugar otro sismo en la misma zona, con magnitud 6.1.