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2022-07-07: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-07-07). At least seven Alpine climbers killed and many injured by a glacial avalanche, the result of rapid melting due to global warming. wsws.org Accelerating melting of glaciers and continental ice caps are but one of the catastrophic consequences of global warming.

_____ (2022-07-06). NATO Summit Met With Wave Of Creative Protests. popularresistance.org In Madrid, this Monday, a group of around 30 anti-war activists staged a die-in at the Reina Sofia Museum, lying corpse-like in front of Pablo Picasso's painting of the bombing of Guernica, some grasping signs that read: "War is the death of people. War is the death of Art." | The protest was organized by Extinction Rebellion and Fridays for Future, marking one of a handful of demonstrations, marches and community dialogues organized around this week's NATO summit in Madrid. The summit, taking place in the shadow of the war in Ukraine, is expected to result in an increase in military spending across NATO countrie…

Editor (2022-07-06). Supreme Court condemns planet and human life. mronline.org In a 6‚Äí3 decision, the United States Supreme Court ruled on June 30 against the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, a move that signals a major setback in the fight against climate change.

Caitlin MacLaren (2022-07-06). The Supreme Court's Anti-Climate Decision in West Virginia v. EPA Impacts All of Us. commondreams.org Make no mistake: climate change is a public health emergency.

Christian Garramone (2022-07-05). Supreme Court rules in favor of big polluters, bolsters dangerous new legal doctrine. liberationnews.org Moving forward, we can expect the Supreme Court to use the "major questions doctrine" to strike down any regulations that the judges simply do not like as a matter of public policy.

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