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2023-02-01: News Headlines

ecns.cn (2023-02-01). Caution sounded on EU's Green Deal. ecns.cn Belgium's Prime Minister Alexander De Croo (R) is pictured ahead of a meeting between the Climate Coalition (Klimaatcoalitie Coalition Climat) association for urgent climate action to discuss a Green New Deal for the country on December 5, 2022.

Fight Back (2023-02-01). Minneapolis climate justice rally engages community to fight environmental racism. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN — On January 29, 70 activists, community members and supporters held a rally and healing circle in response to the Minneapolis city council's recent vote in favor of continuing their legacy of environmental racism in the city of Minneapolis. The East Phillips Neighborhood Institute and the Climate Justice Committee organized the rally. | The city council voted on Thursday, January 26 to demolish a former industrial site, the Roof Depot building, against the demands of the community. The building is currently trapping arsenic below the soil and keeping it out of the lungs of East Phillips, a…

Climate Nexus (2023-01-31). 99 percent of U.S. coal plants cost more to run than to replace with renewables, study determines. peoplesworld.org It would be cheaper to build new renewable energy capacity than it is to continue operating nearly every existing coal plant in the U.S., a new report from Energy Innovation finds. Of the country's remaining 210 coal-fired power plants, more than 99% cost more to run than it would cost to replace them with new renewable energy, …

Fight Back (2023-01-31). Minneapolis city council majority votes for environmental racism. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – Over 100 protesters rallied at a Minneapolis City Council meeting on Thursday, January 26, where the city council members voted 7 to 6 to demolish the Roof Depot building. Protesters, called to action by East Phillips Neighborhood Institute and Climate Justice Committee, demanded a "no" vote on the demolition of the building, as it is currently trapping an arsenic plume underground, keeping it out of the air of the East Phillips neighborhood of Minneapolis. | The city has no publicly stated remediation plan for managing any arsenic release by demolition. This would render previous efforts by the…

ecns.cn (2023-02-01). Caution sounded on EU's Green Deal. ecns.cn Belgium's Prime Minister Alexander De Croo (R) is pictured ahead of a meeting between the Climate Coalition (Klimaatcoalitie Coalition Climat) association for urgent climate action to discuss a Green New Deal for the country on December 5, 2022.

Fight Back (2023-02-01). Minneapolis climate justice rally engages community to fight environmental racism. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN — On January 29, 70 activists, community members and supporters held a rally and healing circle in response to the Minneapolis city council's recent vote in favor of continuing their legacy of environmental racism in the city of Minneapolis. The East Phillips Neighborhood Institute and the Climate Justice Committee organized the rally. | The city council voted on Thursday, January 26 to demolish a former industrial site, the Roof Depot building, against the demands of the community. The building is currently trapping arsenic below the soil and keeping it out of the lungs of East Phillips, a…

Climate Nexus (2023-01-31). 99 percent of U.S. coal plants cost more to run than to replace with renewables, study determines. peoplesworld.org It would be cheaper to build new renewable energy capacity than it is to continue operating nearly every existing coal plant in the U.S., a new report from Energy Innovation finds. Of the country's remaining 210 coal-fired power plants, more than 99% cost more to run than it would cost to replace them with new renewable energy, …

Fight Back (2023-01-31). Minneapolis city council majority votes for environmental racism. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – Over 100 protesters rallied at a Minneapolis City Council meeting on Thursday, January 26, where the city council members voted 7 to 6 to demolish the Roof Depot building. Protesters, called to action by East Phillips Neighborhood Institute and Climate Justice Committee, demanded a "no" vote on the demolition of the building, as it is currently trapping an arsenic plume underground, keeping it out of the air of the East Phillips neighborhood of Minneapolis. | The city has no publicly stated remediation plan for managing any arsenic release by demolition. This would render previous efforts by the…

Sharon Zhang (2023-01-31). 1,300 Social Justice Groups Demand Atlanta Mayor Resign Over Tortuguita's Death. truthout.org Over 1,300 climate, justice and community groups are calling for Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens to resign over the police killing of anti-"Cop City" activist Manuel "Tortuguita" Terán on January 18, issuing a strong rebuke to Dickens for his refusal to even condemn the killing. In their letter, the groups said that Dickens has stood firmly on the side of law enforcement as Georgia Republican Gov. |

Staff (2023-01-31). Headlines for January 31, 2023. democracynow.org Antony Blinken Meets Palestinian Leaders After Reiterating "Ironclad" U.S. Support for Israel, Taliban Offshoot Claims Responsibility for Bombing of Pakistani Police Compound, Amnesty: Iranian Protesters Were Denied Fair Trials and Tortured Before Their Executions, White House Will End COVID-19 Emergency Declarations in May, Memphis Fire Department Terminates 3 Who Responded to Tyre Nichols' Violent Arrest, Family Calls for Federal Civil Rights Probe into Newark Police Killing of Carl Dorsey, New Zealand Prime Minister Blames Climate Change for Record Flooding, Missing Mexican Environmentalists&…

Sandipan Talukdar (2023-01-31). Carbon Dioxide removal behind Paris Agreement target. peoplesdispatch.org Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR), also known as negative carbon dioxide emission, removes the gas from the atmosphere. CDR According to a report, more than 2 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere annually. However, this is not enough to meet the aims of the Paris Agreement of limiting global warming below 2 degrees Celsius than pre-industrial levels. This is even…

WSWS (2023-01-31). Abbott Labs under federal criminal investigation at Sturgis, Michigan baby formula factory. wsws.org Anonymous sources have told corporate news media that the US Department of Justice is investigating Abbott Laboratories in connection with its baby formula manufacturing facility in Sturgis, Michigan, which was shut down in February 2022 for bacterial contamination.

americanthinker (2023-01-31). Net Zero won't be as pleasant as greenies think. americanthinker.com Modern humans are not immune to the threat of extinction, but it will not come from today's habitable atmosphere.

_____ (2023-01-31). High Schoolers Have Spent A Decade Fighting Baltimore's Toxic Legacy. popularresistance.org There was a time in the last century when we, quite foolishly, believed incineration to be a superior means of waste disposal than landfills. And, for decades, many of America's most disadvantaged have been paying for those decisions with with their lifespans. South Baltimore's Curtis Bay neighborhood, for example, is home to two medical waste incinerators and an open-air coal mine. It's ranked in the 95th percentile for hazardous waste and boasts among the highest rates of asthma and lung disease in the entire country. | The city's largest trash incinerator is the Wheelabrator—BRESCO, which burns through 2…

infobrics (2023-01-31). Moscow Seeks Cooperation in Metro Projects, Waste Management, Smart Cities Development with India. infobrics.org Alexey Bondaruk, deputy head of Department of external economic and international relations, Government of Moscow, said that firms in the Russian capital city can provide consultancy in these areas…

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