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Legal Petition Aims to Plug Thousands of Old Offshore Oil Wells
GAO Report Reveals Alarming Decommissioning Gaps in Gulf of Mexico, Pacific...
Posted: Thu, Feb 29, 2024 7:45am PST
Southern Resident Orcas Receive Oregon Endangered Species Protections
PORTLAND, Ore., February 16, 2024 — The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission voted today to protect Southern Resident orcas under the state’s Endangered Species Act, responding to a February 2023 petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife, and Whale and Dolphin Conservation....
Posted: Mon, Feb 26, 2024 9:38pm PST
ExxonMobil Drops Court Bid to Truck Oil in Santa Barbara
LOS ANGELES, February 16, 2024 — ExxonMobil’s dangerous proposal to truck massive amounts of oil along California highways is dead after the company dropped its lawsuit challenging Santa Barbara County’s denial of the plan....
Posted: Mon, Feb 26, 2024 9:31pm PST
Biden Leaves East Palestine Without Healthcare; Migrants Struggle at the Texas-Mexico Bord
Pacifica's Capitalism, Race & Democracy covers Biden Leaves East Palestine Without Healthcare; Migrants Struggle at the Texas-Mexico Border; Rashida Tlaib Revives Discredited Allegations against Syria’s Assad...
Posted: Mon, Feb 19, 2024 2:56pm PST
Ecogenocidio: la extinción por goteo
Ecogenocidio: la extinción por goteo...
Posted: Mon, Feb 19, 2024 4:51am PST
School Globe Model for Infrastructural Global Warming
What about if the global warming is now not only in the atmosphere and on the surface, but 1.5 *C or more is the geophysical warming inside the Earth. This is the theoretical conception with some practical cases in our reality. Let the Earth be bigger than earlier, 4.5 bln years ago, in the Expanding Earth Theory [search in Internet] process with nuclear-thermic mechanism for its widening. This means with the radius of the planet longer now of about 70 % than in the beginning of expansion. I...
Posted: Sat, Feb 17, 2024 10:45am PST
NPS Makes Move to Terminate Crater Lake Contract with Aramark.
Aramark received an Unsatisfactory Review for its management of concessions at Crater Lake in 2023. The Unsatisfactory Annual Overall Rating has triggered NPS to terminate the contract....
Posted: Thu, Feb 15, 2024 11:04am PST
'Rumble on the Mountain' Songs from the Water to Halt Uranium Mining in Grand Canyon
Hopi singer Ryon Polequaptewa, spoke on the sacred cedar which lends itself to make the Hopi flute, and of the sacred space of Hopi, where there is "very little rain, but an abundance of life," during the seven-hour music extravaganza 'Rumble on the Mountain,' at the Orpheum Theater in Flagstaff on Saturday. The celebration of water focused on the threat to Havasupai water by uranium mining now ongoing in the Grand Canyon. Carletta Tilouisi, Havasupai said, "Our Havasupai youths danced and sa...
Posted: Tue, Feb 6, 2024 8:42am PST
Elected officials want inclusive, equitable offshore wind power development
For security and equitability offshore wind will move America off its dependence on fossil fuels. Over 550 elected officials want inclusive, equitable offshore wind power development to improve health, economies and mitigate climate disasters....
Posted: Thu, Feb 1, 2024 12:09pm PST
Six Pesticides Threaten Over Half of Endangered Species
Lawsuit Targets Federal Fish and Wildlife Service’s Failure to Protect Endangered Species From Toxic Pesticides...
Posted: Thu, Feb 1, 2024 10:14am PST
Fort McDermitt Tribal Leader Choked Youth During Lithium Americas Community Meeting
A Fort McDermitt tribal leader in Nevada attacked a minor and choked him during a public community meeting with Lithium Americas. The tribal youth was videotaping a meeting held about financial benefits from lithium mining by Lithium Americas of Canada, now digging into the Paiute Massacre Site in northern Nevada....
Posted: Fri, Jan 19, 2024 6:07am PST
Havasupai Water and Existence Threatened by New Uranium Mining on at Grand Canyon
Havasupai said their worst fears have come true, and now Energy Fuels is extracting toxic uranium, violating their sacred place, threatening their water source and jeopardizing their existence. "As Guardians of the Grand Canyon, we the Havsuw 'Baaja, the Havasupai Tribe, have opposed uranium mining in and around our Reservation and the Grand Canyon since time immemorial. We do this to protect our people, our land, our water, our past, our present and our future."...
Posted: Fri, Jan 12, 2024 3:21am PST
Climate Change Cartoons
I draw cartoons, about half of which address progressive political topics. Attached are several related to climate change....
Posted: Sat, Dec 30, 2023 2:59pm PST
Biden Administration Moves to Protect Old-Growth Forests
Environmental Groups Welcome Needed Action on Old Growth, Urge Future Action on Mature Forests...
Posted: Fri, Dec 22, 2023 3:31pm PST
Lithium Mine Battle at Paiute Massacre Site Links to Global Battle Against Greenwashing
The struggle to protect Peehee Mu'huh, Thacker Pass, from lithium mine links the global struggles of uncontacted Indonesians battling nickel mining, child slaves in Congo's cobalt mines, and the peoples' battles against lithium mining in Serbia and Argentina. They are all battling the greenwashing of the false solution of electric vehicles for climate change....
Posted: Wed, Dec 6, 2023 10:38am PST
COP28 Climate Summit Negotiations Focus on Commitments for Developing Countries
Most Developing Countries Spend More on Debt Service than on Addressing Country Climate Crisis Challenges...
Posted: Mon, Dec 4, 2023 7:33am PST
Cottage with a catastrophic view
In Florida's real estate market, the late neoliberal bubble economy and the capitalist climate crisis are mutually reinforcing each other; at the local level, the internal and external barriers to capital are being felt here: rising sea levels and more devastating storms threaten to devalue real estate - and a climate-induced collapse of the real estate market would weigh on the economy....
Posted: Thu, Nov 9, 2023 5:18am PST
Debut Graphic Novel Highlights Plight of California Mountain Lions
‘Tales of the Urban Wild: A Puma’s Journey’ to be Released Oct. 24...
Posted: Fri, Oct 20, 2023 11:18am PDT
Razones para detener el tratado de comercio UnionEuropea- Mercosur
Razones para detener el tratado de comercio Union Europea- Mercosur...
Posted: Fri, Oct 13, 2023 7:06am PDT
White Mesa Ute March Against Radioactive Dump on Homeland in Utah
WHITE MESA, Utah -- Ute Mountain Ute Yolanda Badback welcomed all to the spiritual walk and rally to halt the uranium mill now poisoning the land, water and air in southeastern Utah, in the Four Corners region.
The White Mesa Mill, operated by Energy Fuels, is now bringing in radioactive waste from other countries, after already storing nuclear waste that was too dangerous to remain at the Nevada Test Site....
Posted: Thu, Oct 12, 2023 2:36pm PDT