pollution
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Shell Exits Nigeria, Leaving Behind Trail of Environmental Degradation
I’ll never forget seeing the vast, charcoal wasteland left from a devastating oil spill in the village of Ebubu, in the heart of Ogoniland in Nigeria’s Niger Delta. The oil from a pipeline belonging to the Anglo Dutch oil group Shell had burst three decades before my visit, destroying the community’s streams and aquatic life.… Continue reading
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Wicked Leaks – Part 2: How The Media Quarantined Evidence On BP And Cancer In Iraq
In Part 1, we described how state-corporate media non-reporting of evidence relating to the sabotage of the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines on September 26 was an example of how the truth on key issues is increasingly being quarantined from public awareness by ‘mainstream’ media. Continue reading
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UN report names the world’s most polluted places
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment has identified the most polluted places on earth. In his annual report to the UN Human Rights Council, David Boyd describes these places as Sacrifice Zones, a term originally used for areas made uninhabitable by nuclear weapons tests. Continue reading
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Pollution Report: Oceans are ‘at the precipice of disaster’
A report released today by the International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN) and the National Toxics Network (NTN) says that rising levels of chemical and plastic pollution are major contributors to declines in the world’s fish populations and other aquatic organisms. Continue reading
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Judge Preska terminates all Zoom access to Donziger trial in effort to limit public access, say lawyers
U.S. trial judge Loretta Preska has denied all Zoom access to the upcoming contempt trial of human rights lawyer Steven Donziger in a widely condemned move that his lawyers say is designed to limit public access to an unprecedented one-sided trial run by a private Chevron prosecutor. Continue reading
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Africa, plastic-wrapped?
Five years ago this month, the UK took a step to cut back plastic use, slapping a 5p charge on plastic carrier bags. Two years later, Kenya did the same. But campaigners are worried Kenya could start going in the opposite direction if the American Chemistry Council, a powerful petrochemicals industry body, gets its way. Continue reading
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Book Review: Capitalist Pigs: Pigs, pork, and power in America
How pigs became commodities and key elements of the interlocked social, economic and political institutions of US capitalism. Continue reading
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Lockdown: Locking in the New Global Order
On 12 March, British PM Boris Johnson informed the public that families would continue to “lose loved ones before their time” as the coronavirus outbreak worsens. Continue reading
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As the ocean waters rise, so do the islands of garbage: The 30th Newsletter 2019
26 July 2019 — The Tricontinental The Thirtieth Newsletter (2019) by Vijay Prashad Dear Friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 12 July 2019, a twelve-year-old girl from Gresik (Indonesia), Aeshnina Azzahra, wrote a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump. The letter was delivered to the U.S. embassy in Jakarta and Continue reading
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Exposing the Dirty Business Behind the Designer Label By Michelle Chen
Even before it gets worn once, that new T-shirt you bought is already dirtier than you can imagine. It’s soaked through with toxic waste, factory smog and plastic debris—all of which is likely just a few spin cycles away from an incinerator, or maybe a landfill halfway around the world. Our obsession with style rivals… Continue reading
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Fine dust and fossil capital in Korea
There is a good reason why there are blue skies in much of the United States while those of us living in Northeast Asia are choking — most of their factories have moved over here. Continue reading
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Surrounding land left highly toxic after Grenfell Tower inferno By Thomas Scripps
The preliminary findings of a study into the widespread presence of toxic substances in the area around the fire that destroyed Grenfell tower in London were published in the journal Chemosphere. Continue reading
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Inspections and pollution tests drop as Environment Agency sheds thousands of staff
The EA has shed the equivalent of more than 2,500 full-time jobs (20% of its workforce) since 2013. In a statement, Minister for the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) George Eustice said nearly 1,000 EA staff – all of which were in corporate services such as finance, HR and IT – have… Continue reading
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It’s time to break up capitalism’s love affair with plastic By Amy Leather
A valuable invention is massively misused in the service of profit, producing unprecedented waste and pollution. How can we stop the plastic plague? Continue reading
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CAPITALISM COULD COST US THE EARTH!
Capitalism, society’s first industrial society, has economically raped this planet in order to maximise profit. Capitalism only recognises costs when they are paid for. Anything which reduces paid costs improves profit margin. One way to reduce cost price is to dump or pump pollution into the planet’s digestive tract, which is free, and hope it… Continue reading
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Please Sign Now! Zero tolerance for plastic
Thanks to public outcry, the European Commission proposed a new law to reduce single-use plastics and stem the huge tide of plastic waste. [3] Unfortunately some EU countries are likely under pressure from the plastic industry to derail this hopeful proposal for our environment. [4] But we still have a chance to make the Commission’s… Continue reading
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‘Poison Papers’: US and Canadian Regulators Colluded with Manufacturers of Highly Toxic Substances
3 May 2018 — TRNN Dr. Jonathan Latham explains how the EPA and Canada’s Health Protection Branch concealed fraudulent tests of dangerous pesticides Continue reading
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Sadiq Khan’s ‘T-Charge’ to tackle air pollution is essentially a nonsense. Here’s why
Khan’s T-Charge will do little in reality to “safeguard Londoners” from air pollution. Because as the Mayor’s own research shows, the impact of the charge on emissions will be minimal. TfL concludes that, in the first year, NOx emissions will be reduced by only 0.5%, and PM10 emissions by 0.3%. Continue reading
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Media: ‘Climate Change Is Making These Facilities Even More Dangerous’
Janine Jackson interviewed Shaye Wolf about Hurricane Harvey’s toxic aftermath for the September 8, 2017, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Continue reading
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Media: 'Climate Change Is Making These Facilities Even More Dangerous'
Janine Jackson interviewed Shaye Wolf about Hurricane Harvey’s toxic aftermath for the September 8, 2017, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Continue reading
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