The runoff for Georgia’s Public Service Commission is a referendum on the powerful energy company Georgia Power.
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British chicken driving deforestation in Brazil’s ‘second Amazon’ | TBIJ
Soya used to feed UK livestock linked to industrial-scale destruction of vital tropical woodland
Read More »The science is in: Nuclear is out | Beyond Nuclear International
As many recent articles have shown clinging onto old nuclear plants and building new ones actually impedes progress on climate change.
Read More »What Congress Needs to Know About Pending Nuclear Waste Legislation | Briefing | EESI
Friday, November 13 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Online at www.eesi.org/livecast A live webcast will be streamed at 2:00 PM EST at www.eesi.org/livecast (wireless connection permitting) The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) invites you to join us for an online briefing about pending nuclear waste legislation, including amendments to the Nuclear Waste Policy Act and other bills, which would ...
Read More »Hiltzik: Nuclear contamination makes Santa Susana a landmark | LATimes
The time has come for us to make sure that we hold the polluters accountable
Read More »Armenia: Fears Over Nuclear Waste | Institute for War and Peace Reporting
The volume of radioactive waste that has accumulated for years due to a lack of safe disposal options means that a solution is urgently needed
Read More »Forming a ‘More Perfect Union’ Through Indigenous Values | Orion Magazine
How might we unlock hope in an expansive spirit of democracy for present and future generations in this time of upheaval? This new conversation series on “The State of American Democracy” invites us to explore this question with some of our most creative thinkers and public intellectuals. The first episode on September 17, 2020, focuses on the moral foundations of ...
Read More »The Dying Planet Report 2020 | CounterPunch.org
The World Wildlife Foundation, in collaboration with the Zoological Society of London, recently issued an eye-popping description of the forces of humanity versus life in nature
Read More »In Secretly-Recorded ‘Pebble Tapes,’ Mining Execs Reveal True Scope of 200-Year Project Planned for One of Earth’s ‘Most Pristine Ecosystems’ | Common Dreams
Two mining executives speak openly about their plans to build a large, long-term mine at Bristol Bay's headquarters in western Alaska—not a small 20-year project
Read More »Feds close door on new LANL environmental study | santafenewmexican.com
Officials said there was no need for a new sitewide study because little has changed overall in the past 12 years....
Read More »Brazilian meat giant trucked cattle from deforested Amazon ranch | TBIJ
A Facebook post suggests the JBS's own trucks transported cows from an illegally deforested farm in the Amazon to a "clean" farm that supplies its abattoirs, or slaughterhouses.
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