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Protect Public Health by Organizing Against Climate Change, Against Big Oil, and for a Green New Deal
https://grist.org/fix/want-to-prevent-the-next-pandemic-this-doctor-is-prescribing-climate-action
Fighting Big Oil and Climate Change will prevent air and water pollution and toxic waste.
https://grist.org/climate/world-health-leaders-are-calling-for-a-green-recovery-from-coronavirus
Here is Colorado, the Suncor refinery keeps spilling toxic solvents into the rivers, groundwater , and the air. Daily Camera .
Antonia Juhasz interviews about the Suncor oil refinery pollution and activist responses.
Oil Refineries and Fracking Poison People and Trump/Overturn Local Laws
stop cleaning up the toxic emissions into the Mississippi River and into the air; and clean up the lead in neighboring homes.
enforcement and inspections down 70%.
https://grist.org/justice/will-state-level-environmental-enforcement-survive-the-pandemic
more fracking permits and more pollution of neighboring communities
fracking flowback air pollution in Broomfield, CO, continues next to senior community where Covid-19 harms the ability to breath.
https://grist.org/justice/coronavirus-retirees-sheltering-in-place-colorado-fracking
interview with Antonia Juhasz on KGNU on 5-5-28 or 5- 27 or 26 on Suncor refinery in Denver polluting Sandy Creek and accused of causing nosebleeds and cancer in the neighboring lower income community.
Military = Major Greenhouse Gas Polluter
Plus military focuses on wars over oil, minerals, water, land, and shipping routes. It protects oil fields, refineries, pipelines, and shipping routes. It controls rivals’ access to oil and refined oil. It sets prices to enrich US and allies and to weaken rivals. Also, it controls who gets to buy, refine, and sell oil. It maintains spheres of influence.
Posted on November 13, 2015
Bacigalupi Thrillers about Drought, Rising Seas, & Loss of Biodiversity
The Water Knife is a detective thriller set amidst drought refugees and physical battles between cities over water. It has romance, murder, gangs, chases, and journalists.
The Windup Girl is about a future of GMOs, rising sea levels, hunger, loss of species of food crops, racial blaming, and hunger after terminator genes wipe out many food varieties. Oil is gone. It is a very violent.
Drowned Cities and Ship Breaker are about societies where the oil based energy system is gone, and people struggle in gangs over the spoils or else move on to wind-powered ships.
Zombie Baseball Beatdown is about middle schoolers battling GMO mad cows from a slaughter house. It also touches on bullying, discrimination against immigrants, corporate power over local government, and friendship.
The Doubt Factory is about radicals protesting against toxic products . It focuses on a high school girl’s relationship to her father, who is doing the fake pr for tobacco, pesticide, drug, and oil companies. She is attracted to rebellious radicals who want to expose the corporate PR.
Posted on September 22, 2015
Save the Clean Water Act along with the Streams, Wetlands and Lakes from Oil Companies.
Please click and comment to the EPA ant the Amy Corps of Engineers. Here is an alert from the Waterkeepers.
The last chance to comment on a Trump administration proposal that would gut the Clean Water Act is April 15. The proposal, which has no basis in science, would be disastrous for our waterways, removing safeguards from historically protected rivers, streams, lakes, wetlands, and other waters.
SUBMIT YOUR COMMENT
Just as a child with the flu can infect a whole classroom, pollution in these waterways could taint all the waters they connect with, imperiling drinking water sources and endangered species from coast to coast.
Just a few examples:
Sixty percent of creeks and streams in California could lose Clean Water Act protection.
The Central Closed Basin, a 14,605-square-mile sub-watershed of the Rio Grande, stretching from Albuquerque into Mexico, could lose protection.
Irrigation ditches that run for 250 miles along just one creek in the Rogue River watershed could lose protection.
Montana’s Big Hole River, home to the last native sustaining population of Arctic Grayling in the lower 48 United States, could lose protection.
Our complete work on this proposal is here.
“It’s vital to the health of our larger rivers that these smaller rivers are protected,” says Wade Fellin, program director of Upper Missouri Waterkeeper.
All our waters deserve protection. Speak up now to preserve the Clean Water Act’s protections for waterways around the country. We are close to 5,000 comments from our supporters. Please share this with a friend and help us get there!
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