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Nation article They try to overpower local residents and to build giant polluting factories, to have new markets for their oil production.

Biden and Haaland Save the Wilderness!

6 part Netflix series based on true events, but with the names changed.  The Journalist. Similar to "The Spotlight."

article. Oil and Gas Commission, Air Quality Commission, andiand Governor refuse to protect public health -and side with  polluting oil companies.

Tribal Court Case Against Line 3 Pipeline Is First to Invoke “Rights of Nature Update

League of Women Voters People for the American Way  Declaration for American Democracy Poor People's Campaign

California PUC proposes Stop Solar Power  $ 57 per month connection fee and lower rate paid for rooftop solar.  Utilities don't want competition from rooftop solar.   Florida's legislature just passed out of committee another bill to prevent rooftop solar.  Here...

Propublica story .  Utility company wants to leave its toxic coal fly ash in unlined pits.  One pit has over 16 million tons of this toxic coal ash.  "samples had revealed concerning levels of boron, calcium and sulfate — all indicators...

Great article.  Giant ponds of radioactive waste are kept here under the loophole of recycling it. The mill gets some uranium out of the waste, and then the mill puts the  tons of leftover waste into toxic ponds, some of which only...

Autumn is here! Good News: Local people in Namibia organized and stopped a dam from flooding their ancestral lands.   Forests: Good News. Land protected as parks and reserves has increased four fold . And countries have pledged to protect...

link  "social welfare programs — like public healthcare and childcare and parental leave, or even something like a Universal Basic Income"

This shows how Cambridge Analytica alumni political consulting companies use private detectives, smear campaigns, social media, bots, and individually  targeted posts, using cell phone data to tell which people went to a rally, a particular Catholic church, to other events, etc.- all to tailor political...

link Terri Gross also had an interview with  Bloomberg reporter Chafkin's book about Peter Thiel who founded Palantir, which does data mining and works with using our past " locations on our phones" , "when we log into social media", "to identify...

link ,  Natural Gas cos. Lie and  create fake social media posts to scare citizens to delay stopping the burning of natural gas for heating buildings

Autumn is coming! Here are some great links & information about what is going on in the world of environmental activism : Good News!“Each of us must experience one of two pains- the pain of discipline or the pain of...

Finding the Mother Tree, Suzanne Simard https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/may/08/finding-the-mother-tree-by-suzanne-simard-review-a-journey-of-passion-and-introspection   "Here's Suzanne Simard's 2016 TED talk about forest communication and cooperation. For me, this 17-minute talk provided an engaging framework for the sometimes detailed and repetitive information in her book about carbon...

Mature trees add more tissue each year - more than planting new tress. articles on keep the trees we have and plant and care for the trees: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/planting-trees-protect-forests-climate-change https://www.sciencenews.org/article/trees-crops-agroforestry-climate-biodiversity https://www.sciencenews.org/article/planting-trees-climate-change-carbon-capture-deforestation https://www.sciencenews.org/article/tasking-trees-with-averting-climate-crisis-big-ask

link  Biden and the USFS protect the immense 16 million Alaska forest "one of the world's largest intact temperate forests, the Tongass National Forest stores more than 1.5 billion metric tons of carbon and sequesters an additional 10 million metric...

Summer is here!  Here are some great links & information about what is going on in the world of environmental activism :  Good News!The first wolf pack in 80 years – 6 wolf pups are now living in CO with their...