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As many as 1 million of the estimated 8 million plant and animal species on Earth are at risk of extinction — many of them within decades — according to the scientists and researchers behind a new UN report. The assessment by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services is the most comprehensive […]
“We’re allowing these companies, a handful of very powerful companies, to really dominate the regulatory system, the political system, food policy matters, agricultural policy, in which we all are just exposed to pesticides and chemicals that can do harm to our health.”
How much power we will grant profit-driven corporations to determine not just what we’re exposed to, but what we’re permitted to know about it?
“The environmental community, the human rights community and the indigenous communities have really come together against border militarization.”
NPR did have a throwaway line about how Amazon was a “sponsor” of NPR, but it’s unclear how pointing out that the company you’re writing a press release for helped pay for the press release makes it any better.
“You don’t end a treatment for a serious illness halfway through because things are going well. You finish the treatment, you get yourself to recovery, and then you move forward.”
Like all discrimination, Islamophobia is political and personal, individual and institutional, subtle and not at all subtle.
The media’s focus on Scott Pruitt’s dizzying array of personal scandals obscures his absolute contempt for his agency’s stated mission: environmental protection.
The Supreme Court has just ruled that if a police officer doesn’t understand that they are violating your Constitutional rights–they aren’t.
The Supreme Court has OKed full implementation of Donald Trump’s Muslim travel ban—despite the fact that its constitutionality is still being challenged in lower courts.
“These are communities living in some of the worst air conditions in the country, because of all of these facilities, and then during storms, they get hit with an extra load of toxins. And that’s just not fair; these communities shouldn’t be having to live with this toxic burden.”
While plenty of coverage is skeptical of Trump, are media really understanding what the DACA program does—and doesn’t—mean for recipients?
“Yes, you do want to have protection for everyone. But by not focusing on the people who currently do not have those protections, you’re basically ensuring that they never will.”
For years, the existence of environmental racism, and the idea that it needs rectifying, had at least nominal government support; but now all bets are off.
“This is the way to shut down corporate accountability groups, environmental groups, human rights groups, and to silence them.”
“It’s really an environmental imperative to figure out how we can make things last as long as possible.”
“Samsung has found all sorts of creative ways, depending on which regulatory system they’re working under, to evade labor contract law and keep workers on these short-term contracts.”
Corporate Media’s main method of undermining the significance of what’s happening in North Dakota has been to simply ignore it. If that maneuver is failing, it’s due to independent media working to get the stories from Standing Rock out, despite on-the-ground intimidation and big media’s studied disinterest.
The Wall Street Journal published an article headlined “Environmental Groups Change Tune on Nuclear Power.” But major assertions in the Wall Street Journal article turn out to be either factually inaccurate, or to omit or spin important details.
The BP Deepwater Horizon disaster was even bigger than previously understood in terms of Gulf coastline oiled–as noted by NationalGeographic.com, one of a very few outlets to note the occasion beyond a “This Day In History” squib.
