16 August 2018 (UN News) – A group of United Nations rights experts are urging the Japanese government to urgently protect tens of thousands or workers hired to help decontaminate the Fukushima nuclear plant, who are reportedly being exploited and exposed to toxic nuclear radiation.“Workers hired to decontaminate Fukushima reportedly include migrant workers, asylum seekers, […]
23 August 2018 (Desdemona Despair) – Amid all of the cries of “disgrace” and “witch hunt” from the capo of the Trump crime family, I’m reminded of another famous gang of New York mobsters taken down by Robert Mueller: the Gambino crime family.After the “Dapper Don”, John Gotti, was sent to prison, Gotti supporter Melissa […]
By Grace Segers 16 August 2018 (CBS News) – Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke suggested that climate change may have a role in the recent wildfires that have ravaged California. When asked by CBS News reporter Weijia Jiang whether he accepted that climate change was part of the problem, Zinke said “of course.” He also acknowledged […]
By Rachelle Krygier and Anthony Faiola 21 August 2018 CARACAS, Venezuela (The Washington Post) – Many Venezuelans rejected an opposition call for a national strike on Tuesday, warily going to work even as sweeping government measures aimed at curbing hyperinflation caused mounting confusion.With inflation hurtling toward 1 million percent and hunger spreading nationwide, President Nicolás […]
By Katharine Murphy 20 August 2018 (The Guardian) – Malcolm Turnbull will face the verdict of his colleagues in a tense party room meeting on Tuesday, after effectively abandoning the government’s signature energy policy in what could be a fruitless attempt to stay ahead of a full blown leadership crisis.The prime minister announced on Monday […]
By Frank Rich 6 August 2018 (New York Magazine– If you were standing in the smoldering ashes of 9/11 trying to peer into the future, you might have been overjoyed to discover this happy snapshot of 2018: There has been no subsequent major terrorist attack on America from Al Qaeda or its heirs. American troops […]
By Sydney Franklin 6 August 2018 (The Architect’s Newspaper) – Fast Company recently reported on the potential comeback of one of the most infamous building materials of recent memory. Asbestos is now legally allowed back into U.S. manufacturing under a serious of loopholes by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). As Fast Company reported, on June […]
By Lisa Friedman 17 August 2018 WASHINGTON (The New York Times) – The Trump administration next week plans to formally propose a vast overhaul of climate change regulations that would allow individual states to decide how, or even whether, to curb carbon dioxide emissions from coal plants, according to a summary of the plan and […]
By Emily Holden 14 August 2018 (POLITICO) – The Trump administration is preparing to unveil its plan for undoing Barack Obama’s most ambitious climate regulation — offering a replacement that would do far less to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the planet, according to POLITICO’s review of a portion of the unpublished […]
By Alexa Lardieri 14 August 2018 (U.S. News & World Report) – Florida Gov. Rick Scott declared a state of emergency for several counties suffering from the impacts of a prolonged red tide. According to the governor’s declaration , red tide is a naturally occuring algae that appears almost every year on Florida‘s Gulf Coast. […]
