pollution

‘Drop Rockwool’: Retailers Urged To Boycott Insulation Maker

July 22, 2019 By Anne Meador, Dcmediagroup.us Resist! pollution, Protest Demonstrations, West Virginia, Workers

Several Jefferson County, W.Va., residents demonstrated at home improvement retailers in Gaithersburg, Md., in an effort to pressure them to ban Rockwool insulation products from their shelves. They object to Rockwool North America, a division of the Danish Rockwool Group, siting a mineral wool factory in their county–one which will burn coal and gas in close proximity to public schools. This was the first in a series of demonstrations at Lowe’s and Home Depot stores regionally, organizers of Resist Rockwool say.

Climate Change Is A Poor People’s Issue

July 19, 2019 By Mallika Khanna, Otherwords.org Educate! Climate Change, Corporations, pollution

If you’ve read anything about climate change over the past year, you’ve probably heard about the IPCC report that gives a 12-year deadline for limiting climate change catastrophe. But for many parts of the world, climate change already is a catastrophe. Recently in Bihar, one of the poorest states in India, more than 40 people were killed by a severe heat wave in just one day. A study by UNICEF suggests that “in the next decade, 175 million children will be hit by climate-related disasters in South Asia and Africa alone.” Closer to home, Miami’s steady sinking is depleting useable drinking water at an alarming rate.

‘Astonishing’ Texas Legal Win Tops Decades Of Clean-Water Heroism

July 18, 2019 By Robert S. Becker, Nationofchange.org Resist! Activists, pollution, Texas, Water

Sometimes, unstoppable anti-pollution champions must get their feet wet. Literally, in polluted bays. Long on need yet short on cash for pricey consultants, clean water champions along the Gulf of Mexico’s Lavaca Bay (Texas) refused to accept that industry power and government indifference could openly poison their backyard. A successful court fight to stop Formosa Plastics’ ongoing illegal wastewater discharges of plastic pollution into the Bay and nearby waterways demanded hard, extensive evidence.

US Military Is A Bigger Polluter Than As Many As 140 Countries – Shrinking This War Machine Is A Must

June 29, 2019 Benjamin Neimark, Oliver Belcher, Patrick Bigger, Theconversation.com Educate! pollution, US military, Wars and Militarism

The US military’s carbon bootprint is enormous. Like corporate supply chains, it relies upon an extensive global network of container ships, trucks and cargo planes to supply its operations with everything from bombs to humanitarian aid and hydrocarbon fuels. Our new study calculated the contribution of this vast infrastructure to climate change. Greenhouse gas emission accounting usually focuses on how much energy and fuel civilians use. But recent work, including our own, shows that the US military is one of the largest polluters in history, consuming more liquid fuels and emitting more climate-changing gases than most medium-sized countries.

Victory In Illinois: Coal Plant Found Guilty Of Polluting Groundwater With Coal Ash

June 26, 2019 Ruth Milka, Nationofchange.org Create! Coal Mining, Illinois, pollution, Water Pollution

“Today is a huge victory for Waukegan residents who have fought for years to see corporations like NRG Energy held accountable for the toxic waste that has been illegally dumped on our Lake Michigan lakefront.” The Illinois Pollution Control Board’s interim order has ruled that NRG Energy’s Waukegan Generating Station is responsible for polluting groundwater with coal ash. The Waukegan plant, which is located on Lake Michigan’s shoreline, is one of four Illinois plants accused by the Sierra Club and other environmental groups of breaking state pollution laws and regulations.

Front Line Battles, Climate Change And Chaos Investors

June 20, 2019 Eleanor Goldfield, Occupy.com Resistance Report Climate Change, pollution

Updates from two front line climate fights – in the ancient forests of northern California and the harbor of New York City. Next, the biggest polluter on the planet is also the largest terrorist organization. Here's what we need to reckon with when it comes to legitimately fighting climate change, unifying across false divisions and really addressing the ills perpetuated by our system --- one of which includes BlackRock. Diana Best with BlackRock's Big Problem sits down with us to talk about the shadowy world of asset management and global chaos capitalism.

Report: Department Of Defense Is A Massive Climate Polluter

June 14, 2019 Staff, Watson.brown.edu Educate! Climate Change, Department of Defense, pollution

Scientists and security analysts have warned for more than a decade that global warming is a potential national security concern. They project that the consequences of global warming – rising seas, powerful storms, famine and diminished access to fresh water – may make regions of the world politically unstable and prompt mass migration and refugee crises. Some worry that wars may follow. Yet with few exceptions, the U.S. military’s significant contribution to climate change has received little attention.

All-American Torture Camps, It’s Raining Plastic & Oil Companies Dig It

May 14, 2019 Eleanor Goldfield, Occupy.com Resistance Report Alabama, Environment, Plastic, pollution, Prisons

Human rights violations are rife in Alabama prisons – meanwhile, the Alabama Department of Corrections continues to overcrowd these torture centers while blaming mistreatment on staff shortages. Next up, we are effectively laminating our planet in plastic. And while the public recognition of plastic's evil and long life is growing, there are several aspects of this industry we don't talk about – and we really need to.

Activists Deliver Giant Trash Monsters To Nestlé Headquarters To Protest Plastic Pollution

April 30, 2019 Maddie Stone, Earther.gizmodo.com Resist! Nestle, Plastic, pollution, Protests

Plastic pollution in the oceans is a huge, disgusting problem. Which is why it’s pretty fitting that Greenpeace decided to raise awareness of one company’s contributions with huge, disgusting trash monsters. On Tuesday, Greenpeace activists hauled a 15-foot-tall heap of garbage, artfully crafted to resemble one of those deep sea fish that’s about 90 percent jowl, out in front of the Nestlé’s U.S. headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. An even bigger trash monster was delivered earlier in the day to the company’s global headquarters in Switzerland, while similar leviathans cropped up in Italy, Kenya, and the Philippines, Greenpeace oceans campaigner Kate Melges told Earther in a phone interview.

A Tale Of Two Toxic Cities

March 5, 2019 By Sharon Lerner, Theintercept.com Educate! EPA, pollution, Toxic Chemicals

After a crucial division of the Environmental Protection Agency reassessed the dangers of two key pollutants — ethylene oxide and chloroprene — the risk of cancer from air pollution shot up in many communities around the country. In 109 census tracts around the United States, the risk was suddenly unacceptable, according to the EPA’s own standards. Yet the agency didn’t take the next logical step: regulating these compounds or limiting emissions to protect residents from exposure. Instead, what happened next depended on where these hotspots were — and who was living there.

Lake Erie Just Won The Same Legal Rights As People

March 1, 2019 By Sigal Samuel, Vox.com Create! Ohio, pollution, Reform, Water

It started in a pub. A handful of people, hunched over beers in Toledo, Ohio, were talking about a water crisis that had plagued the city in 2014. The pollution of Lake Erie had gotten so bad that it had taken a serious toll on their lives. The government, they felt, wasn’t doing enough to protect the lake. And so they wondered: What if the lake could protect itself? The idea they hatched that night ultimately resulted in a special election, which had the citizens of Toledo voting Tuesday on a very unusual question: Should Lake Erie be granted the legal rights normally reserved for a person?

TVA Votes To Close 2 Coal Plants, Despite Political Pressure From Trump And Kentucky GOP

February 16, 2019 James Bruggers, Insideclimatenews.org Resist! Coal, Electoral Politics, pollution, Utilities

Brushing aside pleas from coal-friendly politicians, Tennessee Valley Authority's board voted Thursday to retire a 49-year-old coal-fired power plant in Kentucky. President Donald Trump and the state's top elected officials had fought to keep it open, even though TVA concluded it would be too expensive to do so. In the past week, Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin and Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had argued in media postings and at a rally that burning coal at the Paradise power plant was essential to their state's economy and to national security. Trump weighed in on Twitter, saying "coal is an important part of our electricity generation mix."

‘Resist Rockwool’ Holds Sit-In Of Senator Joe Manchin Office

February 15, 2019 By Anne Meador, Dcmediagroup.us Resist! Electoral Politics, Occupation, pollution, Sit-In, West Virginia

Washington, DC — West Virginia residents occupied U.S. Senator Joe Manchin’s office today to demand he take a position on a controversial factory under construction in the Eastern Panhandle. U.S. Capitol Police arrested eleven protesters when they blocked the doors and hallway outside the office. Forty-two residents of Jefferson County, W.Va., and surrounding areas, organizing under the name “Resist Rockwool,” traveled to Washington to demand a meeting with Senator Manchin. He had just cancelled a townhall meeting scheduled later this month at Shepherd University which was to focus on the Rockwool insulation fiber plant.

EPA Criminal Action Against Polluters Hits 30-Year Low

January 19, 2019 Ellen Knickmeyer, AP.org Educate! EPA, pollution

WASHINGTON—The Environmental Protection Agency hit a 30-year low in 2018 in the number of pollution cases it referred for criminal prosecution, Justice Department data show. The EPA said in a statement that it is directing “its resources to the most significant and impactful cases.” But the 166 cases referred for prosecution in the last fiscal year is the lowest number since 1988, when Ronald Reagan was president and 151 cases were referred, according to Justice Department data obtained by the nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility advocacy group and released Tuesday.

New U.S. Oil And Gas Drilling To Unleash 1,000 Coal Plants’ Worth Of Pollution By 2050

January 18, 2019 Alexander C. Kaufman, Huffingtonpost.com Educate! Coal Mining, Drilling, Oil, pollution

The great American fracking boom threatens to undermine efforts to avoid climate catastrophe in this century. Amid mounting calls to phase out fossil fuels in the face of rapidly worsening climate change, the United States is ramping up oil and gas drilling faster than any other country, threatening to add 1,000 coal plants’ worth of planet-warming gases by the middle of the century, according to a report released Wednesday. By 2030, the U.S. is on track to produce 60 percent of the world’s new oil and gas supply, an expansion at least four times larger than in any other country. By 2050, the country’s newly tapped reserves are projected to spew 120 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere.

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