Water

Judge Determines Flint Residents Can Sue US Government For Water Crisis

April 29, 2019 Andrew Emett, Nationofchange.org Resist! Flint, Lawsuit, Water

A federal judge recently determined that residents of Flint, Michigan have the right to file lawsuits against the U.S. Environment Protection Agency (EPA) for failing to immediately intervene on their behalf. Although U.S. Judge Linda Parker stated that the EPA was aware of the lead from corrosive pipes and that Michigan regulators were lying to Flint residents, Judge Parker did not rule on the EPA’s negligence. Agreeing to temporarily switch from Detroit’s water supply to the Flint River in April 2014, residents in the city of Flint immediately noticed their tap water appeared cloudy while emitting a pungent odor.

Born Out Of Occupy: Project 222

April 21, 2019 Alex Fan Moniz, Popular Resistance Organize! Food and Agriculture, Housing, Occupy, Water

To think that Project 222 was born with a bang. Real bang. Human dignity over spineless puppeteering. Winston was living in a tent at the time. It was the Fall of 2011, an eventful time around Pennsylvania Avenue. Thousands had massed and camped outside the White House gates. The Occupy Wall Street movement had spread like wildfire. DC would have to put an end to the cancerigenous economic injustices of America. The whole stratum had to be shaken off and rebuilt. Built anew. Winston had to do something meaningful. That was it, Project222.org: Every human being in America and the world had the right to live with a minimum of dignity: 2 gallons of clean water, 2000 calories a day, 200 ft3 of secure shelter.

Senate Goes Easy On Pentagon Polluters

April 10, 2019 Pat Elder, Civilian Exposure. Educate! Contamination, health, Military bases, Water

Ms. Maureen Sullivan, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Environment, testified in front of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on March 28, 2019. The hearing focused on the DoD’s actions related to carcinogenic perfluorinated chemicals found in fire-fighting foam routinely used in exercises at military bases around the world. The American military is poisoning people and the planet with these chemicals. My two U.S. Senators from Maryland, Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin, failed to subject Sullivan to serious questioning during this important hearing on the military’s response to lethal ground water contamination. Reading her testimony filled me with rage.

When Cities Shut The Water Off

April 2, 2019 By Maureen Taylor, Inequality.org Educate! Detroit, New Economy, Protests, Water

In 2014, the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department started its most recent egregious campaign of mass water shutoffs that targeted low-income, residential customers who were behind in payments. In June of that year, rumors started to surface about poisoned public water in Flint, Michigan. Both issues marked the start of long nights of terror for blue-collar workers, a terror that has not yet ended. Concerns over water were not new to those in the American Rust Belt, but never before had their ferocity and scale reached such depths.

Miami Bans The Use Of Glyphosate In A Step To Improve Water Quality

March 6, 2019 Ashley Curtin, Nationofchange.org Create! Florida, glyphosate, Water

Miami, Florida voted unanimously to ban the use of glyphosate by city departments and contractors. The controversial herbicide is the active ingredient in Monsanto’s – now Bayer after an acquisition took place over a year ago – popular weed-killer, Roundup. But concerns surrounding the safety and proliferation of glyphosate continue to grow and the city of Miami took it upon themselves to effectively enact the resolution right after passage, The Miami Times reported.

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?

Finding Hope In The Midst Of Climate Disruption

February 11, 2019 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG. Podcast Climate Change, Energy, Water

The climate crisis is no longer an abstract concept, it is here and it is getting worse. Each new report finds the temperatures are getting hotter, the ice is melting faster and the seas are rising, not to mention the storms, fires and droughts. In his new book, "The End of Ice," Dahr Jamail takes us on tour to the places where the impacts of climate disruption are evident. And he takes us on a tour of his personal journey through grief to acceptance and even hope. Jamail shows us the reality of the climate crisis and offers advice for how to relate to it in a meaningful way.

Pipeline Fighter Stops Mountain Valley Pipeline Work

February 1, 2019 Appalachians Against Pipelines. Resist! Climate Change, Mountain Valley Pipeline, Water

Pittsylvania County, VA — Friday morning, February 1, 2019, a pipeline fighter stopped work at a Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) worksite near Chatham, VA. The individual locked themself to a horizontal drill that is being used for ongoing construction of the pipeline. A banner at the protest site read “NO MVP,” and multiple supporters gathered on site with a banner that read “WATER IS LIFE - WE WON’T BACK DOWN.” “We do this for all life on earth, for the ones not yet brave enough to take a stand against the injustices of this world,” stated the anonymous pipeline fighter who took action today.

‘If the Water Is Rising, Then So Must We’: Indigenous Peoples March In Washington Against Global Injustice

January 19, 2019 By Jessica Corbett, Commondreams.org Resist! Climate Change, Indigenous Peoples, March, Water

"It's a collective cry for help because we're in a time of crisis," said one organizer. "Indigenous people from around the world are suffering from the same colonization." In an event described as "breathtaking, heartbreaking, strong, and beautiful," representatives from native communities around the world came together in Washington, D.C. on Friday for the first-ever Indigenous Peoples March. Organized as a rebuke to the violence and injustices that Indigenous Peoples often face—from the murder of native girls and women to police brutality to having unceded tribal lands torn away by colonizing governments and fossil fuel corporations—the march kicked off Friday morning outside the U.S. Interior Department.

Shutoffs Continue As The People Of Detroit Fight For Water As A Human Right

January 12, 2019 By Simon Albaugh, Occupy.com Resist! Detroit, Human Rights, New Economy, Water

Step onto downtown Detroit’s tiled sidewalks past the Kern Clock Tower and storefront restaurants and you’ll find Campus Martius. This small park at the center of the greatest comeback story in post-industrial America has become a symbol for life continuing after ruin. Climb into your car and drive down Woodward Avenue. Hear the bell of the QLine cars and the vibrant nightlife of the restaurants, clubs and concert halls. These are what leaders call signs of economic progress in a major city that the State of Michigan can finally take pride in. Now take a turn down any of the major bisecting streets. Drive past the Eastern Market or Wayne State University.

An Empire Of Bases Poisons Water, Threatening Its Own Collapse

December 5, 2018 Pat Elder, Worldbeyondwar.org Educate! Contamination, Military bases, US military, Water

Per-flouro octane-sulfo-nate or PFOS, and Per-flouro-octa-noic acid or PFOA, are the active ingredients in the foam routinely used to train soldiers to extinguish aircraft fires at U.S. military bases around the world. The toxic chemicals are allowed to leach into surrounding soil to poison groundwater. The result is one of the greatest water contamination epidemics in human history. Doubt that? Click on Google News and enter: “PFOS PFAO Military Base.” Then, come back and read the rest of this article – and brace yourself. It’s bad. The water in thousands of wells in and around U.S. military installations across the globe have been tested and have been shown to contain harmful levels of PFOS and PFOA.

The War For Survival

November 28, 2018 Leonard Peltier, Counterpunch.org Educate! Indigenous Peoples, Water, Water Protectors

Well here it is, sorry to say, another year, and I’m still writing to you from a prison cell. I am still in pain from my illnesses with no knowledge of whether I will ever get treatments for them. But I’m alive and still breathing hoping, wishing, praying for not just my pains, but for all Native Nations and the People of the World who care and have positive feelings about what is happening to Mother Earth and against the evils committed by Wasi’chu in their greed for HER natural resources . It doesn’t seem as if any changes for the good or safety of Mother Earth will happen soon. But the good-hearted People are fighting back, and some good People are winning in the struggles to beat back some of this evil and to make THE Changes...

Baltimore Joins Global Movement, Becoming The First Major U.S. City To Ban Water Privatization

November 19, 2018 Thomas M. Hanna, Inthesetimes.com Create! Baltimore, Privatization, Water

On November 6, Baltimore became the first major city in the United States whose residents voted to ban water privatization. Nearly 77 percent of voters cast ballots in favor of Question E, which declared the “inalienability” of the water and sewer systems and exempted them from any city charter provisions related to franchising or operational rights. This vote resulted from an ongoing struggle waged by Baltimore community activists, unions and civic leaders demanding affordable access to water for low-income residents. That struggle emerged in response to concern the city could sell off the community’s water infrastructure to for-profit investors. The vote is also part of an emerging worldwide movement to fight back against privatization and to municipalize or re-municipalize (put under public control) local enterprises and services.

Baltimore Voters Stand Up To Water Privatization

November 10, 2018 By Chuck Collins, Inequality.org Create! Baltimore, Electoral Politics, Privatization, Water

One interesting local victory on Tuesday was a vote by the citizens of Baltimore to amend the city’s charter to prohibit the privatization of their water and sewer system. In a rare instance of progressive preemption, the city’s voters told private water corporations to leave them alone. “Private corporations have been circling Baltimore for years, ramping up efforts to pitch a privatization effort,” said Rianna Eckel, an organizer with Food and Water Watch and a member of the coalition that pressed for the charter change. “Baltimore has an aging infrastructure and is under pressure from the EPA to upgrade our system.” Corporate vultures like water conglomerates Veolia, American Water, and Suez were lobbying to take over the system, with Suez and its Wall Street partner KKR proposing a 50-year lease.

Where Water Goes After Fracking Is Tied To Earthquake Risk

November 5, 2018 Staff, News.utexas.edu Educate! Earthquakes, Fracking, Water

In addition to producing oil and gas, the energy industry produces a lot of water, about 10 barrels of water per barrel of oil on average. New research led by The University of Texas at Austin has found that where the produced water is stored underground influences the risk of induced earthquakes. Beyond supporting the link between water disposal and induced seismicity, the research also describes factors that can help reduce earthquake risk. “If we want to manage seismicity, we really need to understand the controls,” said lead author Bridget Scanlon, a senior research scientist at UT’s Bureau of Economic Geology.

«1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 »

assetto corsa mods

Daily movement news and resources