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W. Kamau Bell Explains Why He Hates Science — Just Like Mitt Romney [Video]
by Jorge Rivas on October 17 2012, 10:36AM
In the second video in the “Actually…” series, W. Kamau Bell explains why he hates science just like Mitt Romney.
Topics: Environment, /NOW Blog
Texas Settlement Could Be Blueprint for Disaster Recovery
by Michelle Chen on June 8 2010, 10:59AM
While the government struggles to confront the mounting catastrophe on the Gulf Coast, a legal settlement in Texas is set to put hundreds of millions in long overdue relief funds into the hands of disaster victims. Since the 2008 hurricane…
Topics: Environment
Abandoning Justice for Power in South Africa
by Michelle Chen on April 19 2010, 8:00AM
South Africa has been struggling for over a decade to overcome the vestiges of apartheid, and to this day is constantly challenged by racial conflict and socioeconomic inequality. And as if there weren’t enough obstacles strewn in the country’s rocky…
Topics: Environment, Global Affairs
by Michelle Chen on November 19 2009, 7:10AM
Greenpeace has earned a reputation as the quintessential radical environmental group, facing down oil tankers and crusading against nuclear plants. Today, the organization’s new executive director, a veteran of racial justice struggles in Africa, is tipping the group’s focus…
Topics: Environment, Global Affairs
Rinku Sen and Billy Parish: Young, Green, and Broke
by Rinku Sen on October 6 2009, 8:08AM
This piece was coauthored with Billy Parish of the Energy Action Coalition; it originally appeared at the Huffington Post. Last week, the Labor Department reported that youth unemployment stands at 18.2%, nearly twice the national average of 9.8%. The percentage…
Topics: Economy, Environment
Florida: No Job Creation, No Stimulation
by Debayani Kar on October 2 2009, 8:09AM
Today, Vice President Joe Biden announced specific benchmarks that the federal government will use to determine whether the Recovery Act has been a success. But none of his benchmarks include numbers of jobs created. October will see the roll out…
Topics: Economy, Environment
by Channing Kennedy on September 6 2009, 11:01AM
Van Jones, special adviser on green jobs to President Obama, has resigned. The text of his statement follows: I am resigning my post at the Council on Environmental Quality, effective today. On the eve of historic fights for health care…
Topics: Environment
Choosing Between Cancer and the Ozone
by Leticia Miranda on August 26 2009, 11:26AM
The California Department of Pesticide Regulation is looking at using methyl iodide, a known carcinogenic that’s used in very small amounts to induce cancer in research specimens, on California’s strawberry fields. But it’s ok because they’re preserving the ozone…
Topics: Environment
Caption Contest Post Has Moved!
by Channing Kennedy on August 25 2009, 1:57PM
Hey all: Thanks for participating! Head on over to the new caption contest post, and bring your A game! Last week’s winner below the jump. ——————————————————————— AND SPEAKING OF: Last week’s winner is (drumroll please) RaceWire commenter tonymacias, with: “Y’all…
Topics: Environment, Media, Video & Multimedia
Ignore the Haters, Sierra Club!!: Open Letter to Allison Chin
by Adrienne Maree Brown on July 29 2009, 5:13PM
Dear Allison, Yesterday, the Sierra Club published a post on their Insider blog - “Yep, We’re Too White”. It’s a very short post highlighting that last week, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson called for more “diversity” in environmental movements, and you,…
Topics: Environment
What Race Really Has to Do with The CA Central Valley’s Fight for Water
by Leticia Miranda on July 16 2009, 4:50PM
Thanks to one of our readers and a local listener-supported radio station here in the Bay Area, I was promptly corrected about what the real racial politics are when it comes to water in the Central Valley. As an…
Topics: Environment
by Leticia Miranda on July 3 2009, 2:58PM
That’s the question Chevron is asking Richmond, CA. This Wednesday, a Contra Costa Superior Court Judge sided with environmentalists and community groups in a lawsuit against the refinery to stop the company from manufacturing cruder types of oil until…
Topics: Environment
by Michelle Chen on June 9 2009, 2:53PM
Pollution is all around us, but the toll it takes on our bodies is often invisible. To understand the physical legacy of environmental toxins, dirty air and chemical products, environmental justice activists as well as federal agencies have begun…
Topics: Environment, Health
What Disaster Could Look Like in Southern California
by Jorge Rivas on May 20 2009, 9:52AM
A 4.1 earthquake struck Los Angeles County yesterday afternoon about two miles north of the epicenter from another 4.7 temblor on Sunday. Los Angeles has experienced two earthquakes in the last week that are relatively strong compared to the…
Topics: Environment
by Michelle Chen on May 15 2009, 9:20PM
Do we care more about the chemicals on the tomatoes in the produce aisle than the people who pick them? Sarah Newman at Alternet writes that the green veneer of organic food often masks exploitative labor conditions, as major…
Topics: Environment
Now It’s Official: The Poor and People of Color Get the Dirty Air
by Guest Columnist on May 6 2009, 9:36AM
by Nina Jacinto This post originally appeared on Wiretap. Last week, researchers at the University of Massachusetts and the University of Southern California released a study that confirms what many people are all too familiar with: toxic pollution falls disproportionately…
Topics: Environment
by Michelle Chen on April 28 2009, 9:10PM
An environmental justice struggle in the heart of Indian Country took a new turn on Monday, with a decision by the Obama administration to reconsider a permit for a proposed power plant in New Mexico. The planned Desert Rock…
Topics: Environment
Indigenous perspectives on climate change
by Michelle Chen on April 27 2009, 9:26PM
Representatives of indigenous peoples from around the planet convened in Anchorage, Alaska last week to discuss the challenges that climate change poses to their communities. The Indigenous People’s Global Summit on Climate Change called for holistic solutions to global…
Topics: Environment, Global Affairs
by Julianne Hing on April 22 2009, 5:11PM
via The Nation by Melissa Harris-Lacewell There is no doubt that green is the new black. Suburbanites compete to have bigger recycling bins than garbage cans, to grocery shop using canvas bags, and to park hybrid cars in their…
Topics: Environment
by Michelle Chen on April 22 2009, 2:21PM
On this Earth Day, those of us living in a world of carbon offsets and tempeh may want to step back and contemplate the most environmentally burdened communities, at home and abroad, for whom sustainability isn’t a matter of…
Topics: Environment, Global Affairs
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