The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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Biologists Warn Half of All Species to Face Extinction by 2100
"The living fabric of the world is slipping through our fingers without our showing much sign of caring," warned the conference of biologists, ecologists and economists that began Monday at the Vatican.
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Challenging London, Renewables Are Flexing Power Across the British Isles
From Scotland to Wales to Northern Ireland, renewable energy is growing and innovating, and a bottom-up green revolution is showing it can undercut a toxic national government in London.
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How a Russian Steel Oligarch and Putin Ally Is Profiting from the Keystone XL Pipeline
DeSmog has uncovered that 40 percent of the steel created so far for KXL was manufactured in Canada by a subsidiary of Evraz – a company partly owned by Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, who is a close ally of Putin and a Trump family friend.
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Legal Battles Over Wisconsin Pipeline Shines Light on Enbridge Woes
The Bad River Tribal Council voted in January to evict Enbridge’s Line 5 from tribal lands, arguing that the pipeline’s age poses a significant threat to tribal lands and water supplies.
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Iowa Pipeline Spills 138,000 Gallons of Diesel Fuel Mix
The accident happened roughly 200 miles northeast of where the Dakota Access Pipeline would enter Iowa from South Dakota.
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Trump Gives Green Light To Keystone, Dakota Access Pipelines
Well, that was fast.
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Pakistan Feels Warming Woes As Drought Hammers Crop Production
“This sickness of fish is an indicator of the worst climatic changes occurring in the region,” said Pakistan fisheries director Zubair Ali, and “will have negative impacts on many sectors, in particular food, water and energy.”
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Fighting the Black Snake At Two Rivers: How Standing Rock-Style Protest Came to West Texas
The 142-mile-long Trans-Pecos Pipeline would bring fracked gas to the small border city of Presidio, where it would continue on into northern Mexico – in the process crossing under the Rio Grande, threatening fragile water supplies.
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Nicaragua Joins Clean Energy Revolution, Vows 90% Renewables by 2020
In 2012, Nicaragua invested the fifth highest percentage worldwide of its GDP in developing renewable energy, and now it is reaping the benefits.
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Bayou Bridge Resistance: The Pipeline Fight Heads South
Opponents of a proposed pipeline through Louisiana’s fragile Atchafalaya Basin have vowed to halt its construction, starting with a vocal protest at a Jan. 12 public meeting being attended by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Baton Rouge.
