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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21 Tar Sands Resisters Arrested Blocking U.S. Oil Sands Project In Utah
On Monday, 80 protesters with Utah Tar Sands Resistance halted access to equipment where the company seeks to begin work on the first fuel-producing tar sands mine in the state.
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Exposed: United States Accused of Forcing European Union to Accept Tar Sands Oil
U.S. negotiators are working to permanently block a landmark regulatory proposal in the E.U. aimed at addressing climate change – and instead to force European countries to import the world's dirtiest oil.
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Is There Any Scientific Study – Not Sponsored By Industry – That Asserts Fracking Is Safe?
Extensive research and reports commissioned by the fracking industry are treated as seminal, informative works within the U.K. government – but to date, no one outside industry vouches for its safety.
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Grassy Narrows First Nation Demands Ontario Halt Clear-Cut Logging on Their Lands
The Premier of the Province, Kathleen Wynn, is being given another chance to respond to growing calls from the Indigenous community to protect their Territorial Rights.
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California Shuts Down Fracking Waste Sites Fearing Aquifer Contamination
Officials ordered the immediate closure of 11 oil and gas waste injection sites and a review of more than 100 others amid fears that companies pumped toxic fracking fluids into public drinking water.
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Tar Sands Protests Grow As Six Nations Halt Enbridge Pipeline Work In Ontario
“It is our law that we need to protect the land and the water so that our people will be here for another 9,000 years."
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What’s Killing the Children in Jadugora, India?
Before the uranium mines came, children did not crawl around in the dirt and die.
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Holy Divestment: World Council of Churches Pulls Plug on Fossil Fuel Investments
Campaigners hail "major victory" as council representing half a billion Christians says it will stop investing in fossil fuels.
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For $28K, TransCanada Buys Town’s Silence On Tar Sands Pipeline As Cancer Rates Rise
The as-yet-unapproved Energy East pipeline – the most expensive the company has ever proposed – would carry 1.1 million barrels of tar sands crude across Canada each day.
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Toying With Climate: Greenpeace Launches Protests to Rid Shell Oil Branding from Legos
The joint Shell/Lego relationship – which involves some 16 million Lego Ferrari-branded toy cars being distributed to kids at Shell stations around the world – is worth about $116 million.
