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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RE-Volv Introduces "Pay-It-Forward" Strategy to Fund Solar Power in Communities
Rather than offering gradual return on an initial investment, donations to the San Francisco nonprofit are continually reinvested into solar installations.
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Report Reveals Fracking Is Depleting Water Supplies in America's Driest Places
Of the nearly 40,000 oil and gas wells drilled in the U.S. since 2011, three-quarters were located in areas where water is scarce, and more than half in areas experiencing drought.
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Impunity in West Virginia As Criminal Law-Breaking Polluters Still Walk Free
Freedom Industries, which failed to show up at a Congressional hearing this week, knew about the leak of toxic chemicals but chose purposely not to report them – one of many company crimes for which managers should be behind bars.
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1st Amendment On Trial As Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act Is Challenged in Boston
The five animal rights activists represented in the lawsuit say their right to free speech is being chilled by the law.
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Doom By Dithering: Why Nobody Wants to Face the Real Costs of Living by the Water
Cheered on by the real estate and building industries, Congress has fought the reality of climate change on our coasts.
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Solar Power Industry Now Employs More U.S. Workers Than Coal and Oil Combined
Jobs in solar energy are providing more than 143,000 Americans with a paycheck, a 20% increase from 2012.
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Food Fights, States Rights – and the Demand for Health We Won’t Be Denied
Activists are forcing Monsanto, big biotech and the Grocery Manufacturers Association to go defensive – and now it’s time to win.
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Seeking Climatic Shift, U.K. Pension Investments Are Starting to Undercut Big Oil
People invest money through pensions into industries that cause climate change, often unknowingly and against their own financial interest.
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It's Drought and Climate Change – Not Pot Growers – Killing the Salmon in Humboldt
Without rain in California, the water level won't rise, and so the salmon have spawned here, in water that is too warm, too full of sediment and too shallow.
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As Pipeline Protests Surge, California Weighs Risks of Importing Tar Sands and Fracked Gas
Four proposed oil-refinery projects in Northern California will likely increase the use of dirty tar sands crude from Canada and volatile oil fracked in North Dakota.
