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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Clearing the Air: A Green New Deal for Grenfell
Seeking justice for Grenfell residents enables us to ask bigger questions about ending environmental racism – and makes it possible to imagine communities and cities not consumed by the car.
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Act Out! [174] - How A Small Town Went From Toxic Lakes to Europe’s Greenest City
This week on Act Out, in the 70s, Växjö was a small polluted town nestled in the thick forests of southern Sweden. Today, it has been recognized by the EU as the greenest city in Europe. So, what happened?
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Act Out! [140] - Media Truth in a Post-Truth World; Dirty Mines on Your Dime, Pipelines & More
This week on Act Out, the explosive reality of the natural gas pipelines criss crossing our nation.
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Act Out! [108] - If Money Worries Disappeared + Paying for (Climate) Change
We must work to become ungovernable, and this means building in our own communities and working with each other to fill the chasms made by a corporate and capitalist oligarchy.
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The World Has Passed A Dangerous CO2 Pollution Threshold, But Climate Deniers Still Push U.S. Inaction
As we surpass dangerous CO2 pollution levels and the evidence of climate change is visible all over the U.S., we’re still a country ruled largely by climate change deniers. Worse still, we don’t seem all that concerned by that fact.
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EPA Plans to Allow Unlimited Dumping of Fracking Wastewater in the Gulf of Mexico
Environmentalists are warning the agency that its draft plan to continue allowing oil and gas companies to dump unlimited amounts of fracking chemicals and wastewater directly into the Gulf is in violation of federal law.
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Dirty Hands: 77 ALEC Bills in 2013 Advance a Big Oil, Big Ag Agenda
A new report reveals the American Legislative Exchange Council has pushed more than six dozen bills this year in 34 states that oppose renewable energy standards, support fracking and undermine environmental laws.
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Fracking: Coming Soon To Suburbia
The fracking industry has taken over the U.S., with more than 500,000 oil-producing wells located in rural and suburban land throughout the country in 2012.
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Why Did 28,000 Rivers in China Suddenly Disappear?
Pollution is destroying China's limited resources.
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Canadian and U.S. Native People Vow to Block Oil Pipelines
An alliance of Canadian and U.S. aboriginal groups vowed last week to block three multibillion-dollar oil pipelines that are planned to transport oil from the Alberta tar sands.
