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09/02/22
Author: 
Erin McCormick
Tents lined up on San Pedro on skid row, in downtown Los Angeles. Photograph: Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images

Feb. 7, 2022

Untreated disease, violence, exposure, overdoses and car strikes are all added hazards of living on the streets

The number of Americans dying while homeless has surged dramatically in the past five years, an exclusive analysis by the Guardian in conjunction with an academic expert at the University of Washington has shown.

An examination of 20 US urban areas found the number of deaths among people living without housing shot up by 77% in the five years ending in 2020.

 

09/02/22
Author: 
Rob Gillies and Tracey Lindman
A protester affixes a flag to the top of a truck, parked beside another with a sign calling for the jailing of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, outside Parliament Hill, as a protest against COVID-19 restrictions continues into its second week in Ottawa on Monday, Feb. 7, 2022. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP)

Feb. 8, 2022

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Canada’s public safety minister said Monday that U.S. officials should stay out of his country’s domestic affairs, joining other Canadian leaders in pushing back against prominent Republicans who offered support for the protests of COVID-19 restrictions that have besieged downtown Ottawa for more than a week.

03/02/22
Author: 
The Energy Mix
EcoFlight - fracking

Feb. 2, 2022

The United States, Norway, and Canada are set to produce more oil this year than ever before, despite solemn pronouncements at last year’s COP 26 climate summit on the urgent need for climate action, Oil Change International asserts in a new analysis.

02/02/22
Author: 
C.J. Polychroniou
A group of students take part in a protest in support of the climate and against fossil fuel and other contributors to global warming in front of the United Nations on October 1, 2021, in New York City. SPENCER PLATT / GETTY IMAGES

Feb. 2, 2022

The Green New Deal proposal is one of the only effective, broadly recognized pathways to tackle the climate crisis and address its social and economic consequences. It is technologically possible and economically sustainable. Yet although the Green New Deal project is already under way in some shape or form in various states, it has yet to be scaled up to the national level. In fact, climate policy as a whole has been stalled in Congress, and the Biden administration has so far engaged more in symbolic gestures than in living policy processes.

30/01/22
Author: 
The NY ledger
Tanker and fisherman

Jan. 28, 2022

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Thursday canceled oil and gas leases of more than 80 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico, ruling that the Biden administration did not sufficiently take climate change into account when it auctioned the leases late last year.

30/01/22
Author: 
Brian Melley
This undated photo provided by Save the Redwoods League shows some of the 523 acres of redwood forestland in Mendocino County, Calif., which was donated to the InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council for lasting protection and ongoing stewardship. The conservation group is turning over a historic redwood grove on the Northern California coast to the descendants of the original Native American inhabitants. (Max Forster/Save the Redwoods League via AP)
 

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The descendants of Native American tribes on the Northern California coast are reclaiming a bit of their heritage that includes ancient redwoods that have stood since their ancestors walked the land.

Save the Redwoods League planned to announce Tuesday that it is transferring more than 500 acres (202 hectares) on the Lost Coast to the InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council.

30/01/22
Author: 
Mike Garrity

Jan. 28, 2022

Politicians and investor-owned utilities are now proposing small nuclear reactors in Montana to replace the old coal-fired power plants at Colstrip. For the last 44 years a successful Citizens’ Initiative banned nuclear power in Montana unless approved by the voters. But Republican majorities in the 2021 Montana legislature repealed the initiative and Republican Governor Gianforte signed the bill into law. There are similar proposals in Wyoming and Idaho.

24/01/22
Author: 
System Change Not Climate Change

Jan 23, 2022

You Can watch the webinar here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJkHFPk_hqg

During our Plastics Pollution webinar in October 2021, audience members requested an event at which solutions are discussed. And so . . . this webinar!

18/01/22
Author: 
Liisa LadouceurContributor
A new initiative is providing a glimpse into Canada’s revolving door with Big Tech, writes Liisa Ladouceur of FRIENDS.  JOSH EDELSON / AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES FILE PHOT

Jan. 17, 2022

New research is shedding light on a revolving door of career moves between public policy teams at Big Tech firms and federal public offices.

Canadians have been served a familiar dish of election promises aimed at taking on the American web giants. But our governments have demonstrated a knack for aggressive procrastination on this file.

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