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Environment
Whether it’s precipitation driven by strong storms or the lack of rain,
the weather has been changing — sometimes drastically. It used to be that
weather was one of those things you couldn’t change. You just had to
accept what came and make the best of it....
Posted Jun 1, 2011
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It’s beyond time to stop the ruling class in both the U.S. and Japan from
dumping human and financial costs onto the backs of the workers and poor of the
world....
Posted Apr 5, 2011
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The hearts of workers and the oppressed of the world go out to the Japanese
people who have been hit by an earthquake and tsunami and are now threatened
with nuclear disaster....
Posted Mar 23, 2011
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A three-part New York Times series on the danger of wastewater from natural gas drilling being discharged into rivers upstream from drinking water intake plants cited Pennsylvania’s lax control over drilling as a major problem. ...
Posted Mar 19, 2011
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After months of demonstrations and repeatedly packing the gallery at City
Council meetings, Frack Action Buffalo, a local grassroots group, and its
supporters celebrated a major victory. The city of Buffalo’s Common
Council became the first major city government in New York State — and
the second in the U.S. — to ban hydraulic fracturing for natural gas....
Posted Mar 3, 2011
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Excerpts from a talk at the Workers World Party
national conference given by Betsey Piette, an organizer of the Philadelphia
branch of WWP and a WW contributing editor....
Posted Dec 2, 2010
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With the close of the most recent round of climate talks in Tianjin, China,
which took place during the first week of October, the world is gearing up for
the next major talks in Cancún, Mexico, to begin in late November....
Posted Oct 24, 2010
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In what is but the latest in an all-too-long and frequent string of
environmental accidents involving natural gas drilling, a section of highway
near the town of Hughesville, Pa., located in the upper Susquehanna River
Valley was closed Oct. 9 after a low-boy trailer leaked an undetermined amount
of frack fluid....
Posted Oct 15, 2010
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Hundreds of activists from across Pennsylvania rallied and lobbied in the
capital of Harrisburg Sept. 22 for a moratorium on natural gas drilling and
against gas-industry-sponsored legislation designed to give the green light to
unfettered drilling in the Marcellus Shale that sits beneath much of the
state....
Posted Oct 9, 2010
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Evidence that Pennsylvania’s Department of Homeland Security is working
on behalf of the natural gas industry came to light in early September when
internal department bulletins were leaked to an anti-drilling listserve. The
department had contracted an Israeli-linked agency to spy on anti-drilling
activists....
Posted Sep 22, 2010
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Much of the focus on the rapid expansion of natural gas extraction through
hydrofracturing, or “fracking,” has centered on methane leaks and
chemical contamination of residential water wells. In Dimock, Pa., more than 15
residents sued Cabot Oil and Gas Corp., charging permanent damage to their
wells....
Posted Sep 10, 2010
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An effort to educate people on the dangers of rapidly expanding drilling for
natural gas in the Marcellus Shale region brought more than 500 people to the
Luzerne County Fairgrounds in northeastern Pennsylvania on Aug. 22. The Gas
Stock Festival offered an all-day event with bands, information tables, vendors
and a “soap box” section for speakers....
Posted Aug 26, 2010
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The race is already on in commodities markets worldwide to wring new fortunes
out of the climate catastrophe now raging in Russia. It’s a chilling
example of how capitalism works in a time of crisis....
Posted Aug 11, 2010
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On June 25 more than 300 people attending the U.S. Social Forum in Detroit
took part in a People’s Movement Assembly organized around global
ecological justice and environmental racism....
Posted Jul 15, 2010
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More than 300 people from the U.S., Canada and Latin America participated in a
vibrant People’s Movement Assembly at the U.S. Social Forum in Detroit on
June 25 to discuss global ecological justice and environmental racism....
Posted Jul 11, 2010
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Potentially toxic and carcinogenic chemicals are used in the hydraulic
fracturing process to obtain natural gas from shale. Whenever industry
officials are confronted with concerns regarding their use, their standard
answer is, “The chemicals account for less than 1 percent of the fluid
that is blasted underground.” The problem with this pat response is that they never say what these chemicals
are....
Posted Jul 8, 2010
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Excerpts from talks given by Teresa Gutierrez and Jen Waller at a Workers World Party/Fight Imperialism, Stand Together forum on June 11 in New York. Both Gutierrez and Waller attended the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, held from April 20-22 in Cochabamba, Bolivia....
Posted Jun 21, 2010
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Will the rapid, unregulated expansion of hydraulic fracturing to extract
natural gas give way to the next major disaster in the oil and gas industry?
Three separate accidents in just one week signify that this could happen....
Posted Jun 19, 2010
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It is an unforgettable, heartbreaking image. A seabird from Grand Island, La.,
lies in a basket, covered with a thick brownish layer of oil, gasping for air
and blinking its eyes as if in stunned amazement.
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Posted Jun 10, 2010
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Emem Okon traveled halfway around the world from Nigeria to Houston to attend
the annual stockholders meeting of Chevron Oil Company on May 27. But she and
13 others were denied entry despite having legal proxy credentials....
Posted Jun 7, 2010
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As millions of gallons of crude oil continue to spew into the Gulf of Mexico,
the owner of the collapsed oil rig that caused the disaster is trying
desperately to elude responsibility for what has already cost the lives of 11
workers and threatens to become the worst oil catastrophe in U.S. history....
Posted May 20, 2010
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Seven British Petroleum executives gathered on the Deepwater Horizon drilling
platform in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20 to “celebrate the
project’s safety record.” Considering the dismal past safety
performance of BP, the rig’s owner, this would seem to have been a hollow
exercise. Several miles below them, natural forces were preparing to spoil
their party in a deadly way....
Posted May 16, 2010
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I had the opportunity to attend the April 20-22 World People’s Conference
on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in Cochabamba, Bolivia, where
people from all over the world initiated a discussion about finding real
solutions to the climate crisis. During this conference, I attended an April 21
workshop called “Taking action against corporations that damage the
climate,” which brought up the Water Wars against Bechtel
Corporation....
Posted May 16, 2010
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In the Gulf of Mexico, a churning, swelling slick of dense, rust-colored oil
the size of Puerto Rico is threatening to overwhelm a huge portion of not only
the natural habitat, but also the human infrastructure of the entire
southeastern coast of the United States. The oil leak is an ongoing calamity
that some experts say could become the worst petroleum spill in history....
Posted May 6, 2010
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Despite industry claims that the rapidly expanding practice of hydraulic
fracturing to extract natural gas from deep underground shale layers is
“perfectly safe,” on April 15 the Pennsylvania Department of
Environmental Protection fined Houston-based Cabot Oil and Gas $240,000 for
causing the contamination of 14 residential water wells in Dimock Township,
Pa....
Posted May 6, 2010
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Thirty thousand people convened at the World People’s Conference on
Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in Cochabamba, Bolivia. The
conference, which took place from April 19-22, hosted people from more than 135
countries and 90 official state representatives. Climate activists, community
organizers, artists, musicians, scholars and workers from around the world
joined forces over the common goal of finding an effective and practical
solution to the climate crisis — a task that the rich, ruling countries
of the world proved, at the Copenhagen Climate Summit, that they are incapable
of accomplishing....
Posted Apr 28, 2010
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Faced with organized public opposition from Ohio to Pennsylvania, companies
that profit from the expansion of natural gas wells using hydraulic fracturing
in the Marcellus Shale region are engaged in a campaign to sell the idea that
the practice is entirely safe, despite mounting evidence to the contrary....
Posted Apr 18, 2010
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Plans by Pennsylvania to expand leasing of public land for shale gas drilling
are fueling a growing public concern over potential hazards to the environment
and drinking water supplies....
Posted Jan 23, 2010
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“Reflections” by Fidel Castro: The youth are more interested than anyone else in the
future. Until very recently, the discussion revolved around the kind of society
we would have. Today, the discussion centers on whether human society will
survive....
Posted Jan 10, 2010
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Ever since the Kyoto Protocol of 1997, which the United States never ratified,
the capitalist political establishment in Washington has focused on one thing:
trying to put the onus on China for the lack of any binding world agreement
that could prevent catastrophic climate change....
Posted Dec 23, 2009
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The International Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, which was two years
in the planning, ended in a train wreck. Nothing was arrived at: no treaty, no
deadlines, no binding agreement of any sort....
Posted Dec 23, 2009
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Across New York state and Pennsylvania dozens of environmental activist groups
are working to ban or limit the practice of hydraulic fracturing, or
“fracking.” Green Guerrillas’ Youth Media Tech Collective consists of youth of color
ages 15 through 19, who plan to create an online movie to expose the issues of
natural gas exploitation. Workers World spoke with members of the collective about their activities....
Posted Dec 20, 2009
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After a barrage of propaganda emanating from Washington and the big business
media, most people in the U.S. have been led to believe that any failure to
reach an agreement at the Copenhagen summit on climate change will be
China’s fault.
Nothing could be further from the truth....
Posted Dec 16, 2009
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Imagine finding methane and metals in your drinking water or having your water
well explode or catch on fire. Imagine getting thrown out of bed one morning as
your entire house is lifted off the ground from an explosion due to methane gas
build-up. These nightmares are a reality for a growing number of families whose
homes are located near natural gas drilling sites in New York, Pennsylvania,
Ohio and other states across the U.S....
Posted Dec 10, 2009
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On Oct. 24, International Climate Action Day, activists in 181 countries around
the world participated in over 5,200 events in an attempt to raise awareness
about the threats of climate change....
Posted Oct 30, 2009
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There's so much news about climate change that many people are
either numb or depressed by it all....
Posted Nov 21, 2007
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Will it really help save the planet from environmental ruin that former Vice
President Al Gore has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, along with the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change?...
Posted Oct 22, 2007
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In the capital of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the health of the
people and of the environment is high on the agenda of the revolutionary
process now underway....
Posted Aug 13, 2007
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