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Environment & Health

A drone view of Enea Power Station in Połaniec on July 28, 2022.
Op-Ed
Environment & Health

Carbon Capture Won’t Work, But It Will Funnel Billions to Corporations

Fossil fuel interests persuaded the government to waste billions on false schemes that don’t solve the climate crisis.
by
Wenonah Hauter,
Truthout
July 31, 2022
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The nursing home industry has developed a strategy of pursuing grandchildren, neighbors and others to collect on debt.
News
Environment & Health

Nursing Homes Are Suing the Friends and Family of Residents to Collect Debts

The nursing home industry has developed a strategy of pursuing grandchildren, neighbors and others to collect on debt.
by
Noam N. Levey,
Kaiser Health News
July 30, 2022
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President Joe Biden is pictured during a meeting with CEOs in the South Court Auditorium of the Executive Office Building on July 28, 2022.
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Environment & Health

369 Groups Tell Biden to Reject Manchin’s Big Oil “Handouts” in Reconciliation

The groups said that expanding fossil fuels’ grip over the energy sector is unacceptable as climate crises worsen.
by
Sharon Zhang,
Truthout
July 29, 2022
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Smokestacks at the Baytown Exxon gas refinery are pictured on March 23, 2006, in Baytown, Texas.
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Environment & Health

ExxonMobil Is Counting on Trump-Chosen Judge to Undermine Right to Sue Polluters

A new ruling in “Environment Texas v. ExxonMobil” is expected in August. This time, a Trump-nominated judge is involved.
by
Josephine Lee,
Truthout
July 29, 2022
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Chairman Sen. Joe Manchin talks with the media outside a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing in Dirksen Building on July 19, 2022.
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Environment & Health

Manchin’s Climate Reversal Comes With Major Caveat: Expanding Oil and Gas

The bill essentially locks the government into permitting new oil and gas leases for the next decade.
by
Sharon Zhang,
Truthout
July 28, 2022
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Activists simulate smoke coming from the back of a cardboard cut out of a dinosaur during an 'End Fossil Fuel' rally near the U.S. Capitol on June 29, 2021, in Washington, D.C.
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Environment & Health

Big Oil Has Spent Over $200 Million in 1.5 Years to Sabotage Climate Action

Meanwhile, fossil fuel giants are reporting surges in profits as they exploit the impact of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
by
Jake Johnson,
Common Dreams
July 28, 2022
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Environment & Health

US’s Reactive Polio Strategy Could Be Silently Putting Many at Risk

A New York man is now paralyzed due to polio. Why aren’t public health agencies testing wastewater for the virus?
by
Robin Fields,
ProPublica
July 27, 2022
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A nurse checks on a patient in the acute care COVID-19 unit at the Harborview Medical Center on January 21, 2022, in Seattle, Washington.
Op-Ed
Environment & Health

New York Post Announces COVID Is Over. It’s Still Running Rampant.

The daily infection rates still tally in the thousands. That’s not “over” by even the most wildly irresponsible metric.
by
William Rivers Pitt,
Truthout
July 26, 2022
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Active pumpjacks increase pressure to draw oil toward the surface at the South Belridge Oil Field on February 26, 2022, in unincorporated Kern County, California.
Op-Ed
Environment & Health

World Oil Production Is Rising, With No End in Sight

Global production is projected to rise to 126 million barrels a day by 2050. It’s time to end the tyranny of oil.
by
Michael T. Klare,
TomDispatch
July 26, 2022
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17 congressional staffers sit in at Chuck Schumer’s office in the Senate, demanding that he reopen climate negotiations, on July 25, 2022.
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Environment & Health

Congressional Staffers Arrested During Climate Protest in Chuck Schumer’s Office

“We, staffers of the U.S. Congress, will not remain quiet and complacent in our own demise.”
by
Sharon Zhang,
Truthout
July 25, 2022
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