Florence is the Worst Flood in East Coast History. Here’s How Locals Describe It.
Eyewitness accounts of Florence and its aftermath.
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Futuristic Nostalgia: Maine’s Two-Footer Railroads
The Maine two-footers were great. Why not revive them?
Read more...Gaius Publius: Big Oil Seeks Billions from U.S. Government to Protect It From…Climate Change
Big oil seeks yet another handout.
Read more...Dengue on My Mind: Spending on ‘Diseases of Poverty’ Not Enough to Create Effective Vaccines
A drop-off in funding for vaccines for ‘diseases of poverty’ is another consequence of the financial crisis. A recent study laments bleak prospects for breakthroughs on malaria, tuberculosis, dengue, and other diseases. Climate change is expanding the range where these diseases may be contracted.
Read more...How Supreme Court Pick Brett Kavanaugh Could Return US Policy to the Era of Robber Barons
Understanding Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s potential impact on corporate regulation and the climate means looking back all the way to 1890, to the era of Lochner v. New York and the robber barons.
Read more...Waste Watch: Burberry Pledges to Stop Burning Unsold Goods
In one small step toward reducing waste in the fashion industry, Burberry has announced it will cease burning unsold goods and using animal fur in its products, with immediate effect.
Read more...Trans Mountain Pipeline a Serious Misstep for Trudeau
Inept political maneuvering by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has turned what was a longstanding controversy in Canada over Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline project into a complete and utter quagmire.
Read more...The Fracking Industry Is Cannibalizing Its Own Production, Increasing Spill Risks
Fracking companies are drilling too many wells in close proximity to one another, and when they frack the newer wells — known as child wells — those “bash” or “hit” the older wells, cannibalizing production and sometimes damaging the older well. The industry knows not how to solve this problem.
Read more...Amidst Rising Heat Waves, UN Says Cooling is a Human Right, Not a Luxury
The rising heat waves in the world’s middle income and poorer nations are threatening the health and prosperity of about 1.1 billion people, including 470 million in rural areas without access to safe food and medicines, and 630 million in hotter, poor urban slums, with little or no cooling to protect them.
Read more...Puerto Rico: 1427 Hurricane Maria Deaths
Government of Puerto Rico presents report to Congress acknowledging 1427 Hurricane Maria details– more than twenty times the previous estimate it had given. Meanwhile, prospects for meaningful debt relief remain slight.
Read more...Neoliberalism Drives Climate Breakdown, Not Human Nature
Attempts by the New York Times to blame humanity as a whole for climate change let the real culprits off the hook.
Read more...What’s with the New York City Subway System?
Climate change, aging cars, signals, and tunnels, plus looting by the political class and the bankers.
Read more...Gaius Publius: There Will Be No Chinese Century
Why on current trajectories, China (and the US) are toast.
Read more...Surprise, Surprise: Energy Department LNG Export Study Draft Ignores Climate Change
The Department of Energy (DOE) missed the mark in its newly published draft Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) study, ignoring economic costs associated with climate change and the growth of the renewable energy industry.
Read more...Tom Engelhardt: Three Failing Experiments – Mine, America’s Humanity’s?
Engelhardt’s birthday post reflects on how failings are catching up with us, individually and collectively.
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