Freedom Industries, the company behind the chemical leak last week in West Virginia’s Elk River, filed for bankruptcy on Friday, the Charleston Gazette reports. Roughly 7,500 gallons of the coal-cleaning chemical 4-methylcyclohexane methanol (or MCHM), leaked from a hole in a storage tank into the river, polluting the water supply of 300,000 West Virginians, exposing […]
Refusing to be “just the collateral damage of the coal industry,” over 100 protesters succeeded in thwarting work Tuesday on a mining project they say will destroy a forest and the sacred and biodiverse spots within it while contributing to climate change. The escalating resistance to the Maules Creek coal mine project in Leard State […]
The demolition of Palestinian homes in the occupied territories by the Israeli government has hit an alarming five-year high, aid groups warned in a statement issued Friday. “In light of the alarming trends, we the undersigned local and international faith, aid, development, and human rights organizations call again for an immediate halt to the demolitions […]
Though environmentalists appreciate the go-it-alone approach contained in some of President Obama’s latest policy proposals on fuel efficiency standards and power plant emissions, they are also quick to say that none of these à la carte rule changes or executive orders will be enough to cement his legacy as a climate champion if he goes […]
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan issued report on Monday criticizing a slew of government programs that have provided a safety net for millions of Americans. Entitled The War on Poverty: 50 Years Later, the 204-page report looks at dozens of poverty-fighting programs including Medicaid, public housing, Supplemental Security Income and the National School Lunch […]
Click:electric confetti cannon The Immokalee, Florida migrant farmworkers who have forced some of the biggest food industry corporations in the world to acquiesce to their demands for “dignity” in the fields say they are determined to make Wendy’s and Publix do the same. To prove it, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers launched their ‘Now Is […]
The latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), released Sunday in Berlin, shows that humanity still has time to solve the global crisis of global warming and climate change, but only if governments and industry are finally forced to make the political and financial decisions that will see the rapid reduction of […]
Fox Sports has announced a few special guests for tonight’s SmackDown season premiere pre-show. “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle, and MLB legend David Ortiz will be making appearances during Fox’s pre-show broadcast for tonight’s SmackDown. The special 30-minute pre-show will begin on Fox at 7:30 p.m. Eastern time and will be […]
Eight people are confirmed dead and over a hundred people are reportedly still missing on Monday after a landslide devastated a rural community in Washington state over the weekend. According to officials with the Snohomish County Sheriff’s office, 108 people have yet to be accounted for after the mud flow tore through one square mile […]
The Toledo Blade filed a lawsuit Friday after two of its employees were unlawfully detained while they were exercising their “full legal and constitutional rights to observe and photograph” from public streets outside a General Dynamics-operated plant. Named in the suit are several government officials including Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel. Blade reporter Tyrel Linkhorn […]