Voices, The Peoples News
April 12, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants
Mexico Immigration Chief Charged Over Detention Center Fire: The catastrophe killed 40 migrants locked inside the facility. Mexico’s immigration head will face criminal charges in a fire that killed 40 migrants in a detention center last month but President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Wednesday that he will not dismiss the official known for his hard line on northbound migration.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://hosted.ap.org/semissourian/article/f3d01df8b7da14bcfbe7d7ef69a6e565/mexican-migration-chief-be-charged-fire-keep-job*:*:text=MEXICO*20CITY*20(AP)*20**C20Mexico’s,hard*20line*20on*20northbound*20migration__;I34lJSXigJQlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!yJ0DexPJy9acYMgBFnVnoEys1Fw6nqXVJesomROVBrtSCLQB76VLjKyN36Dd7KRfuPR2b7Av-Xw81dkcshhkVMWgY5CrYfW6$
# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Biden to Spend $5 Billion on New Coronavirus Vaccine Initiative Supported by Gates, Fauci and Republican Lawmakers: The administration is asking lawmakers to set aside $2.55 billion for vaccinating the world, $1.7 billion for therapeutics and supplies, and $750 million for humanitarian aid, according to numbers shared with POLITICO by a public health advocate briefed on the call and confirmed by a Capitol Hill aide.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/18/biden-administration-asks-congress-for-5-billion-to-fight-covid-overseas-00010264__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yJ0DexPJy9acYMgBFnVnoEys1Fw6nqXVJesomROVBrtSCLQB76VLjKyN36Dd7KRfuPR2b7Av-Xw81dkcshhkVMWgY-_VeBCd$
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical China could dominate sodium batteries, the next big advance in power: In two years, China will have nearly 95 percent of the world’s capacity to make sodium batteries. Lithium battery production will still dwarf sodium battery output at that point, Benchmark predicts, but advances in sodium are accelerating.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.sej.org/headlines/why-china-could-dominate-next-big-advance-batteries__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yJ0DexPJy9acYMgBFnVnoEys1Fw6nqXVJesomROVBrtSCLQB76VLjKyN36Dd7KRfuPR2b7Av-Xw81dkcshhkVMWgY02L_oVQ$
There could be millions of abandoned wells in the US. Plugging them is a monumental task: While exact figures are tough to come by, experts believe hundreds of thousands of orphan wells remain around the country. While exact figures are tough to come by, experts believe hundreds of thousands of orphan wells remain around the country.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2023/04/11/plugging-abandoned-oil-wells/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yJ0DexPJy9acYMgBFnVnoEys1Fw6nqXVJesomROVBrtSCLQB76VLjKyN36Dd7KRfuPR2b7Av-Xw81dkcshhkVMWgYxLZaAZq$
Air pollution skyrockets as new Colorado oil and gas activity booms: The rise of hydraulic fracturing techniques has fostered rapid growth of oil and natural gas (O&NG) extraction in areas across the United States. In the Denver-Julesburg Basin (DJB), which mostly overlaps with Weld County in the Northern Colorado Front Range (NCFR) north of the City of Denver Metropolitan Area (DMA), the well drilling has increasingly approached, and in many instances moved into urban residential areas.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://online.ucpress.edu/elementa/article/doi/10.1525/elementa.398/112753/Air-quality-impacts-from-oil-and-natural-gas__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yJ0DexPJy9acYMgBFnVnoEys1Fw6nqXVJesomROVBrtSCLQB76VLjKyN36Dd7KRfuPR2b7Av-Xw81dkcshhkVMWgY8k8Tuyj$
Montana Judge Cancels Gas Power Plant Permit Over Climate Concern: Climate concerns motivated a Montana judge to cancel the air quality permit for a controversial natural gas power plant. The 175-megawatt NorthWestern Energy plant would have emitted more than 23 million tons of greenhouse gases over its 30-year or more lifespan, the equivalent of adding 167, 327 new cars to the roads each year, something that the Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) did not fully consider when it issued the permit, Montana 13th Judicial District Court Judge Michael Moses ruled Thursday.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ecowatch.com/montana-judge-gas-plant-permit-cancellation-climate-change.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yJ0DexPJy9acYMgBFnVnoEys1Fw6nqXVJesomROVBrtSCLQB76VLjKyN36Dd7KRfuPR2b7Av-Xw81dkcshhkVMWgYySaYQGV$
The EPA faces questions about its approval of a plastic-based fuel with an astronomical cancer risk: That risk is 250,000 times greater than the level usually considered acceptable by the EPA division that approves new chemicals, and it’s higher than the lifetime risk of cancer for current smokers. “A senator questioned the EPA chief and a group sued the agency after ProPublica and the Guardian revealed that the EPA gave a Chevron refinery approval to make a fuel that could leave people nearby with a 1-in-4 lifetime risk of cancer.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.propublica.org/article/chevron-epa-plastic-biofuel-cancer-risk__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yJ0DexPJy9acYMgBFnVnoEys1Fw6nqXVJesomROVBrtSCLQB76VLjKyN36Dd7KRfuPR2b7Av-Xw81dkcshhkVMWgY3rUreZo$
# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Crisis? What crisis? Media failing to convey the urgency of the climate emergency: If an alien landed on Planet Earth today and started watching television and reading the newspapers, it would probably not realize that humanity and the natural world face an existential threat – one that has taken us into the Sixth Mass Extinction, is already devastating the lives of many, especially in the Global South, and is set to hit the rest of us soon.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.globalissues.org/news/2023/04/11/33533__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yJ0DexPJy9acYMgBFnVnoEys1Fw6nqXVJesomROVBrtSCLQB76VLjKyN36Dd7KRfuPR2b7Av-Xw81dkcshhkVMWgYxdItZYG$
Global warming is disrupting an Antarctic current system that life on Earth relies on: The most terrifying thing about the abyssal ocean may be the fact that normal life on Earth is dependent on the way water moves through it. If that circulation changes, the repercussions could be devastating for all life on Earth: food chain disruptions, weather patterns drastically changing, and ocean life finding itself suddenly unbalanced.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.salon.com/2023/04/11/global-warming-is-disrupting-an-antarctic-current-system-that-life-on-earth-relies-on/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yJ0DexPJy9acYMgBFnVnoEys1Fw6nqXVJesomROVBrtSCLQB76VLjKyN36Dd7KRfuPR2b7Av-Xw81dkcshhkVMWgY-IahGmv$
Republicans accused of hypocrisy over toxic waste bill: Republican lawmakers have been accused of “the height of hypocrisy” by tabling a bill that would loosen regulations on industrial toxic waste disposal after many expressed their outrage at a toxic spill caused by a train derailment near East Palestine, Ohio, in February.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-accused-hypocrisy-toxic-waste-bill-hr1-1793026__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yJ0DexPJy9acYMgBFnVnoEys1Fw6nqXVJesomROVBrtSCLQB76VLjKyN36Dd7KRfuPR2b7Av-Xw81dkcshhkVMWgY9sWNwNi$
Leaking to the bottom of the sea can be a harbinger of doom: The Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ) is a massive fault line that stretches from Vancouver Island to northern California. Researchers from the University of Washington found hot liquid seeping from the ocean floor near the area about 50 miles off Newport, Oregon. The team suspects that the underwater source, called Pythia’s Oasis, could be connected to the CSZ and that the fault line would be under more stress in the event of a leak. “Pythias Oasis provides a rare window into processes operating deep in the seabed, and its chemistry suggests this fluid originated near the plate boundary,” said Deborah Kelley, UW professor of oceanography
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://oltnews.com/leaking-to-the-bottom-of-the-sea-can-be-a-harbinger-of-doom-the-daily-beast__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yJ0DexPJy9acYMgBFnVnoEys1Fw6nqXVJesomROVBrtSCLQB76VLjKyN36Dd7KRfuPR2b7Av-Xw81dkcshhkVMWgY8ObZwaU$
# Environment / Climate / Interior / Global Canada wants more Indigenous knowledge in IPCC climate reports: Canadian delegates to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have called for broader inclusion of Indigenous knowledge in future climate reports. The comments were made at an IPCC meeting in Switzerland, where 195 nations’ delegates negotiated the wording of a report that summarizes years of climate change research for policymakers.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://cabinradio.ca/125749/news/politics/canada-wants-more-indigenous-knowledge-in-ipcc-climate-reports/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yJ0DexPJy9acYMgBFnVnoEys1Fw6nqXVJesomROVBrtSCLQB76VLjKyN36Dd7KRfuPR2b7Av-Xw81dkcshhkVMWgY2TdIe7V$
# General News
Missouri State House Republicans Pass Budget Bill That Removes Library Funding: Republicans are retaliating against a librarians’ organization for suing the state over a law on book banning. Republican lawmakers in the Missouri state House of Representatives followed through on threats they previously made to librarians, passing a state budget this week that eliminates all funding to public libraries throughout the “Show Me State.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.salon.com/2023/04/12/missouri-state-vote-to-defund-public-libraries_partner/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yJ0DexPJy9acYMgBFnVnoEys1Fw6nqXVJesomROVBrtSCLQB76VLjKyN36Dd7KRfuPR2b7Av-Xw81dkcshhkVMWgYyzMGFm7$
Donald Trump Sues Michael Cohen for Blabbing About Stormy: The ex-president is demanding more than $500 million from his one-time fixer for violating a confidentiality agreement. The lawsuit, filed in a Florida federal court on Wednesday, accuses Cohen of spreading false information about Trump and breaching his contractual obligations to the former president in Cohen’s public statements, published books, podcast series and other media appearances.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/12/politics/donald-trump-michael-cohen-lawsuit/index.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yJ0DexPJy9acYMgBFnVnoEys1Fw6nqXVJesomROVBrtSCLQB76VLjKyN36Dd7KRfuPR2b7Av-Xw81dkcshhkVMWgYzbAxgG2$
# Gov / Politics / Global
Peace in Ukraine Is Too Important to Leave in the Hands of Arms Dealers: Arms makers are stoking conflicts and then pitching weapons as a path to peace.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/peace-in-ukraine-is-too-important-to-leave-in-the-hands-of-arms-dealers/?utm_source=Truthout&utm_campaign=d5a023de39-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_3_20_2023_13_41_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_bbb541a1db-d5a023de39-650262369&mc_cid=d5a023de39&mc_eid=b8214b3276__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yJ0DexPJy9acYMgBFnVnoEys1Fw6nqXVJesomROVBrtSCLQB76VLjKyN36Dd7KRfuPR2b7Av-Xw81dkcshhkVMWgY0v3UbI9$
Border Panic and ‘Total Disarray’ as War Spills Into Russia: Residents of Russia’s Bryansk region say local authorities orchestrated a massive cover-up to conceal the fact that the war has come to Russian territory and they can’t do anything to stop it.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://news.knowledia.com/CA/en/articles/border-panic-and-total-disarray-as-war-spills-into-russia-f8da61c290d556f4bde013f984ee729a87f56c2c__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yJ0DexPJy9acYMgBFnVnoEys1Fw6nqXVJesomROVBrtSCLQB76VLjKyN36Dd7KRfuPR2b7Av-Xw81dkcshhkVMWgYzeebkMM$
# Gov / Politics
Republican Who Backed Tree Hangings Booted Off Justice Panel: Tennessee State Rep. Paul Sherrell wanted lynching-style capital punishment to return to his state.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thedailybeast.com/paul-sherrell-tennessee-republican-who-called-for-tree-hanging-executions-removed-from-justice-committee__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yJ0DexPJy9acYMgBFnVnoEys1Fw6nqXVJesomROVBrtSCLQB76VLjKyN36Dd7KRfuPR2b7Av-Xw81dkcshhkVMWgY6CPm5Hm$
# Medical / Health
Maternal Death Rates in U.S. Rose Sharply in 2021, CDC Should Make It a Priority to Find Out Why: A maternal death is defined by the World Health Organization as “the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and the site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management, but not from accidental or incidental causes” (1). Maternal mortality rates, which are the number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, are shown in this report by age group and race and Hispanic origin.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/maternal-mortality/2021/maternal-mortality-rates-2021.htm__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yJ0DexPJy9acYMgBFnVnoEys1Fw6nqXVJesomROVBrtSCLQB76VLjKyN36Dd7KRfuPR2b7Av-Xw81dkcshhkVMWgY_BbEVaN$
# Pharmaceuticals / Drugs
White House names fentanyl mixed with xylazine ’emerging threat’ to U.S: The director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy on Wednesday designated fentanyl combined with xylazine as an emerging threat
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-u-s-news/us-names-veterinary-drug-fentanyl-mixture-emerging-threat/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yJ0DexPJy9acYMgBFnVnoEys1Fw6nqXVJesomROVBrtSCLQB76VLjKyN36Dd7KRfuPR2b7Av-Xw81dkcshhkVMWgY03NoyO7$
# Water
Biden administration proposes evenly cutting water allotments from Colorado River: As the river shrinks, the Biden administration is getting ready to impose, for the first time, reductions in water supplies to states.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.earth.com/news/biden-administration-proposes-water-rationing-to-save-the-colorado-river/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yJ0DexPJy9acYMgBFnVnoEys1Fw6nqXVJesomROVBrtSCLQB76VLjKyN36Dd7KRfuPR2b7Av-Xw81dkcshhkVMWgY2kGnKXp$
13 Groups Sue the EPA for Failing to Update Regulations on Water Pollution: Industrial facilities produce millions of pounds of hazardous chemical waste every year and dump it into U.S. waterways. Under the Clean Water Act, the EPA is required to set limits on the amount of pollution companies can discharge based on the best available technologies, and to revise those limits every five years.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/13-groups-sue-the-epa-for-failing-to-update-regulations-on-water-pollution/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yJ0DexPJy9acYMgBFnVnoEys1Fw6nqXVJesomROVBrtSCLQB76VLjKyN36Dd7KRfuPR2b7Av-Xw81dkcshhkVMWgY8VGgx12$
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