Voices, The Peoples News
April 23, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Industry
‘Green Steel’ Would Curb Carbon Emissions, Spur Economic Revival in Southwest Pennsylvania. The region is well positioned to lead the industry’s move away from coal-fired production if it chooses to.
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Texas Eyes Marine Desalination, Oilfield Water Reuse to Sustain Rapid Growth: Environmentalists have raised concerns about a bill moving through the Texas Legislature that would create a new fund for desalination, beneficial reuse of produced water and inter-state water purchases https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15042023/texas-water-legislation-desalination-oilfield-wastewatereyes-marine-desalination-oilfield-water/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3z7ah102L7BXgEvxTSUSUTGgEmsgvy8sofEl81zJClcEpzefUr1s1vldubuoese7THLwHoiQIYxQP-1Nx0C960fRP3SOnn3J$
Tapping into warehouse roof solar potential could power entire cities: “To create a clean energy future, we should look first to the already-built environment that could host the tools we need,” said one expert. “Warehouse rooftops provide a perfect opportunity.” Installing solar panels on the roofs of warehouses and distribution centers around the United States could generate enough clean electricity to power every household in every state’s most populous city https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.commondreams.org/news/untapped-potential-warehouse-rooftop-solar*:*:text=Installing*20solar*20panels*20on*20the,Policy*20Center*20and*20Frontier*20Group__;I34lJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!3z7ah102L7BXgEvxTSUSUTGgEmsgvy8sofEl81zJClcEpzefUr1s1vldubuoese7THLwHoiQIYxQP-1Nx0C960fRP9NYiVd6$
Climate Group Vows to Make Sure Biden Environmental Justice Office Isn’t ‘Just Performative’: “As we celebrate today’s victory, we must also recognize that Biden has come to be known worldwide as the fossil fuel president, having approved more drilling projects on federal land than Trump during their first two years.” Climate advocates who have centered environmental justice for decades said they will continue to fight “false solutions” to the climate crisis, and expressed hope that the newly announced White House Office of Environmental Justice will usher in a new era https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-environmental-justice-office*:*:text=Climate*20advocates*20who*20have*20centered,Biden*20ends*20his*20support*20for__;I34lJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!3z7ah102L7BXgEvxTSUSUTGgEmsgvy8sofEl81zJClcEpzefUr1s1vldubuoese7THLwHoiQIYxQP-1Nx0C960fRP1c4GFuJ$
# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure Awash in Toxic Wastewater From Fracking for Natural Gas, Pennsylvania Faces a Disposal Reckoning: A grand jury and the EPA have cited potential disposal problems, and activists are fighting new injection wells. Yet the gas industry claims fracking is essential for the state’s economic health and that most of its wastewater is safely recycled
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Most Federal Forest is Mature and Old Growth. Now the Question Is Whether to Protect It: The Biden administration completes inventory, launches plan for new rules on “climate resilience” for forests. Meanwhile, logging continues in carbon-rich federal stands.
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Massive Sinkhole Leads To Huge Discovery: This Neighborhood Sinkhole Gave Way To Something Surprising Underground. Finding the 1954 Ford Crestline Sunliner was a big surprise, even more amazing, though, was what they found next.
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# Environment / Climate / Interior / Global Mark Cocker: Look up, listen, and be very concerned. Birds are vanishing, and their crisis is our crisis. More than 40m birds have disappeared from UK’s skies since 1970: a trend that imperils the network that gives us life.
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Mark Cocker: Look up, listen, and be very concerned. Birds are vanishing, and their crisis is our crisis: More than 40m birds have disappeared from UK’s skies since 1970: a trend that imperils the network that gives us life.
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# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals
GMO crops are key to sustainable farming, why are some scientists afraid to talk about them? In analyses, reports, and supposedly scholarly articles on sustainable agriculture, individuals and institutions that know better often ignore or downplay the importance of the newer technologies, such as recombinant DNA (“gene-splicing”) and gene editing.
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Why People Oppose GMOs Even Though Science Says They Are Safe: Intuition can encourage opinions that are contrary to the facts. Many people believe that GMOs are bad for their health – even poisonous – and that they damage the environment. This is in spite of overwhelming scientific evidence that proves that GMOs are safe to eat, and that they bring environmental benefits by making agriculture more sustainable.
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# Gov / Politics / Global
Will the West Turn Ukraine into a Nuclear Battlefield? Joshua Frank: How the West plans to turn Ukraine into a radioactive war zone.
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If Russia Goes Nuclear: Three Scenarios for the Ukraine War. The odds remain slim, but an increasingly desperate Vladimir Putin could use Russia’s nuclear arsenal to turn its fortunes in the Ukraine war.
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UK Minister Calls for Jailing Social Media Bosses Who Do Not Censor Speech: The government, of course, will determine what is deemed too harmful for citizens to see or hear. Donelan is seeking speech arrests under the UK’s Online Safety Bill, a draconian censorship bill that would effectively ban end-to-end encryption for private internet users.
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Russia’s New Conscription Law Brings the Digital Gulag Much, Much Closer: The government wants to create a digital system of social control by regulating individual access to rights and benefits. Being outside of this system will effectively spell social death. With nothing to stop this approach from being expanded to other spheres to establish a state system of complete digital surveillance, coercion, and punishment, the Digital Gulag that has been widely discussed ever since the COVID-19 pandemic is now taking shape.
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# Gov / Politics
Why the Debt Ceiling Debate Is Also a Climate Fight: As Congress fights over the nation’s ability to borrow money, Republicans have made clean energy tax credits a key target in their efforts to slash federal spending. Congress is once again fighting over the nation’s debt ceiling, the legal limit on how much the United States can borrow. It’s a highly politicized battle that has threatened to paralyze the federal government almost every year for the past decade, with potentially significant long-term consequences for the U.S. economy. Now Republicans want to use it to repeal President Joe Biden’s climate agenda.
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Activists Rally at Illinois Capitol, Urging Lawmakers to Pass 9 Climate and Environmental Bills: “We can’t really afford to keep waiting on this legislation when our communities are getting sick or people are dying,” one said.
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Audio Reveals Top GOP Lawyer’s 2024 Strategy: Make It Harder for College Students to Vote. “Instead of fighting for the people or actually earning the votes, Republicans’ only plan is to try to ‘combat’ voting on college campuses,” said Rep. Summer Lee.
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The Republican Party of Death Content to Let Poverty Kill at Will: By refusing to fight poverty, the GOP shows it only cares about lives with a net worth over a half-billion dollars. In exchange for lifting the so-called debt ceiling, McCarthy wants Biden and congressional Democrats to throw millions of families off food stamps (SNAP) and end even the possibility of any help to low-income young people unable to pay off student loans
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House Democrats Have Lost Their Minds: Representative Stacey Plaskett, who called Michael Shellenberger and me “direct threats to people who oppose them,” is now threatening me with prison – over Mehdi Hasan’s uncorrected error.
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White House, Democrats unload on GOP spending cuts scenarios: House Republicans haven’t unveiled appropriations bills yet, but have previewed intentions to roll back spending
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Democrats target 31 GOP-held seats in aggressive campaign for House majority: Democrats have targeted 31 Republican-held districts in their fight to retake control of the House in 2024, laying out an aggressive map and signaling early plans to go on offense. Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee executive director Julie Merz said in an interview that the party’s strategy is to present Biden and the Democrats as “team normal” against a chaotic band of “MAGA extremists” they say have taken over the House Republican conference.
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# Law Enforcment
Pastor Steals Millions to Fund Disney Trips, Now He’s One of the FBI’s Most Wanted: Christopher W. Burns is wanted by the #FBI for his involvement in a mail fraud scheme in Georgia in which he allegedly defrauded a number of victims out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. He has not been seen since leaving his home on Sept 24, 2020
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# Legal / DOJ
“We Can’t Lower the Bar So Low”: Can the Senate Rein In a Scandal-Plagued Supreme Court? What the Justice Clarence Thomas scandal says about ethics on the Supreme Court
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Charges Against Stop Cop City Protesters Continue Terror of ‘Anti-Terrorism’: With the mass filing of “domestic terrorism” charges against 42 Stop Cop City protesters, the state compounds the violence of the Cop City project itself: a massive 85-acre police training facility; to be built atop one of the “four lungs” of Atlanta, the forest known by the colonized Muscogee people as the Weelaunee; in a city that already boasts the most concentrated surveillance in the country, as well as “dozens” of backlogged cases of police brutality; including the fatal shooting of Stop Cop City environmental activist Tortuguita while they were sitting with their hands up, judging from an independent autopsy.
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# LGBTQ / Gender
Montana’s Sole Transgender Lawmaker Silenced for Saying GOP Has ‘Blood on Its Hands’: Montana Rep. Zooey Zephyr was not allowed to speak at all during sessions this week in the state’s House of Representatives, including on anti-trans bills that the Republican majority is seeking to pass.
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# Medical Science
Kaepernick to Fund Independent Autopsy for Atlanta Inmate Found Dead in Insect-Infested Cell: Colin Kaepernick will pay for an independent autopsy of a Georgia inmate whose family attorneys claim was “eaten alive” by insects and bed bugs while in jail and later died in his cell last year.
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# Tips, Tricks and How To’s
Save More, and Waste Less, in the Kitchen: Smart moves, like organizing your fridge and giving your appliances extra TLC, can add up to $3,200 in savings. adopting the ideas and habits listed here can save you up to $3,200 in just one year.
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