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Cost of Doing Business? Amnesty Int’l Documents Health, Environmental Impact of Fossil Fuels in Texas
30 de enero, puesto en línea por webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)A new Amnesty International report titled “The Cost of Doing Business? The Petrochemical Industry’s Toxic Pollution in the USA” documents the health and environmental impact of fossil fuel and petrochemical plants run by corporations like ExxonMobil and Shell along the Houston Ship Channel in (...) -
"We’re Dying Here": Human Rights Watch on the Fight for Life in Louisiana’s Fossil Fuel Cancer Alley
30 de enero, puesto en línea por webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)A damning new Human Rights Watch report documents the devastating human toll of fossil fuel projects in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley, an 85-mile corridor stretching from Baton Rouge to New Orleans that is filled with fossil fuel and petrochemical plants. Human Rights Watch found newborns (...) -
"Monumental Decision": Biden Pauses Approvals for New LNG Terminals in Victory for Climate Movement
30 de enero, puesto en línea por webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)In what many are calling a major victory for the climate movement, the Biden administration on Friday paused approvals for new liquified natural gas export terminals. In Louisiana, environmental justice activist Roishetta Sibley Ozane helped push for the change and calls the pause “a (...) -
Sister Helen Prejean: Will Oklahoma Free Death Row Prisoner Richard Glossip After SCOTUS Hears Case?
30 de enero, puesto en línea por webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)In an extraordinary development, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled Oklahoma death row prisoner Richard Glossip will now get the chance to argue for a new trial, after maintaining his innocence for three decades. Glossip has faced nine separate execution dates and been given his final meal three (...) -
Ohio Will Consider Execution by Nitrogen Gas After Alabama Used Method Witness Calls "Horrific"
30 de enero, puesto en línea por webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)Ohio lawmakers are taking the “next steps to kickstart” their execution chamber with experimental nitrogen gas, just days after Alabama used the same method for the first time in U.S. history, which the U.N. has warned is a form of torture. Alabama officials claim the (...)