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'Unfortunate, if not unexpected': Biden criticized for resuming public land drilling permits
Mar 19, 2021 04:17After having urged President Joe Biden to turn a temporary moratorium on new oil and gas leasing on federal lands and waters into a permanent ban on extracting climate-damaging fossil fuels from those areas, environmentalists criticized his administration's recent decision to not renew the Interior Department's policies limiting the provision of drilling permits.
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“First of its kind” complaint filed against Chevron for greenwashing campaigns
Mar 19, 2021 04:03Environmental groups filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) saying that oil giant Chevron’s ad campaigns and consumer reports mislead the public about the company’s environmental impact.
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CDC insisted surgical masks were enough. Caregivers of color suffered most
Mar 18, 2021 14:42Studies suggest that the highest overall risk of infection was among the front-line workers — many of them workers of color — who spent the most time with patients earlier in their illness and in sub-par protective gear, not those working in the COVID ICU.
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Review of Trump era CDC guidance confirms political manipulation of agency's COVID response
Mar 18, 2021 14:38A top-to-bottom review of Trump-era coronavirus guidance was seen as confirmation of widespread fears that the Trump administration—members of which repeatedly downplayed the severity of the pandemic—manipulated guidance coming out of the nation's leading public health agency to make it fit with the White House's views and political objectives.
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Study finds US redlined areas face greater flood risk from climate crisis
Mar 18, 2021 08:17Decades of segregation and economic inequality in the US shoehorned many people of color—especially Black Americans—into living in neighborhoods that are more vulnerable to climate change
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US policy ignores Palestinian human rights
Mar 18, 2021 08:05The Israeli regime can do whatever it wants, with US backing. But when Palestinians protest—precisely because the US will do nothing to defend them—then they are at fault.
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As Saudis import weapons, US accounts for over 1/3 of all global arms sales
Mar 18, 2021 07:55New analysis shows U.S.-based war profiteers have supplied increased demand by the Saudi Kingdom, and others in the West Asia region over the last five years.
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Peace-building suffers during pandemic obsession
Mar 17, 2021 10:45Evidence suggests that committed foreign aid being redirected from peace-building programs into efforts to deal with COVID-19 is likely to have even more of an impact on the ground than a decrease in foreign aid. A further reduction in funding and troops for UN peacekeeping missions is also likely.
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Experts warn of protracted pandemic amid ‘vaccine apartheid’
Mar 17, 2021 10:41The US has been criticized for purchasing 200 million more COVID-19 vaccines for its own citizens and pushing poorer countries and vulnerable populations to the back of the queue, while experts estimate that low-income countries will experience wide access after 2022.
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Protesters and lawmakers demand justice for Breonna Taylor one year later
Mar 16, 2021 15:42The absence of charges for the officers who gunned down Breonna Taylor was an injustice. The treatment of protesters in Louisville and across the US was an injustice.