By Tom Giesen | (Informed Comment) | – – Alarming and world-shaking new findings have emerged about the dangers of waste water from hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”). Researchers have assessed the potential health impact on human cells of back water from fracked oil and gas wells in upstate New York. The result? Human test tissues develop […]
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Pollution
After largest Methane Leak in US History, will California Ban Fracking, go for Solar & Wind?
The Tree | – – A natural gas well that leaked over four months in California is finally under control, paving the way for the “road to recovery” and justice. The Aliso Canyon gas facility in Porter Ranch, California, just 30 miles from Los Angeles, leaked 96,000 tons of methane into the environment, forcing thousands […]
New Resignation Calls: MI Gov. Snyder’s Aides Knew Flint Water Was Toxic in 2014: “Scary”
By Nika Knight, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org) | – – New emails reveal that top advisers knew about problems with Flint water as far back as 2014, reinvigorating calls that ‘the Governor must resign’ “At worst [Governor Snyder has] been lying all along and at best he’s the worst manager on the planet. Under […]
Exxon-Mobil’s past Crimes against the Earth are nothing Compared to its Present Ones
By Bill McKibben | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – Here’s the story so far. We have the chief legal representatives of the eighth and 16th largest economies on Earth (California and New York) probing the biggest fossil fuel company on Earth (ExxonMobil), while both Democratic presidential candidates are demanding that the federal Department of […]
Not just the Children of Flint: Has Industrial Society Poisoned Us?
By David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – “I know if I was a parent up there, I would be beside myself if my kids’ health could be at risk,” said President Obama on a recent trip to Michigan. “Up there” was Flint, a rusting industrial city in the grip of […]
While Flint Was Being Poisoned, Gov.’s office sent State Workers Water Coolers
By Common Dreams staff | ( Commondreams.org) | – – Following release of new document and emails, Gov. Snyder told he must ‘explain to the people of Flint why his administration trucked water into a state building while allowing residents to drink unsafe water’ A newly obtained document and related emails released on Thursday show […]
Why Flint’s Tainted Water is a Human Rights Disaster
By Amanda Klasing, Senior Researcher, Women’s Rights Division | (Human Rights Watch) | – – Nearly two years ago, the city of Flint, Michigan switched to a less expensive water source that turned out to be highly corrosive and led to lead poisoning of many children. Public outrage pushed the government to find a safer […]
Flint’s water crisis is a blatant example of environmental injustice
Robert D. Bullard | (The Conversation) | – – Many observers see race and class as factors in Flint, Michigan’s drinking water crisis. Earlier this week Flint’s mayor, Karen Weaver, said, “It’s a minority community. It’s a poor community. And our voices were not heard.” We asked Robert D. Bullard, Dean of the School of […]
No, Gov. Snyder, Flint’s water wasn’t poisoned by “Government”: It was by your Appointee
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Perhaps it is inevitable but it is a shame that some people are gaming out how to profit politically from the lead poisoning of the children of Flint, Michigan (pop. 99,000). In the state capital, the Establishment is trying to blame the crisis on “government” or […]