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Thermal, California – Climate Injustice in a Nutshell
By Elizabeth Weil — The first time ProPublica traveled to Thermal, California, in June 2020, the temperature happened to be 114 degrees, and we felt stupefied, literally unable to think. Everyplace, here in the eastern Coachella Valley, looked gorgeous … for 20 minutes at dusk. Nothing was beautiful at midday. The difference between the watered […]
CEO Pay The Climate Stat We Can’t Afford to Overlook
16/08/2021 Comments Off on CEO Pay The Climate Stat We Can’t Afford to Overlook
By Sam Pizzigati — Ace researchers dropped two blockbuster reports on us earlier this week. The first — from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC — hit on Monday with a worldwide thunderclap. If top U.S. corporate execs are still pocketing jackpots a decade from now, our environment has no shot. Originally in Inequality.org […]
Continue reading …Texas Climate Jobs Program Combats Climate Change And Inequality
27/07/2021 Comments Off on Texas Climate Jobs Program Combats Climate Change And Inequality
A new report from researchers at Cornell University’s ILR School Worker Institute set out a series of recommendations on how Texas can combat the twin crisis of climate change and economic inequality through a “climate jobs” initiative. The authors of the report say the recommendations can be tested at the city and county level then […]
Continue reading …South Africa’s Small-Scale Commercial Fishing Business Tries To Turn The Tide
14/10/2016 Comments Off on South Africa’s Small-Scale Commercial Fishing Business Tries To Turn The Tide
This is the third and final part of a series exploring how climate change and overfishing are driving a crisis in our seas that is already hitting poor, small-scale fishing communities the hardest. LAMBERTS BAY, South Africa, 21 September 2016 By Obi Anyadike, IRIN Editor-at-Large and Africa Editor — The sea seethes and bubbles when […]
Continue reading …Bill Gates Says Human Condition Improving Faster Than Ever
01/02/2013 Comments Off on Bill Gates Says Human Condition Improving Faster Than Ever
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says the world is becoming a better place. Speaking as part of panel discussion at the 43rd World Economic Forum Annual Meeting last week, William H. Gates III described the positive advances made in the reduction of child mortality and his belief that further improvements are to come. “We’ve improved the […]
Continue reading …- Celebrating the Resilience of Low-Income Women
- CEOs Get to Retire Comfortably. Workers Like Me Deserve the Same.
- Jobs Increased 339,000 In May, Unemployment Up 0.3% To 3.7%
- The decline of job creation at new establishments
- Contractor faces 2 serious citations after US Department of Labor finds safety failures led to welder’s death at Bonner Bridge demolition project
- Investigation into worker’s severe arm injury finds Cusseta auto parts manufacturer, supplier willfully ignored safety precautions
- ‘It’s a sweat factory’: Instacart workers ready to strike for pay and conditions
- Ships backed up outside US ports pumping out pollutants as they idle
- Privacy fears as Moscow metro rolls out facial recognition pay system
- ‘We are not machines’: Hollywood workers poised to strike for better conditions
- Boeing pilot indicted for allegedly deceiving US regulators over 737 Max
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Over 10,000 John Deere workers strike over ‘years’ of poor treatment
- Corporations are pledging to be ‘water positive’. What does that mean?
- US Department of Labor investigation of crane collapse, double fatality on Interstate 10 finds Lufkin company failed to assemble crane properly
- For the 6th time in 7 years, federal inspectors find Illinois contractor putting construction workers at risk of industry’s deadliest hazard
- US Department of Labor proposes $83K in fines to healthcare facility for failing to protect workers from coronavirus hazards
- Facebook says it will do more to prevent online hate, harassment
- As U.S. prepares to reopen border, some urge Canada to relax testing requirement
- Biden orders companies to ease supply chain bottlenecks or he’ll ‘call them out’
- What is the ‘new model’ the EU is proposing for Northern Ireland?
- Apple to make 10 million fewer iPhones due to microchip shortage
- US Department of Labor, Mexican Consulate in Boston enter alliance to promote workplace safety, health among New England’s workers
- US Department of Labor sues Austin luxury car dealer that retaliated against employee who raised concerns of coronavirus hazards
- Vaccine hesitant New Yorkers consider leaving the city as mandates take effect
- Carbon emissions ‘will drop just 40% by 2050 with countries’ current pledges’
- House passes bill to raise US debt ceiling through early December
- ‘The stakes couldn’t be higher’: GE urged to invest in green US jobs
- Zellers returns — kind of — but the lowest price isn't quite the law
- Cement makers across world pledge large cut in emissions by 2030
- India faces electricity crisis as coal supplies run critically low
- California justice department to investigate enormous oil spill