But preserving profits, “red state” votes, and keeping workers on the job despite risk were of paramount concern SIOUX CITY, Iowa––Risk of a U.S. food shortage during the COVID-19 pandemic had nothing to do with the April 28, 2020 decision of U.S. President Donald Trump to invoke the Defense Production Act to keep slaughterhouses running. […]
How Standing Rock 2016 echoes Birmingham 1963
Use of dogs against protesters may mark turning point in pipeline campaign (Part II of two parts. See also Security guards set dogs on Sioux demonstrators at Standing Rock.) FORT YATES, North Dakota––History may in the long run favor the Dakota Access pipeline, or a modified and re-routed version of it. But history is unlikely to […]
Film “Indian Point” shows how nukes hit river life
BUCHANAN, New York––Debuting at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan and rapidly advancing to the 2015 Tribecca Film Festival, the Ivy Meerpool documentary Indian Point features environmental journalist Roger Witherspoon and his wife, anti-nuclear power activist Marilyn Elie; former Nuclear Regulatory Commission chair Gregory Jaczko, who was forced to resign after demanding safety improvements from […]
EPA urges power plants to quit cooking fish & crustaceans alive
WASHINGTON D.C.––Acting on behalf of at least 2.1 billion sentient beings per year who are pureed or boiled alive, to little public notice, the Environmental Protection Agency on May 19, 2014 issued final rules for water use in the cooling systems of electrical generating stations. The new rules apply to 1,065 cooling structures at […]