This is all fucked up. Not what I expect from our elected officials. Especially given CO's history of covering for polluters and never quite managing to hold them accountable.

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Colorado sues EPA to stop public access to air pollution records

https://coloradosun.com/2023/08/23/colorado-sues-epa-air-pollution-records/

#Colorado #PhilWeiser #Suncor #polluters

GHG emissions' #polluters: Emissions generated based on Income data from 1990 -2019 -incl. income tied to emissions re to the op. of a bus +income, such as from investments -supported services or products from those IDUs -found those in the top 10%: resp. for 40% of the US' GHS emissions -top 1%: 15-17%, with investment holdings making up 38-42%.
Super-emitters are the top 0.1%, ~15 days of emissions = to a lifetime of emissions for someone in the poorest 10% in America. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/08/17/greenhouse-emissions-income-inequality/

Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #solutions to #ClimateChange include producing and consuming less.

#Corporations are the worst #polluters because they #manufacture demand and need (e.g. planned obsolescence), then recklessly #pollute to meet that artificially inflated "need" for goods.

We must decrease our individual #consumerism while also forcing #businesses to stop polluting.

Ending #corporate #pollution and our rampant consumption are both required, and more.

https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/110866880055507382

«One of the first things Joe Romm did after he joined PCSSM was publish a research paper with this rather provocative title: “Carbon offsets are unscalable, unjust, and unfixable — and a threat to the Paris Agreement.” In it, Romm doesn’t pull any punches. He basically calls the whole idea of #carbonoffsets a scam designed to let #polluters pretend to be doing something about their #climate killing activities while actually doing nothing at all.»

https://cleantechnica-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/cleantechnica.com/2023/08/05/carbon-offsets-are-unscalable-unjust-unfixable-joe-romm/amp/

Boo hoo... Profits are down! Make them clean up their mess before they go bankrupt!

#NorfolkSouthern Lifts Ohio #Derailment Cost to Over $800 Million

Story by Esther Fung, July 27, 2023

"Norfolk Southern raised its estimate on costs associated with the #EastPalestine, Ohio, train derailment to $803 million, a move that sent its profit sharply lower in the second quarter.

"The updated cost forecast Thursday was more than double the estimate that the Atlanta-based railroad operator provided earlier this year.

"Executives said that the bulk of the costs are from the #environmental clean-up, and added that there may be additional legal costs, fines and penalties in the coming quarters. These are difficult to estimate, they said."

Source:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/norfolk-southern-lifts-ohio-derailment-cost-to-over-800-million/ar-AA1erbZX?rc=1&ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=236f7a64104246acbb1a6b5f4829a24d&ei=7

#ToxicWaste #Safety #TrainSafety #Polluters #Pollution #ChemicalIndustries #Ohio

World's war on #greenhousegas #emissions has a #military blind spot
Armed forces are massive #polluters, but exactly how massive, no one knows. Among the world's biggest consumers of #fossilfuel, militaries account for 5.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to a 2022 estimate by international experts. https://www.autoblog.com/2023/07/10/worlds-war-on-greenhouse-gas-emissions-has-a-military-blind-spot/ #climatechange

#CocaCola, #McDonald’s and #PepsiCo named UK’s biggest packaging #polluters - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/21/coca-cola-mcdonalds-pepsico-named-uk-biggest-packaging-polluters-surfers-against-sewage

Top 5 biggest #polluters vs the rest of the world, chart @climate https://tinyurl.com/5yzb478m

CLIMATE KILLERS SKATE ON CORPORATE SOCIALISM

Biden administration announces $650 million to plug orphaned gas and oil wells

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4089319-biden-administration-announces-650-million-to-plug-orphaned-gas-and-oil-wells/

The Interior Department announced Monday more than $650 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding to plug abandoned oil and gas wells. The $660 million in funding, available to 27 states, will go toward the plugging of so-called orphan wells, or wells abandoned for extraction by the oil and gas industry.

#bigoil #fracking #polluters #taxpayer #corporatesocialism #climate

#Minneapolis #Climate Justice Committee demands #polluters relocate
https://www.fightbacknews.org/2023/7/10/minneapolis-climate-justice-committee-demands-polluters-relocate

Wise Intelligent - The Globe Holderz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIb_MTsZD0A&ab_channel=WiseIntelligent

#eugenics #imperialism #polluters #financeers #armsdealers #murder

In 1950, the AIDS virus was fed to nearly 300,000 black youths in Africa in the form of an oral polio vaccine by Dr. Hilary Koprowski, who is currently the Director of Bio-Virology at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Today a child dies every minute of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. In the US, African Americans represent 49% of all new AIDS cases.

From 1924 to 1976, 32 states in the US utilized eugenics programs to depopulate the country of so-called "weak breeds" who were down-breeding the American population. Some 65,000 black youth from public school districts throughout the country were given a biased IQ test. All who failed the test were sterilized against their or their parents' will.

A 1996 exposé by the San Jose Mercury News documented CIA involvement in a Nicaraguan drug ring, which poured thousands of kilos of cocaine into Los Angeles African-American neighborhoods in the 1980s. Drug boss Danilo Blandon, now an informant for the DEA, acknowledged under oath the drugs-for-weapons deals with the CIA-sponsored Contras.

The war on drugs has been a war on poor people, particularly poor urban African-American men and women. It's well documented that police enforcement of the new harsh drug laws have been focused on low-level dealers and communities of color. Arrest of African-Americans have been about five times higher than arrest of whites although whites and African-Americans use drugs at about the same rate. African-Americans have been imprisoned in numbers even more disproportionate than their relative arrest rates. It is estimated that in 1994 on any given day 1 out of every 128 US adults was incarcerated, while 1 out of every 17 African-Americans adult males was incarcerated. The differential and sentencing for powder and crack cocaine is one glaring example of institutionalized racism. About 90% of crack arrests are of African-Americans, while 75% of powder cocaine arrests are of Whites. Under federal law it takes only five grams of crack cocaine to trigger a five-year mandatory minimum sentence. But it takes 500 grams of powder cocaine, 100 times as much, to trigger the same sentence for a white boy.

How the UK government sold #Cop26 in #Glasgow to #corporate sponsors, including #polluters
#ClimateChange
https://www.newstatesman.com/business/2023/06/cabinet-office-sold-cop26-corporate-sponsors-climate-change

#Industrial #logging is one of the country's biggest #climate #polluters with more than 10 per cent of #Canada ’s total planet-heating #emissions .

This is according to an #analysis of the #NationalInventoryReport produced by both #NatureCanada & #NaturalResourcesDefenseCouncil #NRDC - #American #environmental #advocacy group.

https://www.pentictonherald.ca/spare_news/article_b70fe9af-6f70-511e-80a1-90f171fd207a.html

#StopEcocide #StopClearcuts #StopDeforestation #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #WorthMoreStanding #CorporateGreed #GreedKills #TreesOverGreed

There is a proven way to live a (relatively) low impact, low carbon, #sustainable lifestyle - that will also provide fresh #food for the local community plus sustain local biodiversity #wildlife

BUT, unsustainable #business as usual ( #politics & #economy ) is making it difficult! for the people that want to, to live #sustainably .

The barriers are - not fit for purpose planning authorities & #money.

#Tax the #polluters! for a one Planet development fund!
https://climatejustice.social/@empiricism/110418273424332975

#climate

There is a proven way to live a (relatively) low impact, low carbon, #sustainable lifestyle. A lifestyle that will also provide #food for the local community & sustain local biodiversity.

However, unsustainable business as usual ( #politics & #economy ) is making it difficult for, even the people that want to, to live a sustainable lifestyle.

The barrier is lack of sufficient #money (to buy land)

#Tax the #polluters & set up a one Planet development fund
https://climatejustice.social/@empiricism/110418273424332975

#climate

‘#Polluters Can No Longer Hide From Their Crimes’: #FossilFuel Companies Owe $5.4 Trillion in #Reparations, Study Says
https://www.ecowatch.com/fossil-fuel-companies-pollution-climate-reparations.html

Big #polluters’ share prices fall after #climate #lawsuits, study finds
Exclusive: #FossilFuel companies register drop in value after #litigation or unfavourable judgments https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/22/big-polluters-share-prices-fall-climate-lawsuits-fossil-fuels-study

As is the case seemingly most summer now, my city is blanketed in #wildfire #smoke. And #climate impacts are even worse in lower-income countries.

A new paper argues that fossil fuel companies need to pay for the damage they cause. It's time to end this #Tragedy of the #Commons.

Paper 🔗: https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(23)00198-7

Explainer 🔗: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/19/fossil-fuel-firms-owe-climate-reparations-of-209bn-a-year-says-study

Quote: "BP, Shell, ExxonMobil, Total, (Aramco), and Chevron are among the largest 21 #polluters responsible for $5.4tn... between 2025 and 2050."

🏄 Charity makes surfboard from raw sewage as ‘middle finger to polluters’

Surfers Against Sewage made the “beautifully disgusting” creation to challenge the government’s inaction on water pollution ahead of a mass protest this month

#Sewage #UK #News #Pollution #WaterPollution #Polluters

https://www.nationalworld.com/news/environment/surfers-against-sewage-makes-surfboard-using-raw-waste-4131433

Make polluters pay for their climate damage…
#climate #polluters #petition
https://act.globaljustice.org.uk/make-polluters-pay-their-climate-damage-0