News — pollution

article This refinery leaks PFAS next to lower income homes in Denver.  many people are getting cancer in the neighborhood.  The oil refinery also leaks benzene.

https://www.democracynow.org/2020/6/29/louisiana_formosa_plastics_cancer_alley

https://grist.org/fix/want-to-prevent-the-next-pandemic-this-doctor-is-prescribing-climate-action

Fighting Big Oil and Climate Change will prevent air and water pollution and toxic waste.

https://grist.org/climate/world-health-leaders-are-calling-for-a-green-recovery-from-coronavirus

Here is Colorado, the Suncor refinery keeps  spilling toxic solvents into the rivers, groundwater , and the air.  Daily Camera .  

Antonia Juhasz interviews about the Suncor oil refinery pollution and activist responses.

https://news.kgnu.org/2020/05/uncovering-oil-the-bailouts

https://grist.org/justice/epa-consent-decrees-are-supposed-to-hold-polluters-accountable-will-coronavirus-get-them-off-the-hook

stop cleaning up the toxic emissions into the Mississippi River and into the air; and clean up  the lead in neighboring homes.

enforcement and inspections down 70%.

https://grist.org/justice/will-state-level-environmental-enforcement-survive-the-pandemic

more fracking permits and more pollution of neighboring communities

https://grist.org/energy/coronavirus-has-states-hitting-pause-except-when-it-comes-to-oil-and-gas-drilling

fracking flowback air pollution in Broomfield, CO, continues next to senior community where Covid-19 harms the ability to  breath.

https://grist.org/justice/coronavirus-retirees-sheltering-in-place-colorado-fracking

interview with Antonia Juhasz on KGNU on 5-5-28 or 5- 27  or 26 on Suncor refinery in Denver  polluting Sandy Creek and accused of causing nosebleeds and cancer  in the neighboring lower income community.

Plus military focuses on wars over oil, minerals, water, land, and shipping routes.  It protects oil fields, refineries, pipelines, and shipping routes.  It controls rivals’ access to oil and refined oil.  It sets prices to enrich US and allies and to weaken rivals.  Also, it controls who gets to buy, refine, and sell oil.  It maintains spheres of influence.

Posted on November 13, 2015

Here is one interview.

The Water Knife is a detective thriller set amidst drought refugees and physical battles between cities over water.  It has romance, murder, gangs, chases, and journalists.

The Windup Girl is about a future of GMOs, rising sea levels, hunger, loss of species of food crops,  racial blaming, and hunger after terminator genes wipe out many food varieties.  Oil is gone.  It is a very violent.

Another interview.

Drowned Cities and Ship Breaker are about societies where the oil based energy system is gone, and people struggle in gangs over the spoils or else move on to wind-powered ships.

Zombie Baseball Beatdown is about middle schoolers battling GMO mad cows from a slaughter house.  It also touches on bullying, discrimination against  immigrants, corporate power over local government, and friendship.  

The Doubt Factory  is about radicals protesting against toxic products .  It focuses on a high school girl’s relationship to her father, who is doing the fake pr for tobacco, pesticide, drug,  and  oil companies.  She is attracted to rebellious radicals who want to expose the corporate PR.

Posted on September 22, 2015