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Cancel Culture Isn’t A Thing, You Snowflakes - Some More News

South Africa’s Cape Town, [4 million people],  Is Set To Run Out Of Water In April

Even Breathing Is A Risk In One Of Orlando’s Poorest Neighborhoods People inhale soot and noxious fumes from the car-laden highways encircling their historically black community.

Air Pollution Is Killing Millions Around The Globe Each Year It’s not listed on death certificates, but it’s still considered “one of the great killers of our age.”

Global Warming killed 60% of the world’s saiga antelopes in 2015.

This Sea Turtle Population Is Almost All Female, Thanks To Climate Change In the northern Great Barrier Reef, juvenile green sea turtles are 99 percent female.

This WV Town Is So Toxic, They Want It Wiped off the Map“Every single neighbor I’ve had has died of cancer.”

Soon the Only Coral Reefs We See Will Be on the Nature Channel

Trump administration officially scraps Obama-era rules for fracking on federal land

Trump administration has quietly changed government’s sharing of climate data in unprecedented ways. Just one year in, the changes are pronounced.

Pruitt’s EPA wants to let states handle coal ash. Oklahoma shows why that’s so dangerous.

Customers End Up Paying For The Toxic Legacy Of Coal Ash. Residents are forced to pay for coal ash with their money and health.

Study Uncovers Startling Number of Black Lung Cases in Coal Miners. Miners are contracting the disease with striking frequency and at younger ages than ever before

The Interior Department Has Cleared the Way for Energy Developers to Destroy Natural Habitats

The National Park Service Will Be Run By The Guy Who Helped Dan Snyder Cut Down Public Trees To Improve His River View

Trump EPA nominee advances after hosting fundraisers for 2 Senate committee members.Nominee lobbied for coal giant Murray Energy.

Fear of Trump solar tariff helped slam brakes on the fast-growing industry in 2017.,Under Trump, U.S. solar employment sees first drop last year.

Lands stripped from Utah monuments open to claims, leases by oil, gas, coal and uranium companies

Trump Boasts The Ice Caps Are ‘Setting Records.’ But It’s For Melting.

Fracking companies won’t have to disclose chemicals thanks to Trump administration rollback

Climate coalition tallied all of Trump’s censorship of science. It’s staggering. Trump’s war on science threatens the nation’s safety, experts warn.

Lindsay Zoladz, Leaving Britney Alone (via wizzard890)

“Listening to all of Britney Spears’s albums in chronological order is like looking at an Animorphs cover of a teen girl gradually turning not into a woman, but a cyborg.”

STRONGLY RECOMMEND READING THIS WHOLE PIECE

Not to sound like that guy from Parks and Rec but having worked at the Bureau of Labour AND having done research into trafficking—even the companies that treat their workers LEGALLY are paying starvation wages; there are hundreds and hundreds of farm that depend on a mix of exploited and uncoerced labour.

The government has made it incredibly hard for trafficked workers to get justice: IF they are able to get away and report it, they then have to stay in the same geographic location (often dangerous) AND if they aren’t citizens or in the states on a work visa they aren’t allowed to work, but the gov’t isn’t paying their rent or bills or food,

Collapsed in Washington berry fields while the sky was yellow with haze from the bad wildfires in British Columbia late last summer. His employers had previously denied a request for sick leave. By the time they got him to medical treatment it was too late - he died at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.

When three of his coworkers complained about the work conditions, they were fired.

Familias Unidas por la Justicia (Families United for Justice) is working to organize these laborers, I don’t want to end this story on a defeat when the braceros certainly haven’t been defeated. But Ibarra had all the proper legal documentation in place. Imagine how undocumented workers are treated.

7-11 is a franchise, and stores are often run by their South Asian owners, families and friends who may have scraped together their savings for the initial costs.