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Links: How Biden can recover; El Paso and COVID; rationing health care
… to the late artist Christo, the Arc de Triomphe is now wrapped in 270,000 square feet of plastic! Christo had dreamed of the project for years. I hope someone will take up his art form. …
These 5 economic policy changes would help us live in harmony with God's gift of life
… more ocean acidification, more water pollution and an ocean in which there may be more plastic than fish by 2050. Here are five public policy areas that can be developed to facilitate … destructive industries that should be scaled down include armaments, private jets, single-use plastics, SUVs, building "McMansions" (house sizes in U.S. have doubled since 1970s) and …
Hurricane Ida badly damages home of Goldman Prize winner Sharon Lavigne, others in Louisiana's Cancer Alley
… as " Cancer Alley," due to the pollution from the large number of oil refineries, plastic manufacturing sites and other fossil fuel infrastructure clustered in the southern … of RISE St. James, who have been opposing new petrochemical plants like the proposed Formosa plastics plant from being built in their already burdened region, were also damaged in Ida, … reason Formosa must not be built," Lavigne said, referring to a proposed multi-billion-dollar plastics plant that she has organized against via RISE St. James. That plant, if built, would …
Follow youth toward environmental sustainability, Pope Francis says
… of the environment," including in the ways people eat, travel and use water, energy and plastics, the pope said. Francis urged people to make "courageous choices" toward more …
Q & A with activist Kathy Kelly on Afghanistan, US withdrawal and what's next
… became soggy, muddy messes. People were so desperate to get warm that they would burn plastic or old rubber tires. People were so in need of heavy blankets. Sometimes a newborn would …
EarthBeat Weekly: Climate change is the most critical environmental justice issue facing the world today
… drying. Vogt also contributed a Small Earth Story last year, writing about reducing her use of plastics . … Here's what else is new on EarthBeat: … In the face of the dual crises of COVID-19 … Corps of Engineers will conduct a more thorough environmental impact study of a controversial plastics factory slated for St. James Parish, Louisiana, focusing particularly on environmental …
Washington Archdiocese launches new action plan to care for creation
… action plan ranks suggested activities on a scale from "easy," such as "cut down on single-use plastics," to "moderate," including "incorporate justice and care for our common home into faith …
Holy waters: Prayer and protest against Line 3 pipeline at Mississippi headwaters
… I traveled to the lower Mississippi to report on a local fight to stop construction of a huge plastics manufacturing complex planned for a Black majority district of a Louisiana parish north …
How a powerful US lobby group helps Big Oil to block climate action
… API, which represents about 600 drilling companies, refiners and other interests such as plastics makers, toward finally supporting a tax on carbon earlier this year. With Biden in the …
EarthBeat Weekly: Fires, floods, foot-dragging make climate action more urgent
… plan to "keep oil alive" by shifting from fuel production to increased manufacturing of plastics — using chemical processes that are also greenhouse gas-intensive to make even more of a …