El estado de California produce casi 70% de todas las frutas y nueces y aproximadamente 55% de todos los vegetales que se consumen en Estados Unidos. La mayoría de los titulares se han enfocado en la gran cantidad de agua que se usa para regar las granjas californianas. Sin embargo, hay otro problema: un porcentaje…
In early December 2016, the Belle Fourche oil pipeline spewed tens of thousands of gallons of crude oil into the Ash Coulee Creek near the North Dakota town of Belfield—about 150 miles away from the Standing Rock camp, where activists were busy protesting against the Dakota Access oil pipeline.
When Donald Trump proposed a massive border wall to stop immigration between the United States and Mexico, the biggest question on critics' minds was probably along the lines of "are you kidding me with this nativist, isolationist garbage?" or "you don't actually think Mexico is going to pay for this thing, do you?"…
Eryn Wise, 26, is young two-spirit (LGBTQ) Native American leader who's been on the front lines of the Dakota Access pipeline protests since last year. She is Jicarilla Apache and Laguna Pueblo, an organizer for Honor the Earth, and the media coordinator for the International Indigenous Youth Council and Sacred Stone…
It was a frigid, soggy afternoon on the Lancaster, Pennsylvania farm, and a pen of robust pigs were thrusting their snouts in the mud. They were oblivious to the scene just a few feet away: Nearly a hundred chanting people were forming a bloc, their arms tightly linked. Across a barricade of piled crates, a group of…
A few hours before giving a very racist speech in a very polite voice, President Trump signed an executive order rolling back clean water regulations. The order itself isn't binding, but it's a signal that his administration is kicking off the lengthy process, led by Scott Pruitt at the Environmental Protection…
After more than a year of protests and mixed outcomes in court battles, demonstrators at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota have been ordered by Governor Doug Burgum to evacuate their camp site to allow construction to move forward by 2 pm local time today.
No te debería sorprender que los humanos están teniendo un gran impacto sobre el planeta. Los niveles de dióxido de carbono atmosférico se encuentran en su punto más alto en casi medio millón de años. Ya se confirmó que el 2016 fue el año más caluroso que se ha registrado en la historia. Casi un tercio de todas las…
No te debería sorprender que los humanos están teniendo un gran impacto sobre el planeta. Los niveles de dióxido de carbono atmosférico se encuentran en su punto más alto en casi medio millón de años. Ya se confirmó que el 2016 fue el año más caluroso que se ha registrado en la historia. Casi un tercio de todas las…
No te debería sorprender que los humanos están teniendo un gran impacto sobre el planeta. Los niveles de dióxido de carbono atmosférico se encuentran en su punto más alto en casi medio millón de años. Ya se confirmó que el 2016 fue el año más caluroso que se ha registrado en la historia. Casi un tercio de todas las…
No te debería sorprender que los humanos están teniendo un gran impacto sobre el planeta. Los niveles de dióxido de carbono atmosférico se encuentran en su punto más alto en casi medio millón de años. Ya se confirmó que el 2016 fue el año más caluroso que se ha registrado en la historia. Casi un tercio de todas las…
On Monday, Washington, DC district Judge James Boasberg rejected a request to halt the recently re-started construction of the Dakota Access Oil pipeline in North Dakota.
Energy Transfer Partners began construction on the final stretch of the Dakota Access pipeline Thursday morning after President Donald Trump signed an executive order that laid the groundwork for the project to be pushed through.
The same day the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced it would approve the renewed construction on the Dakota Access oil pipeline, lawmakers in in Seattle voted unanimously to end the city's business ties with one of the project's major investors, Wells Fargo Bank.
President Donald Trump, a beacon of self-awareness in these trying times, said on Tuesday that he didn't even know the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines, two extremely divisive projects he resurrected during his first days in office, were "controversial."
In a crushing setback for the opponents of the Dakota Access pipeline, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers notified Congress on Tuesday that it will grant the necessary easement to restart the highly controversial pipeline's construction.
North Dakota lawmakers say the Trump administration is removing a major obstacle for the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline through their state, a move that will likely reopen major protests over the pipeline.
The first time I met Lori Glover, it was during the predawn darkness of a December morning last year in the small town of Alpine in far west Texas, and she had locked her neck to the gate of the Trans-Pecos pipeline’s staging site in an act of civil disobedience.
The Trump administration is pushing to scrub information about the scientific consensus on climate change from the Environmental Protection Agency's website, agency sources say.
Just one day after White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer suggested Donald Trump would push forward the Dakota Access and Keystone XL oil pipelines, the president did just that on Tuesday by signing executive actions likely to reignite ferocious opposition from environmental groups.
