Reprinted with permission from Tomdispatch.com It began with fire. It ended with ice. In between, there were the storms and floods. And the extremity of it all should have caught anyone’s attention. First, of course, there was that burning season that set staggering records across California — four million acres incinerated, double the previous high — Oregon, and…
By Community Environmental Advocates Foundation (CEA) Grass Valley, CA 02/24/21. Nevada County has not commissioned an economic impact study on the proposed reopening of the Idaho-Maryland Mine, but they should. Rise Gold promises they’ll bring 312 jobs to the County, but a prior economic study suggests about half of those would come from out of…
The incomparable Tuba Skinny with another brilliant anti-depressant.
Sarah Lynch, Binghamton University, State University of New York and Kanneboyina Nagaraju, Binghamton University, State University of New York One of the biggest barriers standing in the way of ending the pandemic isn’t medical or logistical. It’s the misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines. Demand for vaccine currently exceeds supply, but there are many people…
EXCERPT: “Newsom is second to none in sounding the alarm about climate change and the need to move away from fossil fuels. But Newsweek reports that during his first two years as governor, Newsom’s administration “approved more than 8,000 oil and gas permits on state lands.” He continues to issue many fracking permits. (As the Wall Street Journal noted days ago, fracking is now…