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OTTAWA | TRADITIONAL, UNCEDED TERRITORY OF THE ALGONQUIN ANISHNAABEG PEOPLE – The West Coast “Pacific Link” oil pipeline announced today by Prime Minister Carney and the Major Projects Office in Fort McMurray will cost taxpayers $43.7 billion, while putting the critically endangered Southern Resident Killer Whale and British Columbia’s $21 billion ocean-based economy at risk. […]

The Democratic Party has been spectacularly ineffective in providing an opposition to Trump’s drive for authoritarian domination. Merely electing Democrats is no solution to the crisis of American democracy. But popular defense of free and fair elections, and a massive electoral repudiation of Trump and MAGA in November, can play an important role in the struggle to democratize the U.S.

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Muzammal is a Muslim Kashmiri-Pakistani immigrant to the United States whose work is rooted in a deep commitment to socio-economic justice and development, with a focus on building working class power. Muzammal grew up as a refugee in Pakistan during the United States's war on terror and the Pakistani Army's dictatorship rule.

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Worried that Trump and MAGA may steal the upcoming mid-term elections? LNS co-sponsored a September 22 webinar on “Building and Defending Democracy in November’s Elections” that addresses the fightback to block attempts to interfere with free and fair elections.

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LNS president Joe Uehlein’s book-and-music tour continues with dates around the country. Here is the schedule for the entire tour.

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On Monday, September 14, I attended the Amherst stop of Joe Uehlein's cross-country book tour, in support of his newly published Three Roads: Labor, Music, Ecology. Joe tells the story of a life-long love of the union movement, songs, and nature fostered first as a boy outside of Cleveland.

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The Black Climate Leadership Summit, co-hosted by Taproot Noire (a global Black climate network rooted in Taproot Earth) and SOL Nation as part of the Queen City Climate Convergence on September 16–17 in Charlotte, North Carolina, brought together Black-identifying frontline and environmental justice leaders, organizers, and advocates from across the globe.

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Opposition to datacenters grows on both sides of the political aisle as developers plan to invest $8tn to build them in the coming years...

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UE’s Green Locomotive Project is an innovative model for grassroots union initiative to create good union jobs, address climate change, and clean up pollution in the low-income communities and communities of color which bear the brunt of pollution from rail yards.

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In a new commentary, LNS co-founder and senior strategic advisor Jeremy Brecher warns, “As long as the US opposes rather than joining the Greentech revolution, it portends not only climate catastrophe, but economic catastrophe as well.”

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The first computers were designed with labor discipline in mind. Today’s AI industry is finishing the job, and young white-collar workers are already paying the price.

The Barack Obama Presidential Center promised to be more than an ode to the former president. In reality, it’s an $850 million monument to the vacuousness that defined Obama liberalism.

** News about this story is still developing. ** Last night, for the second time in six months, the state of Tennessee tortured someone they were attempting to execute. Christa Pike remains hospitalized for treatment after surviving two doses of lethal injection drugs. After another botched execution in May left Tony Carruthers butchered but alive, […]

If one form of energy becomes the cheapest, most secure and cleanest, you’d probably adjust your economy to use more of it, right? That’s one of the ideas underpinning a report the International Energy Agency issued last week about the global move toward electrification. Fatih Birol, head of the IEA, discussed some of the concepts […]

For Europe’s fishing industry, it turns out size does matter. Of 60,000 European-flagged fishing boats, just 638 are responsible for most of the harm, according to a new report by French non-profit BLOOM. The largest in the fleet, at 108 feet or longer, pose the greatest threat to food security, cost taxpayers the most and […]

PLYMOUTH, N.C.—Fall had just arrived when a nor’easter began stewing in the Atlantic Ocean, its gale-force winds carrying the pungent smell of chlorine westward, away from downtown. Against the backdrop of dingy stratus clouds, the Domtar pulp mill loomed. The plant occupies 2,400 acres at the confluence of Welch Creek and the Roanoke River, where […]

Amid political pressure and rising energy prices, the European Commission is considering pausing a part of its landmark methane regulation, which is set to take effect in January. The move comes after French President Emmanuel Macron urged the Commission in a September 18 letter to postpone new methane reporting requirements and ease other fuel-related rules […]

by Robert Hunziker

Ocean ecosystems are undergoing profound changes as warming waters, declining oxygen levels and marine heatwaves disrupt food webs. The article examines the expansion of oceanic hypoxic dead zones, the decline of gray whale populations, widespread fish deaths and growing pressures on species such as Antarctic krill. It traces how melting Arctic sea ice is disrupting the food chain that sustains gray whales, while extreme heat is causing mass mortality in marine and aquaculture environments. With ocean temperatures continuing to rise and carbon dioxide remaining in the atmosphere, the article considers the shrinking time available to address climate change and its consequences for marine life.

by H. Patricia Hynes

Coral reefs support about a quarter of all marine life and sustain the livelihoods of more than a billion people through fisheries, tourism and other marine industries. Yet rising global temperatures, ocean acidification, sewage and industrial pollution are driving unprecedented coral dieback. The article examines why coral reefs may represent one of the first climate tipping points and the consequences of their decline for marine ecosystems and coastal communities. It also highlights “Super Reefs” that have shown unusual resilience to heat and the work of scientists seeking to identify and protect these surviving coral strongholds, alongside efforts to accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels.