Environment – Page 264 – People's World

Black lawmakers and EPA launch environmental justice tour

January 22, 2010 By Joel Wendland-Liu

The Environmental Protection Agency/Congressional Black Caucus tour kicks off in Mississippi, aiming to "highlight environmental justice challenges faced by Americans in all communities."

El Salvador: For people’s dignity, yes to life, no to mining

January 9, 2010 By Rossana Cambron

Video: Environmentalists from El Salvador speak out against the Pacific Rim Mining Company and its attempt to exploit their country's natural resources.

Clean energy manufacturing wins federal boost

January 8, 2010 By Joel Wendland-Liu

President Obama announced funding for tax credits to promote new job growth in the clean energy manufacturing sector.

2010 elections key to building a green, demilitarized economy

January 7, 2010 By John Bachtell

In a Dec. 4 editorial entitled, "The Welfare State and Military Power," the Wall Street Journal actually said something I agree with: you can't have both guns and butter.

Marx in Copenhagen

January 6, 2010 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

"Goodbye Africa, goodbye South Asia; goodbye glaciers and sea ice, coral reefs and rainforest; it was nice knowing you." Such was George Monbiot's dismay as the recent Copenhagen Climate Conference ended.