Month: October 2020

Jadon Sancho and Tammy Abraham are back available for England after a coronavirus breach that left manager Gareth Southgate once again navigating a “very difficult moral maze”. Mason Greenwood and Phil Foden are absent from the Three Lions’ international triple header as punishment for breaching the strict ‘bio bubble’ during last month’s Nations League trip…

Thiago Alcantara has ended his period of self-isolation after testing positive for Covid-19. Liverpool revealed on September 29 that their big summer signing was exhibiting minor symptoms of the virus and the Spain midfielder would remain in self-isolation ‘for the required period of time’. UK guidelines state that anyone who receives a coronavirus diagnosis must…

Just one month after New York’s landmark fracking ban was announced, amid ongoing celebrations and calls for other states to follow suit, Republican lawmakers are already scheming on how best to override the decision. The Poughkeepsie Journal reported Sunday that at least one Republican congressman is considering ways to make it easier for landowners to…

In an op-ed published Tuesday, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) pointed to Monday’s Cincinnati bridge collapse, which killed one person, as further evidence that the U.S. desperately needs to upgrade its infrastructure—from bridges and roads to railways and levees. “Our infrastructure is collapsing, and the American people know it,” wrote Sanders, the ranking member of the…

Senators who voted to push through development of the Keystone XL pipeline today have received, on average, $570,034 in contributions to their campaigns and leadership PACs from the oil and gas industry over the course of their careers. The 35 senators who voted against bill have received, on average, just $78,641 from the industry. The Obama administration is…

With the blessing of California state regulators, drilling companies have injected an untold amount of toxic wastewater left over from fracking and other drilling operations into aquifers, according to an investigation by the San Francisco Chronicle published on Sunday. In October, it was confirmed that nearly 3 billion gallons of oil industry wastewater had been…

In the lead-up to the FCC’s pivotal net neutrality vote on Thursday, civil rights and media justice organizations across the United States are taking their demands for an open internet to the store-fronts of the telecommunications giants that continue to aggressively fight the protections. In partnership with the Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG-net), local organizations…

Tens of thousands of local residents in the northern region of Catalonia in Spain were told to stay indoors on Thursday after an explosion at a chemical warehouse unleashed a toxic orange cloud over a wide area covering approximately six towns. According to a spokeswoman from Catalonia’s regional fire department, the chemical blast occurred when…

GENEVA, Feb 13 2015 (IPS) – Food security has become a key issue of the U.N. climate negotiations this week in Geneva as a number of countries and observers raised concerns that recent advances in Lima are in jeopardy. While food security is a core objective of the U.N. climate convention, it has traditionally been…

Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) employees have for years been banned from using terms like “climate change,” “sustainability,” and “global warming,” according to a new report published Monday by the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting. Click Here: Putters Those “unwritten” directives came in 2011 from the agency in charge of planning and enforcing environmental…