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Protesters gathered in front of a shuttered power station on Sunday to demonstrate against the Irish government’s banning of a natural and abundant fossil fuel just in time for the winter energy crisis. A large group of mostly rural individuals gathered at the closed Shannonbridge Power Station on Sunday

(New York) – Governments attending negotiations for a Global Plastics Treaty should ensure that the new treaty protects human rights throughout the plastic life cycle, Human Rights Watch said today, releasing a question-and-answer document about the human rights impacts of plastic production, use, and disposal. Governments are to meet in Punta

Plastic production, use, and disposal have significant impacts on human rights.Plastics contain toxic chemical additives, which can pose significant threats to human health.

Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. Overpopulation and climate change The big population news, reported late last month, is that we just crossed 8 billion

West Virginia State Treasurer Riley Moore announced Monday that he will run in the state’s Second Congressional District to stop “woke corporate activism.” Moore, the first Republican state treasurer in West Virginia in 92 years, said in a written statement: West Virginians need a fighter in Washington to stand

The State of California is continuing its aggressive policies pushing consumers and companies to adopt electric vehicles by proposing to force shipping companies to use electric trucks at the state’s beleaguered port facilities. Despite a supply-chain crisis that resulted in record backlogs at Los Angeles and Long Beach ports

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(Sharm El-Sheikh) – Countries attending the 27th annual United Nations climate change Conference of Parties (COP27) in Egypt should reject newly proposed recommendations for removals in a global carbon market, Human Rights Watch said today. The proposal fails to establish baseline human rights safeguards or ensure effective climate action. On the

We’re a week into this year’s UN climate summit, COP27, and the various agenda planned to roll out on the back of it are coming into focus. None more so than the autumn offensive in the establishment’s war on food. There’s a big push on that

Despite many green agenda-loving bigwigs pushing for countries to ration the use of heating and cooling to save energy, the COP27 conference is reportedly blasting its elite attendees with air conditioning in 80-degree Egyptian heat. Despite sweltering temperatures in Egypt, there is said to be very little sweating going on

The ongoing gas crisis has resulted in the German economy losing over $100 billion, a report from a major economics institute has claimed.