The massive devastation, death and misery hurricane Harvey wreaked upon the Gulf Coast and inland on Texas and Louisiana has been seen throughout the world. The coverage has centered on Houston, the fourth largest city in the U.S., which saw the greatest amount of rain to fall in a few days in (...)
Politicians cannot feign surprise at the disaster they literally paved the way for, explains Seth Uzman.
STORMS ARE natural, but what happens in response to them is not. Flooding in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, which smashed into the Gulf Coast on August 25, has left at least nine people (...)
Now is exactly the time to talk about climate change, and all the other systemic injustices — from racial profiling to economic austerity — that turn disasters like Harvey into human catastrophes.
Turn on the coverage of the Hurricane Harvey and the Houston flooding and you’ll hear lots of talk (...)
The language of social justice has been used to sell intensified neoliberalism in post-Katrina New Orleans.
It’s one of those ironies that New Orleanians tend to especially appreciate. Today, on the tenth anniversary of the failure of the federally maintained levees, the keynote speaker at the (...)
Harvey’s floodwaters run thick with petrochemicals in some communities, the result of unbridled industry, Wild West regulations and environmental racism.
Ramit Plushnick-Masti woke just after 4:30 a.m. Sunday to find water seeping into the bathroom. She ran to the sunroom that faces her (...)
The deadly fire at an Oakland artist collective has exposed the warped priorities of a city where fewer and people can afford to live, explains David Judd.
AT LEAST 36 people were killed by a fire that raged through a warehouse hosting a concert in Oakland’s Fruitvale district last Friday (...)
HOUSTON — For the third time in eight years, water gushed into Virginia Hammond’s northwest Houston.
It was 2 a.m. on April 18. Over the next several hours, her two granddaughters — ages 12 and 15 — perched on tables, scared to put their feet in the dark gray floodwater rising below them. It (...)
As a methane gas leak continues unabated in Los Angeles, Ragina Johnson asks what it will take to protect communities and the environment from corporate polluters.
YOU’D THINK the ecological and social crisis in California couldn’t get any worse.
The state is suffering the effects of a historic (...)
It took nearly a week for the news about the New Year’s Eve mass sexual assaults on women in Cologne to appear in press and social networks. It took even longer for many to react, including myself. Despite the fact that the attacks of more than 100 women by a crowd of an estimated 1000 men (...)
As California Methane Leak Displaces Thousands, Will U.S. Regulate Natural Gas Sites Nationwide?
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ERIN BROCKOVICH a renowned consumer advocate and legal researcher. She is working with Weitz & Luxenberg to seek justice for victims of Porter Ranch gas leak. While a single mother of (...)
While the country continues to mourn the victims of the horrifying bombing of the Boston Marathon, another deadly explosion devastated a small town called West (just south of Dallas, Texas). On the evening of April 17, a large fertilizer plant caught fire and, just minutes later, exploded with (...)
A month after Frankenstorm Sandy struck , battle lines are beginning to be drawn in the wreckage along New York City’s shores. The brewing struggles are taking shape amidst the popular relief effort that sprung up immediately after the storm, pitting organizers and thousands of (...)
The superstorm was a catastrophe waiting to happen in the era of global warming. Rather than an ordinary late-season hurricane, Sandy became a monster fuelled by the heated waters of the Atlantic. It smashed through the Caribbean, causing massive damage and dozens of deaths both in Cuba (which (...)
Chris Williams, author of Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis, examines the man-made factors contributing to the disaster of Hurricane Sandy.
"If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those (...)
The presidential candidates decided not to speak about climate change, but climate change has decided to speak to them. And what is a thousand-mile-wide storm pushing eleven feet of water toward our country’s biggest population center saying just days before the election? It is this: we are all (...)
On March 25, 1911, a fire that broke out in a bin holding scraps of fabric at the Triangle Waist Company, just down the block from New York City’s Washington Square Park, quickly spread, fed by cotton garments, tissue paper and wooden fixtures. Though the building that housed the clothing (...)
THE DEEPWATER HORIZON oil horror has again focused the nation on South Louisiana. For the second time in less than five years, we are on the front pages of America’s newspapers. Again, this region is being misunderstood. Easy explanations miss the reasons why this area is so vulnerable, and why (...)
New Orleans’s Saint Charles Avenue is lined with oak trees whose broad branches drip Spanish moss and Mardi Gras beads from the pre-Lenten parades, and behind the oaks are beautiful old houses with turrets, porches, balconies, bay windows, gables, dormers and lush gardens. There are no (...)
Everyone gathered for the town hall meeting had been repeatedly instructed to show civility to the gentlemen from BP and the federal government. These fine folks had made time in their busy schedules to come to a school gymnasium on a Tuesday night in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, one of many (...)
BP, with the help of the US federal agencies, has prevented journalists from reporting on the clean-up operations. It has also bought the rights to phrases such as ‘oil spill’ on the search engines Google and Yahoo.
British Petroleum (BP) has admitted it may not stop the Deepwater Horizon oil (...)
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