By Andy Rowell Just because you get older, it doesn’t mean you cannot stop taking action for what you believe in. And Monday was a case in point. Two seventy-year-olds, still putting their bodies on the line for environmental justice and indigenous rights. Early Monday morning, the first seventy-year-old, a grandfather of two, and former […]
By Andy Rowell The Sanchi oil spill in the East China Sea could potentially be one of the worst tanker spills in decades, experts are warning, even though the spill has now largely disappeared from news reports. Work by scientists from the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and the University of Southampton, who have plotted where […]
By Andy Rowell With a swagger and a wave, President Donald Trump has arrived at the World Economic Forum in Davos and is expected to push his “America First” agenda on Friday in a self-congratulatory speech. “A lot of people are coming back to the United States. We are seeing tremendous investment,” said Trump Thursday […]
By Andy Rowell There are increasing environmental and health concerns surrounding the oil spill in the East China Sea from the Iranian registered tanker, the Sanchi, which sank on Monday carrying 136,000 tons, or one million barrels, of a highly flammable oil mix called condensate. The tanker had burned for a week before exploding after […]
By Andy Rowell A new expose published Monday reveals how BP, working closely with the British government, has been “side-stepping” sanctions introduced after the Russian annexation of Crimea. The expose is based on documents, obtained under British Freedom of Information laws, which have been obtained by the campaign organization, Culture Unstained, part of the ArtNotOil […]
By Andy Rowell As Washington continues to digest the explosive revelations in the book Fire and Fury about the chaotic and dysfunctional White House and whether the president is mentally fit for office, the Trump administration continues its full-frontal assault on the environment. Last week, just as Fire and Fury started to send shock-waves around […]
In effort to bolster a global shift to clean energy, the World Bank—which provides financial, advisory and technical support to developing countries—announced it will “no longer finance upstream oil and gas, after 2019.” The announcement was made Tuesday at the international One Planet climate summit called by French President Emmanuel Macron, President of the World […]
As world leaders and global financial institutions gather for the One Planet Summit on Dec. 12 in Paris, civil society groups have come together under the Big Shift Global campaign to underscore the massive finance gap remaining to shift away from fossil fuels and toward clean energy, in line with the aim of the Paris […]
By Andy Rowell The media company Meredith announced Sunday night that it’s buying Time magazine for an estimated $2.8 billion. “We are creating a premier media company serving nearly 200 million American consumers across industry-leading digital, television, print, video, mobile and social platforms positioned for growth,” said Meredith Corporation Chairman and CEO Stephen Lacy. Buried […]
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