Hypothetical Dystopia

nrdc: We Can’t Wait Any Longer for Safe Drinking WaterYou can’t see it, smell it or taste it, but for too many Californians, a toxic chemical is in their drinking water. It’s called hexavalent chromium, or hex chrome, and though it was made famous in the movie Erin Brockovich, over a decade ago, neither California nor the U.S. has an enforceable drinking water limit on this cancer causing chemical.  Hopefully that’s about to change soon. This week, NRDC along with the Environmental Working Group sued the California Department of Public Health to accelerate the long-overdue process of setting an enforceable standard for hexavalent chromium in drinking water in California.  Read more. View Larger

nrdc:

We Can’t Wait Any Longer for Safe Drinking Water
You can’t see it, smell it or taste it, but for too many Californians, a toxic chemical is in their drinking water. It’s called hexavalent chromium, or hex chrome, and though it was made famous in the movie Erin Brockovich, over a decade ago, neither California nor the U.S. has an enforceable drinking water limit on this cancer causing chemical. 

Hopefully that’s about to change soon.

This week, NRDC along with the Environmental Working Group sued the California Department of Public Health to accelerate the long-overdue process of setting an enforceable standard for hexavalent chromium in drinking water in California.  Read more.

# nrdc california cancer chromium hexavalent chromium hex chrome water drinking water ewg public health erin brockovich

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dendroica: socialuprooting: swagandpassion: latlit: Chevron refinery in Richmond, CA up in flames. Over 80% of residents in Richmond are people of color. Chevron poisons the world starting with it’s neighbors. Demand environmental justice!!  Source for 80% of population of Richmond being people of color. Last night as Chevron struggled to contain a toxic fire at its California refinery, and a deadline passed in Ecuador for the oil company to pay the damages it owes to the Ecuadorian people, Amazon Watch’s Andrew Miller told Al-Jazeera: “You have to understand Chevron earns $85 million a day in profits, so they have the world’s best lawyers, the world’s best lobbyists, and they have the best PR firms. But what they don’t have is the moral authority of the plaintiffs on the ground – who are suffering health impacts, who are suffering cancer, they have the moral authority to continue.” >.< dendroica: socialuprooting: swagandpassion: latlit: Chevron refinery in Richmond, CA up in flames. Over 80% of residents in Richmond are people of color. Chevron poisons the world starting with it’s neighbors. Demand environmental justice!!  Source for 80% of population of Richmond being people of color. Last night as Chevron struggled to contain a toxic fire at its California refinery, and a deadline passed in Ecuador for the oil company to pay the damages it owes to the Ecuadorian people, Amazon Watch’s Andrew Miller told Al-Jazeera: “You have to understand Chevron earns $85 million a day in profits, so they have the world’s best lawyers, the world’s best lobbyists, and they have the best PR firms. But what they don’t have is the moral authority of the plaintiffs on the ground – who are suffering health impacts, who are suffering cancer, they have the moral authority to continue.” >.<

dendroica:

socialuprooting:

swagandpassion:

latlit:

Chevron refinery in Richmond, CA up in flames. Over 80% of residents in Richmond are people of color. Chevron poisons the world starting with it’s neighbors.

Demand environmental justice!! 

Source for 80% of population of Richmond being people of color.

Last night as Chevron struggled to contain a toxic fire at its California refinery, and a deadline passed in Ecuador for the oil company to pay the damages it owes to the Ecuadorian people, Amazon Watch’s Andrew Miller told Al-Jazeera: “You have to understand Chevron earns $85 million a day in profits, so they have the world’s best lawyers, the world’s best lobbyists, and they have the best PR firms. But what they don’t have is the moral authority of the plaintiffs on the ground – who are suffering health impacts, who are suffering cancer, they have the moral authority to continue.”

>.<

(Source: karluma)

# environmental justice sj activism chevron cancer social justice environmentalism big oil oil pollution public health

Reblogged 9 months ago from truth-has-a-liberal-bias (Originally from karluma) 367 notes
thepeoplesrecord: West Virginia anti-mining activist reports police brutality after arrest August 3, 2012 Environmental activists on Thursday demanded that West Virginia officials investigate allegations that state troopers beat a queer anti-mountaintop coal mining activist over the weekend. CREDO Action and Energy Action Coalition urged Attorney General Darrell McGraw and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia Booth Goodwin to investigate Dustin Steele’s claims that officers dragged him across a sidewalk and asphalt at the Hobet mine in Lincoln County on July 28. Steele, 21, further alleges that an unspecified number of state troopers punched and kicked him while in custody. Officers arrested Steele and 19 others with the group Radical Action for Mountain People’s Survival after they blocked access to the mine and charged them with trespassing and obstructing an officer. RAMPS further alleges that troopers dragged a second protester by her pigtails. Steele, a West Virginia native who has protested mountaintop coal mines for nearly a decade, told the Blade that more than 50 protesters had gathered at the mine south of Charleston in the state’s southern coalfields. Steele said roughly 30 protesters left Hobet once the officers arrived, but RAMPS maintained they forced them to walk four hours until they reached their vans parked along a nearby state highway. A video on the group’s website shows what appears to be mine supporters holding pro-coal signs, shouting obscenities and even threatening the protesters as they walked down the access road. RAMPS claims that miners used their vehicles to prevent them from driving away from the area. “Twenty of us chose to stay on the property and protest this form of coal mining by being arrested on the mine site,” said Steele. Source Photo source On a related note: I’ve just come back to tumblr after a week of having no internet connection (Gracie has been manning the blog by herself). With no internet, I entertained myself with cable news. It is much worse than I remembered. The stories they choose to cover are such nonsense. A few days ago I sent Gracie this text: I’m actually flipping between all of them - HLN, CNN, FOXNews, MSNBC, CNBC (that’s the order they appear in here). Stories on loop for the day: Bloomberg advises breast-milk over formula, Romney aid says the word “asshole” to a reporter, Janet Jackson did NOT infact slap Blanket after all, and Samsung &amp; Google fight over patents or copyrights or something. I forgot how nonsensical TV “news” is. And what’s worse - every. single. commercial break on CNN has at least two commercials for “clean coal” or “BP - we’re still here!” or “natural gas solutions” - yuck. -Robert

thepeoplesrecord:

West Virginia anti-mining activist reports police brutality after arrest

August 3, 2012

Environmental activists on Thursday demanded that West Virginia officials investigate allegations that state troopers beat a queer anti-mountaintop coal mining activist over the weekend.

CREDO Action and Energy Action Coalition urged Attorney General Darrell McGraw and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia Booth Goodwin to investigate Dustin Steele’s claims that officers dragged him across a sidewalk and asphalt at the Hobet mine in Lincoln County on July 28. Steele, 21, further alleges that an unspecified number of state troopers punched and kicked him while in custody.

Officers arrested Steele and 19 others with the group Radical Action for Mountain People’s Survival after they blocked access to the mine and charged them with trespassing and obstructing an officer. RAMPS further alleges that troopers dragged a second protester by her pigtails.

Steele, a West Virginia native who has protested mountaintop coal mines for nearly a decade, told the Blade that more than 50 protesters had gathered at the mine south of Charleston in the state’s southern coalfields. Steele said roughly 30 protesters left Hobet once the officers arrived, but RAMPS maintained they forced them to walk four hours until they reached their vans parked along a nearby state highway.

A video on the group’s website shows what appears to be mine supporters holding pro-coal signs, shouting obscenities and even threatening the protesters as they walked down the access road. RAMPS claims that miners used their vehicles to prevent them from driving away from the area.

“Twenty of us chose to stay on the property and protest this form of coal mining by being arrested on the mine site,” said Steele.

Source

Photo source

On a related note: I’ve just come back to tumblr after a week of having no internet connection (Gracie has been manning the blog by herself). With no internet, I entertained myself with cable news. It is much worse than I remembered. The stories they choose to cover are such nonsense. A few days ago I sent Gracie this text:

I’m actually flipping between all of them - HLN, CNN, FOXNews, MSNBC, CNBC (that’s the order they appear in here). Stories on loop for the day: Bloomberg advises breast-milk over formula, Romney aid says the word “asshole” to a reporter, Janet Jackson did NOT infact slap Blanket after all, and Samsung & Google fight over patents or copyrights or something.

I forgot how nonsensical TV “news” is. And what’s worse - every. single. commercial break on CNN has at least two commercials for “clean coal” or “BP - we’re still here!” or “natural gas solutions” - yuck.

-Robert

# environmentalism coal cancer lgbtq sj activism

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heart4rescue: kileyrae: think-progress: President Obama stopped shaking hands for a moment today so that he could embrace a sobbing woman whose uninsured sister recently died of colon cancer. And the Republican response. If you don’t click the link, let me just summarize for you. A Republican is asked, “What would you do to provide health care to the 30 million Americans who don’t have it if you repeal Obamacare?” He replies, “That is not the issue.” I then screamed in frustration and facepalmed.

heart4rescue:

kileyrae:

think-progress:

President Obama stopped shaking hands for a moment today so that he could embrace a sobbing woman whose uninsured sister recently died of colon cancer.

And the Republican response.

If you don’t click the link, let me just summarize for you. A Republican is asked, “What would you do to provide health care to the 30 million Americans who don’t have it if you repeal Obamacare?” He replies, “That is not the issue.”

I then screamed in frustration and facepalmed.

# obama president 2012 ACA cancer obamacare republican democrat uninsured healthcare politics social justice news justice activism social activism

Reblogged 10 months ago from dance-like-a-dervish (Originally from think-progress) 33,328 notes