Global Justice for Animals and the Environment

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10/19/2024

Blood on Governor Phil Murphy's hands.

The bow hunter finally killed the 770-pound black bear he’d been eyeing over the past two bear hunts.

10/19/2024

Stand up for birds!

09/24/2024

"Yesterday, the World Trade Organization (WTO) formally initiated a dispute panel in response to trade attacks against the most-significant climate legislation ever passed in the United States.

Please join us in urging officials to reject the WTO case against clean energy provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

The IRA is designed to create good-paying jobs in the United States while speeding the expansion of clean-energy technologies like electric vehicles, long-storage batteries and renewables.

A new WTO challenge against the IRA outrageously claims the U.S. can't spend taxpayer dollars to create clean energy jobs for American workers.

As part of the current public comment period on this case, we're asking U.S. officials to both reject this specific WTO suit and to support a Climate Peace Clause in order to prevent future trade attacks on climate initiatives.

A Climate Peace Clause would allow governments worldwide to prioritize needed climate action without fear that outdated trade rules will subject them to costly trade attacks such as this one.
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In the past, the United States lost WTO cases pertaining to the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act and more. Today, the most-ambitious climate legislation passed to date is under attack. These trade attacks have gone too far!



Please take action now, and once you finish submitting your public comments, please be sure to share this information with anyone else who you think might be interested."

09/12/2024

"The WTO Case Against a Major Clean Energy Initiative
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Sep 19, 2024 03:00 PM in
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Please join us at this month’s Trade Justice Power Hour briefing to hear from Melinda St. Louis of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch about the new World Trade Organization (WTO) challenge against clean energy provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) — provisions that are needed to reduce climate pollution and create good-paying manufacturing jobs in renewable energy.

We’ll also be joined by the Trade Justice Education Fund’s Arthur Stamoulis to learn how you can join official public comments urging the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to reject the WTO case against the IRA and to support a Climate Peace Clause that would help prevent future trade attacks on climate initiatives.

Governments worldwide must be allowed to prioritize needed climate action without fear that corporate-driven trade rules will subject them costly trade disputes. Join us at the Power Hour to learn more about this issue and how you can make a difference."

Please join us at this month’s Trade Justice Power Hour briefing to hear from Melinda St. Louis of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch about the new World Trade Organization (WTO) challenge against clean energy provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) — provisions that are needed to red...

08/23/2024

"'The pre-print brain study led by Campen also hinted at a concerning link. In the study, researchers looked at 12 brain samples from people who had died with dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease. These brains contained up to 10 times more plastic by weight than healthy samples. (The latest version of Campen’s study, which contains these findings, was not yet posted online when this story was published.) 'I don’t know how much more plastic our brain can stuff in without it causing some problems,' Campen said.

The paper also found the quantity of microplastics in brain samples from 2024 was about 50% higher from the total in samples that date to 2016, suggesting the concentration of microplastics found in human brains is rising at a similar rate to that found in the environment. Most of the organs came from the office of the medical investigator in Albuquerque, New Mexico, which investigates untimely or violent deaths."

Twenty-four brain samples collected in early 2024 measured on average about 0.5% plastic by weight

08/07/2024

"Streetlights left on all night cause leaves to become so tough that insects cannot eat them, threatening the food chain, a study has found."

Scientists believe artificial light may be affecting natural ecology of plant life by creating extended photosynthesis

08/06/2024

Before anyone gets too excited about Walz...

(St. Paul, MN) -- Governor Tim Walz is defending his stance on Enbridge Line 3, the day after more than a thousand protesters at the State Capitol demanded he halt

08/01/2024

"A Free Online Summit About Regenerating Ecosystems and Ourselves

Join us live from August 1-4 for expert teachings and conversations on ecological restoration and climate resilience, accompanying a limited online screening of the “Water is Love” documentary. Come learn with us and take an active part in the regeneration revolution!"

A Free Online Summit About Regenerating Ecosystems and Ourselves Join us live from August 1-4 for expert teachings and conversations on ecological restoration and climate resilience, accompanying a limited screening of the “Water is Love” documentary. We will share meditations, group exercises a...

07/31/2024

Well this is horrific.

At the mere flick of a magnetic field, mice engineered with nanoparticle-activated 'switches' inside their brains were driven to feed, socialize, and act like clucky new mothers in an experiment designed to test an innovative research tool.

05/20/2024

If you eat lobster, you are supporting animal torture.

https://fb.watch/sbjkjYb3uS/

05/10/2024

"Stiglitz goes well beyond an effort to reclaim the concept of freedom for progressives. Much of his book is aimed at bulldozing away any legitimacy for 'neoliberalism' — an increasingly popular term for the free-market ideology that swept America and much of the world in the 1980s and 1990s.

'Neoliberalism's crimes include freeing financial markets to precipitate the largest financial crisis in three-quarters of a century; freeing trade to accelerate deindustrialization [by, for example, gutting American manufacturing]; and freeing corporations to exploit consumers, workers, and the environment alike,' Stiglitz writes. 'This form of capitalism does not enhance freedom in our society. Instead, it has led to the freedom of a few at the expense of the many. Freedom for the wolves; death for the sheep.'"

Nobel-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz's new book argues the road to tyranny is paved not by too much, but by too little government.