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Lufthansa A350-900 lands in Delhi with a donation in its luggage February 15, 2017 A few days ago, Lufthansa flew the brand-new Airbus A350-900 from Munich to the Indian capital Delhi. A few days ago, Lufthansa flew the brand-new Airbus A350-900 from Munich to the Indian capital Delhi. On flight LH762 on 14 February, the youngest member of the fleet also had a special surprise on board: a donation cheque from help alliance for over 30,000 euros for the “Sunshine” education project in Delhi....

The Jab, Star Wars, and the Bubble Net of Digital Gulags In the new world, it is not the big fish which eats the small fish, its the fast fish which eats the slow fish. -- Klaus Schwab by Paul Haeder / May 22nd, 2021 See, hear, speak no evil! And, we are the slow fish, the 80 percent: The world’s 85 richest individuals possess as much wealth as the 3.5 billion souls who compose the poorer half of the world’s population, or so it was announced in a report by Oxfam International. The assertio...

‘One Oppressive Economy Begets Another’ Anya Groner © Stacy Kranitz Sharon Lavigne was teaching a special-education class when her daughter called to tell her about the Sunshine Project. Named for its proximity to Louisiana’s Sunshine Bridge, the operation, helmed by the Taiwanese behemoth Formosa Plastics, was on track to build one of the world’s largest plastic plants. Already the air Lavigne breathed in her native St. James Parish was some of the most toxic in the U...

The Atlantic ‘One Oppressive Economy Begets Another’ Louisiana’s petroleum industry profits from exploiting historic inequalities, showing how slavery laid the groundwork for environmental racism. Share Sharon Lavigne was teaching a special-education class when her daughter called to tell her about the Sunshine Project. Named for its proximity to Louisiana’s Sunshine Bridge, the operation, helmed by the Taiwanese behemoth Formosa Plastics, was on track to build one of the world’s larg...

The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending April 23rd indicated that the amount of natural gas held in underground storage in the US rose by 15 billion cubic feet to 1,898 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies 302 billion cubic feet, or 13.7% below the 2,200 billion cubic feet that were in storage on April 23rd of last year, and 40 billion cubic feet, or 2.1% below the five-year average of 1,938 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have be...

ST. JAMES, LOUISIANA — 175 organizations today called on 30 leading banks and financiers not to fund the construction of Formosa Plastics’  $12 billion “Sunshine Project” petrochemical plant in St. James, Louisiana. Signatories to the letter from RISE St. James include residents and community groups, major U.S. civil society organizations, and international groups concerned about toxic air pollution caused by the proposed plastics plant. They criticized the environmental racism of siti...

DeSmog Human rights experts appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council issued a statement on March 2 raising concerns about the further industrialization of Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley.” This largely Black-populated stretch of the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge is lined with more than a hundred refineries and petrochemical plants. The experts said additional petrochemical development in this region, which U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) d...

Join EJSCREEN: The Environmental Litigation Tool of the Future? President Joseph Biden Jr. has committed to making major improvements in environmental justice communities (EJCs) by pledging to invest 40% of his $2 trillion clean energy plan into these communities. petrmalinak / Shutterstock.com The question for industry is what this will look like and how it will impact business. A judicial order in a Louisiana district court case late last year could provide some clues. The EPA’s EJSCREEN ma...

Outside all winter: In N.H. and in the Lakes Region, unsheltered homelessness rises Tim Haddock is a regular for lunch at Isaiah 61 Cafe in Laconia, which offers a weekday respite from the cold and a source of donated coats mittens and sleeping bags during cold weather. Roberta Baker—Laconia Daily Sun Freeman Toth has the weighty job of finding people before it is too late.   As one of two homeless outreach and housing stability coordinators for the Community Action Program of Belknap-Merri...

FULTON — Oswego County residents aged 60 and older will receive a chocolate chip cookie baking kit with their grab and go meal on Feb. 24 through 26.