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The Turów coal mine and power plant complex is “strategic for ensuring the energy security of Poland,” says PGE, the state-owned enterprise at the centre of a dispute with the Czech Republic over the extension of mining operations there.
In a rare move for an EU country, the Czech Republic took Poland before the European Court of Justice last February for extending mining operations at an open-pit coal mine near Turów, a Polish village just over the border.
EU judges are currently examining the complaint and could order temporary closure of the mine.
Mother’s Day in the United States is typically associated with spring, and new life.
But because of the climate crisis, Mother’s Day also heralds hotter summers with more and longer heat waves, worsening North Atlantic hurricane season, and terrifying wildfires in the months ahead. An increasingly important public health event – Heat Awareness Day – follows on May 31.
Climate impacts are expected to be more extreme again this year and threaten to worsen the maternal health crisis in the US. That crisis is marked by unjust inequities in maternal mortality, illness, and premature birth; with worse rates for Black, Indigenous, and other women of color than white women, and for women living in poverty compared to the better-off.
Australia Isn t Doing Enough to Address Climate Change | Opinion On 5/6/21 at 12:00 PM EDT
Australia should receive a mighty F for its failure to confront climate change our churlish government is in denial. Prime Minister Scott Morrison s blustering, factually questionable presentation at the recent Leaders Summit on Climate exposed to the world how embarrassingly ill-prepared Australia is for the social, economic and environmental impact of its reliance on coal and water-intensive agriculture.
Likely, the forests won t burn down, sea levels won t swallow up our neighbors in the Pacific and lead to major wars over scarce resources in Morrison s lifetime nor in the lifetime of his government, so who can blame him for being so disinterested in the plight of Australians now, and for generations to come?
iPolitics By Kady O Malley. Published on May 6, 2021 6:30am Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault speaks in the House of Commons on April 21. (Photo via Twitter)
All eyes will be on Liberal side of the committee table as
CANADIAN HERITAGE members resume clause-by-clause review of the government’s proposed overhaul of Canada’s broadcasting regime, which has been dominating the political back-and-forth Ottawa for the last week after Liberal, New Democrat and Bloc Québécois members joined forces to remove a blanket exemption for social media, which critics warn could put individual internet users under the aegis of the federal regulator. (6:30 – 8:30 PM)
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Global Vaccine Crisis Sends Ominous Signal for Fighting Climate Change Source: By Somini Sengupta, New York Times • Posted: Wednesday, May 5, 2021
The gap between rich and poor countries on vaccinations highlights the failure of richer nations to see it in their self-interest to urgently help poorer ones fight a shared crisis.
Health workers prepared a dose of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine at a hospital in Mumbai last month.Punit Paranjpe/Agence France-Presse Getty Images
The stark gap in vaccination rates between the world’s rich and poor countries is emerging as a test for how the world responds to that other global challenge: averting the worst effects of climate change.