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UN secretary-general on global access to vaccines and effort to combat climate change
Although he said there’s an urgent need to fight climate change and an “epidemic” of misinformation, UN Secretary-Antonio Guterres is optimistic.Bloomberg/Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images
In the weeks leading up to Earth Day shoppers will see messages about companies commitment to combating climate change or even products claiming to have a more positive impact on the environment than others by generating less waste or being produced with less energy.
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Six ways Chevron imperils climate, human rights, and racial justice
These six examples illustrate a stunning array of corporate abuse, deception, and misconduct by one of the world’s largest and most powerful corporations.
Although we’re barely one quarter into 2021, multiple forces are squeezing Chevron for the preventable harm it is inflicting on the global climate. The company is also being dragged for its greenwashing, its role in perpetuating racial injustice in the United States, and its violations of Indigenous peoples’ rights and other human rights from Burma/Myanmar to Ecuador.
The table is now set for Chevron’s annual meeting in May, where several climate-related shareholder proposals will be on the agenda. Campaigners are calling for votes against both the board chair and the lead independent director on the basis of failures to oversee climate performance. Last year, a majority of Chevron shareholders rebuked corporate leadership
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Here s why: Republican opposition to President Joe Biden’s infrastructure proposal has been swift and vocal.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said that as written, the $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan released March 31 was a nonstarter. The conservative PAC Citizens United put Biden’s plan in the same boat as the Green New Deal, a sweeping environmental and social justice agenda that Republicans have condemned. Does this sound like an infrastructure bill to you? the group tweeted March 31, with a link to a New York Times article about the proposal. It s not. It s the Green New Deal.