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Verde Resources Invests in Carbon Capture Development Share Article Tapping into potential carbon capture opportunities with the acquisition of BioFraction technology that involves an advanced proprietary, modified catalytic vacuum pyrolysis, and temperature controlled thermochemical process that will convert palm waste into bio-char, bio-oil, bio-syngas and plant natural enzyme (PNE). At Verde, we’re Going Green & Beyond. KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (PRWEB) May 14, 2021 Did you know Southeast Asia has abundant, underused agricultu...

If Biden Were Republican, Press Would Tout Him As ’The New Reagan’ Screenshot from official @POTUS Twitter Viewing the world through the prism of the GOP, Politico announced President Joe Biden's speech to Congress Wednesday night, where he presented a sweeping, optimistic view for America's rebound from Covid-19, was a big win…for Republicans. Pushing the absurd storyline that Biden's speech hurt him because it highlighted his agenda (he's been trying to keep it hidden?), Politico declared the GOP had seized the night. Or, as its headline announced, "Biden G...

‘Survival and science’—our fight against climate silence The Nation, in partnership with The Guardian, founded Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaborative aimed at strengthening coverage of the climate emergency. Two years later, Covering Climate Now partners publish coverage of the climate crisis to 2 billion readers.  On this week’s Kicker, Mark Hertsgaard, the executive director of Covering Climate Now and the environment correspondent for The Nation, and Katrina vanden Heuvel, editorial director and publisher of The Nation, join Kyle Pope, editor and publisher of C...

April 22, 2021 Artist Kenny Altidor's memorial portrait of George Floyd painted on a storefront sidewall of a CTown supermarket in Brooklyn, New York. (Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images) Guilty, guilty, guilty! The verdicts in the Derek Chauvin trial in Minneapolis made history—and came only after millions of people took to the streets, for months, in hundreds of cities across America; and only after a decade of sustained organizing by Black Lives Matter. Jody Armour comments—he’s the Roy Crocker Professor of Law at the University of Southern California, and author of N*gga Theory:...

MORE “Government doesn't have to pick winners and losers, but what it does have to do is lay out policy goals and the rules for the marketplace to follow,” says Mark Hertsgaard. “Instead of incentivizing more destructive behavior by developing more fossil fuels, we incentivize more helpful behavior: making it easier to purchase electric vehicles, for example, or even more importantly, to get to a place where you don't need a vehicle to get around in the first place.” Photo by Shutterstock. Earth Day is this week, and that's focusing attention ...