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Krista Shennum

@kristashennum.bsky.social
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Researcher + advocate, mostly thinking about the human dimensions of the climate crisis, transition minerals, energy transition, and plastics. Currently @climaterights. she/her.

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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Major u-turn from Justice Alito as Supreme Court reveals he will no longer participate in the big climate change case being argued next week. Previously, the court told NBC News there was no reason for him to step aside despite his earlier recusal in same case.
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Climate Rights International @climaterights.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Join Climate Rights International for a #ClimateWeekNY panel exploring the human dimensions of methane pollution and why reducing methane from oil and gas is critical not only to slowing global warming, but to protecting the health of communities exposed to fossil fuel production. luma.com/e9mzkzau
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Climate Rights International @climaterights.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
On September 7, the world marks the International Day of Clean Air for blue skies, a reminder that the air above us belongs to no single country. No government can demand clean air from its neighbors while pursuing policies that pollute the atmosphere we all share. substack.com/@climaterigh...
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The Air We Share
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Rodrigo Brandão @rodrigobrandao.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New CRI Substack: Looking Back on a Scorching Summer in an Unprepared France - Part 1 and 2. #climatechange #heat climaterightsinternational.substack.com/p/looking-ba... and climaterightsinternational.substack.com/p/looking-ba...
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Looking Back on a Scorching Summer in an Unprepared France (Part 1)
By Fabien Offner
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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Average Indonesians ingest about 15 grams of microplastic a month. It's roughly the weight of three credit cards. Microplastics are usually consumed through food and water, but more recently, they are making their way into Indonesia’s air and rain www.youtube.com/shorts/yAJDN...
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Why Microplastics Became an Air Hazard in Indonesia
YouTube video by The New York Times
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Forbes @forbes.com · 31/08/2026
The court will hear oral arguments as part of a dispute over whether fossil fuel companies can be held liable for their role in exacerbating climate change.
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Samuel Alito Holds More Than $175,000 In Fossil Fuel Investments Ahead Of Hearing Exxon Case, Disclosure Shows
The court will hear oral arguments as part of a dispute over whether fossil fuel companies can be held liable for their role in exacerbating climate change.
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Krista Shennum @kristashennum.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
China's rapidly expanding coal-to-chemicals industry shows how energy security can be used to justify a new generation of fossil fuel dependence. Instead of burning coal directly, companies gasify it into chemical feedstocks for petrochems, plastics, synthetic gas, fertilizers & liquid fuels.
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China's Energy Security Gamble
By Felix Horne and Sophie Richardson
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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
An incredibly well-timed Landsat 9 pass captured the effects of yesterday’s catastrophic glacier collapse near the Nepal–Tibet border. The event was so massive that it was detected by seismometers around the world.
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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Ceres estimates data centers in 7 states used ~3.4 trillion gallons of freshwater for electricity in 2024 alone, ~12X the combined total of Los Angeles, Phoenix & Washington, D.C. Big increases projected (4T to 8T) for 2030. Tech companies say they're working on it, talk about how ag is worse.
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Data centers’ hidden water footprint is linked to the grid
A Ceres analysis shows that data centers’ indirect water footprint from power plants dwarfs direct cooling.
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 25/08/2026
NEW: gas power in development in the US explicitly for data centers have nearly doubled in less than a year, soaring from 97GW at the end of 2025 to more than 189GW mid-2026, according to shocking new figures from @globalenergymon.bsky.social that's up from just 4 GW in 2024:
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Data Centers Are Driving an Alarming Gas Power Expansion in the US
There’s no clearer sign of the data center boom than rampant gas projects that have been proposed or that are already under construction.
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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Forestfires are a seasonal occurrence in many parts of Indonesia, so this is nothing new for millions of people. But this year may be especially bad. Indonesia is in the grip of El Niño that will likely suppress the rains to extinguish the fires www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/w...
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As El Niño Dries Indonesia, Wildfires Intensify
The unusual weather pattern and dried out peatlands, a kind of wetland, have been behind some of the country’s worst fire seasons. This year could be one.
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Global Trade Watch @pcgtw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Trump’s deals on critical minerals have raised serious concerns about transparency, human rights, and labor standards. Ranking members @replindasanchez.bsky.social and @rephuffman.bsky.social, with @jonathanjackson.house.gov along with 50+ representatives, are demanding answers.
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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Dayak farmer Misran Toni was released from custody and exonerated. But the case highlights the risks faced both by communities affected by coal mining and Indigenous rights defenders who oppose Indonesia's coal industry www.hrw.org/news/2026/08...
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Global Trade Watch @pcgtw.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Trump’s secret critical minerals push is trapping the Global South into raw extraction while corporations get all the benefit. We’re uncovering how it's all happening ⬇️
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/08/2026
"It’s really striking just how much President Trump is personally involved in this."
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Why is the White House hiding its minerals deals?
A new report finds that most of the administration's critical minerals agreements are secret, exploitative, or both.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and #climatecrisis That’s $700,000 a minute Iran conflict windfall over 3 months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage Story by Jillian Ambrose and me www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
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Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
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Krista Shennum @kristashennum.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Wise words by @felixhorne.bsky.social: "An angry letter won’t protect those communities. Neither will a tariff or a demand that Canada write a check. You need policies that cut emissions through a shift to cleaner energy while helping communities adapt to what’s now an annual crisis."
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Contributor: Wildfires will only get worse until the U.S. stops ignoring the climate crisis
The smoke drifting south may come from Canadian forests, but the political winds making it worse are blowing in from Washington.
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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The transport road of a nickel mining site, constructed after clearing forest in Central Halmahera, North Maluku. Indonesia is the world’s largest supplier of nickel, a key material for steel-making and electric batteries www.hrw.org/preview-link...
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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Indonesia is now conducting the largest deforestation in the world. Many police and prosecutors pursue wrongful prosecutions of environmentalists and Indigenous community leaders who protest deforestation and pollution, or defend land rights www.hrw.org/news/2026/07...
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 29/07/2026
Climate extremes are becoming more extreme, worrying scientists
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Climate extremes are becoming more extreme, worrying scientists
Heat, sea level rise, polar melting: They’re all picking up pace.
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...
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Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.
The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.
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The China-Global South Project @chinagsproject.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Allegations of human rights and environmental abuses linked to Chinese transition mineral projects nearly tripled between 2021 and 2025, according to a new BHRC report.
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Report: Abuse Allegations Tied to Chinese Mineral Investment Nearly Tripled Since 2021
The Business and Human Rights Centre (BHRC) published a report last week examining human rights and environmental issues linked to Chinese overseas investment projects in transition minerals between 2...
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Trump didn't just eliminate 91% of Bears Ears National Monument — he eliminated the first-of-its-kind tribal commission that has helped manage the monument: www.hcn.org/articles/bea...
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Bears Ears cuts also end first-of-its-kind tribal land commission  - High Country News
A presidential proclamation slashed the monument by 90% despite a promise to involve tribes.
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Krista Shennum @kristashennum.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
“Heat creates the perfect conditions for fire. Hot and dry weather dries out vegetation and makes it more flammable. Once a fire starts, these types of conditions can cause the fire to grow more quickly and make containment much more challenging." - @caraschulte.bsky.social
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Extreme temperature warnings in place as ‘heat dome’ bakes US
Americans warned to be on alert for heat-related illness as parts of country experience record high temperatures
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Business and Human Rights Centre @business-humanrights.org · 24/06/2026
Our Transition Minerals Tracker shows that the minerals powering our clean energy future are being extracted at a growing human cost – and Indigenous communities, workers, environmental defenders and women paying the heaviest price. Explore here ▶️ www.business-humanrights.org/en/from-us/b...
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Krista Shennum @kristashennum.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Community leaders, climate advocates and workers are protesting “greenwashing through sports” by Hyundai-Kia. Protesters say that Hyundai should hold its iron ore supplier, Ternium, accountable for human rights violations, including alleged links to the disappearance of two environmental activists.
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Guadalajara protesters accuse Hyundai of using World Cup to hide 'dirty supply chain'
Communities, climate activists and workers took to the streets in Guadalajara to protest what they describe as 'greenwashing through sports' by Hyundai.
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The important context for this news is that Elon Musk's cuts to US foreign aid could result in 14 million unnecessary deaths, including 4.5 million children under 5 finance.yahoo.com/markets/arti...
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Elon Musk becomes world's first trillionaire
Elon Musk is officially the world's first trillionaire following SpaceX's stock debut today, with the company's IPO price valuing his stake at nearly $870 billion on paper.
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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
John Teddy Wakum of LBH Merauke on #PestaBabi documentary film: “There are certainly outside parties trying to divert the public attention from structural problems in South Papua to these individual matters” www.hrw.org/news/2026/06...
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Molly Redden @mtredden.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
After a decade+ of nonstop pollution offenses, GOP Sen. Jim Justice's coal empire learned earlier this year that it was under federal criminal investigation. But before prosecutors could gather crucial evidence, Todd Blanche's office told them "pencils down."
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
This is an outrageous story. A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot data center www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...
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A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead
In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas town to use as a park. The town sold to a data center developer for $10 million.
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RAID @raid-uk.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
🚨 “We are being killed slowly.” Today we publish independent scientific studies with @source-int.bsky.social & Afrewatch exposing air pollution, water and soil contamination, linked to industrial copper-cobalt mining in DRC – with serious implications for public health. raid-uk.org/news-drc-cob...
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A deadly chemical trail: New scientific evidence reveals industrial-scale pollution at DRC's copper-cobalt mines
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
In the latest play from Project 2025, the Trump Administration has announced plans to dismantle the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), a $368 million network of more than 900 instruments that continuously monitor the ocean. This is a deliberate destruction of critical scientific infrastructure.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
“.. The U.S. is now spending more on data center construction than on public transportation infrastructure, according to new Census Bureau figures out today.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Dan Vergano @danvergano.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final approval of research grants These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...
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White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final say on research grants
These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
The "Make American Healthy Again" people are ending Biden-era limits on forever chemicals in drinking water: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump officials plan to repeal limits on ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water
EPA outlines effort to kill Biden-era rules as critics condemn RFK Jr and Lee Zeldin’s ‘hocus pocus’
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Krista Shennum @kristashennum.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
"War is measured first in lives lost, families uprooted and neighbourhoods reduced to rubble. But there are also deadly consequences that are often ignored. Pollution caused by war can settle over cities, contaminate water and soil, and shape public health long after the fighting is over."
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The pollution that outlives war
Long after fighting is over, the toxic leftovers of war continue to poison communities and the environment.
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Liza Gross @lizagross.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Catastrophic chemical accidents that kill workers and endanger communities will be the norm if Trump's EPA rolls back critical safety rules. 180M Americans live near one of the country’s 12K facilities likely to produce a worst-case scenario chemical disaster. insideclimatenews.org/news/1404202...
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Chemical Threats Nearby? Trump’s EPA Doesn’t Want You to Know. - Inside Climate News
Climate change is making the risk of disastrous chemical accidents more likely. But the EPA wants to gut recently enhanced safety requirements for hazardous facilities.
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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Indonesian government plans to vet human rights defenders, proposing new human rights law whose revisions might undermine protections www.hrw.org/news/2026/05...
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Indonesia: Plan to Vet Human Rights Defenders
An Indonesian official announced on April 30, 2026, that the government would seek to amend the country’s 1999 Human Rights Law to allow authorities to determine who is a recognized human rights defen...
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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Every year now, the pre-monsoon heat (the hottest time of year in South Asia with temperatures well over 40°C) starts earlier & lasts longer - due to human-induced climate change - exposing 1billion people to deadly heat. @wwattribution.bsky.social www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...
two maps and two timeseries showing the extreme heat conditions in South Asia in April 2026.
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Thomas Edsall asked me how much Trump's fossil fuel handouts, attacks on cheap-clean-power, and reckless wars are costing the American people. So I sat down and did the math. This year alone, it's on pace to be $1508 per household. That's not going to be popular. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/o...
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Michael Reckordt @michaelreckordt.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
This is truly outrageous! According to an investigation by @table.media (@caspardohmen.bsky.social & Leonie Düngefeld) mining projects were added more or less randomly to the list of strategic projects after (!) the experts’ assessment. table.media/esg/talk-of-...
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Critical raw materials: Doubts raised about the EU’s project selection
The European Commission is supporting strategic projects in order to ensure Europe’s supply of raw materials. Internal documents now reveal that the Commission disregarded expert advice when making it...
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Lead the Charge @leadthecharge.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
According to Jim Worthington of @hrw.org and @kristashennum.bsky.social of @climaterights.bsky.social, these are the top 3 steps automakers must take to respect human rights and source more responsibly. 1/4 Read the whole article at Automotive News: www.autonews.com/opinion/gues...
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Guest commentary: Tackling human rights risks in supply chains is possible. Here’s how
Automakers have human rights policies for mineral sourcing, but a gap remains between policy and practice.
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Twelve years after California passed the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, farmers in the state's most water-stressed areas finally have to reveal how much water they're pumping: www.latimes.com/environment/... via @ianjames.bsky.social
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For the first time, California growers have to say how much groundwater they're taking
Some California farmers must start reporting to the state how much groundwater they pump. In two areas, Tule and Tulare Lake, they're submitting pumping data this week.
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Krista Shennum @kristashennum.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Nearly two-thirds of all proposed lithium projects in the U.S. are located in vulnerable counties, home to a disproportionate number of people living in poverty and people of color. ~1 in 10 proposed mines sits <10 miles from a tribal reservation, even though reservations comprise 2% of US land.
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How the Rush to Mine the Metal of the Future Echoes America’s Colonial Past - Inside Climate News
Companies have staked claims for more than 100 lithium-mine projects. Tribes are among the most affected.
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Climate Rights International @climaterights.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
New guidance from the American Apparel and Footwear Association offers practical steps to prevent and respond to workplace heat risks. While these voluntary standards represent an important step, binding protections will be critical to safeguarding garment workers worldwide. cri.org/extreme-heat...
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Extreme Heat: Global Fashion Industry Must Protect Workers
Apparel brands should take immediate steps to implement new guidance released by the American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA), Climate Rights International said today. The voluntary guideline,...
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 30/04/2026
According to a report by the Environmental Defense Fund, the E.P.A.’s recent policy changes will send some 1.5 billion extra tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by 2030 and some twelve billion extra tons by 2040. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/TMnTWh
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Can the E.P.A. Survive Lee Zeldin?
The agency, which was founded to protect the environment and human health, has cancelled safety regulations, supported coal, and stopped caring about climate change.
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Krista Shennum @kristashennum.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Sourcing the raw materials needed for a modern-day car is risky. Yet it is possible for automakers to tackle human rights risks in their supply chains. I partnered with Jim Wormington @hrw.org to share steps car companies can take to mitigate abuses, based on work by @climaterights.bsky.social 🧵
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Guest commentary: Tackling human rights risks in supply chains is possible. Here’s how
Automakers have human rights policies for mineral sourcing, but a gap remains between policy and practice.
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Semafor @semafor.com · 27/04/2026
DR Congo will invest $100 million to create a paramilitary force to provide security at its mines, with funding provided by the US and United Arab Emirates. www.semafor.com/article/04/2...
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DR Congo plans new $100M mine security force
The US and UAE-funded operation will see the country hire 20,000 mining guards by 2028.
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Krista Shennum @kristashennum.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Join @bradams99.bsky.social and me tomorrow to discuss the impacts of the global mineral race on communities and the climate. 📅 Friday, April 24 ⏰ 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM 📍 235 Montgomery St., Suite 1300, San Francisco Register here: luma.com/uxh9kl7o
Impacts of the Global Mineral Race on Communities and the Climate
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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
No reason we should be tolerating this level of sickness and death at a time when clean and cheap alternatives to fossil fuels are readily available.
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