Environmental justice

Government and farmers in open line - Continuous symbolic road blockades

The Canadian government has guaranteed billions in new commercial loans to finance the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline project amid growing concerns of huge cost overruns.

The government nationalized the project, running from Alberta province to the Pacific coast, in 2018.

Author Elizabeth Gilbert, whose multi-million-selling "Eat, Pray, Love" was made into a Hollywood smash starring Julia Roberts, said Monday she is shelving her new novel after an outcry because it was set in Russia.

In what could prove a significant move for communities facing air pollution, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed on April 6 that chemical plants nationwide measure certain hazardous compounds that cross beyond their property lines and reduce them when they are too high.

North Macedonia plans to write into law major punishments for those convicted of 'ecocide', but the country's track record does not bode well when it comes to enforcing such progressive legislation.

Rihanna is backing her belief that climate change is a social-justice issue by pledging $15 million to the movement through her Clara Lionel Foundation.

Tens of millions of people will be forced from their homes by climate change in the next decade, creating the biggest refugee crisis the world has ever seen, according to a new report, quoted by the Guardian. 

Protesters at the Dakota Access Pipeline – calling themselves “Water Protectors” – reportedly left the land they lived on while they were protesting the construction of the pipeline destroyed and trashed.

Before the climate conference in Paris, there were huge "climate justice" demonstrations all over the world. The concept of climate justice is a new one that has emerged in recent years. It demands the addressing of production, consumption and commerce forms that generate climate change.  

Climate change has far-reaching consequences for both the nature and society and it is the poor who are mostly left suffering, Pope Francis wrote in his 184-page encyclical published Thursday.

He called climate change "one of the principal challenges facing humanity in our day" and urged a more thorough approach to environmental preservation.