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This story isn’t only a North Carolina one. The U.S. has about 3,600 asphalt mix plants, roughly one in nearly every Congressional district, according to the National Asphalt Pavement Association. If your town’s zoning rules are outdated, a notice like this could be posted in your neighborhood next. Watch the video to see how these community members are fighting back. North Carolina residents are tired of having major polluting projects forced on them. First, it was Duke Energy’s coal ash in their communities. Then, the state had the industrial hog farming sector with its unreported septic lagoon spills and groundwater contamination and unbearable fumes. Residents have dealt with TCE and its health effects, as it was one of the top pollutants at Camp Lejeune, a North Carolina military base considered one of the worst toxic sites in the U.S. Plus, the surge in AI data centers, which Duke itself says is the main driver of their rising electricity projections. People deserve transparency and a real voice in what gets built in their neighborhoods. We need public input and stronger oversight, so this pattern doesn’t keep repeating in North Carolin and across the country. We need elected officials to LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE. —The Brockovich Report: Fighting The Fine Print: How North Carolina Neighbors Are Taking On An Asphalt Plant
A 2024 study by Marco Bohnhoff, Patricia Martínezn Garzón, and Yehuda Ben Zion examined how rising global mean sea levels and increased hydrostatic pressure from melting ice are altering seismic activity. The rise in sea level–from 1.4 mm/year between 1901 and 1990 to up to 3.6 mm/year from 2006 to 2015–is associated with an increase in tectonic stress. As sea levels rise, the added pressure on underwater faults may trigger or enhance seismic activity, creating a feedback loop that intertwines climatic changes with geological processes. — Climate change shakes up seismic activity
Climate Change: The Hidden Health Risk of Our Time
Highlights
- Climate change is a long-term weather shift caused mainly by fossil fuels.
- Global warming drives extreme weather like floods, droughts, and heat waves.
- It affects health through heat illnesses, pollution, water and food issues, and mental stress.
- Children, the elderly, and the sick are most at risk.
- Cutting emissions and using clean energy can reduce the climate impact.
- Public awareness and stronger health systems are key to fighting climate threats
Accelerating Global Warming a Global Health Emergency!: “Record High”: 146 Experts Call to Declare Climate Change a Global Health Emergency “A decade after the Paris Agreement, our findings are unambiguous: the health harms of climate change are growing faster than the world’s response to them, and in many cases even accelerating,” As record heat interrupts work, overloads hospitals, and claims thousands of lives around the world, international experts are calling for climate change to be officially recognized as a global health emergency, in The Lancet’s 2026 Countdown on Health and Climate Change. The report shows risks and harms associated with extreme heat and droughts continue to rise faster than climate action, despite growing investment in the transition away from fossil fuels across the past decade. “The rate of increase in many climate-related health threats is accelerating, while heat deaths linked to climate change have reached a record-high, and the economic toll is battering vulnerable sectors and communities the hardest,” says climate health researcher Marina Romanello, executive director of The Lancet Countdown.
Record-breaking high tides spark chaos – and kayak commutes – across California
Video: The 2010 Warning Signs Are BACK — Is the Northeast Facing a Historic Snowstorm Winter?
Video: America’s Deadliest Fault Lines Are Moving Together — No One Saw This Coming
The public debt becomes one of the most powerful levers of primitive accumulation. As with the stroke of an enchanter’s wand, it endows unproductive money with the power of creation and thus turns it into capital, without forcing it to expose itself to the troubles and risks inseparable from its employment in industry or even in usury. The state’s creditors actually give nothing away, for the sum lent is transformed into public bonds, easily negotiable, which go on functioning in their hands just as so much hard cash would. (…) the national debt has given rise to joint-stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to speculation: in a word, it has given rise to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy.” – Karl Marx. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy[1] — Karl Marx and Public Debt: an Analysis That Remains Relevant Today
During Zohran’s mayoral campaign, the NYC-DSA mobilized over 100,000 field organizers to knock on 3 million doors. He should have been leaning on this force as the backbone of an independent working-class party and movement. A real fight against the billionaires and their repressive apparatus must begin with an uncompromising class-struggle outlook: recognizing that the working class’s interests are diametrically opposed to the ruling class’s, and boldly adopting an “us versus them” stance. Unfortunately, Mamdani has, so far, not opted for this strategy. Instead, he is increasingly trying to maneuver within a political establishment committed to preserving the existing economic and political order by any means necessary. Following the violent police repression of anti-ICE protestors in New York, calls to remove the billionaire Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch are gaining steam among a section of Zohran supporters and DSA members. Mamdani’s response was shameful: “Jessica Tisch is the police commissioner. I have no plans to change that.” He continued to defend her, explaining that she has a great record of “lowering crime across our city — ICE Shooting in NYC Puts Zohran Under Pressure to Change Course
The Incredible Shrinking SuperpowerThe failure of Tel Aviv and Washington to achieve their war aims in Iran has resulted in the most dramatic American retreat from a region since the U.S. flight from Vietnam in 1975. This startling American defeat — after a generation of forever war failures and stalemates — has been thrown into broad relief by the resumption of another regional conflict that has received far less attention than the Trump administration’s sputtering war with Tehran. This fall, the forces that most Americans know as “the Houthis” have conducted a blitzkrieg in their native Yemen and have been pummeling Saudi Arabia’s aviation and energy infrastructure with missiles and drones. In doing so, they have put a spotlight on the limits of American power, and the shrinking U.S. military footprint, in the Middle East.
Jimmy Kimmel on Trump’s racist remarks at rallies: ‘really takes you back about 200 years’
‘Just Run This as an Ad’: Trump Dismisses Pump Pain to Boast of Oil and Gas Profits. “I don’t give a damn, I’m going to say it: We’re making a freaking fortune,” the president said at a rally in Georgia.