According to a report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the total hidden costs of the worldâs food system add up to $12.7 trillion dollarsâroughly 10 percent of global GDP. www.wired.co.uk/article/hidd...
The hidden costs of the global food system are equivalent to 10 percent of global GDP, according to new analysis from the United Nations.
The US chemical industry likely spent over $110m during the last two election cycles deploying lobbyists to kill dozens of pieces of PFAS legislation and slow administrative regulation around âforever chemicals.â www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...
Analysis of federal lobbying documents by Food and Water Watch finds industry targeted dozens of pieces of legislation
The gas industry funded its own scientific studies using the same laboratories, consultants, and statisticians as Big Tobacco; and that it was advised by the same public relations firm that masterminded the tobacco strategy. www.desmog.com/2023/11/07/g...
In the 1970s, Dr. Bernard Goldstein, a young professor at the New York University School of Medicine, researched the health impacts of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) produced by gas stoves. In a series of stu...
That is what these groups do, unfortunately - Moms for Liberty being an example. Stir them up with ideas about parenting, education, etc and all the time they're (politically and financially) tied to the Kochs.
The US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Ekaterina Zhdanova on Nov. 3 for moving and laundering virtual currency in the interest of Russian elites legally barred from accessing western financial markets. www.darkreading.com/attacks-brea...
Woman is accused of assisting Russian oligarchs and ransomware affiliates with schemes to evade sanctions.
"Project developers are forging ahead, eager to capitalize on billions of dollars in government subsidies supporting CCS deployment, despite the technologyâs poor track record of underperforming and the significant regulatory gaps around CO2 pipelines." www.desmog.com/2023/11/06/g...
Local groups opposing carbon capture and storage projects claim the industry is ignoring community engagement and consent.
Alliance for Responsible Citizenship. Paul Marshall, Jordan Peterson, Christopher Chandler, Philippa Stroud, Alan McCormick, all #Legatum#KochNetworkyorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/the...
When will the right give us a break from cringing public displays of their existential crisis?
The UK is a messier, more complicated market to supply than many in Europe â it is overseas from lots of its suppliers and therefore it is at the end of the supply chain. But that has always been the case, and it all worked perfectly well before #Brexitwww.theneweuropean.co.uk/theres-troub...
Thanks to higher costs, increased red tape and supply chain damage, we must get used to living in a country with empty shelves
"Much of the planning for the campaign of military violence, repression and persecution has been outsourced to a group of ultra-right figures dubbed â#Project2025,â originally set up by the Heritage Foundation." #KochNetworkwww.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Under the rubric of âProject 2025,â Trump aides are drawing up plans for authoritarian rule and the legal persecution of their enemies.