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The Department of Justice has moved to dismiss charges against a prominent California union leader who was arrested while protesting against an immigration raid in Los Angeles last year, in the latest US government case against protesters to fall apart.
David Huerta, the president of Service Employees International Union United Service Workers West, was arrested at a June 2025 demonstration and has been fighting the charges ever since.
On Monday, the US attorney’s office in LA fi…

US justice department dismisses charges against California union leader
David Huerta was arrested while protesting against an ICE operation during crackdown in Los Angeles

#berlin

Adrian Ramsay: “It’s good that the foreign secretary is presenting the findings of this crucial report to ministers from other governments.
“But it begs the question, why are MPs in this country still being denied access to the full report?
"... why has our government still not published its response to how it will address the stark findings?”
UK shares findings of damning climate crisis national security report suppressed under Starmer | Climate crisis | The Guardian

UK shares findings of damning climate crisis national security report suppressed under Starmer
El Niño poses critical threat to nations’ defences, says Ed Miliband in presentation to global foreign ministers

Weatherwatch: Climate crisis fuelling steep fall in migratory bird numbers https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/aug/20/weatherwatch-climate-crisis-bird-migration

Since spring 2025, the Dorothy Alexander Roush Gallery has hosted the Georgia Museum of Art’s study gallery program, where faculty at the University of Georgia can request pieces to be shown throughout the semester as a teaching aid for their courses. Three professors have curated pieces for both their students and visitors of the museum to enjoy this fall semester, on view July 25 – December 6.
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Like practically all far-right parties, Reform UK want to stop climate action. Perfectly aligned with fossil fuel interests, and could well be related to their murky financing.
Reform’s Tice accused of misinformation after urging people to enjoy heatwaves
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From the outside, the city of Avenal appears to embody every bit of its motto
– an “oasis in the sun”.
Approaching the community, passing through the dusty yellow hillsides of the Central Valley,
Avenal emerges with a sudden burst of green on the horizon.
Its small-town feel and quiet tree-lined streets offer respite from the bustling Interstate 5 some five miles away. But trouble is brewing here that has brought this lonesome city national attention.
🔸In April,…

This California town booted out its leaders – what happens if they refuse to leave?
Avenal has been rocked by the council’s refusal to accept the results of a recall election – and the repercussions extend far beyond the Central Valley

"Tori Tsui, stood alongside Andy Burnham last year on World Environment Day when the then Greater Manchester Mayor endorsed the Fossil Fuel Non Proliferation Treaty proposal, calling it a “lifeline” to end coal, oil and gas. Today [Friday], her petition was sent to the Prime Minister urging him to stand by that commitment and reject Rosebank."
Stop fanning the flames of the #ClimateCrisis

Stop fanning the flames of the climate crisis, Mr PM!
11,000 campaigners call on the PM to “stop fanning the flames of the climate crisis” in petition stunt outside No. 10 North

In what environmental advocates describe as
“another gift to the fossil fuel industry,”
🆘the Trump administration plans to end rules limiting the release of planet-heating emissions from power plants that burn coal and gas.
🔥Power plants are considered the largest industrial source of greenhouse gas emissions in the US and account for about a quarter of the nation’s climate pollution, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
In 2024, the EPA under the B…

‘Actively malevolent’: Trump EPA to eviscerate rules on planet-heating pollution from power plants
“This is full-throated climate denial while the climate crisis happens in real time and a shocking betrayal of the American public.”

When the Justice Department indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center in April on controversial fraud charges, the storied civil rights organization faced a major threat to its lifeblood
— the flow of donor dollars.
Not because it was convicted or because the Internal Revenue Service revoked its tax-exempt status.
Not even because individual donors stopped writing checks.
Instead, three Wall-Street-affiliated grantmaking giants each made a decision,
one they ref…

Wall Street’s Nonprofits Use Selective, Opaque Logic to Defund Charities
A quarter of all individual giving in the U.S. is made through donor-advised funds. A ProPublica investigation reveals how these high-stakes decisions to cut off funding often leave charities, donors and the public in the dark.