BRAZIL
Minister points finger to Venezuela in oil spills
Brazil's Environment Minister Ricardo Salles says a report from state oil company Petrobras indicates the oil that has been polluting the country's northeastern beaches comes from Venezuela.
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Brazil's Environment Minister Ricardo Salles says a report from state oil company Petrobras indicates the oil that has been polluting the country's northeastern beaches comes from Venezuela.
The social justice protests sweeping the country have forced mainstream environmental groups to confront their largely white staffs, a history of tensions with people of color, and, in some cases, racist and anti-immigrant pasts.
By Jeremy P. Jacobs, Nick Sobczyk and Timothy Cama in Greenwire
Gov. Roy Cooper had barely finished talking about the need to make North Carolina a clean energy state when a group held up signs and started chanting, "Act, act, act."
By Kristi E. Swartz in Energywire
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The social justice protests sweeping the country have forced mainstream environmental groups to confront their largely white staffs, a history of tensions with people of color, and, in some cases, racist and anti-immigrant pasts.
By Jeremy P. Jacobs, Nick Sobczyk and Timothy Cama in Greenwire
Gov. Roy Cooper had barely finished talking about the need to make North Carolina a clean energy state when a group held up signs and started chanting, "Act, act, act."
By Kristi E. Swartz in Energywire