Two women, age 20 and 21, were charged in relation to the soup-throwing protest on Friday, while a third was charged over paint sprayed on a rotating sign at the Metropolitan Police’s headquarters in central London.
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Posted inElection 2022, Maine
Green Divide: LePage, Mills environmental records a study in contrasts
While governor, LePage rolled back environmental regulations and stifled renewable energy in the hopes of growing the economy. Mills reversed most of these policies and embraced the state’s role as a leader in fighting climate change.
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Posted inOpinion
The humble Farmer: Global warming’s impacts hitting home ever faster for former snowbird
Had I not seen it, I would not believe that one storm could raise the water so high as to make miles of Florida coastline unfit for buildings.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Climate protesters throw soup on Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’
The two also glued themselves to the gallery wall, police say.
Posted inNation & World, News
Pakistani finance minister sees gradual recovery from floods
Monsoon rains, likely made worse by climate change, hammered Pakistan for months starting in mid-June, damaging or washing away 2 million homes and killing more than 1,700 people.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World
Greta Thunberg: Coal worse than keeping German nuclear plants on
The Swedish teen activist is promoting her new book on climate change.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, News
Climate bill positions big oil and gas companies to cash in
Billions of dollars of new subsidies for carbon capture technology are a signature component of the $370 billion climate package President Biden signed into law last month.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Insight: Defeat by delay: A tale of clean energy and dirty money
The next hearing in the NECEC case won’t take place until April. Maine should not allow the national oil and gas industry to stall clean-energy development.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, News
Delta works with MIT to study impact of airplane contrails on climate
The focus of the study is how to eliminate persistent contrails, which make up about 10% of all contrails and create clouds that trap heat and warm the earth, according to Delta.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Another View: Link between Hurricane Ian, climate change is undeniable
If events like this don’t rally Americans to the cause of essentially warding off future disaster, then we will lose far more lives than were lost in Florida this past week.