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CBS Report Exposes The Child Labor Used To Make Lithium Batteries

A report from CBS this week revealed the working conditions of tens of thousands of children in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) who work in mines to extract the cobalt needed for lithium batteries.

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March 6, 2018

CBS Report Exposes The Child Labor Used To Make Lithium Batteries

CBS Report Exposes The Child Labor Used To Make Lithium Batteries
A report from CBS this week revealed the working conditions of tens of thousands of children in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) who work in mines to extract the cobalt needed for lithium batteries.
March 5, 2018

Tesla Fined For Air Pollution

Tesla Fined For Air Pollution
Tesla, a self-proclaimed technology company, has been working tirelessly on its image as a “green” automaker.
February 23, 2018

EVs Have A Child Labor Problem

EVs Have A Child Labor Problem
A recent Bloomberg article has brought to light a harsh reality, the demand for electric vehicles (EVs) is increasing child labor rates in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): The appetite for electric cars is driving a boom in small-scale cobalt production in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where some mines have been found to […]
February 14, 2018

New Coalition In Arizona Seeks To Bring California Energy Regulations There

New Coalition In Arizona Seeks To Bring California Energy Regulations There
A new coalition of groups in Arizona is seeking to force utilities in the state to generate more power from renewable energy beyond the 15 percent the state currently requires, according to a new report this week.
February 7, 2018

Cap And Trade In California Looking More Like A Tax Now

Cap And Trade In California Looking More Like A Tax Now
Orange County Register Columnist Susan Shelley wrote this week that the myth that California’s cap and trade system isn’t a tax is coming apart quickly:
February 6, 2018

CT Lawmakers Push For Carbon Tax

CT Lawmakers Push For Carbon Tax
Amid Connecticut’s revolving budget crisis, a group of Connecticut lawmakers again are exploring a carbon tax:
February 1, 2018

Taxpayer Pay For T-Mobile’s Green Pledge

Taxpayer Pay For T-Mobile’s Green Pledge
This week, T-Mobile proudly announced its pledge to use “100 percent renewable electricity”
January 30, 2018

Oregon Leaders Question Viability Of Carbon Tax Passage

Oregon Leaders Question Viability Of Carbon Tax Passage
Legislative leaders in both the Oregon House of Representatives and Oregon Senate cast doubt on whether a proposed carbon tax bill could pass in either legislative body this year, according to the Portland Tribune.
January 19, 2018

LAPD Spending Millions On EVs It Doesn’t Use

LAPD Spending Millions On EVs It Doesn’t Use
A CBS Los Angeles investigation has uncovered that the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) are reluctant to use the electric vehicles the department leases as part of a splashy effort to supposedly “go green”:
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October 9, 2017

Texas Enviro Considers Challenging Congressman Cuellar

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Last week, prominent Texas environmentalist Juan Mancias announced that he was considering challenging Democratic incumbent Henry Cuellar for his congressional seat representing Texas’s 28th district. Mancias made the announcement at a protest in Austin organized by the Sierra Club, stating:

“I’m thinking about running against Henry Cuellar, just to tell him that he is full of crap! We need to do these kind of things and not sit there and say, ‘Look at me, I got the answer.’ Well I have any freaking answers, I have a lot of questions because they created those questions.”

Mancias is most notable for his comments prior to Hurricane Harvey, which he stated that he hoped the storm would hit Texas in “full force.” Following the storm, Mancias doubled-downed on his earlier comments, saying he was “thankful” for the destruction caused by the hurricane.

The event attracted a “who’s who” of notorious Texas Sierra Club organizers that included:

  • Dave Cortez, Sierra Club “Beyond Coal” Organizer and member of the group known as “antifa” that is under investigation for domestic terrorist activities;
  • Tane Ward, Sierra Club Senior Organizing Manager, anti-capitalism activist that accused pipeline developers of genocide;
  • Rebekah Hinojosa, Sierra Club Chapter Conservation Organizer that has repeatedly spread misleading claims that were debunked by science;
  • Lori Glover, Sierra Club’s Big Bend Chapter Chair who currently faces felony criminal mischief charges from her actions in protests of a pipeline in West Texas earlier this year.

Other notable people in attendance beyond Sierra Club leadership included:

  • Benjamin Franklin Croft-Rendon, similarly on trial for felony charges in the West Texas pipeline protest;
  • Louis Moncivias Gutierrez, a prominent Texas environmentalist and former Hollywood stuntman who served jail time for smuggling illegal immigrants across the border;
  • Derrick Crowe, a Democrat who is running for Congress in the Texas’s 21st district.

A timetable for an official decision regarding Mancias’s potential campaign is unclear.