Katie Surma
Journalist at Inside Climate News
Journalist @insideclimate covering human rights, the environment and climate change ⚖️ DM for contact information
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2 weeks ago |
insideclimatenews.org | Katie Surma
The Trump administration’s choice for the Environmental Protection Agency’s top lawyer has never taken a deposition, argued a motion or authored a legal pleading. On Wednesday, Republicans on a Senate committee advanced Sean Donahue’s nomination on a party-line vote. The EPA arm he would lead, the Office of General Counsel, oversees the enforcement of environmental laws like the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act.
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2 weeks ago |
insideclimatenews.org | Katie Surma
When a gold mine in rural Liberia spewed three million gallons of cyanide-laced wastewater into soil and groundwater in 2016, affected Indigenous communities’ calls for accountability went largely unanswered. Locals protested the Turkish company responsible and criticized its officials for failing to clean up the toxic mess.
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3 weeks ago |
insideclimatenews.org | Katie Surma
“Rights of nature” is a movement aimed at advancing the understanding that ecosystems, wildlife and the Earth are living beings with inherent rights to exist, evolve and regenerate. Legal rights are the highest form of protection in most governance systems. In the United States, humans and non-humans have enforceable legal rights, like corporations’ right to freedom of speech. At the same time, most legal systems treat nature as rightless property that humans can own, use and destroy.
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3 weeks ago |
insideclimatenews.org | Katie Surma
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s flagship global infrastructure program was supposed to help expand Beijing’s global influence. But rushed construction and poor planning have led to massive environmental destruction in mostly poor countries. Some projects have degraded highly sensitive ecosystems and displaced scores of local communities. Beijing says it’s now “greening” its Belt and Road Initiative. But is it?
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3 weeks ago |
ecotopical.com | Katie Surma
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The Trump administration’s choice for the EPA’s top lawyer has never taken a deposition, argued a motion or authored a legal pleading. On Wednesday, Republicans on a Senate committee advanced Sean Donahue’s nomination anyway. https://t.co/ydm6xDRLdZ
Is Bolivia’s $1.2 Billion Deal to Protect Its Forests a Climate Boon—or a False Solution? From @nkus https://t.co/8b62nNw8oV
RT @MaryLawlorhrds: Grateful to @insideclimate's @Katie_Surma for their coverage of my latest report on human rights defenders working in i…