39 h. ago How a Texas shrimper stalled Exxon’s $10bn plastics plant | Shilpi Chhotray

Diane Wilson recognized Exxon’s playbook – and showed how local people can take on even the most entrenched industriesWhen ExxonMobil announced it would “slow the pace of development” on a $10bn plastics plant along the Texas Gulf coast, the company blamed market conditions. But it wasn’t just the market applying pressure; it was a 77-year-old shrimper named Diane Wilson who refused to stay silent. Her fight exposes big oil’s latest survival plan: ramping up oil and gas production to create plastic.I first met Wilson back in 2019 while tracking her historic lawsuit against Formosa Plastics, the Taiwanese petrochemical giant accused of dumping toxic plastic waste throughout coastal Texas. Billions of tiny plastic pellets were contaminating waterways, shorelines, and even the soil itself.Shilpi Chhotray is the co-founder and president of Counterstream Media and Host of A People’s Climate for the Nation Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Plans for dog exercise field on land near roundabout in Lochwinnoch approved by Renfrewshire Council

Request for planning permission for project that aims to create "safe environment" for canines off Roadhead roundabout granted.

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6 d. ago Global trading platform boss says Rachel Reeves' cash ISA raid plan is wrong and will create nation of 'zombie investors'

The UK boss of a major global trading platform has warned Rachel Reeve's planned raid on cash ISA's is simply the wrong way to get Britons investing again.

Economics

8 d. ago Seven new neighbourhoods to be created across two cities among new plans across Greater Manchester

These are all the public notices submitted to local authorities across the Greater Manchester region recently

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8 d. ago EU plans Centre for Democratic Resilience to fight online disinformation

Move follows ‘escalating hybrid attacks’ by Russia and other foreign powers spreading fake articles across social mediaThe EU executive plans to create a Centre for Democratic Resilience to counter disinformation from Russia and other authoritarian regimes, according to a leaked paper.The European Commission intends for the centre to bring together expertise across the EU and from countries seeking to join the bloc to fight foreign information manipulation and interference. The idea forms the centrepiece of the so-called “democracy shield” pitched by the commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, when she sought a second term before the 2024 European elections. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago EU plans hub to tackle disinformation threat from Russia and others

Move follows ‘escalating hybrid attacks’ by Russia and other foreign powers spreading fake articles across social mediaThe EU executive plans to create a Centre for Democratic Resilience to counter disinformation from Russia and other authoritarian regimes, according to a leaked paper.The European Commission intends for the centre to bring together expertise across the EU and from countries seeking to join the bloc to fight foreign information manipulation and interference. The idea forms the centrepiece of the “democracy shield” pitched by the commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, when she sought a second term before the 2024 European elections. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Scone Palace: Crowning place for Scottish monarchs, including Robert the Bruce, to undergo £10m transformation

Scone Palace - a site on which a host of Scottish monarchs have been crowned - will be transformed under a £10 million investment

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8 d. ago £10 million Scone Palace plans to create "world class" attraction approved

The development will include a new adventure play park and converting the Perthshire palace's disused stable block into a visitor centre, shop, restaurant and ticket office

Economics

9 d. ago Pollution from Ineos’s Antwerp plastic plant ‘will cause more deaths than jobs created’

Lawyers challenge €4bn Project One development, saying emissions and health impacts vastly underestimatedThe deaths from pollution caused by Europe’s biggest plastic plant, which is being built in Antwerp, will outstrip the number of permanent jobs it will create, lawyers will argue in a court challenge issued on Thursday.In documents submitted to the court, research suggests the air pollution from Ineos’s €4bn petrochemical plant would cause 410 deaths once operational, compared with the 300 permanent jobs the company says will be created. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Pollution from Ineos’s Antwerp plastic plant ‘could cause more deaths than jobs created’

Lawyers challenge €4bn Project One development, saying emissions and health impacts vastly underestimatedThe deaths from pollution caused by Europe’s biggest plastic plant, which is being built in Antwerp, will outstrip the number of permanent jobs it will create, lawyers will argue in a court challenge issued on Thursday.In documents submitted to the court, research suggests the air pollution from Ineos’s €4bn petrochemical plant would cause 410 deaths once operational, compared with the 300 permanent jobs the company says will be created. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Trump ally Infantino to award first Fifa Peace Prize at World Cup draw in DC

New Fifa Peace Prize announced on WednesdayInfantino to present first award on 5 DecemberCeremony set for World Cup draw in WashingtonFifa has announced the creation of a peace prize, which it plans to award at the draw for the World Cup on 5 December in Washington.The award, called the Fifa Peace Prize, will “recognize exceptional actions for peace”, soccer’s governing body said Wednesday. Continue reading...

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1 week ago FIFA announces new peace prize to be awarded at World Cup draw in Washington

FIFA has announced the creation of a peace prize, which it plans to award for the first time at the World Cup draw on Dec. 5 in Washington

Events

1 week ago Fate of Salford's £1bn skyscraper boasting 3,300 homes to be decided

The plan could create more than 3,000 homes - but it has been criticised by some

Economics

1 week ago Furious Surrey residents say Labour are trying to create a rich versus poor class divide with plan to split county into two

Locals in Surrey believe he news that the county will be split into two will only increase apparent unfairness and a social divide in the county which would make their lives harder.

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2 w. ago Reform councillor defects to Tories after party’s policies left him ‘uncomfortable’

Dartford representative James Buchan says ‘devastating’ immigration plans had created a lot of fear and anxietyA Reform UK councillor has defected to the Conservatives saying he became “uncomfortable” in Nigel Farage’s party.James Buchan, who sits in the south-east London borough of Dartford, said he struggled with the idea of facing his relatives while a member of a party whose anti-immigration policies spread fear. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘We must protect and we must understand’: using shipwrecks to rebuild fish populations

Research by marine scientists in Thailand is revealing how shipwrecks can benefit the undersea environmentSitting at the bottom of the Gulf of Thailand about 20 metres below the ocean surface is the HTMS Hanhak Sattru. Snappers, yellowtail fusiliers and bannerfish swim through the ship’s corridors,while barnacles, algae and young coral cling to the iron ladders and machine-gun on deck. Nearby is another wreck, the HTMS SuphairinBoth were intentionally submerged by the Royal Thai Navy in 2023 to create artificial reefs and dive sites. Their planned scuttling has enabled marine scientists to produce some of the first research on how much shipwrecks change the marine environment.There is already plenty of existing research that shows that shipwrecks create a new ecosystem. But whether they pull fish from natural reefs or promote production of new fish (known as the attraction-pollution hypothesis) has historically been hard to say. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago I created the viral AI Rachel Reeves rap video after she broke housing rules

The video was shared on social media just three hours after the Daily Mail revealed the Labour minister had failed to obtain a rental licence before placing her home on the market.

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2 w. ago Massive new water project to improve supplies across south Wales takes step forward

The plans include creating a new water treatment works and pumping station

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2 w. ago Buchanan bus station: Scotland's busiest bus station faces demolition under new vision

The biggest bus station in Scotland could be demolished under plans to create a major new transport hub.

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2 w. ago The 'Boring Billion' wasn't so boring after all! Period previously known as the dullest time in our planet's history actually created the conditions for LIFE, study reveals

Earth's 'Boring Billion' created the conditions for complex life to exist, report scientists at the universities of Sydney and Adelaide.

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