#OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPGregAbbott #PhenomnEnvironmentalSocialAndCorporateGovernanceESG #PhenomnClimateChangeCrisis

#MagazineUSRollingStoneAntoniaJuhasz "This is life in 'Cancer Alley,' an 85-mile stretch along the banks of the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, where industry leaders like ExxonMobil, Koch, and Shell operate about 150 fossil fuel and petrochemical facilities. Seven of the 10 census tracts with the highest cancer risk in the nation are found here. The exceptionally elevated toxic air emissions released by the industry are linked to a host of ailments, from cancer to cardiovascular and respiratory disease to reproductive and developmental disorders. And in St. James, toxic facilities are increasingly concentrated in areas with the highest percentage of black and poor residents." https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/louisiana-cancer-alley-getting-more-toxic-905534/ #ToponymAmericaNorthUSLouisianaStJamesParish #BrandExxonMobil #BrandKochIndustries #BrandRoyalDutchShellPlc #PhenomnEnergyFuelFossil #PhenomnEnergyFuelFossilPetrochemicals #ConditionCancer #LiteralSubstanceGasToxicAirEmissions #ConditionDiseaseCardiovascular #ConditionDisorderReproductive #ConditionDisorderDevelopmental #ToponymAmericaNorthUSMississippiRiverCancerAlley https://dabrownstein.com/2013/12/04/mapping-the-cancer-corridor-along-louisianas-gulf-coast/

#WebsiteVisionProjectLesStone "In Louisiana, stretching 80 miles from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, there lays one of the most polluted areas of the United States. Because of the dense cluster of oil refineries, petro-chemical plants and other chemical industries, this area is known as Cancer Alley. Designated as an enterprise zone, loose oversight has enabled industry to release into the environment extremely toxic materials. Recent studies have found that the entire population of this region has been exposed to thousands of toxic chemicals and very little is being done to clean up the mess. Cancer and respiratory problems are widespread. Greenpeace has labeled Cancer Alley a Global Toxic Hotspot." ^[pdf]

#BrandMarathonPetroleumCorporation "Oil spill contained at Marathon Galveston Bay in Texas City" https://www.expressnews.com/news/houston-texas/environment/article/Oil-spill-contained-at-Marathon-Galveston-Bay-in-16513390.php #ToponymAmericaNorthUSTexasGalvestonBay

#ToponymAsiaChina #WebsiteRealClearEnergyRCEJoelKotkin "Like the rest of the country, although far less than New York, California is suffering through the Covid-19 crisis. But in California, the pandemic seems likely to give the state's political and corporate elites a new license to increase their dominion while continuing to keep the middle and working classes down. Perhaps nothing spells the triumph of California's progressive oligarchy more than Governor Gavin Newsom's decision to off-load the state's recovery strategy to a task force co-chaired by hedge-fund billionaire Tom Steyer. A recently failed presidential candidate, Steyer stands as a progressive funder. He is as zealous as he is rich. Steyer sometimes even found the policies adopted by climate-obsessed former governor Jerry Brown not extreme enough for his tastes." https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2020/04/27/triumph_of_the_woke_oligarchs_490094.html #OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyGavinNewsom #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyJerryBrown ^[Wikipedia] #TheoryDragonsOfInactionPerceivedRiskFinancial

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Supplementary #WebsiteTheDailyBeastKevinPoulsen and #WebsiteTheDailyBeastMaxwellTani "The company behind the non-partisan news site RealClearPolitics has been secretly running a Facebook page filled with far-right memes and Islamophobic smears, The Daily Beast has learned. ... It's a far cry from the usual fare on RealClearPolitics. Founded in 2000, the site was an early online aggregator of political news, curating links to widely read politics stories and opinion articles in other major outlets. ... The Daily Beast connected ConservativeCountry.net to RealClear through archives on the Wayback Machine, which show that the website had RealClear's Google Analytics tracker code and that some of the site's images were served from the WordPress account of RealClear's chief technology officer. Interviews with former editorial staff of ConservativeCountry.net confirmed that it was a stealth RealClear property. ... Conservative Country isn't the first ultra-partisan title that's been connected to RealClear. A 2017 SEC filing listed RealClear co-founder John McIntyre as a director at FDRLST Media and put both companies at the same Chicago address. FDRLST Media is the parent company of The Federalist... RealClear didn't respond to questions about the Facebook page but acknowledged that it created the website. 'The Conservative Country website was created as part of an effort to understand the flow of traffic from social media--particularly Facebook--to political websites,' said RealClear CTO Anand Ramanujan in an email to The Daily Beast. 'There are no other non-RealClear titles out there.'" https://redgreenandblue.org/2020/09/30/realclearenergy-really-clearly-invested-climate-change-denial/ #BrandTechMetaFacebook #PoliticsFascismNaziNeoFarRightAltRightRadicalRight #OtheringHateIslamophobiaAntiMuslim #OrgUSInternetArchiveWaybackMachine #WebsiteRealClearPoliticsRCP #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyBetoORourke #WebsiteConservativeCountry #WebsiteRealClearMedia #IRLCampaignAdvisorSteveCortes #BrandFDRLSTMediaJohnMcIntyre #WebsiteRealClearAnandRamanujan #WebsiteAmericanThinkerThomasLifson

#MetaphorVersusCostEnvironment "The predictably pious Steyer and his fellow commissioners will no doubt claim devotion to the interests of average citizen. But, as a new lawsuit filed by some 300 civil rights leaders asserts, the policies being backed by Steyer and his fellow commissioners have already had produced disastrous results for millions of Californians. The real collective badge of shame is not California's GHG [Green House Gas] emissions but the prevalence of poverty amid enormous affluence. Critically, economic growth, at least outside asset- and iPhone-price inflation, is itself considered a threat to the planet within the environmental community, which largely hails the Covid lockdowns as a 'fire drill' for future actions to promote 'de-growth.' The open hope, as a Psychology Today writer puts it, would be to tame 'the human beast' by imposing low-consumption lifestyles on hoi polloi, including in developing countries. Such policies might not affect the prospects for social media, search, or import- dependent firms like Apple, but they have already been beastly for millions of Californians." #IRLBusinesspersonTomSteyer #CauseCivilRights #ToponymAmericaNorthUSCalifornia #LiteralSubstanceGasToxicAirEmissions #PhenomnDeprivationPoverty #BrandAppleiPhone #ConditionVirusCOVID19PandemicMitigationLockdown #MagazineUSPsychologyTodayNigelBarber