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Rarely does mention of the pharmaceutical industry conjure up images of smoke stacks, pollution and environmental damage.
Yet our recent study found the global pharmaceutical industry is not only a significant contributor to global warming, but it is also dirtier than the global automotive production sector.
It was a surprise to find how little attention researchers have paid to the industry’s greenhouse gas emissions. Only two other studies had some relevance: one looked at the environmental impact of the U.S. healthcare system and the other at the pollution (mostly water) discharged by drug manufacturers.
Our study was the first to assess the carbon footprint of the pharma sector.
More than 200 companies represent the global pharmaceutical market, yet only 25 consistently reported their direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions in the past five years. Of those, only 15 reported their emissions since 2012.
One immediate and striking result is that the pharmaceutical sector is far from […]
1st Lt. Michael C. Behenna; Donald Trump Credit: AP/Getty/Salon
The thing about war crimes is, the military gives you training in how to commit them. That’s not to say that military commanders want you to commit war crimes. There is plenty of training in the rules of engagement with the enemy and the legalities of how to handle prisoners of war. In the army, you are taught how to conduct operations in urban environments so that civilians are not killed accidentally. In the air force, the days of carpet-bombing entire cities are over. Pilots are trained not to engage targets on the ground with so-called “smart bombs” unless cleared to do so by higher command.
But how to do the shooting and bombing necessary to kill the enemy is taught with gusto to military trainees in every branch of service. I covered the court-martial of First Lieutenant William “Rusty” Calley Jr. for his part in the massacre at My Lai in 1968. The trial was held in a small, World War II-era building across […]
Justice Cheri Beasley
North Carolina’s first black woman to become supreme court justicehas come under fire by Republicans because she is expected to strike down gerrymandered districts in the state by 2020.
On Wednesday, Justice Cheri Beasley’s office revealed that Republicans have moved to drastically cut her funding.
North Carolina’s first black woman to become supreme court justicehas come under fire by Republicans because she is expected to strike down gerrymandered districts in the state by 2020.
On Wednesday, Justice Cheri Beasley’s office revealed that Republicans have moved to drastically cut her funding.
“With these cuts to our staff, the chief justice would be the only appellate judge in the state with a single law clerk,” Chief of Staff Anna Stearns explained to WUNC. “It would severely limit the work she can do to modernize our courts and bring about desperately needed reforms.”
WUNC reporter Jeff Tiberii revealed on Twitter that half of the existing staff would be cut under the Republican plan.
Remote Viewing the Year 2060
