by Adam Mahoney | Sep 19, 2026 | California, Environmental Justice, Environmental Racism, extractive industries, Los Angeles, News, Oil Drilling, oil industry, Pollution, Public Health, Racial Justice, Reparations
As a child in the 1950s and ’60s, Regina Martin became so used to the oil pumpjacks near her home that she assumed every child lived beside them. Everyone was made “sick to [their] tummy” by the sulfurous, rotten-egg smell that never seemed to leave, she thought. Only until she was grown did she begin to see a possible connection between growing up on top of the nation’s largest urban oil…
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by Katie Surma | Sep 16, 2026 | brazil, Colombia, Criminalization, Daniel Noboa, Daniel Ortega, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, environmental defenders, extractive economy, extractive industries, Guatemala, Honduras, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Resistance, Indonesia, Land Defenders, mexico, Mining, News, Nicaragua, Peru, Philippines, Repression, Trump Administration, USAID, USAID cuts
Every three days someone is killed for defending nature. In 2025, watchdog group Global Witness documented 124 such deaths worldwide, a toll researchers say is likely only a fraction of the total number because repression and armed conflict make many deaths impossible to verify. The victims included Indigenous people, small-scale farmers and community organizers peacefully protecting…
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