Jason Schwartz
Jason Schwartz is the editor of the EnvironmentaList, the Greenpeace blog. He lives in New York City.
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Views Friday, June 10, 2016 Don’t Look Now, But There Was Just a Mass Exodus of Oil Companies From the Arctic Now that Spanish oil company Repsol has relinquished the last of its 93 leases in the Chukchi Sea, only one leaseholder is left — Shell. Why the company is holding onto a single lease after losing billions of dollars and any reputation for competence it might have had is anybody’s guess. But the... Read more |
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Views Friday, May 30, 2014 Illegal Wood and Murdered Activists in the Amazon Although a properly managed and inclusive process of timber extraction could be beneficial to both local communities, extractors, and consumers, the global demand for Amazonian wood has produced a culture of lawlessness, impunity, and dysfunction among the timber industry in Brazil. Indigenous and... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, March 11, 2014 The McCutcheon Decision Hangs in the Balance. So Does Our Democracy The US Supreme Court is about to rule in a case that, if successful, would sound the death knell for average Americans’ rapidly-dwindling influence over our politics. McCutcheon vs. FEC seeks to remove many of the few leftover limits protecting our democracy since Citizens United. Read more |