Carey L. Biron
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Washington, DC, United States
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US to boost jobs, curb emissions by plugging old oil and gas wells
As many as 120,000 jobs could be created by stopping abandoned oil and gas wells leaking climate-warming methane into the atmosphere → Read More
U.S. urged to boost transitional housing for homeless youth
Transitional housing programs are seen as filling a critical gap for the country's 4.2 million unaccompanied homeless youths → Read More
Cash, no strings attached: New U.S. programs for pandemic poor
By Carey L. Biron WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Handouts lead to laziness and breed dependency, according to the critics. Advocates counter that cash can lift the left-behind out of poverty. What better time to test it out than a pandemic? A high-stakes experiment is underway in a deprived corner of the U.S. capital, with […] → Read More
Pandemic upheaval creates 'perfect storm' for land rights abuses
As countries bolster economies battered by the pandemic, more land may be privatised → Read More
'Commons' effort seeks to keep U.S. farmland affordable
The U.S. Agrarian Commons project allows charities to grant affordable, long-term land leases to small-scale farmers → Read More
Packing a projector: U.S. activists stage light invasion
Place is a news and information website designed to shed light on the many issues revolving around land and property rights. → Read More
Artists hope U.S. court ruling will help them defend street art
Could a landmark compensation award by a New York court safeguard street art in the United States from development? → Read More
Data-driven effort poised to create global action on secure land tenure
Some 70 percent of land in developing countries remains outside of the formal, public account of land ownership and value → Read More
As U.S. rolls out ultrafast Internet, tensions rise over public right of way
"This is absolutely a property rights issue: The public owns that right of way" By Carey L. Biron WASHINGTON, March 2 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Cities across the United States are warning of what they say is an illegal assault on the public's right of way, facilitated by state and federal authorities on behalf of major telecommunications companies. At issue is the rollout of new… → Read More
FEATURE-Cities experiment to reduce homelessness with "pay for success" finance
"Within two weeks, I had a place to stay" By Carey L. Biron WASHINGTON, Feb 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The past couple of years have been a roller-coaster for Maurice Cushinberry - first of homelessness, substance abuse and legal trouble, and then of sudden stability. Although he had tried to find a home during that time, he was discouraged by the paperwork and process. But shortly after… → Read More
This framework could help measure climate action in cities
The mission of the Gold Standard Foundation is to show that projects meant to mitigate global warming can go hand in hand with sustainable development. → Read More
Trial Begins In Major Trafficking Case Stemming From Hurricane Katrina Clean-up
A series of lawsuits brought by dozens of South Asian workers against an American marine-services company could have major implications across the U.S. immigration system. Experts say they collectively entail one of the largest human trafficking cases in U.S. history. → Read More
Republican-Led Congress Opens With Broad Attack On Regulation
Most voters hold favorable views of regulatory agencies like the EPA and the public protections they provide, yet critics worry a new bill would make the already inefficient regulatory process “as dysfunctional, inefficient and redundant as possible.” → Read More
There’s A New Front For Post-Citizens United Dark Money: State Judges
Around 85 percent of state judges must stand for election, yet these elections are often surrounded in public indifference and ignorance. Since the Citizens United decision opened the floodgates to dark money in politics, it’s had significant impact on judicial elections, too. → Read More
Low Oil Prices Prompt New Interest In Raising Gas Tax, Cutting Subsidies
If the federal gas tax had kept pace with inflation since 1993, it would be double what it is today. Could the dysfunctional spending debate that has stalled raising this tax for over two decades finally be coming to an end? → Read More
Corporate Human Rights Ranking Seeks To Foster “Race to the Top”
“ clear benefit of the project is to spur companies to put in place such policies more quickly, because many won’t like to be found at the bottom of the rankings,” a founder of the initiative tells MintPress. → Read More
New Benchmarking Project Aims To Rate Companies’ “Chemical Footprint”
Major retailers, health insurers and sustainability groups are embracing a new initiative aimed at comparing companies’ policies for managing chemicals used in their products and supply chains, and whether they seek safer alternatives to dangerous substances. → Read More
Congress Urged To Investigate Role Of Medical Workers In CIA Torture
“It’s fairly easy to imagine that the U.S. will be challenged again in terms of terrorism and our response to it, and if we sweep these actions under the rug we have no hope for preventing them from happening again,” an advisor for Physicians for Human Rights tells MintPress. → Read More
Fracking Industry Still “Failing” on Transparency
Keen to protect their investments, individual and institutional shareholders are putting more pressure on fracking companies to publicly disclose the social and environmental risks they’re facing -- and what they’re doing to mitigate those risks. → Read More
Trafficking, Child Labor May Be Growing In Global Chocolate Industry
Labor advocates say failure to address the root causes of poverty among cocoa farming communities may be leading to both human trafficking and child labor along the chocolate industry’s supply chains. → Read More