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Environmental justice and eco-imperialism. Indigenous land theft, toxic dumping in poor communities, corporate pollution with impunity — the environment is a class issue. UTM covers the destruction and the communities fighting to survive it.

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Amazon Web Services data center in Boardman, Oregon, with massive industrial buildings under construction against a cloudy sky
Environmental

Boardman: Amazon's Data Center Empire vs. a Town's Drinking Water

How Amazon's data centers supercharged a decades-old water contamination crisis in rural Oregon, poisoned the groundwater of a farming community, paid a fraction of a penny in damages, and kept expanding.

📍 Boardman, Morrow County, Oregon

Hunter Duke
June 9, 2026· 12 min read
Aerial photograph of the Boardman Coal Plant showing the main power station building with its tall smokestack, surrounded by agricultural land near the Columbia River in eastern Oregon.
Environmental

From Coal to Code: How Boardman Traded One Poison for Another — and a Town Is Paying the Price

Oregon's last coal plant closed in 2020. What replaced it — Amazon data centers — has poisoned the town's water, corrupted its government, and paid a fraction of a penny on the dollar in damages. The extraction never stopped. Only the name of the miner changed.

📍 Boardman, Morrow County, Oregon

Tyler Durden
June 7, 2026· 12 min read
Thousands of protesters crowd a street in Tirana holding pink flamingo cutouts above their heads in protest against a Kushner-linked resort development
Environmental

Albania's Flamingo Revolution: Thousands Rise Against Kushner's Colonial Playground on Pristine Shores

For four consecutive days, thousands of Albanians have flooded the streets of Tirana in a swelling revolt against a luxury resort development linked to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump — a project that would carve hotels and villas into one of the Mediterranean's last unspoiled coastlines, a protected wildlife reserve home to flamingos and endangered monk seals.

📍 Tirana / Zvërnec, Albania

Radical Edward
June 3, 2026· 9 min read
RCMP convoy mobilizing toward Wet'suwet'en territory, January 2019
Environmental

RCMP Prepares to Raid Un-Ceded Territory of the Wet'suwet'en Nation: Crisis Unfolding in Unist'ot'en

RCMP has been working through the night and morning to prepare a massive law enforcement mobilization to the Unist'ot'en & Gidimt'en checkpoints of the Wet'suwet'en Nation located in so called British Colombia. B.C. Supreme Court Justice Marguerite Church expanded an injunction to include the Gidimt'en checkpoint. With this Injunction update RCMP's indicated that specially trained tactical forces will be deployed to forcibly remove Wet'suwet'en people from sovereign Wet'suwet'en territory. The RCMP's ultimatum, to allow TransCanada access to un-ceded Wet'suwet'en territory or face police invasion, is nothing short of an act of war on the sovereign, un-ceded nation.

📍 British Columbia, Canada

Radical Edward
January 7, 2019· 6 min read
Leaders burn Standing Rock camp ahead of eviction
Environmental

Standing Rock #NoDAPL Camps Prepare for Eviction Today

Cannonball, ND - After over a year of struggling against the Dakota Access Pipeline's construction underneath the Missouri River, water protectors are now scheduled to be evicted from their main encampment. The encampment lies on unceded Fort Laramie Treaty land maintained by the Army Corps of Engineers. A few hundred water protectors are still holding steady as the eviction deadline approaches.

📍 Cannonball, North Dakota, USA

Radical Edward
February 22, 2017· 4 min read
As Yet Another Pipeline Explodes, We Must Ask When is Enough, Enough?
Environmental

As Yet Another Pipeline Explodes, We Must Ask When is Enough, Enough?

Flames rip from the earth's surface, spewing 40+ feet into the nights sky. Residents look on in awe as yet another fossil fuel pipeline has exploded. An all to common scene throughout rural America these days. Many all around the world have already taken to boycott and direct action to attempt to bring some of these oil giants to their knees. With increased action every day its only a matter of time before they can no longer sustain the extraction.

📍 Smithville, Missouri

Radical Edward
November 29, 2016· 8 min read