Environment

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Environment

EPA Becomes Pollution Agency as Capital Captures the State

The systematic dismantling of the Environmental Protection Agency under the Trump administration represents a textbook case of regulatory capture—where the capitalist class seizes direct control of state apparatus designed to constrain its profit-making activities. With former chemical industry...

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Environment

Wetland Farming Reveals Tensions in Green Capitalism

This account of paludiculture on the Somerset Levels illustrates the complex intersection of ecological crisis, agricultural transformation, and emerging green commodity markets. On its surface, the story presents an optimistic narrative: farmers adapting to climate reality by cultivating bulrush...

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