Only China is a worse polluter, ahead of the US. China emits about 6,018 million tons of greenhouse gases per year. The US follows with 5,903 tons. The Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst has released a new list of the worse US polluters. The top three polluters are American Electric Power, Duke Energy and Southern Company. AEP emits the equivalent of 130 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year, accounting for about 2% of the annual total, with Duke at 127 million tons and Southern Co. at 118 million. It’s abundantly clear from looking at this list that coal-burning power plants are the biggest single-point carbon emitters in the country. To put this into terms we can more closely identify with — the average human, at least according to this calculation, emits roughly 200 kilograms of carbon dioxide per year from breathing. That implies that AEP is emitting about as much carbon dioxide as the breathing of 650 million people.
Ending Corporate hits-and-runs in the United States 
An Earthjustice win brings us a big step closer to ensuring that the dirtiest polluters in the country pay for their own toxic messes, instead of skipping town and leaving taxpayers with the bill.
Apr.7.─ Time and time again, we’ve seen big industrial polluters emit toxic pollution that poisons the people and ecosystems nearby. And time and time again, we’ve seen these polluters walk away from the bill, leaving taxpayers to fund the cleanup and communities to live with the contamination.
That’s not right.
But there’s good news. In a groundbreaking Earthjustice victory following nearly eight years of litigation, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the EPA to get moving on rules that will break this cycle.
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Two outstanding personalities, G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, were the most prominent disseminators of the ideas of Distributism. They were the main advocates of the Catholic’s Social Doctrine of Subsidiarity as expounded by Pope Leo XIII in Rerum novarum (1891), a doctrine that would be re-stated, re-confirmed and reinforced by Pope Pius XI in Quadragesimo anno (1931) and by Pope John Paul II in Centesimus annus (1991). As such, it is important, first and foremost to see Distributism as a derivative of the Principle of Subsidiarity. This principle is clearly described in the Church's Social Doctrine Compendium (186-187) according to which "a community of a higher order should not interfere in the internal life of a community of a lower order, depriving the latter of its functions, but rather should support it in case of need and help to co-ordinate its activity with the activities of the rest of society, always with a view to the common good.” In other words, it states that the rights of small communities should not be violated or usurped by the intervention of larger communities or the state. This principle applies to Distributism on account that property ownership is a fundamental right and the means of production should be spread as widely as possible, including the idea of cooperativism. In a way, distributism seeks to subordinate economic activity to the well being of human life as a whole. The Video that follows took place at the Acton Institute on february 18th with an interesting debate for and against this principle and this doctrine.
El director de Human Rights Watch (HRW) para las Américas, José Miguel Vivanco, considera que el acuerdo de paz entre el Gobierno colombiano y las FARC, si es aprobado en sus términos actuales, supone un "desafío existencial" a la Corte Penal Internacional (CPI) de La Haya porque otorga "impunidad" a delitos de lesa humanidad y contra los derechos humanos. Asimismo, el acuerdo vicia la integridad y legitimidad del acuerdo nacional.
