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Grassroots Resistance to Environmental Destruction in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Part V: Coal Poisons the Environment and Fuels a Criminal Economy

Editors’ note: This article is published in a six-part series. You can read the entire series here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 6. On my way to Majevica, I stopped for the night in Ugljevik, to the northeast of Lopare. The name Ugljevik is derived from “ugalj,” the local word […]

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The poor pays principle in Bulgaria

Note from LeftEast editors: The article was originally published on dversia.net in Bulgarian on the 25.02.2019 On January 30 there were dangerously high levels of air pollution in the capital reported, three times higher than the norm. In its latest air quality report, the European Court of Auditors points out that Bulgaria is at the […]