Very Light News Dump

If Trump Weren’t President, He Would Already Be Charged
https://www.thedailybeast.com/if-trump-werent-president-he-would-already-be-charged

Amnesty, monitors say U.S.-led coalition killed 1,600 civilians in Syria's Raqqa
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-raqqa/amnesty-monitors-say-u-s-led-coalition-killed-1600-civilians-in-syrias-raqqa-idUSKCN1S11HM

The world’s first “biosolar leaf”, which scientists claim can mop up carbon dioxide and discharge oxygen into the atmosphere, doing the work of 100 trees using the surface area of one tree. It cultivates microalgae and phytoplankton on solar panel structures to be installed on land and roofs.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/28/biosolar-leaf-project-targets-air-pollution-on-london-campus

A New Obstruction Case Against a Judge Proves William Barr’s DOJ Is Now Just an Arm of President Donald Trump.  It took Attorney General William Barr only one week from the release of the Mueller report to bring obstruction of justice charges against two governmental officials for interfering in a federal investigation. But the charges have nothing to do with the special counsel’s investigation into Russian interference in the election or the possible obstruction of that investigation. Although the obstruction charges DOJ filed are not related to the Mueller report, they underscore just how far the attorney general bent over backward to spin the report in the president’s favor and how partisan the Department of Justice has become.  The disparities between the two cases highlight how the Department of Justice, under Barr’s leadership, has become nothing more than a political arm of the Trump administration, particularly in its handling of possible obstruction charges stemming from the Mueller report. The indictment against Judge Shelley Richmond Joseph, a Massachusetts district court judge, and Officer Wesley MacGregor, a Massachusetts trial court officer, alleges that the officers interfered with an Immigration and Customs Enforcement proceeding by preventing ICE from arresting an individual who was arrested on state charges and attended an arraignment hearing in state court. During the state court proceeding, Joseph asked an ICE officer to wait outside the courtroom while the court conducted the arraignment hearing. Earlier in the day, the judge had requested more information about one of the state charges in the case (a fugitive charge) after the prosecutor said the state would not seek to detain the defendant on the other charge (a drug charge).
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/04/obstruction-case-william-barr-doj-donald-trump.html

Extinction Rebellion: Supporters warn ‘hippy language’ is watering down climate change message - 'Facts and figures need to be at the forefront of our argument otherwise I fear we lose most of the population in the fight,' one supporter says
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/extinction-rebellion-climate-change-supporters-facebook-hippy-language-environment-message-a8889586.html

Bolton confirms U.S. signed document to pay North Korea for Otto Warmbier
https://www.axios.com/otto-warmbier-north-korea-hospital-bill-a4752e57-8244-43cc-81d2-545ff98a3f7c.html

'That Was Actually My Sick Idea': President Trump on Sending Immigrants To Sanctuary Cities
http://www.newsweek.com/president-trump-sending-immigrants-sanctuary-cities-was-actually-my-sick-idea-1407712

NASA’s new carbon observatory is set for launch despite Trump’s efforts to ax it
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article229761884.html#storylink=rss

Democratic midterm wins in 11 states lead to a wave of clean energy legislation
https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-clean-energy-states-20190427-story.html

World's first malaria vaccine to go to 360,000 African children
https://www.cnn.com/cnn/2019/04/23/health/malaria-africa-worlds-first-vaccine-intl/index.html

The campaign is targeting the Capri Sun juice pouch; a highly visible example of consumer packaging that can’t be readily reused, recycled or composted. The campaign estimates that 1.4 billion Capri Sun pouches are landfilled or littered each year in the United States.
http://wasteawaygroup.blogspot.com/2018/03/are-drink-pouches-recyclable-or-trash.html?m=1