Seeds of Resistance: Native-led campaigns are at the
forefront of today's climate and justice movements
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2021-4-fall/editor-s-desk/seeds-resistance
Deb Haaland, A Living Testament: The path to becoming the
nation's first Native interior secretary
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2021-4-fall/feature/deb-haaland-living-testament
A Postcard From the Red Road to DC: Traditionally carved
totem pole brings attention to Indigenous sovereignty struggles across the
United States
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2021-4-fall/notes-here-there/postcard-red-road-dc
The Fine Art of Wildfire Awareness: Inside
pyrosketchology—a tool to help Westerners prepare for, and live with, fire
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2021-4-fall/notes-here-there/fine-art-wildfire-awareness
75 Percent of Young People Are Frightened by the Future.
That’s the Only Sane Reaction to Climate Change. Climate change is already devastating the
young, who feel abandoned by their governments and earlier generations.
The Case for Meatless Monday, Tuesday, etc.
100 Solar EVs Will Feed Power Back Into the Dutch Energy
Grid: The Dutch city of Utrecht could become the first to implement a two-way
ecosystem.
75 percent of young people are frightened about the
future. That’s a sane reaction to
climate change
Regulatory Agency Capture: How the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission Approved the Mountain Valley Pipeline
https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/applebaum_award/22/
Is Climate Change On a Crash Course? (w/ Dr. Michael Mann)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVa8eDqu3Pc
Extreme event attribution: the climate versus weather
blame game
Global Warming Tied to Hurricane Harvey: Harvey's record
rainfall was three times more likely than a storm from the early 1900s
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/global-warming-tied-to-hurricane-harvey/
The Myth of Regenerative Ranching: The purveyors of
“grass-fed” beef want you to believe that it solves meat’s environmental
problem. But this is merely a branding exercise, not a climate solution.
A Lead Problem Worse Than Flint's: Hundreds of thousands
of lead service lines in Wisconsin are a threat to public health, and
communities of color are particularly vulnerable.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/wisconsin-water-pipe-lead-poisoning-child-health-cdc
Arctic Horror Is Having a Comeback: Today’s fictional
North is defined by nostalgia for an icier time.
Climate Change Is Killing American Workers, and Biden
Needs to Act Quickly: The Biden administration must not only curb emissions. It
also has to move swiftly to issue its planned OSHA regulation limiting the heat
exposure that kills more workers every year.
Students around the world follow Greta Thunberg’s call to
rally over climate change
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/24/fridays-future-greta-climate-protests/
A Journey of Faith: Jews Joining Native Americans
Protecting Climate, Water, and Treaty Rights
http://thejdc.convio.net/site/Calendar?id=159944&view=Detail
Climate psychologist says neither gloom-and-doom nor
extreme solution-obsessed optimism is the best way to discuss climate change
productively
40 Million People Rely on the Colorado River. It’s Drying
Up Fast.
https://www.propublica.org/article/40-million-people-rely-on-the-colorado-river-its-drying-up-fast
Privileged Block Climate Progress
http://www.populist.com/27.17.Lingo.html
Hold the Sickle, CRP Needs a New, Bigger Hammer
http://www.populist.com/27.17.Guebert.html
Kudos to the Guy Who Foresaw the Ravages of Climate
Change. Too Bad He Was Mocked.
http://www.populist.com/27.17.Polman.html
A Climate Disaster Is Unfolding Before Our Eyes—And
Politicians Still Refuse to Take Action
Gravitas US Edition: China turns off traffic lights amid
power crunch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b8R4vaRRGQ
Letters to the editor
Gravitas US Edition: Europe's energy crisis to worsen
with the onset of Winter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RlzeONwBQE
This New Solar EV Has a 1,000-Mile Range—But You May Never
Need to Charge It: Both variations sold out in just 24 hours.
https://robbreport.com/motors/cars/aptera-new-solar-ev-can-cover-1000-miles-no-charging-1234585242/
Follow the Money and the Smell of Gas
http://www.populist.com/27.17.Seggel.html
Groups Urge Inclusion of Revenue-Raising Oil and Gas
Leasing Reforms in Reconciliation Package
How Execs at Bankrupt U.S. Oil & Gas Companies
Pocketed Nearly $200M In Payouts While Leaving more than 10,000 Workers Jobless
and at Least $10B in Cleanup Costs
We Seek To Block Sempra Energy From Passing $13 Million
In Gas Costs On To Ratepayers
Pedernales Electric Co-op Attack on Solar
https://www.citizen.org/pedernales-electric-co-op-attack-on-solar/
AIG: Stop Fueling the Climate Crisis
https://www.citizen.org/article/aig-stop-fueling-the-climate-crisis/
EU lawmakers vote to prolong fossil fuel gas subsidies
until 2027: Campaigners voice dismay after rule permitting gas pipelines where
energy is mixed with hydrogen
Air pollution linked to millions of birth complications
across the globe: Scientists estimate millions of preterm births and
underweight newborns worldwide can be attributed to long-term exposure to air
pollution.
https://www.ehn.org/air-pollution-birth-defects-2655187427.html
Free Steven Donziger: The environmental lawyer’s
sentencing shows that laws protecting Chevron are much stronger than laws
protecting the planet.
The World We Need: Sharon Lavigne's Story of RISE St.
James
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r147k1lq3U
US/UK Blocking UN Effort to Enshrine Clean Environment as
Universal Human Right: The stance puts the two powerful countries at risk of
"standing against the common future of humanity."
UN Urges World to Act Now to Combat 'Looming Water
Crisis': "The water is draining out of the tub in some places, while it's
overflowing in others."
Big Oil Lobby Spending Millions to Gut Key Build Back
Better Climate Provisions: Report.
"Make no mistake: If the Build Back Better bill wasn't a
once-in-a-generation opportunity to invest in climate action, the fossil fuel
industry wouldn't be pouring out millions of dollars trying to stop it."
API Spending Millions Lobbying Against Climate Solutions
White House to Restore Key Elements of Nation's 'Bedrock
Environmental Law' Gutted by Trump
"The Biden administration is demonstrating a
willingness to listen to those on the frontlines of the climate crisis whose
lives and livelihoods are on the line," said one advocate.
Biden Administration’s Proposal a Positive First Step
Forward in Restoring NEPA and Protecting Environmental Justice Communities: The
White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) took the first step in
rolling back former President Donald Trump’s sweeping changes to the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
What if Eating Animals Was the Main Cause of the Climate
and Biodiversity Crises? The
inconvenient truth for our species is that we need to adopt vegan lifestyles as
a matter of urgency.
Steven Donziger and the Judicial Executioners of the
Corporate State: Imprisoning the David to Chevron's Goliath is the latest
outrage by a US judiciary now engineered to always favor the interests of
capital.
Climate Journalism Is Coming of Age: It's still a work in
progress, but the Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards point the way.
The Other Cold War: Russia’s battle against the climate.
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/pey-yi-chu-life-of-permafrost/
Climate-Friendly Investment Funds Are a Scam: Wall Street
is trying to fool investors into thinking they can get rich and save the planet
at the same time.
Alberta’s oil & gas sector generated -$212M in
corporate tax revenue last year. Yep.
You read that right. Negative $212 million.
The Hot New Back-to-School Accessory? An Air Quality
Monitor. Parents are sneaking carbon
dioxide monitors into their children’s schools to determine whether the
buildings are safe.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/10/health/coronavirus-ventilation-carbon-dioxide.html
Is it Time for the World Court to Weigh in on Climate
Change? Vanuatu is maneuvering to call
the question, hoping the UN General Assembly will ask the International Court
of Justice to rule.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04102021/internationa-court-of-justice-vanuatu-ecocide/
Why Investing in Libraries Is a Climate Justice Issue
https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/entry/why-investing-in-libraries-is-a-climate-justice-issue
A hotter and drier climate is set to hurt agriculture in
the West and help farmers in Asia
https://qz.com/2067056/how-climate-change-affects-soybean-and-corn-farming-globally/
Private Equity Is Quietly Keeping Fossil Fuel Companies
in Business: Vulture funds have spent $1.1 trillion snapping up energy companies
over the past decade.
Hear why William Shatner is ‘overwhelmed by sadness’
after space flight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCFJktZnjjE
Is Joe Manchin Aware That His Favorite Climate Technology
Is a Total Bust? The conservative
Democrat is insisting that Biden’s Build Back Better Act include funding for
carbon capture projects. But even the fossil fuel industry admits the tech is a
nonfactor in fighting global warming.
Climate Change Is Killing Autumn: It’s too warm out for
thick sweaters and hot cider. The fall leaves aren’t changing like they used
to. But some people won’t let global warming spoil their cherished,
Instagrammable seasonal traditions.
Paradise by John Prine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEy6EuZp9IY
National Climate Report - September 2021
Fighting climate change down on the farm in Pennsylvania:
There's more than 50,000 farms in Pennsylvania.
https://www.inquirer.com/news/climatechange-methane-dairy-farms-farming-gas-20211017.html
World's clean energy transition 'too slow': IEA
‘This is our last chance’: Biden urged to act as climate
agenda hangs by a thread. Failure to
pass legislation to cut emissions before the UN summit in Glasgow could be
catastrophic for efforts to curb global heating
The Sunrise Climate Activists Are Going on Hunger Strike:
Galvanized by news that Senator Joe Manchin might kill the Clean Energy Payment
Program, climate activists will fast in front of the White House to demand
Congress pass the reconciliation bill’s climate measures.
Should a Tree Be Able to Sue the State? What do suburban neighborhood spats, climate
activism, and Indigenous traditions have in common? They’re all feeding into a
growing movement to grant trees legal rights.
Biden’s Incredible Shrinking Climate Plan: Thanks to Joe
Manchin’s stubborn defense of dirty power plants, the president is going to
have to find another way to drastically reduce emissions—but it’s not clear
how.
NOSB Oral Comments, Fall 2021
https://www.cornucopia.org/nosb-oral-comments-fall-2021/
Follow Cornucopia’s NOSB Coverage
'Catastrophic and Irreparable Harm' to Wolves Averted as
Wisconsin Judge Cancels Hunt: "We are heartened by this rare instance of
reason and democracy prevailing in state wolf policy," said one
conservation expert.
'Compromising' on Climate Is Horrible Politics, Deadly
Policy, and Stupid Economics: At this stage, Democrats have offered Joe Manchin
a basket full of polluter-friendly subsidies to prop up essentially
non-existent carbon capture power technology, a watered-down clean power plan
barely better than the status quo, or a meaningless carbon tax that mostly
exists as a totem for an industry that pretends to care about the planetary
damage it has caused.
New Multimedia Report Details Unprecedented 'Permian
Climate Bomb' in Texas: "If the Biden Administration wants to be serious
about its promise to demonstrate U.S. climate leadership, it must first clean
up its own backyard."
The climate summit that could save the planet — or doom
it: Why COP26 could be the 'last, best chance' to prevent climate disaster
Tech Billionaires’ Fantasy Cities Are Environmentally
Catastrophic Tax Havens: Despite Marc Lore’s ambitions for Telosa, water wars
seem more likely than flying cars in our dystopian near future.
Participant at MoMA
Leaked Documents Show Countries Lobbying Against Climate
Action. What Does This Mean Ahead of COP26?
From fossil fuels to meat eating, countries asked the UN to remove key
climate recommendations.
'Really Fantastic': Europe's Largest Pension Fund
Announces Fossil Fuel Divestment
It's "a huge victory for the climate, human rights,
and all life on Earth," said one activist.
'Manchin Wasn't Done' Killing Climate Action: Coal Baron
Objects to Methane Fee. "If
Democrats want to avoid... midterm losses," said one critic, they can't
"bow to Joe Manchin's burn-the-planet demands."
Climate Movement Hails 'Mind-Blowing' $40 Trillion in
Fossil Fuel Divestment Pledges: "Institutions around the world must step
up now and commit to joining the divest-invest movement before it is too
late—for them, for the economy, and for the world."
Latest UN Climate Report Delivers 'Another Thundering
Wake-Up Call': "Climate change is no longer a future problem. It is a now
problem," said the UNEP executive director. "The clock is ticking
loudly."
Fox Weather Doesn’t Deny Climate Change. It Just Ignores
It. On its debut day, the new streaming
service treated climate as a separate issue, instead of acknowledging the way
global warming drives the severe weather it covers.
The Electric Vehicle Revolution Needs a Recycling
Revolution, Too: A well-regulated domestic program for recycling lithium
batteries could be the key to making renewable energy truly sustainable.
Yep, it’s bleak, says expert who tested 1970s
end-of-the-world prediction
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/25/gaya-herrington-mit-study-the-limits-to-growth
Beyond Growth: Gaya Branderhorst, argues that once we
start to open our minds to what new goal we can set for our economy, options
become limitless
https://www.weflive.com/story/e968fb0963974e1e8f6c636e5654cbc2
Five in Ten: Nancy Gillis, CEO of the Global Electronics
Council
Oleg Anisimov Current Research: Climate change at arctic
regions. Modeling of permafrost and
active layer. Projections of the
permafrost distribution and active-layer thickness under conditions of the
changing climate.
https://www.arcus.org/researchers/36741/display
The Climate Fight Will Seem Impossible—Until Its Sudden
Victory: Only persistence can bring sweeping change. But that sweeping change
sometimes comes sooner than you expect.
Exxon CEO accused of lying about climate science to congressional
panel: Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney likens oil company bosses’ responses to
those of tobacco industry at historic hearing
Ahead of COP 26, Worldwide Mobilizations Launched to
Demand Big Banks End Fossil Fuel Destruction
"The era of fossil fuels is over, and people are
rallying against fossil finance and those who run it."
The Battle Over the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Is
About More Than Just Oil: Drilling in the Arctic Refuge would have devastating
impacts on wildlife, beginning with caribou.
Ahead of COP26, Thousands Demand the U.S. Federal Reserve
Account for Climate Risk: At Federal Reserve and fossil banking giant branches
across the U.S., communities rise up in coordination with youth-led Fossil Free
Future global mobilization.
In NYC: Hundreds Call on Federal Reserve to Dump Powell,
Demand Citigroup Divest from Fossil Fuels
On the anniversary of Superstorm Sandy’s NYC landfall,
hundreds of New Yorkers marched from the Brooklyn Bridge and rallied at
Citigroup HQ and The NY Fed.
NYC actions were part of an ongoing global Day of Action,
with disruptions targeting financial institutions in 50 cities on six
continents.
Public Citizen Applauds Interior Department for
Considering Climate Change Impacts of Oil Drilling
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