Sunday, April 10, 2022

Ecology and Pollution and Climate Change related links 041122


Women in Energy Make a Powerful Case for Inclusion

https://www.laprogressive.com/women-in-energy/

 

Warnings from the Poles: Warning signs from both the Arctic and the Antarctic tell us that we must take urgent action to stop the use of fossil fuels and to replace these energy sources with renewable energy.

https://hollywoodprogressive.com/literature/warnings-from-the-poles

 

With Prices This High at the Pump, Shouldn’t We Move Away From Fossil Fuels?

https://www.laprogressive.com/with-prices-this-high/

 

Should Biden Really Be Begging Saudi Arabia and Venezuela for Oil?  In the short term, there may be little choice in the matter. But it’s bad environmentally—and politically, if they don’t budge.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165720/biden-begs-saudi-arabia-venezuela-oil

 

The Oil Crisis Is Making Fossil Fuel Executives Cocky and Vengeful: At the annual CERAWeek conference, CEOs from companies like Tellurian and Shell argued they should have a bigger seat at the table.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165725/ukraine-tellurian-sheffield-ceraweek

 

The Death of Nature & the War On Ukraine are Part of the Same Thing: If we don’t start listening to our screaming planet, Covid and Ukraine may be the least of our worries

https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-death-of-nature-and-the-war-on

 

Sarah Bloom Raskin Withdraws Her Nomination to the Federal Reserve Board: Biden’s nominee had publicly encouraged measures to mitigate climate change, including a transition to cleaner energy, which triggered a backlash from America’s powerful oil, gas, and coal industries.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/sarah-bloom-raskin-withdraws-her-nomination-to-the-federal-reserve-board

 

Fossil-Fuel Companies Are Stonewalling Sarah Bloom Raskin’s Fed Nomination: The industry has donated generously to the campaigns of all twelve Republican members of the Senate Banking Committee.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-fossil-fuel-companies-are-stonewalling-sarah-bloom-raskins-nomination-to-the-fed

 

Why Joe Manchin Sank Sarah Bloom Raskin’s Nomination: Speaking at a conference of oil and gas executives last week, Senator Manchin outlined his views on fossil fuels and politics.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165746/joe-manchin-sank-sarah-bloom-raskins-nomination

 

Sarah Bloom Raskin: A Casualty of Our Refusal to Confront Climate Change

https://www.populist.com/28.07.Polman.html

 

NowThis was live.  Join Rep. Jason Crow (CO-06), Rep. Tom Malinowski (NJ-07), former Assistant Secretary of Defense Sharon Burke, former Assistant Secretary of the Navy Admiral Dennis McGinn, and more foreign policy experts for a Climate Power, Foreign Policy for America, and League of Conservation Voters (LCV) event on clean energy and national security.

https://www.facebook.com/NowThisNews/

 

An Act amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929, providing for emergency COVID-19 provisions.

https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/billinfo.cfm?syear=2019&sind=0&body=S&type=B&bn=1135

 

Providing for funding to address habitability concerns in owner-occupied and rental units, measures to improve energy or water efficiency and make units accessible for individuals with disabilities; stablishing the Whole-Home Repairs Program and the Whole-Home Repairs Fund; and imposing duties on the Department of Community and Economic Development.

https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/PN/Public/btCheck.cfm?txtType=PDF&sessYr=2021&sessInd=0&billBody=S&billTyp=B&billNbr=1135&pn=1474

 

JOLINE PRICE, Supervising Attorney, Community Legal Services

https://clsphila.org/cls-staff/joline-price/

 

KINTÉSHIA SCOTT, Staff Attorney, Community Legal Services

https://clsphila.org/cls-staff/kinteshia-scott/

 

AFFORDABLE UTILITIES

https://clsphila.org/services/utility-bills/

 

City Launches Environmental Justice Advisory Commission

https://www.phila.gov/2022-02-02-city-launches-environmental-justice-advisory-commission/

 

To reduce carbon emissions from buildings, the City of New York enacted Local Law 97 (LL97) in 2019 as a part of the Climate Mobilization Act. This leading-edge law places carbon caps on most buildings larger than 25,000 square feet—roughly 50,000 residential and commercial properties across NYC.

https://www.urbangreencouncil.org/content/projects/all-about-local-law-97

 

From Neighborhood Energy Centers (NEC)  where you could go for utility assistance, to free workshops for Philly residents. Community Programs is here to assist your community!

https://www.ecasavesenergy.org/community-programs

 

PUT YOUR ROOF TO WORK: AFFORDABLE SOLAR, ROOFING, AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY SOLUTIONS

https://www.posigen.com/

 

This Federally Owned Public Utility Company Is Run by a Former Fossil Fuel Executive Who Makes $10 Million: The Tennessee Valley Authority could be leading the country toward renewables. Instead, it gets huge chunks of its power generation from coal and methane.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165744/tennessee-valley-authority-lyash

 

Manchin's Coal Corruption Is So Much Worse Than You Knew: The senator from West Virginia is bought and paid for by Big Coal. With his help the dying industry is pulling one final heist — and the entire planet may pay the price

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/joe-manchin-big-coal-west-virginia-1280922/

 

In a World on Fire, Stop Burning Things: The truth is new and counterintuitive: we have the technology necessary to rapidly ditch fossil fuels.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/in-a-world-on-fire-stop-burning-things

 

The consequences of Russia's war on energy security

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpvGMbI7y1c

 

A New Study Has Identified a Dominant Force Driving Evolution on Earth Today

https://www-sciencealert-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.sciencealert.com/we-humans-are-now-a-dominant-force-driving-evolution-on-earth/amp

 

The Fight in Washington Over the Fed’s Climate Policy Is Just Heating Up: Sarah Bloom Raskin won’t be joining the central bank, thanks to Joe Manchin and the GOP. But the pressure on Fed Chair Jerome Powell from Democrats and climate activists will only grow.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165779/federal-reserve-sarah-raskin-climate-policy-war

 

The Plastics Industry Says It Has a Clever Solution to the Plastics Crisis: Critics call it just some more greenwashing.

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2022/03/weve-got-a-plastic-problem-will-chemical-recycling-solve-it/

 

The Bloody Secret Behind Lab-Grown Meat: Maybe we can’t have our steak and eat it guilt-free, too.

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2022/03/lab-meat-fetal-bovine-serum-blood-slaughter-cultured/

 

Reducing Our Reliance on Oil Will Increase Our Quality of Life: Walkable cities, e-bikes, and clean air: What’s not to love?

https://newrepublic.com/article/165832/oil-gas-lima-bogota

 

Big Oil in the Mackinac Straits Is a Disaster Waiting to Happen: And recognizing Native American sovereignty—giving the tribes sworn to protect the waters a place in the negotiations determining their fate—is the best way to prevent it.

https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/mackinac-straits-tribal-sovereignty/

 

A Maddening Sound: Is the Hum, a mysterious noise heard around the world, science or mass delusion?

https://newrepublic.com/article/132128/maddening-sound

 

The Global Seafood Supply is Being Contaminated by Microplastics, But No Major News Outlet Has Paid Any Attention: Our addiction to plastic is having negative effects all along the food chain.

https://www.populist.com/28.06.Roth.html

 

Change That Matters

https://www.creators.com/read/jim-hightower/03/22/change-that-matters

 

Jim Hightower: An indigenous idea

https://magicvalley.com/opinion/columnists/jim-hightower-an-indigenous-idea/article_9770f0c0-af7b-58e9-a14c-ff842c180dff.html

 

The Earth Loses All Wars

https://www.populist.com/28.06.Lingo.html

 

Can We Talk About Survival of the Planet?

https://www.populist.com/28.06.McMillen.html

 

Reducing Oil Prices Without Ruining the Environment: Pay People Not to Drive

https://cepr.net/reducing-oil-prices-without-ruining-the-environment-pay-people-not-to-drive/

 

UN Climate Panel: 50% of Species have fled toward Poles, as Extinctions and Food and Water Shortages Burgeon

https://www.juancole.com/2022/03/extinctions-shortages-burgeon.html

 

The World is NOT on Track with Climate Change (w/ Collin Rees) - Mar 26, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1yOu8eEAqw

 

Misinformation is derailing renewable energy projects across the United States

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/28/1086790531/renewable-energy-projects-wind-energy-solar-energy-climate-change-misinformation

 

Glaring Emissions: Linking Rapid Population Growth and Climate Change.  Presentation with Population Connection President and CEO, John Seager

https://populationconnection.org/virtual-events/glaring-emissions/

 

Glaring Emissions: Linking Rapid Population Growth and Climate Change - Feb 24, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGNqMFo3D8M&t=990s

 

We’re celebrating Earth Day all month long with engaging webinars, a panel discussion, and an on-demand film screening. You’re invited to join us!

https://populationconnection.org/virtual-events/earth-day-2022/

 

High Stakes on the Hill: Federal Budget Process Drags On, and Supreme Court Considers Overturning Roe

https://populationconnection.org/article/washington-view-march-2022/

 

Poverty and child welfare: Information about poverty, its effects on children and families, and the role it plays in child welfare involvement.

https://oacas.libguides.com/c.php?g=702168&p=4992460

 

Household size and poverty

http://www.ecineq.org/ecineq_nyc17/FILESx2017/CR2/p243.pdf

 

Democrats blast oil execs for skipping hearing on gas prices

https://www.axios.com/fossil-fuel-ceos-grijalva-hearing-gas-prices-148b3756-bc96-459c-894f-53eff14327ef.html

 

Tracking Devices Reveal Where Recycling Really Goes - Mar 29, 2022 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmGrI_BVlnc

 

Cash from trash: could it clean up the world? | The Economist - Mar 29, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PYYadvwkOo

 

“The Nation” on Drugs: Our special issue considers the casualties of the War on Drugs, as well as the unprecedented opportunities to make amends.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/nation-drugs/

 

Is Ecofeminism Due for a Comeback?  It’s out of fashion in the United States. But activists from India to Ecuador show how feminist environmentalism could be used to build solidarity in the face of the climate crisis.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165926/ecofeminism-climate-crisis

 

This crow seems convinced he's a tiny human - Feb 15, 2022 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9epnUBQHXI

 

We’re Out of Our Trees

https://www.populist.com/28.07.Lingo.html

 

Choose Your Bullies Wisely

https://www.populist.com/28.07.McMIllen.html

 

Dispatches: OIL PRICES DOWN, GAS PRICES UP — BIG OIL GETS A PASS; POLL SHOWS 80% OF US VOTERS SUPPORT WINDFALL PROFITS TAX ON BIG OIL; CFPB GETS BILLIONS IN MEDICAL DEBT WIPED FROM CREDIT REPORTS; TRUMP AIDE REPORTEDLY AUTHORED REPORT THAT ANCHORED TRUMP ELECTION FRAUD LIES; SOLDIERS DEPLOYED FOR ABBOTT’S BORDER STUNT WERE SENT TO  RANCHES OWNED BY RICH TEXANS; GOP ATTACKS TRANSGENDER YOUTH FROM EVERY POSSIBLE ANGLE; and SENATORIAL SPEECHES AT BEGINNING OF SUPREME COURT NOMINATION HEARINGS SHOULD BE CANNED

https://www.populist.com/28.07.Dispatches.html

 

FROMA HARROP: Has Ukraine made us hit bottom on our addiction to oil?

https://www.bakersfield.com/opinion/froma-harrop-has-ukraine-made-us-hit-bottom-on-our-addiction-to-oil/article_ccb57cae-a569-11ec-8cd3-c756056bb395.html

 

Coming War for US Crop Acres Renews Food-vs.-Fuel Fight

https://www.populist.com/28.07.Guebert.html

 

Fossil Fuels Cause Global Crises, Don’t Fix Them: To enhance domestic, European, and global security, it’s time to aggressively promote energy efficiency and conservation while quickly deploying renewable energy and moving off fossil fuels.

https://www.populist.com/28.07.Hauter.html

 

If High Gas Prices Are So Painful, Shouldn’t We Move Away From Fossil Fuels?

https://www.pressenza.com/2022/03/if-high-gas-prices-are-so-painful-shouldnt-we-move-away-from-fossil-fuels/

 

Gas price coverage gives Big Oil a pass

https://pressrun.media/p/hysterical-gas-price-coverage-gives?s=r

 

The Politics of Climate Risk Adaptation

https://www.populist.com/28.07.Guna.html

 

California’s Drought Worsens

https://www.populist.com/28.07.Sandronsky.html

 

Let’s not squander the miracle of Yellowstone: On the park’s 150th anniversary, a reflection on threats of ‘death by 1,000 scratches.’

https://wyofile.com/lets-not-squander-the-miracle-of-yellowstone/

 

Opinion: Biden heeded Republicans’ pleas to ban Russian oil. Then they pounced.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/09/biden-gas-prices-republicans-ukraine/

 

Republicans Say “Woke” Wall Street Is Boycotting Fossil Fuels. The Numbers Prove Otherwise.

State GOP lawmakers are pushing bills to blacklist financial institutions that make net-zero pledges, but a new report shows that banks’ promises don’t match their balance sheets.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165944/republican-blacklist-banks-fossil-fuel-divestment

 

Cut Out the Middlemen & Get Energy Straight from the Sun - Apr 4, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piBRGJw42NI

 

The Supreme Court Will Consider Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Be Afraid.  A challenge to the EPA’s regulation gives the right wing an opportunity to limit Congress’s capacity to authorize regulatory programs.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/04/03/the-supreme-court-will-consider-greenhouse-gas-emissions-be-afraid/

 

99% of the world’s population breathes poor-quality air, WHO says: Air quality is poorest in WHO's Eastern Mediterranean and Southeast Asia regions, followed by Africa, the health agency said.

https://www.inquirer.com/news/nation-world/air-quality-poor-world-health-organization-20220404.html

 

Pennsylvania House Asks: Could We Live Without Fossil Fuels? We Say: We Must.

https://www.pennfuture.org/Blog-Item-Pennsylvania-House-Asks-Could-We-Live-Without-Fossil-Fuels-We-Say-We-Must

 

IPCC report: ‘now or never’ if world is to stave off climate disaster.  Greenhouse gas emissions must peak by 2025, say climate scientists in what is in effect their final warning

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/04/ipcc-report-now-or-never-if-world-stave-off-climate-disaster

 

More than 800 solar projects in Bay states stuck waiting for review

https://www.bayjournal.com/news/climate_change/more-than-800-solar-projects-in-bay-states-stuck-waiting-for-review/article_71a4375a-af6a-11ec-9071-03d4665eb07b.html

 

Cruising over the Edge

https://secularhumanism.org/2022/04/cruising-over-the-edge/

 

Democrats Worried About Gas Prices Are Begging Oil Companies to Drill More: From a climate perspective, that’s suicidal. And from a political perspective, it’s ineffective.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166031/democrats-gas-prices-oil-companies-drilling

 

U.S. lawmakers slam Big Oil for high gasoline prices

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/big-oil-tell-congress-markets-not-companies-set-fuel-prices-testimony-2022-04-05/

 

This Decisive Decade Luiz Marquez - Apr 7, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-gHc25iDvg

 

Climate Crisis & Militarism

https://www.veteransforpeace.org/take-action/climatecrisis

 

The U.S. Military Emits More Carbon Dioxide Into the Atmosphere Than Entire Countries Like Denmark or Portugal: But no one knows exactly how much, because the Pentagon’s reporting is spotty. A Humvee gets between four and eight miles per gallon; an F-35 requires 2.37 gallons per mile.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18012022/military-carbon-emissions/

 

A Red Deal, Nick Estes, Jacobin Intro to the concept by a member of The Red Nation collective. 

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/08/red-deal-green-new-deal-ecosocialism-decolonization-indigenous-resistance-environment

 

People’s Agreement of Cochabamba (2010) Inspiration for the Red Deal. https://www.climateemergencyinstitute.com/uploads/Peoples_climate_agreement.pdf

 

Indigenous Resistance Has Cut U.S. and Canada’s Annual Emissions, Grist. Coverage of report by Indigenous Environmental Network. 

https://grist.org/protest/indigenous-resistance-has-cut-u-s-and-canadas-annual-emissions/

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