Stopping Trade
Attacks on Climate Action
https://www.citizen.org/news/stopping-trade-attacks-on-climate-action/
Nopetro’s
Proposed Liquified Natural Gas Export Facility in Florida
https://www.citizen.org/news/nopetros-proposed-liquified-natural-gas-export-facility-in-florida/
New Campaign
Calls on Toyota to Build for Our Future: Public Citizen calls on Toyota to roll
out all EV line-up by 2030
https://www.citizen.org/news/new-campaign-calls-on-toyota-to-build-for-our-future/
‘God, don’t bite me again’: How two shark attacks in two
months changed everything at Lovers Point
The survivors, rescuers and those who make regular
pilgrimages here are left asking: When will it feel safe to get back in the
water?
Julia downgraded back to tropical storm, crosses
Nicaragua toward Pacific
Residents allowed to return to Florida island slammed by
Ian
Ozone Layer success versus Global Warming FAILURE! Why
the difference? - Oct 9, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FRgEclRXmU
New York and California Lead On Clean Cars
https://www.populist.com/28.18.Lingo.html
If You Want a Climate-Smart Dance, You Have to Pay the
Band
https://www.populist.com/28.18.Art%20Cullen.html
The Path Forward for Communities Like Lost Creek
https://www.populist.com/28.18.Conway.html
Democrats Are Screwing Up the Midterm Climate Message: In
a year full of climate disasters wrecking homes and lives, global warming ought
to be treated like the kitchen-table issue it is.
https://newrepublic.com/article/168028/democrats-screwing-midterm-climate-message
How Far Would You Go to Stop Climate Change? A landmark legal victory opens the door to direct
action.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/climate-activism-necessity-defense-legal-victory
Venezuela floods kill at least 25 after heavy rains
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/venezuela-landslides-kill-four-after-flooding-2022-10-09/
The Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act of 2021
(BFFPPA) builds on successful statewide laws across the U.S. and outlines
practical plastic reduction strategies to realize a healthier, more
sustainable, and more equitable future.
https://www.breakfreefromplastic.org/pollution-act/
S.984 - Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act of 2021. 03/25/2021 - Read twice and referred to the
Committee on Finance.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/984
Psychiatrists Raising Awareness About The Impacts Of
Climate Change On Mental Health
https://www.climatepsychiatry.org/
Browse our resource library to understand the health
impacts of air pollution and climate change. Our goal is to educate and empower
parents with knowledge. Our materials are vetted by top scientists and public
health experts.
https://www.momscleanairforce.org/resources/topic/plastics/
PA Health & Environment Studies Meeting - Oct 6, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lGi21Fsppo
Princeton Will Stop Taking Oil Money. Now the Pressure Is
on Harvard, MIT, and Columbia. Rich,
elite institutions should stop taking donations from the fossil fuel industry
immediately, to preserve the integrity of their climate research.
https://newrepublic.com/article/168099/princeton-fossil-fuels-harvard-mit-columbia
Leak detected in pipeline that brings Russian oil to
Germany
Florida and the Insurance Industry Weren’t Built to
Withstand a Flooded World: Hurricane Ian is highlighting the limits of the
insurance industry to help navigate the climate crisis.
https://newrepublic.com/article/168103/florida-flood-insurance-hurriane-ian
The Clean Water Act Is One of Our Greatest Laws—and the
Supreme Court’s Extremists Might Kill It.
New York Harbor has seals and whales today because of the Clean Water
Act. Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency could roll back a lot of that
progress.
https://newrepublic.com/article/168123/clean-water-act-sackett-epa
This Time Capsule of Famous Writers’ Unseen Work Will
Grow in Norway for a Century. What Does It Tell Us About the Anthropocene? Future Library’s books will be printed from
trees that are still growing, and no one alive will read them. It’s a metaphor
for the climate crisis.
https://newrepublic.com/article/168054/time-capsule-future-library-norway-climate
The Climate Crisis Is Driving
Poorer Nations to Desperate Measures: Heavily indebted nations’ threat to stop
payment on debts is a last-ditch effort to get rich countries to pay attention
to their plight.
https://newrepublic.com/article/168178/climate-crisis-debt-relief-maldives-v20
Biden: Release the Barrels! Oil Executives: Stop Making
Us Richer! The president’s response to
rising gas prices amounts to a subsidy to the fossil fuel industry, but for
some reason CEOs—and Republicans—are whining about it.
https://newrepublic.com/article/168257/biden-release-strategic-petroleum-oil-reserves
Magnitude 5.1 earthquake gives SF Bay Area a big shake
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/sf-bay-area-earthquake-shakes-17533662.php
As Winter Approaches, Fossil Fuel Exports Drive Up
Consumer Prices
https://www.citizen.org/news/as-winter-approaches-fossil-fuel-exports-drive-up-consumer-prices/
Methane Emergency - Oct 23, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9SMAZo0EGg
Climate Change Will Kill 810 Million Unless We Stop
Fossil Fuels Now - Oct 26, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWkA8K0np7A
Climate Reparations Really Aren’t That Radical—or Hard:
Examples of reparations paid throughout history show that making amends is much
more feasible than rich countries today would have us believe.
https://newrepublic.com/article/168297/climate-reparations-radical-john-kerry
Deadly mosquitoes have landed in the Bay Area. Here’s how
to defend yourself
People Are Dying From Petrochemical Plants: President
Biden, I am coming to D.C to honor the hundreds of lives that have been taken
from us due to the petrochemical and fossil fuel industry.
https://www.laprogressive.com/the-environment/people-are-dying-from-petrochemical-plants
Nukes Over Environmental Protection: Biodiversity a
Government Afterthought. As climate crises and biodiversity loss accelerate,
the Endangered Species Act is a far greater tool for preserving national
stability than a nuclear program.
https://www.laprogressive.com/climate-change-2/nukes-over-environmental-protection
Does Van Gogh Sometimes Need a Splash of Tomato
Soup? It is largely forgotten that Van
Gogh was a populist and a Marxist. Odds are, he would have approved of this
attempt to raise awareness of the climate crisis.
https://www.laprogressive.com/the-environment/does-van-gogh-sometimes-need-a-splash-of-tomato-soup
Fuel cell electric cars are powered by the most abundant
element in the universe: hydrogen. Although a fuel cell car runs on
electricity, it does so differently than battery-powered or plug-in hybrid
cars. In a fuel cell, hydrogen reacts electrochemically to produce electricity
to power the car.
https://driveclean.ca.gov/hydrogen-fuel-cell
How Germany's SUBSIDY WAR is BREAKING the European Union
and helping Russia? : Economic case study - Premiered Oct 29, 2022
Are Gas Stoves the New Cigarettes? A new study suggests that gas stoves are
poisoning people in more ways than even the experts knew. The question now is
whether the gas industry has been aware of this for years.
https://newrepublic.com/post/168317/gas-stoves-new-cigarettes-benzene-poisoning
The U.S. Is
Presenting a Bad, Distracting Plan at U.N. Climate Talks: Climate envoy John
Kerry has proposed relying on carbon credits to fund renewable energy in
developing countries. What that really means is that the U.S. doesn’t want to
pay up.
Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change,
2022
https://www.thelancet.com/infographics-do/cite-lancet-cite-countdown-health-and-climate-change-2022
The world is at a
critical juncture in its response to climate change
Water, water,
everywhere
https://www.edf.org/sites/default/files/documents/SOL_Fall%202022_FINAL.pdf
Offloading Climate Responsibility on Climate Change's
Victims: Climate change is a complex problem, but maybe there’s a simple
solution. What might that look like?
https://www.laprogressive.com/climate-change-2/climate-responsibility
International
climate summits are imperfect, but they have led to real progress.
Debt and
Inequality Will Be Key Issues at the UN’s Next Climate Conference: At COP27,
activists will be focused on all the ways developed nations have made it harder
for developing nations to survive the climate crisis.
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/cop-27-climate-change/
New desalination
plant approved by California Coastal Commission for Monterey Bay: Monterey
County facility would be built near Marina, faced opposition over high cost
In a First, Rich Countries
Agree to Pay for Climate Damages in Poor Nations: After 30 years of deadlock, a
new U.N. climate agreement aims to pay developing countries for loss and damage
caused by global warming. But huge questions remain about how it would work.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/19/climate/un-climate-damage-cop27.html
A Better
U.S.–China Relationship Is Good for the Planet: The resumption in climate talks
this week is a welcome sign for those serious about preventing climate
catastrophe.
https://newrepublic.com/article/168930/us-china-relationship-climate-change
The Racism, and
Resilience, Behind Today’s Salmon Crisis: Salmon have been endangered my entire
life. Here’s what I didn’t realize until I started reporting.
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-racism-and-resilience-behind-todays-salmon-crisis
GENE LYONS:
Snowbirds, and hurricanes, keep coming to Florida
Safe Tap Water Is
a Human Right: But from Michigan to Mississippi to Tribal communities in the
West, millions of Americans don't have it.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/05/safe-tap-water-human-right
Is the energy
transition taking off—or hitting a wall?
The requirement to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels represents the
biggest technical challenge humanity has ever faced
https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/is-the-energy-transition-taking-offor-hitting-a-wall
Will Climate Reparations Be
Enough? As nations converge at COP 27 in Egypt, a climate-driven crisis unfolds
in Nigeria and across Africa.
https://progressive.org/latest/will-climate-reparations-be-enough-ikoku-111122/
JESSE JACKSON: Some Politicians
Confuse Freedom with Irresponsibility
As Saudis stab
Biden in the Back with OPEC+ Oil Cut, Only Electric Vehicles can Make US
Independent
https://www.juancole.com/2022/10/electric-vehicles-independent.html
Climate and
Democracy in the Eye of the Storm
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/9/29/climate_and_democracy_in_the_eye
After Ian,
Florida can't rebuild the same oldway. It can learn a lesson and make it
better.
When Will the Victims
of Oil Companies’ Lies Get Their Day In Court?
It’s past time for the fossil fuel industry to face the same type of
courtroom reckoning the tobacco industry did in the late 1990s and Alex Jones
faced yesterday
https://hartmannreport.com/p/when-will-the-victims-of-oil-companies
Sometimes What a
Van Gogh Needs Is a Splash of Tomato Soup
https://rall.com/2022/10/18/sometimes-what-a-van-gogh-needs-is-a-splash-of-tomato-soup
How a Small Town
in Maine Stopped a Silver Mine. A
Canadian company planned to mine silver nearby, so town residents used Maine’s
“home rule” powers to ban industrial mining and protect their water.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/pembroke-maine-water-industrial-mining-ban
Journey to the
Doomsday Glacier: Thwaites could reshape the world’s coastlines. But how do you
study one of the world’s most inaccessible places?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11/28/journey-to-the-doomsday-glacier
An Alaskan Town
Is Losing Ground—and a Way of Life: For low-lying islands like Kivalina,
climate change poses an existential threat.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11/28/an-alaskan-town-is-losing-ground-and-a-way-of-life
THE BLADE RUNNERS
POWERING A WIND FARM: In West Virginia, a crew of five watches over
twenty-three giant turbines.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11/28/the-blade-runners-powering-a-wind-farm
An animated
series of drawings showing different effects of climate change. Annals of a
Warming Planet
Climate Change
from A to Z. The stories we tell
ourselves about the future.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11/28/climate-change-from-a-to-z
Giving Up on
Limiting Warming to 1.5 Degrees Celsius Is a Luxury Only the Rich Can Afford:
The growing consensus that two degrees Celsius wouldn’t be so bad could spell
doom for vulnerable communities.
https://newrepublic.com/article/169047/warming-two-degrees-celsius-climate
Al Gore at the
Opening of the #COP27 World Leaders Summit | UN Climate Change – About Nov 7,
2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLTcC7srnLw
Should
Governments Reinvest in Nuclear Power to Fight Climate Change? Jessica Lovering argues that nothing scales
up like nuclear, while Paul Hockenos says it is just too expensive and slow to
deploy.
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/nuclear-power-debate/
Effective
Altruism is trying to save the world from the robot apocalypse
https://qz.com/1666762/effective-altruism-is-trying-to-save-mankind-from-extinction
Alarming Losses of Animal Life
https://www.populist.com/28.20.Lingo.html
How to Pay for Climate Justice
When Polluters Have All the Money: The COP27 climate conference, in Egypt, was
in large part a global search for cash.
How the U.S. Abruptly Shifted
Decades of Climate Policy: In just 72 hours, the United States reversed course
on its long-standing opposition to establishing a fund for loss and damage.
https://newrepublic.com/article/169079/us-abruptly-shifted-decades-climate-policy
The Inconvenient Truth of
COP27: Despite new promises to pay for climate damages, the annual summit is
increasingly losing touch with reality.
https://progressive.org/latest/the-inconvenient-truth-of-cop27-goe%C3%9Fmann-231122/
U.S. May Face $15
Billion Penalty for Rejection of Keystone XL Pipeline
https://www.citizen.org/news/u-s-may-face-15-billion-penalty-for-rejection-of-keystone-xl-pipeline/
The World Took a
Bold, Toothless Step Forward on Climate Justice
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/23/opinion/environment/cop27-climate-decarbonization.html
Report Warns
Worst Yet To Come From Climate Change, But There's Time To Stop That – Nov 24,
2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa5IsfNAnIg
Marianne
Williamson interviews Steven Donziger – Nov 25, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq93mgeS9gE
Chris Hedges | We
are facing EXTINCTION... – Nov 25, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kueq97i0UIs
Soaring West
Virginia Electricity Prices Trigger Standoff Over the State’s Devotion to Coal
Power: West Virginia regulators accuse American Electric Power of driving up
costs with skimpy use of its coal plants. Others say the high costs of those
aging plants are a growing burden to citizens in one of the nation's poorest
states.
Who Were the
Worst Climate Polluters in the US in 2021?
The worst of the worst included a coal-fired power plant in Alabama, a
coal mine in Pennsylvania and a nylon plant in Florida, recent EPA data shows.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21112022/who-were-the-worst-climate-polluters-in-the-us-in-2021/
Confab That Rose
in the Egyptian Desert Was a Mirage: Amid fighting over croissants and climate,
the UN’s COP27 mirrored a world that can’t come together to break free of
fossil fuels and avoid a catastrophic future.
Indiana, Iowa,
Ohio and Wisconsin Lag on Environmental Justice Issues: Not surprisingly, those
with dedicated state EJ staff—namely Michigan and Minnesota— rank higher in
progress, according to a recent report.
How Should We
Think About the End of the World as We Know it?
“Yes, it’s a catastrophe,” Elizabeth Weil writes of climate change. “And
no, you would not be better off if you continued to tell yourself otherwise.”
‘A significant
severe-weather event will be likely’ this week, meteorologists say
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/27/weather/severe-storms-south-tornadoes-hail/index.html
“A Process of
Violence”: Indian Author Amitav Ghosh on How Colonialism Fueled the Climate
Crisis November 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzsGDZWJU88
Over 50 species
previously thought to be mute make sounds, according to a new study
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/13/world/talking-turtles-vertebrate-communication-scn-trnd
What sound does a
turtle make?
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/31/1132951238/what-sound-does-a-turtle-make
Building a
Healthier Planet
https://thehill.com/events/3747841-building-a-healthier-planet/
BlackRock’s Larry
Fink Shows Just How Ridiculous GOP Fearmongering About Sustainable Investing
Really Is: Fink won’t be abandoning fossil fuels anytime soon.
https://newrepublic.com/article/169255/blackrock-larry-fink-fossil-fuels
Fracking Company
to Pay for Public Water System in Rural Pennsylvania Town: Settlement of
criminal charges may resolve water contamination after more than a decade.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30112022/fracking-pennslyvania-settlement-shapiro/
Pakistan Demands
Debt Cancellation and Climate Justice: Activists point to state infrastructure
projects, noting development often takes place on agricultural or ecologically
sensitive land, adding to future crises.
https://www.laprogressive.com/climate-change-2/pakistan-demands-debt-cancellation
The Promise and
the Politics of Rewilding India: Ecologists are trying to undo environmental
damage in rain forests, deserts, and cities. Can their efforts succeed even as
Narendra Modi pushes for rapid development?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/12/19/the-promise-and-the-politics-of-rewilding-india
Is nuclear fusion
the answer? The race is on to build
fusion reactors that would provide limitless energy without nuclear waste or
carbon emissions
https://theweek.com/business/973971/is-nuclear-fusion-the-answer
The Nuclear
Fusion Breakthrough Is Great, Late, and Will Anger Nuclear Fission Fans: One
day, nuclear fusion could offer an abundant source of clean energy. But we’re
not there yet.
https://newrepublic.com/article/169504/nuclear-fusion-breakthrough-climate-change
USDA Accepts
Applications for Rural Energy for America Program: USDA Rural Development sent
this bulletin at 12/16/2022 03:28 PM EST
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDARD/bulletins/33d8c28
This Year’s Big
Breakthroughs on Climate: It wasn’t all doom and gloom in 2022.
https://newrepublic.com/post/169547/years-big-breakthroughs-climate
Pennsylvania
lifts ban on gas production in polluted village
Factbox:
Biodiversity finance options grow, but pace of investment still slow
Hot Earth Truth:
Jane Goodall On Chimps, Conservation And Runaway Capitalism | Summit Series –
Dec 14, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXqVOVEW1iM&t=483s
Volcanoes: The
big eruptions past and present
https://www.times-standard.com/2022/12/17/lori-dengler-the-big-eruptions-past-and-present/
Populist Climate
Crisis Reaction: Fighting Oppression of Few vs the Many: The harm caused by the
crisis, and the irreversible harms the tipping points promise, are cause for a
populist backlash against the oppression of many by a few.
https://www.laprogressive.com/climate-change-2/populist-climate-crisis-reaction
The United
Nations' biodiversity conference just reached a major conservation deal
Meet the former
Biden Advisor Using “Climate Advocacy” as a Trojan Horse for Corporate
Interests
Don’t be fooled
by her green-sounding credentials - Heather Zichal is a revolver for hire.
Humboldt County
earthquake: Power still out for thousands, boil advisories in effect. Governor, sheriff declare states of
emergency; PG&E restores electricity to more than half of customers
affected by magnitude 6.4 temblor
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