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EcoUnionist News #25
Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, January 26, 2015
Disclaimer: The views expressed here are not the official position of the IWW (or even the IWW’s EUC) and do not necessarily represent the views of anyone but the author’s.
The following news items feature issues, discussions, campaigns, or information potentially relevant to green unionists:
Lead Stories:
- The Agents of Unregulated Globalization vs. the Agents of the Fight against Climate Change - By Jeanette Bonifaz, Center for Economic and Policy Research, January 9, 2015
Crude by Rail:
- CSX reports record fourth quarter results - Trains [paywall alert], January 21, 2015
- Federal Court Order: Explosive DOT-111 "Bomb Train" Oil Tank Cars Can Continue to Roll - By Steve Horn, DeSmog Blog, January 23, 2015
- Interim Settlement Reached in Lac Megantic Oil Train Disaster, but Culprits Say "It Wasn't Us" - By Roger Annis, Truthout, January 22, 2015
Carbon Bubble:
- Alberta One Of Hardest Hit By Lower Oil Prices - By Andy Tully, OilPrice.Com, January 20, 2015
- Baker Hughes to lay off 7,000 - By Jennifer Hiller, FuelFix, January 20, 2015
- BHP to cut 40 percent of its U.S. shale drilling - By Jennifer Hiller, FuelFix, January 21, 2015
- Halliburton suggests North American layoffs could come - By Jennifer Hiller, FuelFix, January 20, 2015
Green Jobs and Just Transition:
- A Boom in Solar Jobs - By Rick Cohen, Nonprofit Quarterly, January 22, 2015
- In US, There Are Twice as Many Solar Workers as Coal Miners - By Kirsten Korosec, Fortune, January 17, 2015
Other News of Interest:
- Brazilian Workers, Students Battle Fare Hikes Pushed By Workers Party - By Steve Payne, In These Times, January 22, 2015
- Building Bridges with MST - By La Via Campesina South Asia, La Via Campesina, January 20, 2015
- Elizabeth Mpofu speaks before 50,000 people at the “we are fed up” demonstration - La Via Campesina, January 21, 2015
- Kosovo miners return from underground, ending 3-day strike - By Andrew Topf, Mining.Com, January 26, 2015
- 150-foot span of Willits Bypass collapses into Haehl Creek; Several workers injured - By Adrian Baumann and Michael Mott, Willits News, January 22, 2015
- Oil And Gas Production Is Exposing Californians To At Least 15 Different Kinds Of Pollutants - By Katie Valentine, Think Progress, January 22, 2015
- Outside Senators’ Clean Water Act proposal threatens Bristol Bay salmon, culture, jobs - By Tim Bristol, Save Bristol Bay, January 22, 2015
- Report faults Chevron - By D Ross Cameron, Contra Costa Times, January 24, 2015
- Scientists and Doctors Sound Alarm Over Health Dangers of Oil Spill Dispersants - By Dahr Jamail, Truthout, January 20, 2015
- Stop the Free Trade Agreements [brochure] - La Via Campesina, January 20, 2015
- U.S. refinery workers, oil firms start talks for new contract - By Erwin Seba, Reuters, January 21, 2015
- Via Campesina solidarity visit to Douro small wine growers - By La Via Campesina News Team, La Via Campesina, January 20, 2015
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