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EcoUnionist News #91
Submitted by x344543 on Sun, 02/14/2016 - 11:32
Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, February 15, 2016
The following news items feature issues, discussions, campaigns, or information potentially relevant to green unionists:
Lead Stories:
- What the media hides about China’s economic slowdown: Greed has corporate elites turning blind eye to nation’s environmental destruction - By Bob Hennelly, Salon, February 10, 2016
- How Industry and Regulators Kept Public in the Dark After 2014 LNG Explosion in Washington - By Tarika Powell, Sightline Daily, February 8, 2016
- Organic Agriculture, Capitalism and the Parallel World of the Pro-GMO Evangelist - By Colin Todhunter, CounterPunch, February 8, 2016
- Newsletter: Global Solidarity Is Rising - By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance, February 7, 2016
- Why the oil industry could be a stain on economic recovery in US - By Jana Kasperkevic, The Guardian, February 7, 2016
Ongoing Mobilizations:
- Appalachia Resist: Regional Action Camp for Social & Environmental Justice - March 18-21
- Break Free 2016 - May 2016 |
- Convergence In Support of Eco-Prisoners & Against Toxic Prisons - June 11 – 13, 2016
- Cove Point Spring Break - March 6-14
- Flush the TPP - Spring 2016 | #FlushtheTPP
- 2016 Labor Notes Conference - April 1-4, 2016
- Railcon15 - Next Conference TBA | #Railcon15
The Thin Green Line:
- Coal Money Divides Oakland's Churches - By Darwin BondGraham, East Bay Express, February 10, 2016
- Hundreds urge Planning Commission to deny Phillips 66′s dangerous oil train proposal - By Elly Benson, Sierra Club Yodeler, February 8, 2016
- Broad Coalition in San Luis Obispo Blasts Tar Sands Invasion - By Paul W. Rea, Sunflower Alliance, February 7, 2016
- Here are all the Northwest cities, governments and organizations that oppose oil trains - By Nick Abraham, Oil Check, January 28, 2016
Just Transition:
- Solar Net Metering Challenge In Maine - By Glenn Meyers, Clean Technica, February 12, 2016
- Good Policy Gone Bad: How Nevada Killed Jobs And Clean Energy Competition - By Jim Marston, Environmental Defense Fund, February 11, 2016
- 75,000 Solar Jobs In California, Says New Report - By Jake Richardson, Clean Technica, February 11, 2016
- California And Massachusetts Lead U.S. Solar Boom - By Alejandro Davila Fragoso, Think Progress, February 10, 2016
- States See Robust Solar Job Growth, But Are Those Jobs Secure? - By Julia Pyper, Green Tech Media, February 10, 2016
- Farmers, community and enviro groups rally at Vic Parliament: Call for gasfield ban & renewables ambition - By Leigh Ewbank, Yes2Renewables, February 9, 2016
- Residents fight for economic and environmental justice in one Illinois town - By Raven Rakia, Grist, February 9, 2016
- Social partners and the collaborative approach are key to the green transition of the Ruhr region - By Béla Galgóczi, European Trade Union Institute, February 9, 2016
- Switching on to energy democracy - By Claire Fauset, New Internationalist, February 9, 2016
- Brooklyn Youth Create Jobs (and Community Roots) Through Local Compost Program - By Rebecca Nathanson, Yes! Magazine, February 5, 2016
Bread and Roses:
- MST: We are entering a new period of class struggle - By MST National Coordination, La Via Campesina, February 12, 2016
- California Farmers Irrigate Crops With Chevron’s Oil Wastewater in Drought-Stricken Central Valley - By Cole Mellino, EcoWatch, February 10, 2016
- Jail term for villagers opposing Bolloré/Socfin’s palm oil plantations in Sierra Leone as trial of French journalists starts in Paris - By Joseph Rahall, et. al., World Rainforest Movement, February 10, 2016
- Coffee Farmers Sue Monsanto for Hiding Cancer-Causing Impact of Glyphosate - By Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch, February 9, 2016
- A real system change has to come from below, says Paula Gioia, the European Youth ICC member of La Via Campesina - By Den Haag, La Via Campesina, February 9, 2016
- Breaking the system designed to keep tea workers poor - By Sabita Banerji, New Internationalist, February 8, 2016
- Farm defenders halt construction at the Gill Tract a second time - By Occupy the Farm, IndyBay, February 8, 2016
- Hot off the press!… - By Staff, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, February 8, 2016
- Local Farmworkers Disrupt Costco Shareholders Meeting - By Káráni, Káráni, February 8, 2016
- Weekend of Farmworker Solidarity in California and Washington - By Staff, Boycott Sakuma Berries, February 8, 2016
- Environmental racism in the “leftmost city” - By esewra, Santa Cruz Ecological Justice, January 27, 2016
An Injury to One is an Injury to All:
- Residents Of South Baltimore To Sue Over Incinerator - By United Workers, Popular Resistance, February 11, 2016
- Scientists from 60 Countries Condemn Cuts To Vital Climate Research at Australia's CSIRO Agency - By Graham Readfearn, DeSmog Blog, February 11, 2016
- Uber is not the answer to Winnipeg's transport woes - By Scott Price, Rabble.Ca, February 11, 2016
- MBTA union lashes out at outsourcing plan - By Andy Metzger, Milford Daily News, February 10, 2016
- A new and more dangerous Sagebrush Rebellion - By Jonathan Thompson, High Country News, February 10, 2016
- NJ Transit, Rail Unions on Collision Course Toward Possible Strike - By Kate Hinds, WNYC, February 10, 2016
- Energy giant CNRL derails full public inquiry into foreign workers' deaths - By Terry Reith, CBC News, February 9, 2016
- Hope fades for three gold miners trapped underground in South Africa - By Cecilia Jamasmie, Mining.Com, February 9, 2016
- Indonesia sends team of experts as worker still trapped at Newcrest mine - By Cecilia Jamasmie, Mining.Com, February 9, 2016
- Masked workers protest in oil city Aberdeen for safety offshore - By Raymie Kiernan, Socialist Worker (UK), February 9, 2016
- Rubbish collections cancelled as bin men strike over suspension of colleague - By Simon Gilbert, Coventry Telegraph, February 9, 2016
- Tube stations dispute called off, but workers didn’t get a say - By Raymie Kiernan, Socialist Worker (UK), February 9, 2016
- 2 hurt in Ohio train derailment - By Staff, Fox News, February 9, 2016
- Tesoro, United Steelworks reach $8 million settlement in dispute over bonuses - By Sergio Chapa, San Antonia Business Journal, February 8, 2016
- USW Oil Workers Join Global Health and Safety Discussions - By Staff, United Steelworkers, February 8, 2016
- 2 killed, 8 injured in fire on Mexico offshore oil platform - By Associated Press, FuelFix, February 7, 2016
- BLET petitions FRA for immediate halt to LEADER, Trip Optimizer technology - By Staff, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, February 5, 2016
- NJ Transit, unions preparing for possible March strike that would shut down train service - By Christopher Maag, NorthJersey.Com, February 5, 2016
- Union will file grievance against Come By Chance refinery - By Barbara Dean-Simmons, The Packet, February 4, 2016
Greenwashers:
- Governor Jerry Brown Receives Cold, Dead Fish Award Four Years In A Row - By Dan Bacher, CounterPunch, February 12, 2016
- Another 19 carbon credit boiler room scams bite the dust. Including (not before time) Carbon Neutral Investments - By Chris Lang, REDD Monitor, February 11, 2016
- Survival International accuses WWF of involvement in violence and abuse - By Staff, Survival International, February 10, 2016
- Why the Paris Agreement will fail: the living Earth cannot be reduced to tonnes of carbon - By Camila Moreno, Daniel Speich Chassé, and Lili Fuhr, The Ecologist, February 10, 2016
Whistleblowers:
- Whistleblowers once again request investigation of fraud at LANL - By Staff, La Jicarita, February 8, 2016
- TransCanada dismissed whistleblower. Then their pipeline blew up - By Mike De Souza, National Observer, February 5, 2016
Disaster Capitalism:
- Flint: A Tale of Two Cities - By Bruce Lesnick, CounterPunch, February 11, 2016
- The ugly secrets that Flint revealed - By Dorian Bon, Socialist Worker, February 11, 2016
- Former Flint Mayor Comes Clean About The Water Crisis - By Bryce Covert, Think Progress, February 10, 2016
- Flint – No More Sacrifices For the Rich! - By Staff, Speak Out Now, February 9, 2016
- Flint—the poisoning of a US city - By Alistair Farrow, Socialist Worker (UK), February 9, 2016
- Welcome to the United States of Flint: A Coast-to-Coast Toxic Crisis - By David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz, TruthOut, February 9, 2016
- Water War Against the Poor: Flint and the Crimes of Capital - By Mumia Abu-Jamal, CounterPunch, February 8, 2016
- America’s Lead Poisoning Problem Is Everywhere - By Cole Mellino, EcoWatch, February 6, 2016
- Flint Whistleblowers Who Exposed Their Poisoned Water: We're Just Getting Started - By Larry Gabriel, Yes! Magazine, February 2, 2016
- Greens And Unions Worried EPA Isn’t Getting Enough Cash After Flint Scandal - By Andrew Follett, The Daily Caller, January 29, 2016
Carbon Bubble:
- OK Tedi Mine to lay off 200 employees - By One PNG, Papua New Guinea Mine Watch, February 12, 2016
- Rig count tumbles again - By Joshua Cain, FuelFix, February 12, 2016
- Tar Sands Companies “Selling Crown Jewels” to Survive - By Andy Rowell, Oil Change International, February 12, 2016
- 3 reasons why an OPEC production cut is unlikely - By Matt Smith, FuelFix, February 12, 2016
- Can the U.S. escape the slump? - By Lee Sustar, Socialist Worker, February 11, 2016
- Coal reality: Global energy transition occurring faster than expected - By Tim Buckley, REnew Economy, February 11, 2016
- Oil under pressure from rising oil and product inventories, credit crunch - By Matt Smith, FuelFix, February 11, 2016
- Peabody Energy’s Financial Death Spiral - By Clark Williams-Derry, Sightline Daily, February 11, 2016
- U.S. crude falls to 12-year low - By Bloomberg, FuelFix, February 11, 2016
- Australian super funds lose $5.6 billion on fossil fuel investments - By Julien Vincent, REnew Economy, February 10, 2016
- Is Oil Industry’s $1.6 Trillion Debt Bubble Going to Burst? - By Andy Rowell, Oil Change International, February 10, 2016
- EIA: Oil to average $38 as stock builds outpace production - By Collin Eaton, FuelFix, February 9, 2016
- Geopolitical impact of oil’s drop shows why there’s no end in sight - By Isabelle Chaboud, The Conversation, February 9, 2016
- IEA: Oil glut could still grow in second half of 2016 - By Collin Eaton, FuelFix, February 9, 2016
- More tariffs won’t save steel jobs - By Staff, Socialist Worker (UK), February 9, 2016
- Oil majors peddle false reassurance on energy demand - By Tom Burke, Climate Change News, February 9, 2016
- Unconventional Oil: A Bad Investment - By Sage Grouse Rebel, Canyon Country Rising Tide, February 9, 2016
- Is Australian coal finally having its “oh sh*t” moment? - By Sophie Vorrath, REnew Economy, February 8, 2016
- World’s largest energy trader sees a decade of low oil prices - By Bloomberg, FuelFix, February 8, 2016
- Bankrupt Alpha Natural Resources lays off over 230 coal miners - By Cecilia Jamasmie, Mining.Com, February 7, 2016
- Terra Verde [audio] - By Antonia Juhasz, KPFA FM, February 5, 2016
The Man Behind the Curtain:
- California Oil Lobby Spent a Record $22 Million in 2015 - By Dan Bacher, East Bay Express, February 11, 2016
- 8 Realities in California Governor Brown Doesn’t Want You to Know - By Linda Capato, 350.Org, February 10, 2016
- Is Intel Fighting To Keep Oregon Hooked On Coal? - By Nick Abraham, Oil Check Oregon, February 9, 2016
Wobbles:
- Not the State of the Nation Address - By Staff, NUMSA, February 10, 2016
- Workers occupy ILVA steel plant in Genoa - By Staff, Struggles in Italy, January 26, 2016
Other News:
- I Didn’t Want to Go to #COP21 and/or Finding My Purpose in Paris - By Jihan, Navigating Contradictions, February 10, 2016
- Laborers' Union training apprentices to replace Flint's lead service lines - By Andrew Moore, NBC TV 25, February 10, 2016
- Elevated Tritium Levels Found in Indian Point Nuclear Plant Groundwater - By Staff, Power Engineering, February 8, 2016
- Learning from the life of Murray Bookchin - By Eirik Eiglad, ROARMag, February 5, 2016
- Noam Chomsky Super Bowl Special & Cam Newton: The Bridge to Somewhere - By Dave Zirin, Edge of Sports, February 3, 2016
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