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EcoUnionist News #92
Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, February 22, 2016
The following news items feature issues, discussions, campaigns, or information potentially relevant to green unionists:
Lead Stories:
- Mountaintop removal country’s mental health crisis - By Clayton Aldern, Grist, February 17, 2016
- In Exchange For Cutting Benefits, This Bankrupt Coal Company Agreed To Pay Executives Millions - By Nicole Gentile, Think Progress, February 16, 2016
- The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa is appalled by the State of the Nation Address delivered by President Zuma on 11 February 2016 - By Irvin Jim, NUMSA, February 15, 2016
- Healthy Ground, Healthy Atmosphere: Recarbonizing the Earth's Soils - By Nancy Averett, Truthout, February 14, 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:
- Derailing Big Oil’s Plans for San Luis Obispo and Benicia - By Ethan Buckner, ForestEthics, February 18, 2016
- Coal Opponents Claim Small Victory at Oakland City Council - By Darwin BondGraham, East Bay Express, February 17, 2016; [related] New poll reveals that over 75 percent of Oakland voters oppose coal-export proposal - By Staff, Sierra Club Yodeler, February 17, 2016
- As Fossil Fuel Industry Staggers, a Massive Gas Pipeline Project Endures in Texas - By Dahr Jamail, Truthout, February 15, 2016
- Air pollution emergency announced, but these people fighting for solution face jail time - By Chris Court-Dobson, The Canary, February 13, 2016
Just Transition:
- Winter Newsletter - By Staff, Alliance for Appalachia, February 17, 2016
- Why 2016 will be the best year yet for climate justice - By Kari Malkki, Reuters, February 15, 2016
Bread and Roses:
- Climate Justice and Palestine: the New Intersectionality - By Alice Rothchild, CounterPunch, February 19, 2016
- Land and Ocean Grabs Not the Solution to Climate Change - By Salena Tramel, The World Post, February 19, 2016
- Monsant o's pride, Monsanto's fall: playing God with the Indian farmer - By Colin Todhunter, The Ecologist, February 19, 2016
- Familias Unidas takes Boycott to Washington, DC - By admin, Boycott Sakuma Berries, February 18, 2016
- Familias Unidas Attends PCC Board of Trustees Meeting in Seattle - By admin, Boycott Sakuma Berries, February 17, 2016
- US Farmers Allege Deception by Agrochemical Giant: The Case Against Syngenta - By Clara Herzberg, Truthout, February 17, 2016
- FAO should support seed selection by peasants and small scale farmers - By Guy Kastler, La Via Campesina, February 16, 2016
- Arms, agribusiness, finance and fossil fuels: the four horsemen of the neoliberal Apocalypse - By Colin Todhunter, The Ecologist, February 15, 2016
- Corporate vision of the future of food promoted at the UN - By Guy Kastler, et.al., La Via Campesina, February 15, 2016
- European dairy farmers facing an untenable situation since 2014 - By Jose–Miguel Pacheco and Genevieve Savigny, La Via Campesina, February 15, 2016
- FAO Symposium on Biotechnology: The biotechnology industry runs the show - By Various, La Via Campesina, February 15, 2016
- Opinion: Women farmers in Europe - By Hanny van Geel, Agricultures, December 2015
- Peasant women power in Mozambique - By Boaventura Monjane, Agricultures, December 2015
An Injury to One is an Injury to All:
- Battle Lines Are Drawn as Congress Reforms the 40-Year-Old Toxic Substances Control Act - By Reynard Loki, Alternet, February 18, 2016
- CP Rail acted in bad faith when firing this conductor after Banff derailment: arbitrator - By Reid Southwick, Calgary Herald, February 18, 2016
- So, is Don Blankenship ‘hardly a criminal’? - By Ken Ward Jr, Charleston Gazette, February 18, 2016
- USW, Mexican Miners’ Union Accuse Asarco, Parent Firm of Rights Violations - By Ben Davis, United Steelworkers, February 18, 2016
- Global Union Coalition Expresses Solidarity, Support for Local 235A - By Staff, United Steelworkers, February 17, 2016
- Plant Shutdown Threatens Pennsylvania Town's Water Supply - By Arthur Delaney, Huffington Post, February 17, 2016
- Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU), Local 241, Executive Board Member and Union Steward Fired by CTA for Enforcing Union Contract - By ATU Local 241, Transport Workers Solidarity Committee, February 16, 2016
- NUMSA message on the Lily mine disaster - By Irvin Jim, NUMSA, February 16, 2016
- Dozens of Australian building sites contaminated by illegal Chinese asbestos imports, authorities say - By Angelique Donnellan, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, February 15, 2016
Greenwashers:
- Groups Say Secretary Moniz Won't Protect Porter Ranch - By Dan Bacher, Daily Kos, February 17, 2016
- Carbonballs: How Carbon Neutral Investments made Newcastle United “carbon positive” - By Chris Lang, REDD-Monitor, February 16, 2016
Whistleblowers:
- New federal artificial turf study will lead to more questions - By Kirsten Stade, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, February 16, 2016
Disaster Capitalism:
- "Thirsty for Democracy: The Poisoning of an American City": Complete Democracy Now! Special on Flint - By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now, February 17, 2016; [related] As They Drank Contaminated Water, Flint Residents Were Charged The Highest Water Rates In The Country - By Bryce Covert, Think Progress, February 17, 2016
Carbon Bubble:
- Oil and gas producers ‘in distress’ as low oil price pain continues - By David Hellier, The Guardian, February 20, 2016
- As oil prices drop, equipment theft climbs - By Bryce Gray, High Country News, February 19, 2016
- Getting Real About Oil Prices and Impacts on Oil Pipelines - By Howard Learner, Environmental Law & Policy Center, February 19, 2016
- How low for how long? The fall (and rise?) of the loonie - By Armine Yalnizyan, Rabble.Ca, February 18, 2016
- Mining's last stand? A UP way of life is threatened - By Ted Roelofs, The Bridge Magazine, February 18, 2016
- Oil retreats as inventories fill - By Robert Grattan, FuelFix, February 18, 2016
- Ultra Petroleum posts $3.2 billion loss as potential bankruptcy looms - By Jordan Blum, FuelFix, February 18, 2016
- Big bankruptcies are coming to the oil and gas sector - By Zach Scheidt, Business Insider, February 17, 2016
- Big Oil could be hit with a wave of oil company bankruptcies - By Katie Herzog, Grist, February 17, 2016
- Cimarex Energy reports fourth quarter net loss of $630.5 million - By Staff, Oil Voice, February 17, 2016
- Crude-by-rail hits snag - By Morgan Brennan, CNBC, February 17, 2016
- Finning to cut up to 500 extra jobs this year, chairman steps down - By Cecilia Jamasmie, Mining.Com, February 17, 2016
- Marathon reports $793 million loss for the quarter - By Jordan Blum, FuelFix, February 17, 2016
- Aurizon write downs signal end for Hancock’s Galilee Basin coal projects - By Bob Burton, REnew Economy, February 16, 2016
- Bankrupt coal company gives fat bonuses to execs, kills worker pensions - By Meteor Blades, Daily Kos, February 16, 2016
- Devon Energy to lay off 1,000 workers, 700 in Oklahoma City - By Associated Press, FuelFix, February 16, 2016
- No coal, no fracking: end fossil fuel production on UK soil by 2020! - By Guy Shrubsole, The Ecologist, February 16, 2016
- One-Third of Oil Companies Could Go Bankrupt this Year - By Claire Zillman, Fortune, February 16, 2016
- Transocean and Pioneer cut hundreds of jobs - By Jordan Blum, FuelFix, February 16, 2016
- Why 175 Oil And Gas Companies Could Go Bankrupt This Year - By Katie Valentine, Think Progress, February 16, 2016
- With coal prices in steep slide, even once bullish analyst sees risky investment - By Lynda V. Mapes and Hal Bernton, Seattle Times, February 16, 2016
- Anglo American debt down to junk, outlook negative - By Frik Els, Mining.Com, February 15, 2016; [related] These are the assets Anglo American is kicking to the curb - By Cecilia Jamasmie, Mining.Com, February 15, 2016
- As coal cools off, railroads close tracks and cut jobs across the country - By Daniel Moore, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 15, 2016
- Business Model of Big Oil “Fundamentally Flawed” - By Andy Rowell, Oil Change International, February 15, 2016
- Dark predictions about North Sea oil look all too believable - By Erkal Ersoy, The Conversation, February 15, 2016
- Government ban on fossil fuel divestment threatens future pensioners - By J W Bode, The Ecologist, February 15, 2016
- Foiled by Oil - By Albert Bates, The Great Change, February 14, 2016
- Fossil fuels are now a bad bet, investors told - By Paul Brown, Climate News Network, February 14, 2016
- Skid in Oil Prices Pulls the Recycling Industry Down With It - By David Gelles, New York Times, February 12, 2016
- Stung by Low Oil Prices, Companies Face a Reckoning on Debts - By Clifford Krauss and Michael Corkery, New York Times, February 9, 2016
The Man Behind the Curtain:
- It's Not Just What Exxon Did, It's What It's Doing - By Bill McKibben, TomDispatch, February 18, 2016
- Fossil Fuel Industry Spending Millions On 2016 Presidential Candidates - By Alex Kotch, DeSmog Blog, February 17, 2016
- Fossil fuel Industry “Doing All it Can to Stop” Solar - By Andy Rowell, Oil Change International, February 16, 2016
Wobbles:
- People Are Stopping The TPP; Time To Finish Off Corporate Trade - By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Mint News Press, February 17, 2016
- The Green Heart of #Bristol’s #SocialMovements - By admin, A Green Trade Unionist In Bristol, February 14, 2016
Other News:
- The need for a ‘Needs Budget’ - By admin, A Green Trade Unionist In Bristol, February 20, 2016
- Struggling SunEdison closing Houston-area plant, cutting 180 jobs - By Jordan Blum, FuelFix, February 18, 2016
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