Capital Blight News #105

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, May 25, 2016

A supplement to Eco Unionist News:

Lead Stories:

• We have met the wrong enemy - By KC Golden, Climate Solutions, May 22, 2016
• Corporate media isn't reporting on climate change. And it's killing us - By Nick Fillmore, Rabble.Ca, May 19, 2016
• US Government's Own Report Shows Toxic TPP "Not Worth Passing" - By Deirdre Fulton, Common Dreams, May 19, 2016
• A signal of super-fires to come - By Nicole Colson, Socialist Worker, May 18, 2016
• Only Six Years After BP Oil Disaster, Gulf Coast Is Faced With New Drilling - By Kate Stringer, Yes!, May 10, 2016

The Man Behind the Curtain:

• Exposed: Spectra-Funded Group Lobbied for FERC Commissioner's Reappointment, Then FERC Approved Spectra’s Gas Pipelines - By Itai Vardi, DeSmog Blog, May 20, 2016
• 13 House Reps Sent Letters to 17 Attorneys General and 8 NGOs Defending Exxon - By Annie Leonard, EcoWatch, May 20, 2016; [related]: Fossil Fuel Industry-Funded Attorneys General Try to Block Exxon Climate Fraud Probe - By Elliott Negin, EcoWatch, May 20, 2016; [and]: New York Attorney General To House Republicans: Are You Kidding? - By Samantha Page, Think Progress, May 20, 2016; [and]: Texas Thinks The Investigation Into Exxon Is ‘Ridiculous’ - By Samantha Page, Think Progress, May 17, 2016; [and] Texas, Alabama Attorneys General Join Exxon's Battle Against Climate Probe - By David Hasemyer, Inside Climate News, May 16, 2016
• EELI’s Anti-EPA Suit Uses 'Exhibit A’ from Tobacco's RICO Loss - By ClimateDenierRoundup, Daily Kos, May 19, 2016
• Here’s One Way The Media Confuses The Public About Climate Change - By Joe Romm, Think Progress, May 19, 2016
• Malice at Malheur: the Movement to Privatize America’s Public Lands - By William deBuys, Counterpunch, May 19, 2016
• Kochs' Grassroots Leadership Academy Training Astroturf Army - By Mary Bottari, PR Watch, May 16, 2016
• National Research Council GMO Study Compromised by Industry Ties - By Wenonah Hauter, EcoWatch, May 16, 2016
• Prominent Oceans Scientist Fails to Disclose Funding From Fishing Industry - By Zachary Davies Boren, Truthout, May 16, 2016
• The Politics of Fertilizer and the Exxons of Agriculture - By Grain, In These Times, April 28, 2016

Greenwashers:

• Greenpeace activists scale British Museum to protest BP sponsorship - By Adam Vaughan, The Guardian, May 19, 2016
• The Humane Society and the Greenwashing of the TPP - By Richard Foster, Counterpunch, May 19, 2016
• Monsanto and the Poisoning of Europe - By Colin Todhunter, Counterpunch, May 18, 2016
• Set up for failure and corporate profit? The rotten core of the Green Deal - By Sue Roberts, The Ecologist, May 18, 2016

Disaster Capitalism:

• Saskatchewan denies climate science as wildfires lick its border - By Megan Darby, Climate Change News, May 20, 2016; [related]: Big Oil doesn't want us to point fingers after Fort Mac fire because it knows where they'd point - By Julie Dermansky, Rabble.Ca, May 19, 2016; [and] Trial by Fire in Alberta - By Paul Bentley, Counterpunch, May 18, 2016
• The Alberta wildfire is dumping mercury into the atmosphere - By Melissa Cronin, Grist, May 19, 2016
• Fort McMurray Fire: Zero Percent Contained, 1.2 Million Acres in Size, and Crossing Border into Saskatchewan - By Robert Scribbler, robertscribbler.com, May 19, 2016; [related]: Wildfire hitting Canada’s oil sands heart gets closer to major plants - By Cecilia Jamasmie, Mining.Com, May 17, 2016; [and]: “It continues to burn out of control” - By Andy Rowell, Oil Change International, May 18, 2016
• Shell Oil Spill Cleanup Operation Ends As Voices Against New Gulf Drilling Grow Louder - By Julie Dermansky, DeSmog Blog, May 19, 2016
• 8,000 oil workers evacuated from Fort McMurray fire. Again - By Xian Chiang-Waren, Grist, May 17, 2016; [related]: Canadian oil sands camps evacuated as wildfire shifts north - By Cecilia Jamasmie, Mining.Com, May 17, 2016; [and]: Wildfire threat delays restart of Canadian oil sands operations - By Bloomberg, FuelFix, May 18, 2016; [and]: Fort McMurray fire sweeps east through northern oilsands sites - By Marion Warnica, CBC, May 17, 2016; [also]: Fort McMurray fire destroys oilsands camp, forces evacuation of thousands of workers as blaze continues to grow - By Geoffrey Morgan, Financial Post, May 17, 2016
• 40% of Detroit Will be Deprived of Life Sustaining Water: the UN Investigates Human Rights Violations - By Dr. Marsha Cole, Black Agenda Report, May 10, 2016

Other News:

• Chevron’s atrocities mapped - By Nick Meynen, Environmental Justice Organizations, Liabilities, and Trade, May 20, 2016
• Exxon's Legal Woes Over Climate Change Just Got a New Twist - By John H. Cushman Jr, Inside Climate News, May 18, 2016
• Mexico: Mining Corporation Threatening Families, Using Explosives - By Emilia Pesci, Zacatecas Online, May 19, 2016

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