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Capital Blight News #108
Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, June 14, 2016
A supplement to Eco Unionist News:
Lead Stories:
- In Louisiana Shrimping Communities, Globalization's Effects Imperil US Fishers - By Michael Stein, Truthout, June 12, 2016; [related]: Africatown Supporters Travel to Washington DC in Search of Environmental Justice - By Joe Womack, Bridge the Gulf, June 12, 2016
- Bridging the Trust Gap in Energy Justice Battles - By Mark Hand, CounterPunch, June 10, 2016
- After Keystone XL: TransCanada Building North American Fracked Gas Pipeline Empire - By Steve Horn, DeSmog Blog, June 9, 2016
- The Book the Fracking Industry Doesn’t Want You to Read - By Wenonah Hauter, EcoWatch, June 7, 2016
- ‘Free Trade’ Will Kill Progress on Climate Change, 450 Groups Warn Congress - By Nika Knight, Common Dreams, June 6, 2016
- For Oil Industry, Clean Air Fight Was Dress Rehearsal for Climate Denial - By Neela Banerjee, David Hasemyer, and Lisa Song, InsideClimate News, June 6, 2016
The Man Behind the Curtain:
- Biggest US coal company funded dozens of groups questioning climate change - By Suzanne Goldenberg and Helena Bengtsson, The Guardian, June 13, 2016 [related]: Court Documents Show Coal Giant Peabody Energy Funded Dozens Of Climate Denial Groups - By Farron Cousins, DeSmog Blog, June 13, 2016
- Internal Documents Reveal How MSNBC Show Worked To Promote Fracking - By Steve Horn, DeSmog Blog, June 13, 2016
- Meet the climate sceptics backing the Brexit campaign - By Ed King, Climate Change News, June 13, 2016
- Fox in Hen House: Online Auctions For Oil and Gas Leases On Public Lands May Be Industry-Owned and Run - By Steve Horn, DeSmog Blog, June 10, 2016
- How a Senator Turned Exxon Lobbyist Limits Access to His Public University-Based Archives - By Steve Horn, DeSmog Blog, June 10, 2016
- EU energy chiefs favouring fossil fuel lobbyists, says report - By Megan Darby, Climate Change News, June 9, 2016
- Green PR Firm Secretly Working for Oil and Petrochemical Industry - By Eric de Place and Nick Abraham, Sightline Institute, June 9, 2016
- Revealed: The Brussels Breakfast Lobby Group Exxon and BP Don’t Want You To Know They’re Part Of - By Kyla Mandel, DeSmog UK, June 9, 2016
- The Australian Newspaper Misrepresents Science In Great Barrier Reef Bleaching Editorial, Says Scientist It Quoted - By Graham Readfearn, DeSmog Blog, June 7, 2016
- This lobbyist denied climate change for ExxonMobil. Now he’ll do it for Trump - By Melissa Cronin, Grist, June 7, 2016
- Peabody's Outlier Gang Couldn't Shoot Straight In Minnesota Carbon Case, Judge Rebuffs Happer, Lindzen, Spencer, Mendelsohn, Bezdek - By John Mashey, DeSmog Blog, June 7, 2016
Green is the New Red:
- Earth Minute: Anne Petermann on “Guardian of the Forests” Movement in Mexico - By staff, Global Justice Ecology Project, June 8, 2016
- Indigenous Forest Defender Illegally Jailed in Mexico - By Rick Kearns, Indian Country Today, June 3, 2016
Greenwashers:
- The thirst for the sea: lack of water and new extractivist markets - Translated by Pietro Casati, Theory Without Borders, June 13, 2016
- CA Officials Want To Allow Oil Industry To Dump Toxic Waste Into Aquifers, Exempt Them From Federal Protection - By Mike Gaworecki, DeSmog Blog, June 12, 2016
- Indigenous Peoples’ rights in the REDD+ Ngoyla-Mintom project in Cameroon - By Chris Lang, REDD Monitor, June 10, 2016
- WWF scandal (part 7): WWF teams up with loggers rather than indigenous peoples in Cameroon - By Chris Lang, REDD Monitor, June 7, 2016
- Timber Regulating Timber - By Will Parrish, Anderson Valley Advertiser, June 1, 2016
Disaster Capitalism:
- The role of climate change in the Syria crisis: how the media got it wrong - By Alex Randall, New Internationalist, June 10, 2016
- 777 days later, Congress hasn’t lifted a finger for Flint - By Katie Herzog, Grist, June 10, 2016; [related]: Flint: The conditions for riots - By Justin King, The Fifth Column, June 2, 2016
- ‘They Did Everything They Could Have Done’: The Tragedy Of The Oregon Oil Derailment - By Natasha Geiling, Think Progress, June 8, 2016
- Union Pacific Apologizes for “Inconvenience” as Oil Drips Onto Tracks and Trains Resume after Explosion - By Mike M, Portland Rising Tide, June 8, 2016
- Fukushima: Worse Than a Disaster - By Robert Hunziker, CounterPunch, June 7, 2016
Other News:
- Privatizing Public Services: A Free-Market Fiasco - By Gregory N. Heires, The New Crossroads, June 12, 2016
- The Great Unraveling: Oil, Gas and the Future of Colorado - By Philip Doe, CounterPunch, June 8, 2016
- Texas consumers pay more in deregulated electricity markets, study says - By Jordan Blum, FuelFix, June 8, 2016
- The fight against TTIP is not over ‘till it’s over - By Tony Burke, Left Foot Forward, June 6, 2016
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