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Capital Blight News #109
Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, June 21, 2016
A supplement to Eco Unionist News:
Lead Stories:
- TISA 'free trade' deal to force draconian social, environmental, financial deregulation - By Pete Dolack, The Ecologist, June 17, 2016
- Oil Train Tank Cars Are Getting Safer But What About The Tracks? - By Tony Schick, Oregon Public Broadcasting, June 15, 2016
- UK fracking policy founded on scientific fraud, misrepresentation and prevarication - By Nick Cowern, The Ecologist, June 15, 2016
- Goldman Sachs Just Ate Denmark for Breakfast - By Jonas Schmidt Hansen, Occupy.Com, June 13, 2016
- My Dishwasher Is What’s Wrong With Capitalism - By Peter Dreier, LA Progressive, June 13, 2016
The Man Behind the Curtain:
- Denialist Blogger Anthony Watts Posts Error Strewn “Aerial Survey” of Climate Scientists’ Homes - By Graham Readfearn, DeSmog Blog, June 19, 2016
- Exxon Sues MA Attorney General In Retaliatory Attempt To Intimidate ‘Exxon Knew’ Climate Accountability Movement - By Brendan DeMelle, DeSmog Blog, June 16, 2016; [related]: Exxon Sues Second Attorney General In Response To Fraud Investigation - By Sydney Pereira, Think Progress, June 17, 2016
- Were Historical Pictures of Great Barrier Reef Degradation Really Misused, as The Australian Newspaper Claimed? - By Graham Readfearn, DeSmog Blog, June 16, 2016
- Conservative Funders of Climate Denial Are Quietly Spending Millions To Generate More Partisan Journalism - By Graham Readfearn, DeSmog Blog, June 15, 2016
- Court Documents Show Peabody Energy Funded Dozens of Climate Denial Groups - By Climate Denier Roundup, EcoWatch, June 14, 2016; [related]: Dirty money bought one coal company a whole lot of denial - By Katie Herzog, Grist, June 14, 2016
- GOP ‘Conservationist’ Running For Senate Has Ties To Companies That Pollute The Environment - By Alejandro Davila Fragoso and Josh Israel, Think Progress, June 14, 2016
- Wall Street Journal Runs Ad Trashing WSJ’s Climate Science Denial - By Joe Romm, Think Progress, June 14, 2016; [related]: Wall Street Journal publishes call for climate action...for cash money - By Katie Herzog, Grist, June 14, 2016
- World’s Biggest Banks Are Driving Climate Change, Pumping Billions Into Extreme Fossil Fuels - By Rainforest Action Network, EcoWatch, June 14, 2016; [related]: Shorting the Climate: Fossil Fuel Finance Report Card 2016 - By Collin Rees, Oil Change International, June 15, 2016; [and]: Green Climate Fund partners condemned for fossil fuel funding - By Ed King, Climate Change News, June 14, 2016
- The Lie That “China Wins” if the TPP Kangaroo Tribunals are Stopped - By William K. Black, New Economic Perspectives, June 5, 2016
Green is the New Red:
- Record number of environmental activists murdered in 2015 - By Megan Darby, Climate Change News, June 20, 2016
- Peaceful protest under attack in Sweden’s climate test - By Melanie Mattauch, 350.org, June 16, 2016
- One Indian killed in Brazil, five wounded as tribal community attacked - By staff, Survival International, June 15, 2016
- Will outrage over recent murders help Honduran environmental activists achieve their goal? - By Victoria Molina, Ensia, June 13, 2016
Greenwashers:
- From the chaos of REDD-plus towards the Bonn Challenge’s maze - By Yvette Aguilar, REDD Monitor, June 17, 2016
- Change The System; Not The Climate - By Asoka Bandarage, The Ecologist, June 16, 2016
- World Bank on REDD in the Democratic Republic of Congo: “Rome wasn’t built in a day” - By Chris Lang, REDD Monitor, June 15, 2016; [related]: World Bank on REDD: “We have made great achievements in 2015 and we’re now focussing on implementation” - By Chris Lang, REDD Monitor, June 14, 2016
Disaster Capitalism:
- Deleting the Real Story Behind the Great Canada Fire - By Paul Street, CounterPunch, June 16, 2016; [related]: Gas Stations Close as Fire Rages Near Alberta Oil Sands - By Jan Lee, The Triple Pundit, June 14, 2016
Other News:
- The human cost of privatization-MARTA Outsourcing Mobility Leaving Workers and Riders Behind - By staff, ATU, June 16, 2016
- Superbugs to kill 10 million a year by 2050 - By James Plested, Red Flag, May 31, 2016
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