Capital Blight News #111

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, July 5, 2016

A supplement to Eco Unionist News:

Lead Stories:

• ANOTHER Corporation Suing Our Government Thanks To Trade Agreements - By Dave Johnson, Campaign for America's Future, June 28, 2016
• Obama Admin Approved Over 1,500 Offshore Fracking Permits in Gulf of Mexico and Mainstream Media Has Ignored It - By Steve Horn, DeSmog Blog, June 28, 2016; [related]: This Map Shows Where Offshore Fracking Has Occurred in the Gulf of Mexico - By Mike Ludwig, Truthout, June 30, 2016 | Obama Administration Permitted 1,200 Offshore Fracks in Gulf of Mexico - By Kristen Monsell, Center for Biological Diversity, June 28, 2016

The Man Behind the Curtain:

• Does Exxon Have a Constitutional Right to Deny Climate Change? - By Natalie Schreyer, Climate Desk, July 5, 2016; [related]: Exxon was on the cutting edge of climate science 40 years ago. Watch what happened next: - By Zoë Wong-Weissman, 350.org, June 29, 2016 | Why won’t Exxon publish its 2015 denial funding? - By Cindy Baxter, Climate Investigations Center, June 27, 2016
• SEC Charges "Frack Master" Chris Faulkner, Shale CEO and Industry Advocate, with $80 Million Fraud - By Sharon Kelly, DeSmog Blog, July 3, 2016
• Pro-GMO Spin Masquerading as Science Courtesy of "Shameful White Men of Privilege" - By Colin Todhunter, Counterpunch, July 1, 2016; [related]: Genetically Engineered Crops: the Grand and Failed Promise - By Jim Goodman, Counterpunch, July 5, 2016
• 107 Nobel Laureate Attack on Greenpeace Traced Back to Biotech PR Operators - By Jonathan Latham, Counterpunch, July 1, 2016
• Wall St. Journal Shows Why It Is Under Attack For Climate Science Denial By Publishing Another Dodgy Column - By Graham Readfearn, DeSmog Blog, July 1, 2016
• Public Lands Development Rigged in Favor of Oil and Gas - By Nada Culver, EcoWatch, June 30, 2016
• Fracked Gas LNG Exports Were Centerpiece In Promotion of Panama Canal Expansion, Documents Reveal - By Steve Horn, DeSmog Blog, June 29, 2016
• Why does the Colombian coal industry need help from a London lobby group? - By Bob Burton, End Coal, June 29, 2016
• High-Level EPA Adviser Accused of Scientific Fraud in Methane Leak Research - By Sharon Kelly, DeSmog Blog, June 28, 2016
• Kochs Dump Trump to Fund Climate-Denying Senators in Ohio and Nevada - By Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch, June 28, 2016
• Benzene technical standards: Why Ontario’s bait and switch approach puts people’s health at risk - By Ian Miran, EcoJustice, June 27, 2016
• No denying it - By Charles Hatt, EcoJustice, June 27, 2016

Green is the New Red:

• Struggling on Dangerous Ground - By staff, 350.org, July 3, 2016
• Guatemala: Diodora’s Resistance to Goldcorp Mine - By Movimiento Mesoamericana Contra el Modelo Extractivo Minero, Translated by Earth First! Journal, July 1, 2016
• Anti-fracking campaigner tells court: “I won’t pay Cuadrilla’s £55k legal bill” - By Ruth Hayhurst, Drill or Drop?, June 24, 2016

Greenwashers:

• A jurisdictional approach will not solve the most serious REDD+ problems - By Chris Lang, REDD Monitor, July 1, 2016
• Ventura Oil Spill Highlights Big Oil Regulatory Capture - By Dan Bacher, Counterpunch, July 1, 2016
• “Trash and run”: The Melka Group plans to sell its destructive oil palm plantations in Peru - By Chris Lang, REDD Monitor, June 30, 2016
• After 6 years of working on climate at Harvard, I implore it to show the courage to divest - By Benjamin Franta, The Guardian, June 29, 2016
• Should North Americans subsidize oil, gas, and coal for another 10 years? - By Alex Doukas, Oil Change International, June 29, 2016
• The Park Service doesn’t need corporate sponsorship. It needs proper funding - By Tom Ribe, High Country News, June 28, 2016; [related]: Rudderless national parks adrift without a compass - By Stephen Duke, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, June 30, 2016
• The World Bank “provisionally” approves the Democratic Republic of Congo’s REDD programme - By Chris Lang, REDD Monitor, June 28, 2016

Disaster Capitalism:

• Climate Change’s Growing Impact On People Experiencing Homelessness - By Ryan Koronowski, Think Progress, June 29, 2016
• California: Fires Burn at "Exponential Rates" Amid Blistering Heat Wave and 5-Year Drought - Ken Pimlott interviewed by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now, June 28, 2016
• Millions exposed to dangerous lead levels in US drinking water, report finds - By Oliver Milman, The Guardian, June 28, 2016; [related]: Dangerous Levels Of Lead Have Been Found In Water Systems Nationwide - By Bryce Covert, Think Progress, June 28, 2016
• Once-in-a-Thousand-Year Flooding Devastates West Virginia, Killing At Least 23 - Bob Henry Baber interviewed by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now, June 28, 2016

Other News:

• Alaskan Coalition Calls on U.S. to Investigate B.C. Mines - By Judith Lavoie, DeSmog Blog, June 29, 2016
• Environmental Racism is Alive and Well in Grassy Narrows - By Stephen Bede Scharper, Free Grassy Narrows, June 29, 2016
• Java on brink of ecological collapse - By Hans Nicholas Jong and Bambang Muryanto, Jakarta Post, June 24, 2016

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Disclaimer: The views expressed here are not the official position of the IWW (or even the IWW’s EUC) and do not necessarily represent the views of anyone but the author’s.