Capital Blight News #112

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, July 12, 2016

A supplement to Eco Unionist News:

Lead Stories:

• Exxon Is Still Helping Fund The Spread Of Climate Denial - By Natasha Geiling, Think Progress, July 11, 2016; [related]: How Far Will Elected Officials Go to Protect One of World’s Biggest Carbon Polluters? - By Elliott Negin, EcoWatch, July 5, 2016
• Let's not mix xenophobia with legitimate resistance to corporate trade deals - By Linda McQuaig, Rabble.Ca, July 7, 2016
• There is a crisis erupting along Nicaragua's Northern Coast. Here's 5 ways you can help - By Carlos Enrique Maibeth-Mortimer, Intercontinental Cry, July 7, 2016
• Fate of Keystone XL Pipeline Could Be Decided in a Texas Courtroom Before NAFTA Tribunal Considers TransCanada’s Suit - By Julie Dermansky, DeSmog Blog, July 5, 2016

The Man Behind the Curtain:

• ExxonMobil: New Disclosures Show Oil Giant Still Funding Climate Science Denial Groups - By Graham Readfearn, DeSmog Blog, July 8, 2016
• How The Arizona Corporation Commission Turned Anti-Solar In Just A Few Years - By Alex Kotch, DeSmog Blog, July 8, 2016
• Going to Extremes: The Anti-Government Extremism Behind the Growing Movement to Seize America’s Public Lands - By Aaron Weiss, Center for Western Priorities, July 7, 2016; [related]: Utah Representative Rob Bishop Once Again Taking Marching Orders from Oil and Gas Industry - By Jesse Prentice-Dunn, Center for Western Priorities, July 7, 2016 | Busted: Right-wing “environmental research” group uses falsified data to justify state land grab - By Aaron Weiss, Center for Western Priorities, July 5, 2016
• Mysterious EV Company Atieva Hires Climate Change Denying Lobbyist Ben Quayle - By Tina Casey, Clean Technica, July 7, 2016
• Bankrupt Coal Miner Peabody Energy Paid Climate Denialist Craig Idso To Write Greenhouse Gas Reports - By Graham Readfearn, DeSmog Blog, July 6, 2016
• The Top 10 Garbage Climate Stories From The Koch Brothers’ Favorite Right-Wing Website - By Dee Robbs, Buzzfeed, June 29, 2016

Green is the New Red:

• North Carolina Congressman Wants To Ban EPA Employees From Flying For Work - By Natasha Geiling, Think Progress, July 11, 2016; [related]: Meaningless, Mean-Spirited McCarthyism: Lamar Smith’s Ironic Investigations - By ClimateDenierRoundup, DeSmog Blog, July 10, 2016 | Climate scientists are under attack from frivolous lawsuits - By Lauren Kurtz, Skeptical Science, July 7, 2016
• Jail sentences for 11 in France’s carbon scam of the century - By Chris Lang, REDD Monitor, July 8, 2016
• Another environmental activist killed in Honduras - By Freddy Cuevas, Washington Post, July 7, 2016; [related]: Violence against environmentalists is now at an all-time high - By Will Potter, Green is the New Red, July 8, 2016 | 'Horrific Human Rights Crime': Another Environmental Activist Slain in Honduras - By Nika Knight, Common Dreams, July 7, 2016
• Six Months After Malheur, Militants and Extremist Lawmakers Renew Land Seizure Efforts - By Aaron Weiss, Center for Western Priorities, July 7, 2016
• What to Do When Russian Commandos Seize Your Ship - By Peter Wilcox, Climate Desk, July 7, 2016
• The Alabama Landfill That Brought Noise, Health Woes, and a Lawsuit - By Kendra Pierre-Louis, Inside Climate News, July 5, 2016

Greenwashers:

• Inside Shell’s PR Strategy To Position Itself As A ‘Net-Zero Emissions’ Leader - By Mike Gaworecki, DeSmog Blog, July 10, 2016
• Green grabs are not the solution to land grabs - By Chris Lang, REDD Monitor, July 7, 2016
• Back to the Future with Laverne and Shirley: The Trivialisation of the GMO Debate - By Colin Todhunter, CounterPunch, July 6, 2016
• Lochwood Capital: “Your site has comments sections which defame one of my employees” - By Chris Lang, REDD Monitor, July 6, 2016
• Wisconsin Said Frac Sand Mining Is Safe In A Report That Groups Say Used Industry Data - By Alejandro Davila Fragoso, Think Progress, July 6, 2016
• American Petroleum Institute Forming Climate Change Task Force? - By Justin Mikulka, DeSmog Blog, July 5, 2016
• Rebutting the Latest “Fast Facts” from Delta Tunnels Backers - By staff, Restore the Delta, July 5, 2016
• Open Letter: E.On’s Ambitious Wood Power Station Plans in France Pose Threat to Forests - By Biofuelwatch, Denkhaus Bremen and SOS Forêt du Sud, Global Justice Ecology Project, July 1, 2016

Other News:

• US Secretly Approves Hundreds of Offshore Fracking Wells - By Andy Rowell, Oil Change International, July 10, 2016
• Coal Dust Causes 23,000 Premature Deaths In The E.U. - By Sydney Pereira, Think Progress, July 5, 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.