You are here
Capital Blight News #119
Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, August 31, 2016
A supplement to Eco Unionist News:
Lead Stories:
- Fracking and health: What we know from Pennsylvania’s natural gas boom - By Sara G. Rasmussen, Brian S. Schwartz, and Joan A. Casey, The Conversation, August 25, 2016; [related]: New Fracking Study Pulls Rug Out From Under “Safe” Fracking - By Tina Casey, Clean Technica, August 26, 2016 | Health Dangers of Fracking Revealed in Johns Hopkins Study - By Wenonah Hauter, EcoWatch, August 25, 2016
- Scientists Confirm the Impacts of Climate Change Began Right After We Started Burning Fossil Fuels - By Kyla Mandel, DeSmog UK, August 24, 2016
- Arctic Death Rattle - By Robert Hunziker, CounterPunch, August 22, 2016
- Life Itself Is Being Patented, Privatized and Re-engineered - By Mark Karlin, Truthout, August 21, 2016
The Man Behind the Curtain:
- Coordinator of UK Ocean Acidification Research Attacks The Spectator for 'Willfully Misleading' James Delingpole Column - By Graham Readfearn, DeSmog Blog, August 26, 2016
- Donald Trump’s Energy Whisperers - By Joe Wertz, Inside Energy, August 26, 2016
- The American Petroleum Institute’s Desperate PR is Failing - By David Turnbull, Oil Change International, August 24, 2016
- Hard to Handle: Trolling Denial vs Legitimate Skepticism - By Climate Denier Roundup, DeSmog Blog, August 24, 2016
- Revealed: Ex-FERC Commissioner’s Multiple Rulings Favored Energy Companies His Wife Lobbied For - By Itai Vardi, DeSmog Blog, August 22, 2016
- California University Sued for Failing to Release Public Records on GMOs and Pesticides - By staff, Sustainable Pulse, August 18, 2016
Greenwashers:
- Celebrating hard-fought coalfield victories is good, but learning long-term lessons would be better - By Ken Ward Jr, Charleston Gazette-Mail, August 26, 2016
- John Hewson pushes “trillion dollar” opportunity in “refined” coal - By Giles Parkinson, REnew Economy, August 26, 2016
- The troubling evolution of corporate greenwashing - By Bruce Watson, The Guardian, August 20, 2016
Disaster Capitalism:
- Nestle buys more groundwater as drought rages on in Southern Ontario - By Mark Calzavara, Rabble.Ca, August 23, 2016; [related]: Nestlé continues to extract water from Ontario town despite drought: activists - By staff, The Canadian Press, August 21, 2016
Other News:
- Humboldt County's Marijuana Boom Is Destroying Redwoods and Killing Rare Wildlife - By Todd Woody, EcoWatch, August 28, 2016
- The Troubling Disparities Plaguing America’s National Parks - By Jenny Rowland, Think Progress, August 22, 2016
- Kathleen Wynne tried to use First Nations to silence opposition to Hydro One sell-off. She failed - By Fred Hahn, Rabble.Ca, August 19, 2016
For more green news, please visit our news feeds section on ecology.iww.org; Twitter #IWWEUC; Hashtags: #greenunionism #greensyndicalism #IWW. Please send suggested news items to include in this series to euc [at] iww.org.
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.
The Fine Print I:
Disclaimer: The views expressed on this site are not the official position of the IWW (or even the IWW’s EUC) unless otherwise indicated and do not necessarily represent the views of anyone but the author’s, nor should it be assumed that any of these authors automatically support the IWW or endorse any of its positions.
Further: the inclusion of a link on our site (other than the link to the main IWW site) does not imply endorsement by or an alliance with the IWW. These sites have been chosen by our members due to their perceived relevance to the IWW EUC and are included here for informational purposes only. If you have any suggestions or comments on any of the links included (or not included) above, please contact us.
The Fine Print II:
Fair Use Notice: The material on this site is provided for educational and informational purposes. It may contain copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. It is being made available in an effort to advance the understanding of scientific, environmental, economic, social justice and human rights issues etc.
It is believed that this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have an interest in using the included information for research and educational purposes. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. The information on this site does not constitute legal or technical advice.
This site is not the official webpage of the Industrial Workers of the World.