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Capital Blight News #121
Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, September 13, 2016
A supplement to Eco Unionist News:
Lead Stories:
- Neither the TPP Nor National Sovereignty – By Elliot Sperber, CounterPunch, September 9, 2016; [related]: Leading Economists Oppose TPP Provision Giving Corporations Upper Hand in Investor-State Disputes – Lori Wallach interviewed by Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh, Democracy Now!, September 8, 2016 | As White House Spotlights Conflict With Democratic Presidential and Congressional Candidates by Escalating Toward TPP Lame-Duck Vote, Sen. Warren and Hundreds of Academics Urge Rejection – By Jeffrey Sachs, et. al., Public Citizen, September 7, 2016 | Good News for the People of Europe: The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) Is Dead. Negotiations have Failed – By Peter Koenig, Global Research, September 7, 2016 | Obama’s TPP Would Widen the Divide – By Manuel Pérez-Rocha, Institute for Policy Studies, September 1, 2016
- Humans have destroyed a tenth of Earth's wilderness in 25 years – By Adam Vaughan, The Guardian, September 8, 2016; [related]: The Sick Ocean – By Robert Hunziker, CounterPunch, September 8, 2016
- Our energy system has changed since 1913; why hasn’t this subsidy? – By Julia Raven, Oil Change International, September 7, 2016
- Frack, Rattle and Roll: Drilling into Oklahoma’s Earthquake Epidemic – By Joshua Frank, CounterPunch, September 6, 2016; [related]: ‘Preemption’ Is Major Obstacle Across the Country as Progressive Laws Like Fracking Bans Passed in Liberal Cities Are Immediately Crushed by Right-Wing State Legislatures – By Abby Rapoport, The American Prospect, September 2, 2016
The Man Behind the Curtain:
- The Clean Power Plan: Justice Delayed — For Whom the Rule Tolls – Joel B. Stronberg, Renewable Energy World, September 9, 2016
- Fox News acknowledged climate change, then promptly took it back – By Katie Herzog, Grist, September 8, 2016
- 13 Academics Who Have Become Shills for Corporate Giants in the Food, Agrochemical and Fossil Fuel Industries – By Lorraine Chow, AlterNet, September 8, 2016
- The Truth Behind The Kochs’ New Fossil Fuel PR Campaign – By Jeremy Deaton, Think Progress, September 8, 2016
- To Fight Clean Power Plan, Fossil Fuel Companies Paid for Private Meetings with Republican State Prosecutors – By Ashley Braun, DeSmog Blog, September 7, 2016; [related]: Confidential Documents Show Fossil Fuel Industry Plotted With GOP AGs to Attack Clean Power Plan – By Climate Denier Roundup, EcoWatch, September 8, 2016 | Fossil Fuel Industry Paid for Meetings With GOP Attorneys General to Plan Attack on Clean Power Plan – By Nick Surgey, PR Watch, September 7, 2016 | Republican State AGs Met With Coal, Electricity Companies Before Filing Against The EPA’s Carbon Rule – By Samantha Page, Think Progress, September 7, 2016
- Hillary Clinton Is Raking In Fossil Fuel Money At An Alarming Rate – By Farron Cousins, DeSmog Blog, September 7, 2016; [related]: Big Oil is backing Hillary Clinton – By Emma Foehringer Merchant, Grist, September 7, 2016
- U.S. companies tout climate policies, fund climate skeptics – By Richard Valdmanis and Grant Smith, Reuters, September 6, 2016; [related]: New Reuters Exposé On Climate Change Denial Aims At Small Fry, Misses The Big One – By Tina Casey, Clean Technica, September 8, 2016 | Major corporations that claim to support climate action are funding politicians who oppose it – By Ben Adler, Grist, September 7, 2016 | U.S. Companies Publicly Support Climate Action, Privately Fund Deniers – By Natasha Geiling, Think Progress, September 6, 2016
- Conservative media bias is inflating American climate denial and polarization – By Dana Nuccitelli, The Guardian, September 6, 2016; [related]: Who's Driving Climate Denial? Big Companies and Conservative Media – By Jax Jacobsen, EcoWatch, September 6, 2016
Green is the New Red:
- Anti-nuclear Power Protest Tents in Tokyo Removed – By William Andrews, CounterPunch, September 9, 2016
- Challenging government's unlawful acts is a legal right; not a privilege! – By Gillian Lobo, Ecologist, September 6, 2016
Greenwashers:
- The aviation industry’s plan to offset emissions from flying is crazy – By Chris Lang, REDD Monitor, September 11, 2016
- Obama Again Sounds Climate Change Alarm But Continues Supporting Fossil Fuel Industry – By Farron Cousins, DeSmog Blog, September 9, 2016
- Burning trees for electricity is a bad idea – By Bill McKibben, Grist, September 8, 2016
- The Fracking of Conservation: State Wildlife Agencies Invite Oil and Gas Industry to Fund Wildlife Management – By Richard Foster, CounterPunch, September 7, 2016
- Who pays the price for protected areas? New website launched to expose global protected area abuses – By Chris Lang, REDD Monitor, September 6, 2016
Disaster Capitalism:
- Undocumented immigrants still face unique obstacles in Flint’s water crisis – By Aura Bogado, Grist, September 9, 2016
- Study Finds Greenhouse Gases Doubled the Chances of Louisiana's Flooding Rains – By Graham Readfearn, DeSmog Blog, September 7, 2016; [related]: NOAA: Climate Change Fueled Deadly Louisiana Flooding – By Climate Nexus, EcoWatch, September 8, 2016
Other News:
- Fast Fashion: Cheap Clothes = Huge Environmental Cost – By Jax Jacobsen, EcoWatch, September 8, 2016
- Indigenous Peoples vs. the specter of oil-driven development – By Pablo Orellana Matute, Intercontiental Cry, September 8, 2016
- On Eve of Enforcement Trial, Canada's Civil Society Calls for Chevron's Assets To Be Frozen So Ecuador Judgment Can Be Paid – By Paul Paz y Miño and Kevin Koenig, Amazon Watch, September 7, 2016
- Pacific pariah: how Australia’s love of coal has left it out in the diplomatic cold – By Wesley Morgan, The Conversation, September 6, 2016
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