Eco Unionist News

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, September 20, 2016

The following news items feature issues, discussions, campaigns, or information potentially relevant to green unionists:

Lead Stories:

• Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky – By C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout, September 17, 2016
• The Climate Mobilization Victory Plan: Foreword – By Paul Gilding, The Climate Mobilization, September 16, 2016
• French police fire tear gas at labor reform protesters – By Brian Love, Reuters, September 15, 2016; [related]: French Workers Step Up Labor Strikes: “With This Law, We’re Going Toward a Catastrophe” – By Cole Stangler, In These Times, September 14, 2016
• Guess Who’s Winning the Argument on Trade? – By Kathy Kiely, Moyers and Company, September 15, 2016
• Political declaration: International Meeting of the Struggling Youth: Women of Kobane – By staff, La Via Campesina, September 15, 2016
• #PrisonStrike Was Huge and It Is Continuing – By Support Prisoner Resistance, It's Going Down, September 14, 2016; [related]: Here's What's Gone Down So Far in Three Days of America's Largest Prison Strikes – By Jeremy Galloway, The Influence, September 12, 2016

Ongoing Mobilizations:

• Flush the TPP - Ongoing through 2016 | #FlushtheTPP
• Wendy’s Boycott Summit - Immokalee, FL: September 22-25, 2016
• Nyéléni Europe Movemet for Food Sovereignty - Cluj Napoca, Romania, October 26-30, 2016
• Lucas Plan 40th Anniversary - November 2016

The Thin Green Line:

• Anti-pipeline Movement Gathers Steam – By Chuck Collins, OtherWords, September 14, 2016
• Hundreds rally for and against methanol plant – By Marissa Luck, Daily News, September 14, 2016
• Rail proposal draws fire – By Jesse Burkhardt, The Dalles Chronicle, September 9, 2016
• This “Gas Highway” Is Angering Everyone in Its Path – By Christiana Lilly, Climate Desk, September 8, 2016

Just Transition:

• How do we get off fossil fuels when we’ve always feared change? – By Nathanael Johnson, Grist, September 13, 2016

Bread and Roses:

• California Farmworkers Win Equal Overtime: “This Bill Corrects 78 Years of Discrimination” – By Mario Vasquez, In These Times, September 16, 2016; [related]: California first U.S. state to promise overtime to farmworkers – By Sharon Bernstein, Reuters, September 12, 2016 | In historic move, Gov. Jerry Brown expands overtime pay for California farmworkers – By Jazmine Ulloa and John Myers, Los Angeles Times, September 12, 2016
• Monsanto and Bayer: Why Food and Agriculture Just Took a Turn For The Worse – By Colin Todhunter, CounterPunch, September 16, 2016; [related]: International Criminal Court Paves Way to Prosecute Monsanto – By Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers Association, September 15, 2016 | Bayer to Buy Monsanto Creating World's Largest Seed and Pesticide Company – By Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch, September 14, 2016 | Big deal: Bayer getting Monsanto for $66B – By Nathan Bomey, USA Today, September 14, 2016 | Farmers Union Condemns Bayer/Monsanto Deal – By Andrew Jerome, Institute for Public Accuracy, September 14, 2016 | International Monsanto Citizens’ Tribunal Names New Judges, Announces Program and Registration – By Tjerk Dalhuisen, Katherine Paul, and Ercilia Sahores, Organic Consumers Association, September 14, 2016
• International Mission of Solidarity with Colombia – By staff, La Via Campesina, September 15, 2016
• A union victory in Sakuma's fields – By Steve Leigh, Socialist Worker, September 15, 2016
• Even Organic Farms Sacrifice Sustainability to Cut Costs – By Jill Richardson, OtherWords, September 14, 2016
• No Labor Day holiday respite for Wendy’s! – By staff, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, September 12, 2016

An Injury to One is an Injury to All:

• After wage cases, energy sector makes biggest payouts to employees – By LM Sixel, FuelFix, September 15, 2016
• Transit workers vote down proposed contract – By Andrew Goldstein, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 12, 2016

Whistle Blowers:

• $90 Billion Whistleblower Suit Filed Against Four of the Nation's Largest Chemical Companies – By Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch, September 16, 2016
• Why Do Oil Trains Derail More Often than Ethanol Trains? – By Justin Mikulka, DeSmog Blog, September 15, 2016; [related]: Bomb Trains: What Can We Learn From Shipping Ethanol to Improve Oil-By-Rail Safety? – By Justin Mikulka, DeSmog Blog, September 14, 2016
• A Pipeline By A Different Name: Algonquin – By Christine Macpherson, Articulate Ink, September 12, 2016

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, September 20, 2016

A supplement to Eco Unionist News:

Lead Stories:

• Chevron PR Firm's Local "News" Site Draws Attention from Koch Industries, Alarm from Media Watchdogs – By Sharon Kelly, DeSmog Blog, September 18, 2016
• Challenging Rising Inequality – By Mark Goldring, The Ecologist, September 17, 2016
• Corporations rule the world? Not quite. But we must stop them while we still can! – By Aisha Dodwell, The Ecologist, September 13, 2016
• Chevron’s "Hell Freezes Over" Tour – By Paul Paz y Miño and Kevin Koenig, Amazon Watch, September 12, 2016
• Just 90 companies are to blame for most climate change, this 'carbon accountant' says – By Douglas Starr, Science, August 25, 2016

The Man Behind the Curtain:

• Australia's Climate Denialist Senator Malcolm Roberts Fails High School Science in Maiden Speech – By Graham Readfearn, DeSmog Blog, September 15, 2016
• ARENA is down – but not out – By Tristan Edis, REnew Economy, September 14, 2016; [related]: Myth of gas; has South Australia capitulated to fossil fuels? – By Dr David Shearman and Dr Graeme Mcleay, REnew Economy, September 14, 2016 | Turnbull marks 1st anniversary with act of clean energy vandalism – By Giles Parkinson, REnew Economy, September 14, 2016 | Australia Reaches Cross-Bench Agreement To Cut Renewable Energy Funding By $500 Million – By Joshua S Hill, Clean Technica, September 13, 2016
• Leaked documents reveal secretive influence of corporate cash on politics – By Ed Pilkington, The Guardian, September 14, 2016
• Sugar Industry Paid Harvard Scientists to Shift Blame to Fat – By Genna Reed, Union of Concerned Scientists, September 14, 2016
• Trump and the Republican Party are doing Big Oil's bidding – By Dana Nuccitelli, The Guardian, September 14, 2016
• Garbage in, garbage out: Why the CCA got it so wrong – By Giles Parkinson, REnew Economy, September 12, 2016
• Here Are All the Ways That Politicians Lie About Science – By Erica Langston, Climate Desk, September 12, 2016

Green is the New Red:

• Oil-Backed Lawmakers Accused of Orchestrating 'Charade' on Behalf of ExxonMobil – By Deirdre Fulton, Common Dreams, September 14, 2016; [related]: N.Y. investigation looking at Exxon’s valuation of reserves – By Bloomberg, FuelFix, September 16, 2016 | Does Congress have authority to subpoena AGs over climate change? – By James Osborne, FuelFix, September 14, 2016 | The #ExxonKnew hearing was perfectly on brand for Congress right now – By Samantha Page, Think Progress, September 14, 2016 | Lamar Smith Hearing Attempts to Bolster Legal Argument for Subpoenas – By David Hasemyer, InsideClimate News, September 14, 2016 | Lawyers told House Science Chair Lamar Smith his subpoenas are trash – By Emma Foehringer Merchant, Grist, September 14, 2016 | Is There a Legal Precedent for Fighting Lamar Smith Subpoenas? Try 1960 – By David Hasemyer, InsideClimate News, September 13, 2016 | Constitutional Scholars Object to Lamar Smith's Exxon Subpoenas – By David Hasemyer, InsideClimate News, September 12, 2016
• Six Months Without Berta, Six Months Without Justice – By Laura Carlsen, CounterPunch, September 14, 2016

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, September 20, 2016

A supplement to Eco Unionist News:

Lead Stories:

• Another coal domino falls as the Indian Government’s billion tonnes a year by 2020 target fades - By Bob Burton, End Coal, September 14, 2016
• Seven charts show new renewables outpacing rising demand for first time - By Simon Evans, Carbon Brief, September 14, 2016
• Creditors lose historic sums in oil bankruptcies, Moody’s says - By Collin Eaton, FuelFix, September 12, 2016
• China’s Continuing Renewable Energy Revolution – latest trends in electric power generation - By John A. Mathews, Asia-Pacific Journal, September 1, 2016

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, September 13, 2016

The following news items feature issues, discussions, campaigns, or information potentially relevant to green unionists:

Lead Stories:

• 150 Million Workers in India Just Staged the Largest Strike in History To Resist Neoliberalism – By Theo Anderson, In These Times, September 9, 2016; [related]: The Biggest Strike in World History? No Thanks, We’re Focusing on the New iPhone - By Jim Naureckas, Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting, September 8, 2016 | Over 150 Million People Participate In Largest Labor Strike In History – By Eric Scott Pickard, Mint News Press, September 7, 2016
• Can We Bring Back Many Factory Jobs? Let’s Do the Math – By Frank Stricker, CounterPunch, September 8, 2016
• 45 Years After Attica, Prisoners Are Organizing What Could Be the Biggest Prison Strike Ever – By Anna Simonton, In These Times, September 8, 2016
• Political organization, not light bulbs, key to climate fight says Bill McKibben – By Joe Ware, New Internationalist, September 8, 2016
• The Rise of the Unorganizable - Jacobin, September 7, 2016

Ongoing Mobilizations:

• Flush the TPP - Ongoing through 2016 | #FlushtheTPP
• NoDAPL Global Weeks of Solidarity - September 3-17, Camp of the Sacred Stones and Red Warrior Camp, ND | #NoDAPL
• Free Space Utopia in Defense of Land - September 17-18, Genova, Italy
• Wendy’s Boycott Summit - Immokalee, FL: September 22-25, 2016
• Nyéléni Europe Movemet for Food Sovereignty - Cluj Napoca, Romania, October 26-30, 2016
• Lucas Plan 40th Anniversary - November 2016

The Thin Green Line:

• Opinion: Northwest communities can’t risk another oil train disaster – By Arlene Burns, Ben Stuckart, and Adrienne Fraley-Monillas, Seattle Times, September 7, 2016

Just Transition:

• Jobs in Renewable Energy: the importance of Community Ownership, and the growth of good union jobs under California’s policies - By Elizabeth Perry, Work and Climate Change Report, September 10, 2016
• Canadian Building organizations call for Zero Emissions by 2030, along with World Green Building Council; Vancouver and Victoria take action - By Elizabeth Perry, Work and Climate Change Report, September 6, 2016
• Massive support for community renewable energy - By Oliver Tickell, Ecologist, September 6, 2016
• Can the ‘new economy’ and labor movements come together again? - By Eric Dirnbach, Waging Nonviolence, August 31, 2016

Bread and Roses:

• We must reclaim our freedom from Monsanto like we did from the British – By Vandana Shiva, New Internationalist, September 8, 2016
• Farmworkers, allies announce ‘Behind the Braids’ national truth tours, weekend of action this fall! – By staff, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, September 8, 2016
• "More farmers, better food" – By Isabel Vilalba, La Via Campesina, September 7, 2016
• Bayer Increases Bid To Form GM and Pesticide ‘Juggernaut’ with Monsanto – By staff, Global Justice Ecology Project, September 6, 2016
• From the archive: "Second Seattle" in Cancun (2003) – By Peter Rosset, La Via Campesina, September 6, 2016
• New Mexican farmers struggle to stay on the land – By J.R. Logan, Taos News, September 6, 2016
• "Take agriculture out of the WTO", Farmer Lee Kyung Hae; Reproducing his letter from 2003 – By staff, La Via Campesina, September 6, 2016

An Injury to One is an Injury to All:

• Federal Judge Finds Violation in Pennslvania’s Refusal to Treat Mumia’s Hep-C – By Dave Lindorff, CounterPunch, September 9, 2016
• No State Charges For Cops Who Shot And Killed Mexican Farmworker In Washington State – By Eric M. Johnson, Huffington Post, September 9, 2016
• Union faces £1 million bill for fighting Southern Rail firm – By Raymie Kiernan, Socialist Worker (UK), September 9, 2016
• BART could face additional fines for 2013 worker deaths – By Erin Baldassari, East Bay Times, September 7, 2016
• Tories bail out Southern rail bosses to bash the union – By Raymie Kiernan, Socialist Worker (UK), September 7, 2016
• Union Leadership Disputes Dominion Statement on Lockout – By staff, Clinton County Record, September 7, 2016
• Major job losses feared when self-driving cars take to the road; Former SEIU Pres Andy Stern Says Plan Ahead – By David R. Baker and Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle, September 6, 2016 

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, September 13, 2016

The following unions have issued statements in solidarity with those opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline; we will add additional unions to this list as we become aware of their having taken a similar stand:

1. IWW - September 3, 2016
2. Border Agricultural Workers - September 7, 2016
3. Amalgamated Transport Union - September 9, 2016
4. Communications Workers of America - September 9, 2016
5. National Nurses United - September 9, 2016
6. ILWU Local 19 - September 12, 2016
7. United Electrical Workers - September 12, 2016

(This may not be a complete list, but we will endeavor to correct any oversights as we find them. If you know of additional unions who have joined this list, please contact us at euc@iww.org.)

On the other hand, some unions insist on staying on the wrong side of history:

• Unions want governor to ensure safety - By Lauren Donovan, Bismark Tribune, September 7, 2016

Dakota Access Pipeline Halted (or was it?):

• Joint Statement from the Department of Justice, the Department of the Army and the Department of the Interior Regarding Standing Rock Sioux Tribe v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Office of Public Affairs, Department of Justice, September 9, 2016; [related]: In Victory For Protesters, Obama Administration Halts North Dakota Pipeline - By Amy Sisk, NPR, September 10, 2016 | Tribes Win One Fight, Lose Another In Pipeline Protest - By Amy Sisk, Inside Energy, September 10, 2016 | After protests, U.S. halts North Dakota pipeline near tribal lands - By Ruthy Munoz and Dave Thompson, Reuters, September 9, 2016 | As The Court Sided With A Controversial Oil Pipeline, The Government Called For A Construction Pause – By Alejandro Dávila Fragoso, Think Progress, September 9, 2016 | Dakota Access Pipeline Stopped by Obama Administration After Army Reserves Called In - By staff, Counter Current News, September 9, 2016 | Federal Government Halts Work on Part of Pipeline Project - By Dave Kolpack and James MacPherson, ABC News, September 9, 2016  | Judge allows Dakota pipeline to move ahead - By Associated Press, FuelFix, September 9, 2016 | Obama administration intervenes in Dakota pipeline project opposed by Standing Rock Sioux, halts construction - By Jorge Barrera, APTN, September 9, 2016 | Obama administration orders ND pipeline construction to stop - By Devin Henry, The Hill, September 9, 2016 | Tribes Prevail In North Dakota Pipeline Fight—For Now - By Stephanie Joyce, Wyoming Public Radio and Amy Sisk, Inside Energy, September 9, 2016 | US Government Steps In After Judge Rules Against Standing Rock Sioux - By Deirdre Fulton, Common Dreams, September 9, 2016
• Pipeline Fighters React to Obama Administration’s Call for Construction Halt on Dakota Access Pipeline at Key Areas Near Sacred Stone Camp That Threaten Water, Sacred Sites - By Mark Hefflinger, Bold Nebraska, September 9, 2016 [related]:  Bold’s Jane Kleeb and Standing Rock Tribe Chair Dave Archambault on MSNBC’s “AM Joy” to Discuss Pres. Obama Order to Halt Dakota Access Pipeline Construction - By Mark Hefflinger, Bold Nebraska, September 10, 2016 | Erased By False Victory: Obama Hasn’t Stopped DAPL - By Kelly Hayes, Transformative Spaces, September 10, 2016; | Lakota Strong Heart Warrior Society Statement on Dakota Access Pipeline Injunction Decision and Nationhood - By Canupa Gluha Mani, Cante Tenza Okolakiciye, September 9, 2016 | Mixed Reactions as Feds Give Standing Rock Sioux Partial Victory - By Larry Buhl, DeSmog Blog, September 9, 2016 | Standing Rock Sioux Win a major Battle in the War Against Capital - By Richard Mellor, Facts For Working People, September 10, 2016
• Judgement Day for North Dakota’s Water Protectors - By Andy Rowell, Oil Change International, September 9, 2016
• The Legal Case for Blocking the Dakota Access Pipeline - By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, September 9, 2016
• Dakota Access Pipeline Resistance: Stay in the Game. We’re Winning - By Gyasi Ross, Indian Country Today, September 7, 2016
• Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's Lawyer: Judge's Ruling Allows Dakota Access to "Desecrate" Sacred Ground - Stephanie Tsosie interviewed by Juan González and Amy Goodman, Democracy Now, September 7, 2016
• Judge Brokers Temporary Halt In Dakota Access Construction - By Amy Sisk, Inside Energy, September 6, 2016; [related]: Company agrees to temporarily halt some North Dakota pipeline work - By Julia Harte, Reuters, September 7, 2016 | Destruction of Sacred Burial Grounds Prompts Federal Judge to Protect Some Tribal Sites from Dakota Access Pipeline - By Larry Buhl, DeSmog Blog, September 6, 2016 | Tribes Secure Limited Victory with Partial Halt on Dakota Pipeline - By Lauren McCauley, Common Dreams, September 6, 2016 | Judge grants partial stop on North Dakota pipeline work - By Associated Press, FuelFix, September 6, 2016 | Judge Hauls Dakota Access Into Court After Sacred Sites Bulldozed, Dogs Unleashed on Tribe Members - By John Zangas, DC Media Group, September 5, 2016

Amy Goodman Targeted:

• Arrest Warrant Issued for Amy Goodman in North Dakota After Covering Pipeline Protest – By RL Miller, Democracy Now!, September 10, 2016; [related]: Arrest Warrant Issued For Journalist Amy Goodman After Covering Dakota Access Pipeline Protests – By Laurel Raymond, Think Progress, September 11, 2016 | Arrest Warrant Issued For Amy Goodman of Democracy Now After Her Kick-Ass Reporting on Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) - By Emerson Urry, EnviroNews, September 10, 2016

Jill Stein Arrested:

• Jill Stein Charged With Criminal Trespass At Dakota Access Protest - By Amy Sisk, Inside Energy, September 7, 2016; [related]: Arrest warrants issued for Jill Stein, running mate after N.D. protest - By Eliza Collins, USA Today, September 7, 2016 | Jill Stein Spray Paints a Bulldozer and More Protesters Lock Down at #NoDAPL - By Kelly Hayes, Truthout, September 7, 2016 | Charges to be filed against presidential candidate - By Blair Emerson, Bismarck Tribune, September 6, 2016 | The Latest: Charges Planned Against Jill Stein From Protest - By staff, Keloland, September 6, 2016

Tin Soldiers and Nixon's Comin'...

• National Guard on Standby in North Dakota Before Court Ruling on Dakota Access Pipeline - Tara Houska interviewed by Juan González and Amy Goodman, Democracy Now, September 9, 2016 [related]: Gov. Dalrymple calls on ND National Guard to assist with Dakota Access Pipeline protest security - By staff, KFYRT NBC TV 5, September 8, 2016 | N.D. Governor To Activate National Guard Ahead Of Friday Pipeline Ruling - By staff, Billings Gazette, September 8, 2016
• North Dakota becomes first US state to legalise use of armed drones by police - By Henry Austin, Independent, September 8, 2016

Men Behind the Curtain:

• Who Is Funding the Dakota Access Pipeline? Bank of America, HSBC, UBS, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo - Hugh MacMillan interviewed by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now, September 9, 2016; [related]: Who's Banking on the Dakota Access Pipeline? - By Jo Miles and Hugh MacMillan, Food and Water Watch, September 6, 2016
• Who is the shadowy security company attacking pipeline protestors? - By Meteor Blades, Red, Green, and Blue, September 9, 2016
• ‘The Wild West Of Money In Politics’: Dakota Access Pipeline Builder Spends Millions To Influence Elections - By Kit O'Connell, Mint News Press, September 7, 2016
• Enbridge Spreads Tentacles to Acquire Spectra, Creating 'Pipeline Enemy #1' - By Deirdre Fulton, Common Dreams, September 6, 2016
• How the U.S. Government Is Helping Corporations Plunder Native Land - By Stephanie Woodard, In These Times, September 6, 2016

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

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, September 13, 2016

A supplement to Eco Unionist News:

Lead Stories:

• Peabody Energy’s Pathway Out Of Bankruptcy Leads … Backs To Bankruptcy, Says IEEFA - By Joshua S Hill , Clean Technica, September 8, 2016; [related]: As coal companies sink into bankruptcy, who will pay to clean up their old mines? - By David Roberts, Vox, September 2, 2016
• Frustration among out-of-work attendees at annual Labour Day BBQ - By Roberta Bell, CBC, September 5, 2016
• State of The Transition, August 2016: Tailwinds for clean energy and the Paris agreement, deepening doldrums for the incumbency - By Jeremy Leggett, Jeremy Leggett, September 4, 2016

Carbon Market Watch:

• Panic buying sees coking coal price jump 20% in a week - By Frik Els, Mining.Com, September 11, 2016
• South African mining output falls sharply - By Valentina Ruiz Leotaud, Mining.Com, September 11, 2016
• One Hundred Years of Natural Gas? Not At These Prices - By Art Berman, The Petroleum Truth Report, September 8, 2016
• Traders see low prices, more pain ahead for oil industry - By Bloomberg, FuelFix, September 8, 2016; [related]: Oil trims weekly gains as market discounts drop in inventories - By Bloomberg, FuelFix, September 9, 2016 | Oil climbs on report of inventory decline - By Bloomberg, FuelFix, September 8, 2016 | Oil, gasoline inventories plunge; crude prices rise - By Staff, FuelFix, September 8, 2016 | Oil advances as traders look to OPEC, Russia for signs of output freeze - By Bloomberg, FuelFix, September 7, 2016 | Market Currents: Production freeze hopes fizzle - By Matt Smith, FuelFix, September 6, 2016
• Global Coal Plant Pipeline Slows, According To CoalSwarm - By Joshua S Hill, Clean Technica, September 7, 2016

Other Carbon Bubble News:

• Norway's Wealth Fund Dumps Duke Energy Over 'Risk of Severe Environmental Damage' - By Donna Lisenby, EcoWatch, September 8, 2016
• The Energy-Water Nexus [25] - Jordan Macknick interviewed by Chris Nelder, The Energy Transition Show, September 7, 2016
• Great Lakes Region Pivots From Fossil Fuels - By Codi Kozacek, Circle of Blue, September 6, 2016
• Oil downturn ripples through city finances in New Mexico - By Morgan Lee, Associated Press, September 6, 2016
• Waiting for rebound, producers still looks at west coast for coal export potential - By Heather Richards, Casper Star Tribune, September 4, 2016

Utility Death Spiral News:

• NSW energy minister blames Basslink for SA price spikes - By Giles Parkinson, REnew Economy, September 9, 2016; [related]: Gas plants fingered again for South Australian power price hikes - By Giles Parkinson, REnew Economy, September 6, 2016
• Solar developer protests community solar size in Colorado Xcel settlement - By Robert Walton, Utility Dive, September 7, 2016
• New proposals from Iowa utilities raise red flags for solar advocates - By Karen Uhlenhuth, Midwest Energy News, September 6, 2016

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Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, September 7, 2016

The following news items feature issues, discussions, campaigns, or information potentially relevant to green unionists:

Lead Stories:

• Labor Day 2016: We Need Unions for Environmental, Racial and Climate Justice – By Larry Williams Jr, Sierra Club, September 2, 2016
• World's Largest Strike? Tens of Millions in India Rise Up Against Right-Wing Economic Policies – By Nika Knight, Common Dreams, September 2, 2016
• TPP Is Not Dead, Unfortunately – By Lori Wallach, Huffington Post, August 31, 2016; [related]: France demands an end to TTIP talks – By Sean Farrell, The Guardian, August 30, 2016  | Germany’s Vice-Chancellor says ‘TTIP has failed’ – By staff, Global Justice Ecology Project, August 29, 2016 | Why The TPP and TTIP Trade Deals May Now Be Dead In The Water – By Kate Aronoff, In These Times, August 29, 2016 | TTIP has failed; but no one is admitting it, says German Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel – By Alexandra Sims and Jon Stone, The Independent, August 28, 2016 | Obama’s chances to sign TPP sink as Senate majority leader says no to vote – By staff, Russia Times, August 26, 2016
• Labor's New Sources of Leverage – Kim Moody interviewed by Chris Brooks, Labor Notes, August 12, 2016

Ongoing Mobilizations:

• Flush the TPP - Ongoing through 2016 | #FlushtheTPP
• NoDAPL Global Weeks of Solidarity - September 3-17, Camp of the Sacred Stones and Red Warrior Camp, ND | #NoDAPL
  Power Shift Southeast - Orlando, FL: September 9-11, 2016
• Free Space Utopia in Defense of Land - September 17-18, Genova, Italy
• Wendy’s Boycott Summit - Immokalee, FL: September 22-25, 2016
• Nyéléni Europe Movemet for Food Sovereignty - Cluj Napoca, Romania, October 26-30, 2016
• Lucas Plan 40th Anniversary - November 2016

The Thin Green Line:

• Clean Energy Jobs Are Exploding in America. Why Don’t Mainstream Reporters Know? – By Jigar Shah, Greentech Media, September 2, 2016
• Solidarity, love, & resistance: marching for justice in the Gulf Coast – By Genny Roman, 350, September 2, 2016

Just Transition:

• G20: Dodged taxes could finance renewable power for world's poorest 50% – By Dipti Bhatnagar and Sam Cossar-Gilbert, The Ecologist, September 2, 2016
• New $3.6B Project in Iowa Could Be One of Many ‘Mega’ Wind Orders – By Julia Pyper, Greentech Media, August 31, 2016
• The Commons: A Frame for Thinking Beyond Growth – By Silke Helfrich, Green European Journal, August 30, 2016
• Oilpatch to Solar Field: Alberta Oil and Gas Workforce Lines Up for Solar Training – By Aurora Tejeida, Green European Journal, August 29, 2016
• Why three-day weekends could help to save the world – By Alex Williams, The Independent, August 29, 2016 

Bread and Roses:

• How a meeting in Cork could save rural Europe – By Ramona Duminicioiu and Stanka Becheva, EurActiv, September 4, 2016
• National Council of Churches, Robert F. Kennedy Center endorse Wendy’s Boycott! – By staff, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, September 1, 2016
• [Letter to the Editor] Sonoma magazine lacking sensitivity for farm workers? – By Pamela Singer, Wine and Water Watch, September 1, 2016
• No Other Way Than to Struggle: The Farmworker-Led Boycott of Driscoll's Berries – Felimon Piñeda interviewed by David Bacon, Truthout, August 31, 2016
• Historic Farmworker Overtime Bill Awaits California Governor's Nod – By Viji Sundaram, New America Media, August 30, 2016; [related]: California lawmakers pass farmworker overtime bill after 8 hours – By Alison Noon, NBC KCRA TV 3, August 30, 2016
• Zero Budget Natural Farming in India – By staff, La Via Campesina, August 30, 2016
• Meet the Farmworker Who Helped Win Rent Control in California’s Wine Country – Gervacio Peña López interviewed by Brooke Anderson and Davin Cardenas, Yes! Magazine, August 30, 2016 | en español: Gervacio Peña López, Centro Laboral de Graton; Conciencia Popular en un Clima Cambiante
• Shashe Agroecology School: A true centre of Agroecology and practical food Sovereignty – By staff, La Via Campesina, August 29, 2016
• UAWC condemns the Israeli decision to close and demolish school in Khan Al-Ahmar – By staff, La Via Campesina, August 29, 2016
• Being a Mexican migrant worker and female, a recipe for double discrimination – By Emilio Godoy, Equal Times, August 26, 2016 
• ChemChina-Syngenta deal: why it matters – By Adrian Ely, China Dialog, August 26, 2016
• Food Sovereignty in Rebellion: Decolonization, Autonomy, Gender Equity, and the Zapatista Solution – By Levi Gahman, Solutions, July 2016

An Injury to One is an Injury to All:

• Alaska’s emergency wildfire crews are burning out – By Gloria Dickie, High Country News, September 5, 2016
• Isis’ oil empire is employing thousands of children – By Karl Mathiesen, Climate Change News, September 5, 2016
• Women Say EPA Officials Sexually Harassed Them—and Their Bosses Did Nothing – By Natalie Schreyer, Mother Jones, September 2, 2016
• Union decline lowers wages of nonunion workers – By Jake Rosenfeld, Patrick Denice, and Jennifer Laird, Economic Policy Institute, August 30, 2016; [related]: Strong Unions Help All Workers—Not Just Union Workers – By David Moberg, In These Times, September 5, 2016 | How a union raises your wage — even if you're not a member – By Jeff Spross, The Week, August 31, 2016
• Nurses Nationwide Focus On Workplace Violence Protections – By Pattie Lockard, Nurse Talk Radio, August 29, 2016 
• Clashes erupt between police, protesting miners in Bolivia – By staff, Press TV, August 24, 2016

Whistle Blowers:

• Off-Road Race Through Nevada Monument Aborted – By Kirsten Stade, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, September 1, 2016

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, September 7, 2016

The IWW passed the following emergency resolution at its annual, 2016, International Delegate Convention in Oakland, California, on Saturday, September 3, 2016:

The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) stands in Solidarity with the resistance against the Dakota Access Pipeline. We call on the labor movement and working class to take a stand against environmental racism and join the fight for a just transition as our collective future is at stake. We recognize that the capitalist system that oppresses the working class has always oppressed indigenous people of the world. Therefore we feel that settlers and indigenous workers should unite to take direct action against colonial industrial capitalism and do everything in our power to restore justice to indigenous people and Mother Earth. An injury to one is an injury to all! #nodapl #sacredstonespiritcamp #redwarriorcamp #waterislife

Groups Announce Global Call to Action in Solidarity with Dakota Pipeline Resistance

International protests targeting financiers, other companies to run September 3-17

• Krystal Two Bulls, (406) 740-1508, RedWarriorCamp@gmail.com
• Cody Hall: 605-220-2531
• Nick Katkevich, 401-559-6218, nick@fangtogether.org

Photos and News: href="http://nodaplsolidarity.org">NoDaplSolidarity.org

Cannon Ball, N.D.– The Red Warrior Camp, in partnership with the Camp of the Sacred Stones issued an official Call to Action Wednesday for allies from around the world to stand ?in solidarity with the groups by joining the NoDAPL Global Weeks of Solidarity Actions from September 3 – 17.

The groups call on supporters to organize protest actions at Citigroup, TD Bank, and the Japan-based Mizuho Bank locations to highlight the companies’ financing of the $3.7 billion Dakota Access Pipeline. If built, the new pipeline is expected to deliver 570,000 gallons of crude oil across 1,172 miles across North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and Illinois, where it will link to infrastructure able to transport the oil to the Gulf of Mexico.

According to the Call to Action:

“Water is a necessity for all life. Water is life. Now is the time for all people from all walks of life to join together to stop the desecration and destruction of water, land and life! Please join our Indigenous led movement to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline by planning or joining an action near you!”

The need for clean water is also at the heart of a legal challenge against the Army Corps of Engineers, brought by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe with representation from Earthjustice and filed on July 27, 2016. The lawsuit alleges that the Corps’ approval of the permit that allows the oil company to dig the pipeline under the Missouri River just upstream of the reservation and the Tribe’s drinking water supply violates the Clean Water Act and other federal laws. An injunction that would stop construction while legal challenges are heard is expected by September 9.

The groups also launched a new website that includes a mapof protest actions planned, news and updates: NoDaplSolidarity.org.

Find NoDaplSolidarity on social Media:facebook.com/RedWarriorCampand @RedWarriorCamp on Twitter.

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, September 7, 2016

A supplement to Eco Unionist News:

Lead Stories:

• For-Profit Pipeline Company Claims "Public Benefit" in Seizing Private Lands in Pennsylvania - By Larry Buhl, DeSmog Blog, August 31, 2016
• If the U.S. is talking about abandoning NAFTA, then maybe we should too - By Gordon Laxer, Rabble.Ca, August 31, 2016
• Study assesses climate change vulnerability in urban America - By Milken Institute School of Public Health, Eureka Alert!, August 31, 2016
• The Billion Dollar Ultimatum - By Chris Hamby, BuzzFeed, August 30, 2016
• Major Insurers to G20 Nations: Stop Wasting Time, Phase-Out Fossil Fuel Subsidies by 2020 - By Kyla Mandel, DeSmog UK, August 30, 2016; [related]: Major Insurers With $1.2 Trillion In Assets Urge G20 Leaders To Phase Out Fossil Fuel Subsidies - By Joshua S Hill, Clean Technica, August 30, 2016 | Insurance funds worth $1.2tn tell G20 to stop funding fossil fuels by 2020 - By Karl Mathiesen, Climate Change News, August 28, 2016
• Here’s Why Americans Are Mad as Hell at Wall Street and Washington - By Pam Martens and Russ Martens, Wall Street on Parade, August 12, 2016

The Man Behind the Curtain:

• Fossil fuel subsidies are “the world’s dumbest policy” – so why won’t G20 leaders end them? - By Alex Doukas, Oil Change International, September 5, 2016
• The Dense web of financial interests - By Mike Spille, The Cost of the Pipeline, September 3, 2016
• Public Relations Firm Claims to Have Ghost Written Thousands of Op-Eds in Major U.S. Newspapers - By David Swanson, CounterPunch, September 2, 2016
• Climate Change Authority cops out – just when we need it most - By Christine Milne, REnew Economy, September 1, 2016
• Network Map of the Koch-Funded Fueling U.S. Forward Campaign - By Brendan DeMelle, Koch vs Clean, September 1, 2016
• Railroad Commission needs transformation, not reform - By Priscilla Villa, Houston Chronicle, September 1, 2016
• When Australian Senator Malcolm Roberts Thanked 9/11 Truthers and New World Order Conspiracists For Their Science Guidance - By Graham Readfearn, DeSmog Blog, September 1, 2016
• Americans Now More Politically Polarized On Climate Change Than Ever Before, Analysis Finds - By Graham Readfearn, DeSmog Blog, August 31, 2016
• Canadian Taxpayers Fork Out $3.3 Billion Every Year to Super Profitable Oil Companies - By Kevin Grandia, DeSmog Blog, August 31, 2016
• Dutch Wind Power Proponents Face Opposition -  By John J. Berger, Renewable Energy World, August 31, 2016
• Lamar Smith to hold hearing over Exxon climate fight - By James Osborne, FuelFix, August 31, 2016
• Using Trump Playbook, Chamber Of Commerce Invents Absurd Fossil Fuel Claims - By Mary Ellen Kustin, Think Progress, August 31, 2016
• Colorado Senator Says Candidates Who Oppose Fossil Fuels ‘Unfit’ For Office - By Natasha Geiling, Think Progress, August 29, 2016

Green is the New Red:

• "We shall not rest until we’ve freed all our political prisoners", affirms Via Campesina - By Iris Pacheco, La Via Campesina, August 30, 2016
• Texas Ranch Owner Battles TransCanada to Restore Her Pipeline-Scarred Land - By Julie Dermansky, DeSmog Blog, August 28, 2016

Greenwashers:

• Landscapes of Dispossession: the National Park Service at 100 Years - By Nick Alexandrov, CounterPunch, September 3, 2016
• National Energy Board hearings into Energy East pipeline suspended - By Brent Patterson, Rabble.Ca, August 31, 2016
• [Video]: Trailer for COP21 Documentary ‘Not Without Us’ - By staff, Global Justice Ecology Project, August 31, 2016
• Conservation Efforts Are Still Violating Indigenous Rights - By Andrew E. Miller, Amazon Watch, August 30, 2016
• Governor Ayade’s contradictions on REDD in Cross River State, Nigeria - By Chris Lang, REDD Monitor, August 30, 2016
• India: The Parliament violates forest people’s rights and promotes further plantations - By staff, World Rainforest Movement, August 30, 2016
• Wildlife conservationists need to break out of their Stockholm syndrome - By Margi Prideaux, Open Democracy, August 29, 2016
• Delta tunnels fail financially - By Alex Breitler, Stockton Record, August 24, 2016

Disaster Capitalism:

• Gulf Oil Leases Spark Outcry But Little Revenue - Anne Rolfes interviewed by Helen Palmer, Living on Earth, September 2, 2016
• Hurricane Katrina, Brought to You by Big Oil - By Anne Rolfes, Bridge the Gulf, September 2, 2016
• Public Cost of Fukushima Cleanup Tops $40 Billion and Is Expected to Climb - By Nadia Prupis, Common Dreams, August 29, 2016