Eco Unionist News

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, June 29, 2016

Image, right: Alameda County AFL-CIO Central Labor Council president, Josie Camacho, flanked by dozens of Bay Area union leaders and members, representing 21 Bay Area unions (including the Bay Area IWW), join in with Oakland residents to oppose coal handling, storage, shipment, and exports in the Port of Oakland at a special City Council hearing, held June 27, 2016. At the conclusion of the meeting, the City Council voted unanimously, 7-0 with one member absent, in support of the coal ban. Image by Brooke Anderson.

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

Lead Stories:

• Oakland bans coal shipments in a blow to planned export facility - By William Yardley and Natalie Kitroeff, Los Angeles Times, June 28, 2016; [related]: Oakland's Anti-Coal Activists Decry ‘Deceptive’ Mailer - By Arielle Swedback, East Bay Express, June 27, 2016 | Coal: Economic opportunity or environmental risk for poor neighborood? - By Associated Press, FuelFix, June 27, 2016 | Oakland Just Banned Coal! Coal Processing, Loading and Unloading Banned in Oakland - By J P Masser, Daily Kos, June 27, 2016
• As Britain exits, the need for a strong climate movement remains - By Kate Aronoff, Waging Nonviolence, June 24, 2016
• Mega Corporation Gobbles Up Slightly Less-Mega Corporation; Chops Jobs to Increase Profits; Blames Enviros. Film at 11 - By Matthew Koehler, CounterPunch, June 24, 2016
• Zimbabwe: Trade Unions Embrace Climate Change - By staff, All Africa, June 23, 2016 
• Meet the McDonald’s Cashier Taking on Her CEO for Climate Change - By Brooke Anderson, Yes!, June 17, 2016
• The War on Workers’ Comp - By Stephen Franklin, In These Times, June 13, 2016

Ongoing Mobilizations:

• Flush the TPP - Ongoing through 2016 | #FlushtheTPP
• March for a Clean Energy Revolution - July 24, 2016, Philadelphia | #CleanEnergyMarch
• International Resistance Gathering Against Extractivism - July 28-30, Mexico
• TWAC Cascadia 2016 - August 8th-15th 2016

The Thin Green Line:

• First Day of Hearings on Vancouver, WA Oil Terminal Begins with Broad Opposition - By staff, Stand Up to Oil, June 27, 2016
• Environmentalists, politicians call for shutdown of coal leases in Seattle - By Hal Bernton, Seattle Times, June 21, 2016

Just Transition:

• Oilsands workers know how to lead the way on climate change - By Lliam Hildebrand, Iron and Earth, June 27, 2016; [related]: Iron And Earth: Oilsands Workers Call For Training In Renewable Energy - By David Dodge and Dylan Thompson, Huffington Post, June 24, 2016
• Ontario’s Green Energy Act: A job creation success - By Elizabeth Perry, Work and Climate Change Report, June 27, 2016; [related]: Clean Energy Investment Slows in Canada; Canada ranks 11th in Clean Energy Jobs - By Elizabeth Perry, Work and Climate Change Report, June 26, 2016
• March for a Clean Energy Revolution at the DNC With Breast Cancer Action - By Alyssa Figueroa, EcoWatch, June 26, 2016
• Coal To Solar: Retraining Our Energy Workforce - By Glenn Meyers, Planetsave, June 25, 2016
• After Decades of Protest, Last California Nuclear Plant to Close & Be Replaced by Renewable Energy - Damon Moglen interviewed by Juan González and Amy Goodman, Democracy Now, June 22, 2016 [related]: Nuclear Shutdown in California includes Transition provisions for Workers - By Elizabeth Perry, Work and Climate Change Report, June 27, 2016 | Cost to Replace California Nuclear With Solar: $15 Billion - By Jim Polson and Mark Chediak, Bloomberg, June 23, 2016 | Diablo Shutdown Marks End of Atomic Era - By Harvey Wasserman, EcoWatch, June 23, 2016 | California Goes Nuclear Free As Diablo Canyon Closes In Favor Of Renewables - By Joshua S Hill, Clean Technica, June 22, 2016 | Honey I shrunk the utility: California's final nuclear plant closure attributed to CCA - By staff, Local Power, June 22, 2016 | PG&E to Replace Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant With 100% Carbon-Free Resources - By Jeff St. John, GreenTech Media, June 21, 2016 | PG&E to close Diablo Canyon nuclear plant, replace it with renewables, efficiency, storage - By Gavin Bade, Utility Dive, June 21, 2016
• Beyond Extreme Energy Too Extreme? Not At All - By Jlstewct, Beyond Extreme Energy, June 21, 2016
• Canada can transition to renewable energy in just a few decades, says Stanford University professor - By Monique Muise, Global News, June 12, 2016

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, June 29, 2016

A supplement to Eco Unionist News:

Lead Stories:

• Will Brexit end oil rally? - By Bloomberg, FuelFix, June 27, 2016; [related]: EU Shock Wave: The Latest from London as Market Upheaval Continues - By Paul Harris, Evaluate Energy, June 27, 2016 | Brexit and the energy equation - By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights, June 26, 2016 | Oil plunges on British vote to leave EU - By Bloomberg, FuelFix, June 24, 2016 | Oil down in advance of ‘Brexit’ vote - By Bloomberg, FuelFix, June 21, 2016
• 150 N.M. coal workers laid off as concerns over industry rise - By Rebecca Moss, New Mexican, June 26, 2016
• Oil bust leaves Texas, other states with massive well cleanup - By Associated Press, FuelFix, June 20, 2016  

Other Carbon Bubble News:

• Coal Troubles Hit Railroad Workers - By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy, June 28, 2016
• How energy’s troubles weigh on Houston economy - By Lydia DePillis, FuelFix, June 27, 2016
• Berlin’s Parliament Has Voted To Divest From Fossil Fuels - By James Ayre, Clean Technica, June 26, 2016
• Berlin votes to divest - By Louise Hazan, Fossil Free, June 23, 2016
• Feds, questioning reclamation plan, play trump card in Alpha Natural Resources bankruptcy - By Benjamin Storrow, Casper Star Tribune, June 23, 2016
• “There go the coal plants”: Philippines energy at a crossroad - By Gerry Arances, REnew Economy, June 23, 2016
• Government Opposes Alpha’s Plan To Sell Wyoming Mines - By Stephanie Joyce, Inside Energy, June 22, 2016
• Turkey coal surge an ‘historic error’ say economists - By Ed King, Climate Change News, June 22, 2016
• Will Congress protect retired coal miners? - By Ken Ward Jr, Charleston Gazette-Mail, June 22, 2016
• Cambridge Turns Its Back On Coal & Tar Sands Investments - By Joshua S Hill, Clean Technica, June 21, 2016
• Venezuela’s oil production could fall half a million barrels a day in 2016, Barclays says - By Collin Eaton, FuelFix, June 21, 2016
• As Wind Power Lifts Wyoming’s Fortunes, Coal Miners Are Left in the Dust - By Coral Davenport, New York Times, June 19, 2016
• U.S. Lawmakers Want To Ban Self-Bonding - By Leigh Paterson, Inside Energy, June 16, 2016

Utility Death Spiral News:

• UK Solar Energy Industry Loses More Than ½ Of Jobs Following Subsidy Cuts - By James Ayre, Clean Technica, June 26, 2016
• North Carolina lawmakers push measure to restrict wind farms - By Robert Walton, Utility Dive, June 24, 2016
• How storage can help solve the distributed energy 'death spiral' - By Herman K. Trabish, Utility Dive, June 21, 2016
• Morgan Stanley: Australian utilities underestimate disruptive power of solar+storage - By Peter Maloney, Utility Dive, June 21, 2016
• Why Battery Storage Costs In Australia May Fall 40% In Two Years - By Giles Parkinson, Clean Technica, June 21, 2016
• Deep Politics, Dark Money and Fraud Join the Solar Party - By Julia Pyper, GreenTech Media, June 20, 2016
• Utility Rate Changes Mean Cloudy Future For Montana Solar Power - By Corin Cates-Carney, Montana Public Radio, June 16, 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.

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, June 29, 2016

A supplement to Eco Unionist News:

Lead Stories:

• IEA report says fossil fuels killing three million people a year - By Tim Buckley, REnew Economy, June 27, 2016
• It’s Not Just Crimes Against Nature, It’s Crimes Against People - By Terry Odendahl, EcoWatch, June 22, 2016
• Why some of America’s richest people are living in the middle of nowhere - By Kim Soffen, Washington Post, June 22, 2016
• Scale of climate damages "could dwarf tobacco lawsuits" - By Megan Darby, Climate Change News, June 21, 2016
• Why Mining Corporations Love Trade Deals - By Ben Beachy, Huffington Post, June 21, 2016

The Man Behind the Curtain:

• Brexiters, Climate Deniers and Trump: A Small World - By ClimateDenierRoundup, Daily Kos, June 27, 2016
• A Brief History of Fossil-Fuelled Climate Denial - By John Cook, The University of Queensland, June 23, 2016
• Australia’s big energy switch: from coal and gas to wind and solar - By Giles Parkinson, Deseret News, June 23, 2016
• How IOGCC Spawned the Lawsuit That Just Overturned BLM Fracking Regulations on Public Lands - By Steve Horn, DeSmog Blog, June 23, 2016
• U.S. coal giant owed money to Canadian climate change deniers - By Charles Mandel, National Observer, June 16th 2016
• Exxon, Koch Ties May Help Explain Rep. Lamar Smith's Probing Request of "Exxon Knew" Environmental Groups - By Steve Horn, DeSmog Blog, June 21, 2016
• Oil-Funded Groups Have Spent $2.7 Million To Defeat California Candidates Who Want Climate Action - By Mike Gaworecki, DeSmog Blog, June 21, 2016
• Proposal Sparks Monumental Debate At The Grand Canyon - By Doug Puppel, KNPR, June 21, 2016
• Buzz Kill: How the Pesticide Industry Blocks Bee Protections Nationwide - By Tiffany Finck-Haynes and Christopher D. Cook, EcoWatch, June 20, 2016
• Groups demand federal probe into Utah role in coal port - By Brian Maffley, Salt Lake Tribune, June 20, 2016; [related]: Groups write U.S. Attorney General asking for investigation of coal shipping terminal deal - By Ben Lockhart, Deseret News, June 20, 2016
• Koch Front Groups Are Defending ExxonMobil’s Anti-Science Campaigns - By Connor Gibson, Greenpeace, June 20, 2016
• Western States Petroleum Association wins the prestigious “Scummy” Award - By Dan Bacher, Red, Green, and Blue, June 18, 2016
• Hot Mess: How Radioactive Fracking Waste Wound Up Near Homes And Schools - By Glynis Board, Ohio Valley Resource, June 17, 2016
• Peabody Coal’s Unprecedented Support for Climate Denial - By Aliya Haq, NRDC, June 17, 2016
• Exxon Has No Free Speech Rights to Commit Fraud, say Climate Groups - By Nadia Prupis, Common Dreams, June 17, 2016

Green is the New Red:

• Berta Cáceres's name was on Honduran military hitlist, says former soldier - By Nina Lakhani, The Guardian, June 21, 2016; [related]: Appeal to the world's free people: UAWC condemns the killing of Berta Cáceres - By Union of Agricultural Work Committees, La Via Campesina, June 22, 2016
• 185 Environmental Activists Across 16 Countries Were Killed in 2015 - By Emily J. Gertz, EcoWatch, June 20, 2016; [related]: 2015 Deadliest Year for Environmentalists on Record, Finds Report - By staff, Yale Environment 360, June 20, 2016 

Greenwashers:

• Obama Administration Approved Gulf Fracking During Deepwater Horizon Disaster - By Mike Ludwig, Truthout, June 24, 2016
• Some questions for WWF about its partnership with logging company Rougier in Cameroon - By Chris Lang, REDD Monitor, June 22, 2016
• FCA charges five people with £2.75 million boiler room scam, including Michael Nascimento and Jeannine Lewis - By Chris Lang, REDD Monitor, June 21, 2016
• Fracking, the Failure of Mainstream Greens and the Corporate Control of U.S. Energy Policy - By Mark Hand, CounterPunch, June 22, 2016 

Disaster Capitalism:

• Railroad blamed for fiery oil train derailment along Columbia River Gorge - By KATU News and Matthew Brown and Gillian Flaccus, Associated Press, KOMO News, June 23, 2016

Other News:

• Sacramento Judge Rules Delta Plan Is "Invalid" - By Dan Bacher, Indybay, June 23, 2016; [related]: C-WIN, Senator Lois Wolk Praise Judge's Decision To Toss Delta Plan - By Dan Bacher, Daily Kos, June 24, 2016
• Movie Review: There’s a Vast Cowspiracy about Climate Change - By Doug Boucher, Union Concerned Scientists, June 10, 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.

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, June 21, 2016

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

Lead Stories:

• Oil Companies Facing Spurt of Lawsuits After Robbing Oilfield Workers of Millions in Wages - By Larry Buhl, DeSmog Blog, June 19, 2016
• Rolling blockade at Burghfield nuclear weapons factory - By Theo Simon, Red Pepper, June 16, 2016
• American Seafood Has Its Own Forced Labor Problem - By Alex Sammon, Mother Jones, June 15, 2016; [related]: Let’s stop the downgrading of workers and jobs in supply chains - By Steve Cotton, Equal Times, June 7, 2016
• Nigeria: Niger Delta Avengers Threaten Further Violence in Oil-Producing Region - By Conor Gaffey, Newsweek, June 14, 2016
• Don’t Mess with the Corn: Lessons from Mexico’s Struggle against GMOs - By Soledad Barruti, Argentina Independent, June 7, 2016  

Ongoing Mobilizations:

• Flush the TPP - Ongoing through 2016 | #FlushtheTPP
• March for a Clean Energy Revolution - July 24, 2016, Philadelphia | #CleanEnergyMarch
• TWAC Cascadia 2016 - August 8th-15th 2016

The Thin Green Line:

• Public health experts expose coal hazard ‘protection’ fallacies - By Steve Masover, No Coal in Oakland, June 19, 2016
• Over a Quarter of a Million Public Comments Against Largest Coal Export Terminal in North America - By staff, Power Past Coal, June 13, 2016
• Bay Area Residents and Environmental Advocates Push Swift Adoption of Rule to Cap Refinery Emissions - By Andrés Soto and Ratha Lai, Communities for a Better Environment and Sierra Club SF Bay Chapter, June 14, 2016; [related]: Cap Bay Area refinery emissions now - By Andrés Soto and Sandy Saeteurn, San Francisco Chronicle, June 12, 2016
• Tesoro refinery expansion poses risk to community - By Alicia Rivera, Daily Breeze, June 3, 2016

Just Transition:

• Oil Sands Workers Fear Becoming Climate Change Casualties - By Mychaylo Prystupa, The Tyee, June 17, 2016
• 50% Renewables In Australia Could Create 28,000 New Jobs By 2030 - By Joshua S Hill, Clean Technica, June 17, 2016
• Australian taxpayers could pay billions to clean up old mines, report says - By Thom Mitchell, New Matilda, June 16, 2016
• Here’s How We Get to 100% Renewable Energy - By Richard Heinberg, EcoWatch, June 15, 2016
• Public Banks as the Antithesis of Neoliberalism - By Matt Stannard, Public Banking Institute, May 19, 2016
• Our Fossil-Fuel Economy Destroys the Earth and Exploits Humanity; Here's the Shift We Need to Be Sustainable - By Iliana Salazar-Dodge, Alternet, May 12, 2016

Bread and Roses:

• Pathways of Transition to Agroecological Food Systems - By Adam Parsons, CounterPunch, June 17, 2016
• TTIP and CETA: We won't let them trade us away - By Hanny van Geel, et. al., La Via Campesina, June 16, 2016; [related]: NFU Action alert: Trans Pacific Partnership input deadline coming soon - By National Farmers' Union, La Via Campesina, June 16, 2016
• Women lead the fight against corporate agriculture around the world - By Mark Karlin, Rabble.Ca, June 16, 2016
• “This Program should be everywhere…” - By staff, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, June 15, 2016
• Land Reform and food sovereignty - By Nyéléni, La Via Campesina, June 14, 2016
• With Measure 1 Failure, DRC Applauds North Dakotans for Mobilizing and Rejecting Corporate Farming - By staff, Dakota Resource Council, June 14, 2016
• Sakuma Brothers Farms Raises Wages After Farmworkers Walk Off the Job - By Ansel Herz, The Stranger, June 13, 2016

An Injury to One is an Injury to All:

• NUMSA supports the Working on Fire workers - By Patrick Craven, NUMSA, June 17, 2016
• City of Alexandria tries to censor ATU 981 transit workers - By staff, ATU, June 16, 2016
• Federal regulators must prohibit one-person freight train crews - By staff, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, June 16, 2016
• Nearly half of NYC private garbage trucks have maintenance issues; drivers say they’re ‘unsafe for everyone’ - By Dan Rivoli, New York Daily News, June 16, 2016
• Toxic Chemicals Found in Residents Living Near Oil and Gas Operations in Pavillion, Wyoming - By Coming Clean, EcoWatch, June 16, 2016
• Payout for widow of forestry worker killed near Stratford - By Jeremy Wilkinson, Stuff, June 3, 2016

Whistleblowers:

• OSHA launches pilot program for severe violators of whistleblower protection laws - By staff, BLR.com, June 7, 2016

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, June 21, 2016

A supplement to Eco Unionist News:

Lead Stories:

• Illinois coal’s last stand - By Kari Lydersen, Chicago Reader, June 15, 2016
• Solar and wind energy’s stunning cost falls to continue - By Giles Parkinson, REnew Economy, June 14, 2016; [related]: Solar To See Twice As Much Investment As Fossil Fuels By 2040 - By Nick Cunningham, OilPrice.Com, June 14, 2016; [and]: Renewables are poised to put global fossil fuel investment to shame - By Katie Herzog, Grist, June 13, 2016 
• The World Nears Peak Fossil Fuels for Electricity - By Tom Randall, Bloomberg, June 12, 2016; [related]: Are We Reaching Peak Fossil Fuel for Power Generation? - By Katherine Tweed, Green Tech Media, June 14, 2016 
• Coal Production Plummets to Lowest Level in 35 Years - By Clifford Krauss, New York Times, June 10, 2016
• Natural Gas Is Already Losing To Renewables - By Nick Cunningham, OilPrice.Com, June 9, 2016  

Other Carbon Bubble News:

• Brown coal’s bleak future as Victoria ramps up renewables - By Giles Parkinson, REnew Economy, June 17, 2016
• Job cuts could subside by 4th quarter. But there’s a big ‘if.’ - By Collin Eaton, FuelFix, June 16, 2016
• Kentucky Lawmakers Want To Revitalize Coal Country By Building A Prison - By Carimah Townes and Alejandro Davila Fragoso, Think Progress, June 16, 2016
• Coal’s claim on India’s future weakens further - By Bob Burton, End Coal, June 15, 2016
• Distributed renewables in Latin America and beyond [19] - Adam James interviewed by Chris Nelder, The Energy Transition Show, June 15, 2016
• Goldman Sachs: The oil rebound remains fragile - By Collin Eaton, FuelFix, June 15, 2016
• Re-tendering Hibernia contracts stressing workers, says union - By Terry Roberts, CBC, June 15, 2016
• Stockholm Divests From Coal, Oil and Gas - By 350, EcoWatch, June 15, 2016
• Who Pays For Clean Up When Coal Goes Bankrupt? - By Rebecca Jacobson and Leigh Paterson, Inside Energy, June 15, 2016
• Coal is dying – it’s time to put us out of its misery - By Tim Hollo, REnew Economy, June 14, 2016
• Oil market, prices stabilizing, says IEA - By staff, FuelFix, June 14, 2016
• Venezuela: Crisis and Propaganda - By José L. Flores, CounterPunch, June 14, 2016

Utility Death Spiral News:

• How rooftop solar has dramatically shifted and reduced peak demand - By Giles Parkinson, REnew Economy, June 16, 2016
• Court rolls back municipal utility takeover in Germany - By Craig Morris, Renewables International, June 15, 2016
• U.S. Chamber of Commerce joins anti-solar crusade - By Ben Adler, Grist, June 15, 2016
• Wyoming's wind tax debate puts plans for biggest North American wind farm in doubt - By Robert Walton, Utility Dive, June 15, 2016
• Worrying Deceleration In The Growth Rate of Wind & Solar - By Roger Boyd, Humanity's Test, June 14, 2016
• More than half of jobs in UK solar industry lost in wake of subsidy cuts - By Terry Macalister, The Guardian, June 11, 2016; [related]: Jobs Toll Set to Worsen Amid UK Renewable Energy Subsidy Cuts - By Andrew Mourant, Renewable Energy World, June 17, 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.

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, June 21, 2016

A supplement to Eco Unionist News:

Lead Stories:

• TISA 'free trade' deal to force draconian social, environmental, financial deregulation - By Pete Dolack, The Ecologist, June 17, 2016
• Oil Train Tank Cars Are Getting Safer But What About The Tracks? - By Tony Schick, Oregon Public Broadcasting, June 15, 2016
• UK fracking policy founded on scientific fraud, misrepresentation and prevarication - By Nick Cowern, The Ecologist, June 15, 2016
• Goldman Sachs Just Ate Denmark for Breakfast - By Jonas Schmidt Hansen, Occupy.Com, June 13, 2016
• My Dishwasher Is What’s Wrong With Capitalism - By Peter Dreier, LA Progressive, June 13, 2016

The Man Behind the Curtain:

• Denialist Blogger Anthony Watts Posts Error Strewn “Aerial Survey” of Climate Scientists’ Homes - By Graham Readfearn, DeSmog Blog, June 19, 2016
• Exxon Sues MA Attorney General In Retaliatory Attempt To Intimidate ‘Exxon Knew’ Climate Accountability Movement - By Brendan DeMelle, DeSmog Blog, June 16, 2016; [related]: Exxon Sues Second Attorney General In Response To Fraud Investigation - By Sydney Pereira, Think Progress, June 17, 2016
• Were Historical Pictures of Great Barrier Reef Degradation Really Misused, as The Australian Newspaper Claimed? - By Graham Readfearn, DeSmog Blog, June 16, 2016
• Conservative Funders of Climate Denial Are Quietly Spending Millions To Generate More Partisan Journalism - By Graham Readfearn, DeSmog Blog, June 15, 2016
• Court Documents Show Peabody Energy Funded Dozens of Climate Denial Groups - By Climate Denier Roundup, EcoWatch, June 14, 2016; [related]: Dirty money bought one coal company a whole lot of denial - By Katie Herzog, Grist, June 14, 2016
• GOP ‘Conservationist’ Running For Senate Has Ties To Companies That Pollute The Environment - By Alejandro Davila Fragoso and Josh Israel, Think Progress, June 14, 2016
• Wall Street Journal Runs Ad Trashing WSJ’s Climate Science Denial - By Joe Romm, Think Progress, June 14, 2016; [related]: Wall Street Journal publishes call for climate action...for cash money - By Katie Herzog, Grist, June 14, 2016
• World’s Biggest Banks Are Driving Climate Change, Pumping Billions Into Extreme Fossil Fuels - By Rainforest Action Network, EcoWatch, June 14, 2016; [related]: Shorting the Climate: Fossil Fuel Finance Report Card 2016 - By Collin Rees, Oil Change International, June 15, 2016; [and]: Green Climate Fund partners condemned for fossil fuel funding - By Ed King, Climate Change News, June 14, 2016
• The Lie That “China Wins” if the TPP Kangaroo Tribunals are Stopped - By William K. Black, New Economic Perspectives, June 5, 2016

Green is the New Red:

• Record number of environmental activists murdered in 2015 - By Megan Darby, Climate Change News, June 20, 2016
• Peaceful protest under attack in Sweden’s climate test - By Melanie Mattauch, 350.org, June 16, 2016
• One Indian killed in Brazil, five wounded as tribal community attacked - By staff, Survival International, June 15, 2016
• Will outrage over recent murders help Honduran environmental activists achieve their goal? - By Victoria Molina, Ensia, June 13, 2016

Greenwashers:

• From the chaos of REDD-plus towards the Bonn Challenge’s maze - By Yvette Aguilar, REDD Monitor, June 17, 2016
• Change The System; Not The Climate - By Asoka Bandarage, The Ecologist, June 16, 2016
• World Bank on REDD in the Democratic Republic of Congo: “Rome wasn’t built in a day” - By Chris Lang, REDD Monitor, June 15, 2016; [related]: World Bank on REDD: “We have made great achievements in 2015 and we’re now focussing on implementation” - By Chris Lang, REDD Monitor, June 14, 2016  

Disaster Capitalism:

• Deleting the Real Story Behind the Great Canada Fire - By Paul Street, CounterPunch, June 16, 2016; [related]: Gas Stations Close as Fire Rages Near Alberta Oil Sands - By Jan Lee, The Triple Pundit, June 14, 2016 

Other News:

• The human cost of privatization-MARTA Outsourcing Mobility Leaving Workers and Riders Behind - By staff, ATU, June 16, 2016
• Superbugs to kill 10 million a year by 2050 - By James Plested, Red Flag, May 31, 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.

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, June 14, 2016

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

Lead Stories:

• A Diet of Austerity: Class, food and climate change - Reviewed by Martin Empson, Climate and Capitalism, June 13, 2016
• The Doomsday Clock: Nuclear Weapons, Climate Change and the Prospects for Survival - By Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch, June 12, 2016
• Asbestos Industry Knew and Kept Secret for Decades That Their Product Was Deadly - By Alex Formuzis, EcoWatch, June 8, 2016
• Leave it in the ground: A new abolitionism needed for climate change - By David Mirtz, People's World, June 7, 2016

Ongoing Mobilizations:

• Flush the TPP - Ongoing through 2016 | #FlushtheTPP
• March for a Clean Energy Revolution - July 24, 2016, Philadelphia | #CleanEnergyMarch
• TWAC Cascadia 2016 - August 8th-15th 2016

The Thin Green Line:

• Cowboy & Indian Alliance Plant “Seeds of Resistance” Ponca Corn in Paths of Atlantic Coast & Mountain Valley Fracked Gas Pipelines - By Mark Hefflinger, BOLD Nebraska, June 8, 2016; [related]: Activists plant ceremonial corn against pipeline - By Laura Peters, News Leader, June 6, 2016
• Oregon oil train explosion fuels growing opposition movement - By Sarah Gilman, High Country News, June 8, 2016
• In the Pipeline: In Oregon, a volatile climate for liquefied natural gas pipeline and terminal projects - By Juliet Grable,  Earth Island Journal, June 6, 2016
  

Just Transition:

• Climate Jobs for New York State - By Jonathan Neale, Global Climate Jobs, June 12, 2016
• New U.S. Solar Capacity Just Outperformed Fossil Fuels - By Alejandro Davila Fragoso, Think Progress, June 9, 2016; [related]: Solar Added More New Capacity Than Coal, Natural Gas and Nuclear Combined - By Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch, June 9, 2016; [and]: Solar Made Up 64% of New Electric Generating Capacity in the US in Q1 2016 - By Mike Munsell, Greentech Media, June 8, 2016
• Unemployed oil workers find new home in solar industry - By Brenda Salinas, Marketplace, June 7, 2016
• University of Wyoming Helps Displaced Coal Workers - By staff, Associated Press, June 6, 2016
• Transition Economics–Vermont - Ken Jones, Darren Springer, and Jon Erickson interviewed by Jan Mueller, The Energy Exchange, May 27, 2016 
• Denmark’s Energy Transition - Justin Gerdes interviewed by Chris Nelder, The Energy Transition Show, May 18, 2016

Bread and Roses:

• International Launch of La Via Campesina’s 7th International Conference - By staff, La Via Campesina, June 14, 2016
• Brazil Occupation: MST Landless Take Over Suzano and report environmental problems - By Anne Petermann, Global Justice Ecology Project, June 13, 2016
• Increase Gained Not Enough: Familias Unidas por la Justicia Members Will Continue the Fight for Fair Wages and Union Contract - By staff, Boycott Sakuma Berries, June 13, 2016
• Some thoughts on the Implications of Brexit - By Matt Lobley, Landworkers Alliance, June 13, 2016
• Striking Colombian Campesinos Reach Deal With Government - By staff, TelesurTv, June 13, 2016; [related]: Colombian Peasant, Indigenous Groups Launch 'Agrarian Strike' - By staff, TelesurTv, May 30, 2016
• Peasant members of SPI demand immediate resolution to land dispute at UPT, Bali Village - By staff, La Via Campesina, June 10, 2016 
• False Promises, Smears and Golden Rice: Is This the Solution for Disease, Poverty and Malnutrition? - By Colin Todhunter, CounterPunch, June 9, 2016
• Farmworkers Union Walk Out from the Fields This Morning - By staff, Boycott Sakuma Berries, June 9, 2016
• In defense of territorial markets, institutional procurement: Ramona and Angel at CFS Negotiations - By staff, La Via Campesina, June 9, 2016; [related]: Small holder farmers are crucial to ensure food security and nutrition: Javier Sanchez at CFS - By staff, La Via Campesina, June 9, 2016
• MEDIA ROUND-UP: Commentators across the World Wide Web take Publix, Wendy’s to task! - By staff, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, June 8, 2016
• June 20: Farmworkers Organizing for Justice! Report-back on West Coast Tour - By Heather, Community Alliance for Global Justice, June 6, 2016
• Victims of Colombian Death Squads Can Move Forward With Case Against Former Chiquita Executives - By Valentina Stackl, EarthRights International, June 2, 2016

An Injury to One is an Injury to All:

• Union demands SF make Uber, Lyft, pay for drivers’ business licenses - By Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez, San Francisco Examiner, June 8, 2016
• Another coal miner killed on the job - By Ken Ward Jr, Charleston Gazette-Mail, June 7, 2016
• Minister blames Chinese cost cutting for Ramu death - By staff, The National aka The Loggers Times, June 6, 2016
• South Africa in crisis: splits at the top, stirrings from below - By Tom Bramble, Red Flag, June 3, 2016; [related]: South Africa's Economic Freedom Fighters: Julius Malema and the Struggle to Continue the Revolution - By Dr. Marsha Cole, Black Agenda Report, May 31, 2016
• Needless radio communications are too distracting, union leader says - By staff, Progressive Railroading, June 1, 2016

Whistleblowers:

• New Nevada monument to be rutted by off-road desert race - By Kirsten Stade, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, June 13, 2016
• Whistleblower: EPA Official Covered Up Methane Leakage Problems Across US Natural Gas Industry - By staff, NC WARN, June 8, 2016; [related]: Key government reports were wrong about methane leaks' severity, environmental group alleges - By Ivan Penn, Los Angeles Times, June 8, 2016
• EPA pushing huge hike in drinking water radioactivity - By Kirsten Stade, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, June 7, 2016

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, June 14, 2016

A supplement to Eco Unionist News:

Lead Stories:

• Coal And Gas To Begin ‘Terminal Decline’ In Less Than A Decade, Bloomberg Says - By Joe Romm, Think Progress, June 13, 2016
• Venezuela and the Future of the Latin American Left - By John Feffer, CounterPunch, June 10, 2016; [related]: Calling All Venezuelans to the Table - By Lisa Sullivan, CounterPunch, June 10, 2016
• BP: Global coal use fell by largest recorded margin in 2015 - By Simon Evans, Carbon Brief, June 9, 2016
• Renewables versus climate change - the battle heats up! - By Jeremy Leggett, The Ecologist, June 7, 2016
• Cheap Money Helped Inflate Energy Balloon - By Rani Molla and Lisa Abramowicz, Bloomberg, June 6, 2016
• “Other People’s Money” – Trump University and Coal Exports - By Ross Macfarlane, DeSmog Blog, June 6, 2016
• Regulators Fear $1 Billion Coal Cleanup Bill - By Michael Corkery, New York Times, June 6, 2016

Other Carbon Bubble News:

• How shale oil ignited economic change - By Brian Rausch, FuelFix, June 13, 2016
• Is oil’s bull market already reaching its end? - By Bloomberg, FuelFix, June 13, 2016; [related]: Crude falls as drillers mover to resume production - By Bloomberg, FuelFix, June 13, 2016
• US coal production drops to lowest level since 1981 - By Andrew Topf, Mining.Com, June 12, 2016
• Do We Need Coal To Keep The Lights On? - By Stephanie Joyce, Inside Energy, June 10, 2016
• Don’t Look Now, But There Was Just a Mass Exodus of Oil Companies From the Arctic - By Jason Schwartz, Greenpeace, June 10, 2016
• India cancels four major new coal plants in move to end imports - By Tim Buckley, REnew Economy, June 10, 2016
• Oil & Gas UK figures show impact of oil price downturn on jobs - By staff, OilVoice, June 10, 2016
• Why Saudi Arabia Really Can Get To 9 GW Renewables Now - By Susan Kraemer, Clean Technica, June 10, 2016
• DTE to retire 8 Michigan coal units - By Robert Walton, Utility Dive, June 9, 2016
• Global Primary Energy Consumption Grew By Only 1% In 2015, According To BP - By Joshua S Hill, Clean Technica, June 9, 2016
• Montana coal production down a third - By Tom Lutey, Billings Gazette, June 9, 2016
• Does Ground-Breaking India-U.S. Announcement Put Clean Energy in the Catbird Seat? - By Carl Pope, EcoWatch, June 8, 2016
• Last Oil Company Pulls Out Of Arctic Offshore Drilling Efforts In Chukchi Sea - By Ryan Koronowski, Think Progress, June 8, 2016
• The looming coal cleanup crisis - By Ken Ward Jr, Charleston Gazette-Mail, June 8, 2016
• Natural gas glut to continue through decade, IEA says - By Rob Gavin, FuelFix, June 8, 2016
• Platts China Oil Analytics: China Oil Demand Fell 1.3% Year over Year in April - By staff, OilVoice, June 8, 2016
• Rainy U.K. Gets More Power From Solar Than Coal For The First Time In Over A Century - By Samantha Page, Think Progress, June 8, 2016
• Renewables Closing In On Coal In The US, Says IEEFA - By Joshua S Hill, Clean Technica, June 8, 2016
• Saudi Prince Plans To End Country’s “Oil Addiction” - By Derek Markham, PlanetSave, June 8, 2016
• Solar Battle Continues In North Carolina As Nonprofit Fights Duke Energy - By Alex Kotch, DeSmog Blog, June 8, 2016
• Analysis: Solar beats coal over a whole month in UK for first time - By Simon Evans, Carbon Brief, June 7, 2016
• During oil boom, Casper wage growth among highest in the nation - By Laura Hancock, Casper Star Tribune, June 7, 2016
• ERCOT: Coal to drop below 10% of Texas fuel mix by 2030s as solar booms - By Herman K. Trabish, Utility Dive, June 7, 2016
• The Shale Bankruptcy Boom Moves Midstream - By Joseph V. Schaeffer, Breaking Free, June 7, 2016
• UK electricity is secure without coal, says Conservative thinktank - By Sophie Yeo, Carbon Brief, June 7, 2016
• Washington D.C. Pension Fund Announces Full Fossil Fuel Divestment - By Zahra Hirji, Inside Climate News, June 6, 2016; [related]: Another Giant Pension Fund Divested From Oil, Coal, And Gas Companies - By Jeremy Deaton, Think Progress, June 6, 2016; [and]: Washington, D.C., announces divestment of $6.4 billion pension fund from coal, oil and gas companies - By Hayden Higgins and Laura Marks, DC Divest, June 6, 2016
• General Electric shedding another 360 oil jobs in Texas - By Collin Eaton, FuelFix, June 6, 2016
• ArcelorMittal suspends Quebec mine project on weak market - By Reuters, CNBC TV 18, June 3, 2016
• The Collapse of Coal - Taylor Kuykendall interviewed by Chris Nelder, The Energy Transition Show, June 1, 2016
• Era of oil nearing its end - By Gordon Laxer, Winnipeg Free Press, May 31, 2016

Utility Death Spiral News:

• Apple Is Generating So Much Renewable Energy It Plans to Start Selling It - By Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch, June 11, 2016
• Top 10 Policies Hindering Solar Advancement - By Brooke Nally, Renewable Energy World, June 10, 2016
• Australia could be 100% renewable – with no “baseload” – by 2035 - By Sophie Vorrath, REnew Economy, June 8, 2016; [related]: Australia Can Be Powered 100% By Renewables Without Fossil Fuel ‘Baseload’, Reports WWF - By Joshua S Hill, Clean Technica, June 8, 2016
• French nuclear under pressure – from German renewables - By Craig Morris, REnew Economy, June 7, 2016 

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A supplement to Eco Unionist News:

Lead Stories:

• In Louisiana Shrimping Communities, Globalization's Effects Imperil US Fishers - By Michael Stein, Truthout, June 12, 2016; [related]: Africatown Supporters Travel to Washington DC in Search of Environmental Justice - By Joe Womack, Bridge the Gulf, June 12, 2016 
• Bridging the Trust Gap in Energy Justice Battles - By Mark Hand, CounterPunch, June 10, 2016
• After Keystone XL: TransCanada Building North American Fracked Gas Pipeline Empire - By Steve Horn, DeSmog Blog, June 9, 2016
• The Book the Fracking Industry Doesn’t Want You to Read - By Wenonah Hauter, EcoWatch, June 7, 2016
• ‘Free Trade’ Will Kill Progress on Climate Change, 450 Groups Warn Congress - By Nika Knight, Common Dreams, June 6, 2016
• For Oil Industry, Clean Air Fight Was Dress Rehearsal for Climate Denial - By Neela Banerjee, David Hasemyer, and Lisa Song, InsideClimate News, June 6, 2016

The Man Behind the Curtain:

• Biggest US coal company funded dozens of groups questioning climate change - By Suzanne Goldenberg and Helena Bengtsson, The Guardian, June 13, 2016 [related]: Court Documents Show Coal Giant Peabody Energy Funded Dozens Of Climate Denial Groups - By Farron Cousins, DeSmog Blog, June 13, 2016
• Internal Documents Reveal How MSNBC Show Worked To Promote Fracking - By Steve Horn, DeSmog Blog, June 13, 2016
• Meet the climate sceptics backing the Brexit campaign - By Ed King, Climate Change News, June 13, 2016
• Fox in Hen House: Online Auctions For Oil and Gas Leases On Public Lands May Be Industry-Owned and Run - By Steve Horn, DeSmog Blog, June 10, 2016
• How a Senator Turned Exxon Lobbyist Limits Access to His Public University-Based Archives - By Steve Horn, DeSmog Blog, June 10, 2016
• EU energy chiefs favouring fossil fuel lobbyists, says report - By Megan Darby, Climate Change News, June 9, 2016
• Green PR Firm Secretly Working for Oil and Petrochemical Industry - By Eric de Place and Nick Abraham, Sightline Institute, June 9, 2016
• Revealed: The Brussels Breakfast Lobby Group Exxon and BP Don’t Want You To Know They’re Part Of - By Kyla Mandel, DeSmog UK, June 9, 2016
• The Australian Newspaper Misrepresents Science In Great Barrier Reef Bleaching Editorial, Says Scientist It Quoted - By Graham Readfearn, DeSmog Blog, June 7, 2016
• This lobbyist denied climate change for ExxonMobil. Now he’ll do it for Trump - By Melissa Cronin, Grist, June 7, 2016
• Peabody's Outlier Gang Couldn't Shoot Straight In Minnesota Carbon Case, Judge Rebuffs Happer, Lindzen, Spencer, Mendelsohn, Bezdek - By John Mashey, DeSmog Blog, June 7, 2016

Green is the New Red:

• Earth Minute: Anne Petermann on “Guardian of the Forests” Movement in Mexico - By staff, Global Justice Ecology Project, June 8, 2016
• Indigenous Forest Defender Illegally Jailed in Mexico - By Rick Kearns, Indian Country Today, June 3, 2016

Greenwashers:

• The thirst for the sea: lack of water and new extractivist markets - Translated by Pietro Casati, Theory Without Borders, June 13, 2016
• CA Officials Want To Allow Oil Industry To Dump Toxic Waste Into Aquifers, Exempt Them From Federal Protection - By Mike Gaworecki, DeSmog Blog, June 12, 2016
• Indigenous Peoples’ rights in the REDD+ Ngoyla-Mintom project in Cameroon - By Chris Lang, REDD Monitor, June 10, 2016
• WWF scandal (part 7): WWF teams up with loggers rather than indigenous peoples in Cameroon - By Chris Lang, REDD Monitor, June 7, 2016
• Timber Regulating Timber - By Will Parrish, Anderson Valley Advertiser, June 1, 2016

Disaster Capitalism:

• The role of climate change in the Syria crisis: how the media got it wrong - By Alex Randall, New Internationalist, June 10, 2016
• 777 days later, Congress hasn’t lifted a finger for Flint - By Katie Herzog, Grist, June 10, 2016; [related]: Flint: The conditions for riots - By Justin King, The Fifth Column, June 2, 2016
• ‘They Did Everything They Could Have Done’: The Tragedy Of The Oregon Oil Derailment - By Natasha Geiling, Think Progress, June 8, 2016
• Union Pacific Apologizes for “Inconvenience” as Oil Drips Onto Tracks and Trains Resume after Explosion - By Mike M, Portland Rising Tide, June 8, 2016
• Fukushima: Worse Than a Disaster - By Robert Hunziker, CounterPunch, June 7, 2016

Other News:

• Privatizing Public Services: A Free-Market Fiasco - By Gregory N. Heires, The New Crossroads, June 12, 2016
• The Great Unraveling: Oil, Gas and the Future of Colorado - By Philip Doe, CounterPunch, June 8, 2016
• Texas consumers pay more in deregulated electricity markets, study says - By Jordan Blum, FuelFix, June 8, 2016
• The fight against TTIP is not over ‘till it’s over - By Tony Burke, Left Foot Forward, June 6, 2016

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

Lead Stories:

• Climate Is Poised To Be A Divisive Issue For This Group Of Voters - By Samantha Page, Think Progress, June 3, 2016; [related]: Actually, the Labor-Green Alliance Has Never Been Stronger - By Zoë Carpenter, The Nation, May 24, 2016
• Media Blackout As France Witnesses Biggest Revolution In 200 Years - By Sean Adl-Tabatabai, YourNewsWire.Com, June 2, 2016; [related]: French workers answer back with strikes - By Elizabeth Schulte, Socialist Worker, June 1, 2016; [and]: Riots escalate across France as government refuses to reconsider labour law reform - By Alex Wheeler, International Business Times, May 27, 2016; [and finally]: Belgian Trade Unions Prepare for General Strike against “Labour Reforms” Proposed by the Federal Government - By guest, Revolution News, June 6, 2016 
• What I Learned From the Mining Community That Produced My Engagement Ring - By Nicki Lisa Cole, Truthout, June 1, 2016
• Why There Could Be More Blasts Like 2015 ExxonMobil Torrance Oil Refinery Explosion, Putting Millions At Risk - By Larry Buhl, DeSmog Blog, June 1, 2016

Ongoing Mobilizations:

• Convergence In Support of Eco-Prisoners & Against Toxic Prisons - June 11-13, 2016
• Flush the TPP - Ongoing through 2016 | #FlushtheTPP
• March for a Clean Energy Revolution - July 24, 2016, Philadelphia | #CleanEnergyMarch
• TWAC Cascadia 2016 - August 8th-15th 2016

The Thin Green Line:

• Another Oil-By-Rail Fire Near Portland - By Roy L Hales, The ECOReport, June 3, 2016; [for more information] Join 1267 Watch! 
  

Just Transition:

• As Coal Fades, What’s Next for Thousands of Miners? - By Reid Frazier, The Allegheny Front, June 3, 2016
• U.S. Solar Jobs Exceed Oil And Gas For First Time In 2015 - By Thomas R. Burton and Mintz Levin, Breaking Energy, June 2, 2016; [related]: There are more jobs in renewable energy than in oil, gas, and coal combined - By Heather Smith, Grist, May 31, 2016; [and ]: Renewable Energy Jobs Keep Growing While Fossil Fuel Jobs Keep Shrinking - By Mike Gaworecki, DeSmog Blog, May 27, 2016
• Group Aims for NY to Be Climate Leader with Nation’s Strongest Clean, Renewable Energy Bill - By staff, Environmental Advocates of New York, June 1, 2016
• Led By Solar And Wind, Renewable Energy Grew Like Never Before Last Year - By Alejandro Davila Fragoso, Think Progress, June 1, 2016; [related]: A Record Year for Renewables - By Andy Rowell, Oil Change International, June 1, 2016; [and]: Wind and solar drive rise in renewable generation as costs fall - By Sophie Vorrath, REnew Economy, May 31, 2016
• New York Assembly Approves Climate Bill That Would Cut Emissions to Zero - By Zahra Hirji, InsideClimate News, June 1, 2016
• Organizing to put the Leap Manifesto to work - Bianca Mugyenyi and Martin Lukacs interviewed by Scott Neigh, Talking Radical Radio, June 1, 2016; [related]: Leap Manifesto [You Tube Video] - By Avi Lewis, The Murphy Institute, May 31, 2016
• TVUH talks our energy, environment and employment future with Iron & Earth - Lliam Hildebrand interviewed by Canadian Glen, Blog Talk Radio, May 31, 2016

Bread and Roses:

• UAWC Statement on World Environment Day - By Union of Agricultural Work Committees, La Via Campesina, June 6, 2016
• MST-Goiás statement on the policy of harassment against fighters for agrarian reform - By MST-Goiás, La Via Campesina, June 3, 2016
• Three Bible quotes later, no extra overtime pay for farmworkers - By Jeremy B. White, Sacramento Bee, June 2, 2016; [related]: Assembly kills bill to give California farmworkers overtime pay - By John Myers, Los Angeles Times, June 2, 2016
• BAFLF: Government must be prepared for the post subsidy era - By Abdul Mazid and Golam Sorowor, La Via Campesina, June 1, 2016
• CAP 2020: More deregulation will not solve the problems - By Geneviève Savigny, et. al., La Via Campesina, June 1, 2016
• Declaration against the criminalisation, persecution and judicialization of the struggle for the defence of life, rights, land, water, seeds and mother earth - By various, La Via Campesina, June 1, 2016
• Farmworkers March across New York State for the Right to Organize - By Sonia Singh, Labor Notes, June 1, 2016
• Dow-DuPont Merger Will Cripple Farmers and Food Sovereignty, Groups Warn - By Nika Knight, Common Dreams, May 31, 2016; [related]: Logan: Enough is Enough on Big Mergers - By Ron Sylvester, Ohio Farmers Union, May 31, 2016
• National boycott takes center stage at Wendy’s annual shareholder meeting! - By staff, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, May 31, 2016 
• Boycott berries? A third generation Sakuma Brothers worker weighs in - By Elizabeth Alvarado, The Seattle Globalist, May 30, 2016; [related]: Renewed Concern Over Labor Dispute at Washington Farm - By Kerstin Lindgren and Anna Canning, Fair World Project, May 26, 2016
• From Albrecht to Monsanto: A System Not Run for the Public Good Can Never Serve the Public Good - By Colin Todhunter, Counterpunch, May 30, 2016
• Joint Statement: 3rd OEIWG session on UN declaration on rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas - By various, La Via Campesina, May 30, 2016