Most recent 40 articles: Truthout
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Big Oil ignores millions of climate deaths when billions in profit are at stake - Truthout (Apr 7) |
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Apr 7 · As the world burns, radical climate change activism is our only hope.
Human activity in a profit-driven world divided by nation-states and those who have rights and those who don’t is the primary driver of climate change. Burning fossil fuels and destroying forests have caused inestimable environmental harm by producing a warming effect through the artificial concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide (CO2) has risen by 50 percent in the past 200 years, much of it since the 1970s, raising in turn the Earth’s temperature by roughly 2 degrees Fahrenheit.
Indeed, since the 1970s, the decade which saw the rise of neoliberalism as the dominant ... Read more ...
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Six things everyone should know about the Mountain Valley Pipeline - Truthout (Apr 7) |
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Apr 7 · These are the CEOs, big banks, asset managers, campaign finance ties and regulatory conflicts wrapped up in the MVP.
The Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) is a 303-mile, 42-inch diameter fracked gas pipeline that, if completed, will stretch from northwestern West Virginia through southern Virginia. It will have three compressor stations along its route, all in West Virginia, and an attached 31-mile pipeline, MVP Southgate, that will expand the transport of fracked gas into North Carolina.
The MVP was proposed in 2014, but it has faced intense opposition from landowners, Indigenous communities, and climate advocates, who say the pipeline’s polluting impacts will be the ... Read more ...
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To Avoid a Dystopian Climate Future, We Must First Envision the World We Want - Truthout (Nov 12) |
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Nov 12 · When we envision a sustainable future, we can show people that there is something worth fighting for, not just against.
As a climate activist struggling against slow-moving policies, influential Big Oil companies and public apathy, I’m mostly focused on stopping a future I don’t want. I fear a future where fossil fuels aren’t phased out in time, leading to ecological destruction and the destabilization of society due to climate change.
Yet, I find that pinpointing the future we do want is often much more difficult in the climate movement. Imagining this hopeful climate future is an essential practice because it helps sustain our movements, informs our advocacy and ... Read more ...
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5 years after standing rock, Native tribes still fight Dakota Access Pipeline - Truthout (Oct 09, 2023) |
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Oct 09, 2023 · The Cheyenne River and Standing Rock Sioux Tribes say the pipeline threatens to contaminate their primary water source.
Morgan Brings Plenty, now 29 and a digital organizing fellow at Indigenous Environmental Network, was in their early 20s when they first heard about Energy Transfer Partner’s Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) in late 2015. A member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, they could feel the tension regarding the pipeline in their community - and they were always close to the action. Their late mom, Joye Braun, was the first to set up her tipi in what would become the Oceti Sakowin camp at Standing Rock on April 1, 2016, to protest the building of the oil pipeline ... Read more ...
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Let's accept climate science — and also reimagine our relationship to the earth - Truthout (Jun 17, 2023) |
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Jun 17, 2023 · Desperate measures are needed to mitigate the climate crisis, but they can be filled with joy and imagination.
Last week, the northeastern skyline was overtaken by an orange haze, as winds blew smoke from Canadian wildfires southwards. The impact was palpable as the effects of climate change became apparent to nearly 50 million Americans. Hundreds of wildfires are continuing to rage on in Canada. Above-average temperatures and dry conditions caused by climate change affect the intensity and longevity of these wildfires. The news of the affected air quality dominated headlines for a few days, but as the smoke faded, so did media coverage in the U.S. Has an essential moment of ... Read more ...
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Calls for climate reparations have grown following recent severe weather events - Truthout (Mar 08, 2023) |
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Mar 08, 2023 · Some suggest creating a reparation fund to be paid into by those most responsible for emissions, such as ExxonMobil.
Originally published by Capital B.
America is finally joining the global movement of wealthy nations agreeing to pay poorer countries for the damage they’ve endured because of climate change.
To the dismay of many Republican legislators, last year the Biden administration agreed to participate in the United Nations’ fund for “loss and damage,” also known as climate reparations.
Although the United States and the European Union are taking some accountability for their part in causing an outsized amount of greenhouse gas emissions, there’s no ... Read more ...
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Melting Glaciers Show Why Climate Targets Below 1.5°C Are Needed - Truthout (Feb 07, 2023) |
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Feb 07, 2023 · Earth’s systems can restore themselves, but not if global climate policy permits 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming.
Eighty-five percent of Northern Hemisphere glaciers terminating in the ocean have been retreating since 2000. Nine-thousands gigatons of ice have melted from glaciers since the 1960s increasing ocean levels by over an inch, with the rate of glacier ice loss tripling since 1990. Two-thirds of land-based glaciers are on track to disappear by 2100.
However, glaciers worldwide have also been retreating on average since the end of the Little Ice Age, a 450-year long period from around 1400s to the mid-1800s when the average global temperature fell by 0.6 ... Read more ...
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Patagonia's greenwashing ignores workers and won't solve the climate crisis - Truthout (Oct 05, 2022) |
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Oct 05, 2022 · Among companies claiming the mantle of most responsible corporate citizen, the outdoor clothing chain Patagonia has always seemed a nose ahead. It hasn’t hurt that it’s tough imagining the ecocidal antichrist wearing a fleece vest and technical climbing pants as it pillages the earth. But Patagonia has also had the enduring myths of its founder, Yvon Chouinard, to ride on; how could we not believe the good intentions of a guy who supposedly once lived off of canned cat food just so he could read Thoreau and climb all day and night in Yosemite using gear he made himself?
Recently, Patagonia added to that mythos by outdoing itself. On September 14, the company announced that it ... Read more ...
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Parent participation in climate justice efforts is on the rise - Truthout (Sep 04, 2022) |
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Sep 04, 2022 · Before NASA climate scientist Peter Kalmus, a father of two, chained himself to a JP Morgan Chase bank in downtown Los Angeles, he gave a short speech. In it, he explained why, on that fine April day in 2022, he and 1,200 other scientists all over the Earth would risk arrest to protest Chase, the world’s biggest financier of climate-killing fossil fuels. (Citi and Bank of America are close behind.)
“We [scientists] have been telling you guys for so many decades that we’re headed towards fucking catastrophe,” Kalmus said. The clip went viral, probably in part because when Kalmus told the cameras (and waiting cops) that he was committing nonviolent civil disobedience “for my ... Read more ...
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US has cut water supplies for 7 states during climate-induced drought - Truthout (Aug 31, 2022) |
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Aug 31, 2022 · The federal government’s recent announcement that it would impose significant cutbacks in water allocations to the seven states reliant on water from the drought-stricken Colorado River is the latest sign that climate change is ravaging global water systems.
Arizona will lose more than 20 percent of its water allocation, and Nevada 8 percent. Northern Mexico, which is also reliant on the Colorado River and has been provided 1.5 million acre feet of water per year from the river since a water-sharing treaty between the two countries was signed in 1944, is being hit hard as well, with a 7 percent reduction in its water allocation from the river.
Thirty Indigenous tribes, ... Read more ...
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The Inflation Reduction Act is a disappointing act of federal greenwashing - Truthout (Aug 28, 2022) |
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Aug 28, 2022 · Congressional Democrats were very proud of themselves for passing the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a bill that includes $370 billion for climate and energy initiatives, in addition to much-needed subsidies on prescription drug costs and Medicare benefits. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, who worked with the intractable Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, said the bill “will put the country on track to meet the climate goals we need to preserve for our planet for our children and for our grandchildren.”
It’s tempting to believe him: Many environmental advocates are reporting that the IRA, while imperfect, is a good start. We desperately need climate ... Read more ...
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Big oil wants to refreeze Alaska permafrost — so it can keep drilling there - Truthout (Aug 25, 2022) |
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Aug 25, 2022 · If ConocoPhillips gets its way, there will soon be chillers on the Alaskan tundra, refreezing the ground so that it can support new oil drilling equipment. The Arctic permafrost is melting so fast, the company explains, that this perverse techno-solution is necessary.
Nothing better expresses the cruel absurdity at the heart of ConocoPhillips’s “Willow Project” - its 30-year plan to extract hundreds of millions of barrels of crude from ecologically sensitive lands of the far North.
If approved, this plan will fashion a new Prudhoe Bay atop increasingly unstable tundra, locking in decades of oil production even as the climate crisis destabilizes ecosystems in Alaska and ... Read more ...
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Climate crisis is killing off key insects and spreading insect-borne diseases - Truthout (Aug 25, 2022) |
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Aug 25, 2022 · Love them or loathe them, we need insects, yet their numbers are decreasing. From declining monarch butterflies in North America to disappearing bumblebees in Europe, there is mounting evidence that insects are in rapid decline. This should worry us all, for insects are overwhelmingly important; they are food for innumerable larger creatures such as birds and bats, they control pests, recycle nutrients, help to keep the soil healthy and they pollinate three-quarters of the crops we grow. Without insects, life as we know it would grind to a halt.
The causes of insect declines are numerous, with habitat loss and the industrialization of global farming leading the way, assisted ... Read more ...
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Liberal states like California are also failing to make progress on climate - Truthout (Aug 23, 2022) |
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Aug 23, 2022 · California has a well-established reputation as a national and global climate leader, but despite its remarkable successes in cutting emissions between 2006 and 2016, it has recently begun showing signs of having lost its way.
California is increasingly falling behind on its emissions reduction targets, and its existing policies have now been deemed insufficient to hit its 2030 target of reducing carbon emissions 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030, according to new modeling from the climate policy think tank Energy Innovation.
“Compared to historical trends, California will need to more than triple the pace of emissions reductions to hit its 2030 target of reducing ... Read more ...
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Carbon capture won't work, but it will funnel billions to corporations - Truthout (Jul 31, 2022) |
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Jul 31, 2022 · Carbon capture is having a moment, and it’s not hard to see why: As Texas Monthly reports, “the worldwide carbon-capture market is expected to grow from about $2 billion this year to about $7 billion in 2028.”
Last year’s bipartisan infrastructure law devotes billions to advancing the technology, and the new Senator Joe Manchin-approved climate compromise bill would do more to bolster the industry. Meanwhile, atmospheric CO2 levels have now reached their highest levels in human history, and the Supreme Court’s recent ruling, which limits the federal government’s power to reduce climate pollution, is making techno-fixes all the more appealing.
There’s just one problem: ... Read more ...
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ExxonMobil is counting on Trump-chosen judge to undermine right to sue polluters - Truthout (Jul 29, 2022) |
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Jul 29, 2022 · A new ruling on Environment Texas v. ExxonMobil is expected this August. In its second appeal, ExxonMobil is asking the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to restrict the rights citizens have to sue polluters in federal court. One presiding judge, Trump-appointed Federalist Society member Andrew Oldham, agrees.
The largest American oil company has already lost the 12-year-old Clean Air Act citizen lawsuit twice. In 2010, Environment Texas and Sierra Club sued ExxonMobil on behalf of residents of Baytown, Texas, who suffered respiratory and other illnesses as a result of toxic emissions from the company’s Baytown plant, its largest in the world.
In 2017, U.S. District Judge ... Read more ...
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Biden Mulls Climate Emergency Declaration as Wildfire Sweeps California - Truthout (Jul 19, 2022) |
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Jul 19, 2022 · Thousands of emergency workers in California struggled to fight a rapidly growing wildfire near Yosemite National Park on Sunday as President Joe Biden continued to mull whether to declare a national climate emergency, a move that campaigners say is needed to respond to the immediate threat of extreme weather and lay the groundwork for a livable future.
Dubbed the Oak Fire, the California blaze was completely uncontained as of Sunday afternoon, having tripled in size since it began on Friday. The fire has now burned more than 14,000 acres, making it California’s largest wildfire of the season.
“Explosive fire behavior is challenging firefighters,” Cal Fire said in a ... Read more ...
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Logging is slashing US forests' ability to absorb carbon by over one-third - Truthout (Jul 13, 2022) |
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Jul 13, 2022 · Everybody’s heard about the importance of protecting the Amazon rainforest. But when it comes to protecting forests here in the United States, a lot of people in business, government and the environmental movement seem to have a willful ignorance. That needs to change.
U.S. forests need protection, now. We must end government policies shaped by the logging and wood products industries that sound sensible but are actually meant to expand logging, rather than contain it. We are calling out big, influential environmental organizations whose efforts end up furthering the interests of industry. Forests - and people and the planet - are paying too high a price for the wood product ... Read more ...
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FEMA isn't the only solution to climate disaster - Truthout (Jun 20, 2022) |
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Jun 20, 2022 · June 1 marks the start of hurricane and wildfire season. This is a time when many wait with bated breath, wondering how they will survive another storm even as they have yet to recover from prior weather emergencies. This is the time of year when anxiety kicks into high gear, and when post-traumatic stress disorder can take hold. This is the time of year when one vows to prepare, but limited resources make it impossible to do so.
While the start of wildfire and hurricane season has always been anxiety-inducing, the climate crisis has introduced new cause for concern. Climate change is causing the Earth to warm to dangerous levels. As our climate warms, we experience stronger ... Read more ...
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Electric cars and lithium extraction threaten to drive even more climate harm - Truthout (May 23, 2022) |
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May 23, 2022 · The climate emergency is almost universally seen by nations of the world as a threat to future survival. But approaches to mitigate it that are promoted by policy makers in the Global North focus on so-called “net-zero” emissions based on dubious carbon trading schemes to maintain current lifestyles and business as usual.
But, in the Global South, popular environmentalism relates to the struggle to achieve fair ecological distribution, to defend community access to natural resources, and to protect people’s livelihoods - all of which are threatened not only by climate change but unequal burdens placed on the Global South by so-called “nature-based solutions.” This has been ... Read more ...
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What's needed to fight climate crisis is clear - Truthout (Apr 22, 2022) |
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Apr 22, 2022 · This may be the most frustrating Earth Day in the 50-year history of the celebration. At no other time have we been faced with such acute peril from anthropogenic climate disruption. At no other time have more people been personally invested in making the changes necessary to create a sustainable world. At no other time has actually making those changes in the halls of power seemed more challenging.
This is the agony of the paradigm shift, of the great change that must happen even in the implacable face of vast, entrenched wealth. Those who believed Big Oil, Big War, and all the other pillars of this presently collapsing pillage-and-plunder system were going to see all the ... Read more ...
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“It's not a drought, it's looting”: water rights activists organize in Mexico - Truthout (Apr 21, 2022) |
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Apr 21, 2022 · Mexico is heading into the worst months of its dry season. Fifteen of 32 states are experiencing extremely high stress on water resources, as use surpasses the amount available.
Water rights activists use the term “Day Zero” for the date when a region will lack sufficient water to meet basic needs. Much of Mexico is close to this point, with Monterrey and Nuevo Leon only having two months of water reserves, and Mexico City two years. For comparison’s sake, England has been described as being in the “jaws of death” because its Day Zero is 25 years away.
Activists with the Indigenous Caravan for Water and Life argue that it is multinational corporations, often with ... Read more ...
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Great Plains farmers push back against CO2 pipelines encroaching on their land - Truthout (Apr 09, 2022) |
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Apr 09, 2022 · Farmers, ranchers, and other rural community members across five Great Plains states and Illinois - many of whom were previously sued by developers of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines wanting to build through their land - are finding their property, safety and livelihoods encroached upon yet again by corporations. This time, they’re coming up against developers, many with fossil fuel ties, who are seeking to cash in on climate solutions tax credits to build a massive network of carbon dioxide (CO2) pipelines across the United States.
The concept of whisking away carbon pollution from industrial facilities to inject into caverns below the Earth’s crust for storage is ... Read more ...
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Our governments have chosen capitalism over preparing for next COVID surge - Truthout (Mar 25, 2022) |
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Mar 25, 2022 · Climate scientists have been warning for years about the menace of “feedback loops.” A feedback loop takes place when the right set of circumstances creates a situation that feeds upon itself, growing stronger with every cycle.
The not-so-frozen tundra of Siberia serves as perfect current example. Human-caused warming melts the permafrost in the ground, allowing the release of billions of tons of methane from the soil. That methane enters the atmosphere and warms it more, causing more permafrost to melt and release more methane. Round and round we go.
As we inch toward the thousandth day of COVID-19 in the U.S., another kind of feedback loop has formed itself. Instead of ... Read more ...
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USPS could reduce emissions by 300 percent with all-electric fleet, report finds - Truthout (Mar 22, 2022) |
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Mar 22, 2022 · Electrifying the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) fleet of vehicles would be both feasible and carry many benefits for the agency and the climate, a new report finds, bolstering the case against adopting Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s plan to buy an all-new gas-guzzling fleet.
According to the report, prepared by the USPS Office of Inspector General, nearly all of the agency’s routes could be serviced by electric mail trucks. Only 2,600 out of 177,000 routes wouldn’t be serviceable with electric vehicles – the other nearly 99 percent of routes fit within the 70 miles that the USPS has found that the electric trucks could travel on one charge.
The Inspector General ... Read more ...
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After February's dire IPCC report, the Green New Deal is more urgent than ever - Truthout (Mar 20, 2022) |
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Mar 20, 2022 · The ongoing war in Ukraine does not bode well for the future of peace and sustainability on planet Earth. As Noam Chomsky said in a recent interview for Truthout, “We are at a crucial point in human history. It cannot be denied. It cannot be ignored.” The latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), released on February 28, spells out the dire consequences of inaction to human-induced climate change. So, where do we stand in the fight against global warming? Is the Green New Deal project making inroads?
In the interview that follows, two leading climate activists - Margaret Kwateng, a national Green New Deal organizer at Grassroots Global Justice ... Read more ...
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Manchin just delivered another blow on climate - Truthout (Mar 16, 2022) |
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Mar 16, 2022 · Once again, the name Joe Manchin is on the lips of every person who gives a fig for salvaging the ongoing, deepening climate crisis. Once again, a senator with monstrous conflicts of interest regarding his own coal fortune has thrown soot and ash into the gears of progress. It seems entirely apparent that the man has no intention of letting any meaningful climate legislation see the light of day. It’s time to make it clear that his blockading actions are, in many ways, equivalent to murder. We must say as much, and call out the perpetrator: Manchin, Manchin, Manchin.
This week, Manchin delivered a crushing one-two punch that should at least serve to end any doubts regarding ... Read more ...
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Climate mitigation isn't just a matter of ethics; it's life and death - Truthout (Mar 09, 2022) |
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Mar 09, 2022 · The climate crisis worsens with each passing year - and even the current levels of warming are disastrous, affecting ecosystems as well as social and environmental conditions of health. People in the world’s poorest countries remain most vulnerable to the crisis. The world’s governments are slow to react to the greatest challenge facing humanity today, even though potential solutions are not in short supply, with the transition to a green economy offering the most effective pathway to tackling the problem of global warming at its roots.
There are, in addition, intermediate steps that can be taken toward climate stabilization, such as carbon pricing and even the adoption of a ... Read more ...
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Investors are reevaluating the Mountain Valley Pipeline - Truthout (Mar 09, 2022) |
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Mar 09, 2022 · The unjust, unneeded and destructive Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), a fracked-gas pipeline from West Virginia down into Virginia, should be canceled. Project completion is already in jeopardy.
During a recent hearing about the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC’s) policy statements about fracked gas certificates, Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, the chair of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, defended the MVP. Manchin claimed the pipeline is 95 percent completed, but opponents cite the company’s own reports, which indicate “final restoration of the pipeline right-of-way is now about 55% complete.”
Moreover, two recent federal court rulings ... Read more ...
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Most mega-corporations' net-zero pledges are hollow, report finds - Truthout (Feb 13, 2022) |
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Feb 13, 2022 · In the wake of COP26, a lot of ink has been spilled on how mega-corporations, under pressure from consumers and environmentally aware shareholders, are stepping up to the plate with promises to go entirely carbon neutral within a few years or decades.
Yet, a shocking new study of 25 mega-corporations, released this month by the NewClimate Institute and Climate Market Watch, finds that much of this is smoke and mirrors. In fact, the researchers conclude, in reality, the emissions-reduction strategies for these companies, with a cumulative revenue of over $3 trillion and a greenhouse gas footprint equaling 5 percent of the world’s total, add up to only a 40 percent reduction ... Read more ...
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As cryptocurrency becomes mainstream, its carbon footprint can't be ignored - Truthout (Jan 07, 2022) |
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Jan 07, 2022 · For advocates of cryptocurrency, the promise of an economic future that is managed by a blockchain (a decentralized database that is shared among the nodes of a computer network, as opposed to being held in a single location, such as a central bank) is compelling. For anyone paying attention, the rapid expansion of cryptocurrency has been stunning. In 2019, the global cryptocurrency market was approximately $793 million. It’s now expected to reach nearly $5.2 billion by 2026, according to a report by the market research organization Facts and Factors. In just one year - between July 2020 and June 2021 - the global adoption of cryptocurrency surged by more than 880 percent.
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Pink ribbon banking claims to fight cancer but boosts carcinogenic fossil fuels - Truthout (Nov 13, 2021) |
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Nov 13, 2021 · October has come and gone, and despite promises to “raise awareness” by the hundreds of pink ribbon marketing campaigns that pop up during “Breast Cancer Industry Month,” it is estimated 43,000+ people will die from breast cancer in the U.S. this year alone. In fact, in 2021, breast cancer surpassed lung cancer to become the most commonly diagnosed cancer globally.
Though we are bombarded with pink ribbon promotions across our newsfeeds, our TV screens and in empty proclamations made by our legislators, breast cancer activists are not falling for it. Each year, more and more people debunk the pink ribbon promises they see in their targeted ads and turn a critical eye toward ... Read more ...
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Growing BIPOC youth-led climate movement is the force Occupy could have been - Truthout (Oct 16, 2021) |
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Oct 16, 2021 · Hundreds of activists gathered this week at Washington, D.C.’s Freedom Plaza for the People vs. Fossil Fuels mobilization - 10 years ago to the week that I set foot in the same place as the Occupy D.C. encampment had begun.
I started as an Occupy D.C. organizer and have since become executive director of Power Shift Network, where I work to support young people, especially Black, Indigenous and youths of color who are organizing for climate justice. This work has allowed me to see a critical throughline between movements that offers us lessons and mandates for our current moment and fight for a stable climate and livable future for us all.
Occupy made us understand a ... Read more ...
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After Hurricane Ida, Louisianians offer bold visions for climate resilience - Truthout (Oct 15, 2021) |
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Oct 15, 2021 · Recovery from Hurricane Ida is still underway in southeast Louisiana, where the climate crisis hangs a question mark over the future. People in Louisiana are already preparing for rising seas and intensifying storms, offering models for the rest of us. So, will New Orleans be under water someday? Mike Ludwig speaks to Jessica Dandridge, Executive Director of the Greater New Orleans Water Collaborative, to find out.
Music by Dan Mason.
This is a rush transcript and has been lightly edited for clarity.
Hello everyone, this is Mike Ludwig coming to you from New Orleans, Louisiana, welcome back to “Climate Front Lines.” We’ve been on hiatus for a few months as our ... Read more ...
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For the first time, most Americans say global warming is currently harming US - Truthout (Sep 28, 2021) |
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Sep 28, 2021 · More Americans than ever are worried about global warming, according to data that stretches back to 2008 from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (YPCCC) and George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication. The increase is reflective of growing concern over the climate crisis as Americans experienced climate disaster after climate disaster this summer.
The survey shows that, for the first time, a majority of Americans think that people in the U.S. are “being harmed right now” by global warming, with 55 percent of the 1,006 people surveyed responding as such. Furthermore, the amount of people who report being worried about global warming is at an ... Read more ...
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Wildfire smoke is killing more than 33,000 people every year - Truthout (Sep 12, 2021) |
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Sep 12, 2021 · Wildfire smoke causes more than 33,000 deaths a year across 43 countries, according to a new global study.
While previous studies estimated premature deaths from wildfires in a specific country or region, authors of a study published Wednesday in Lancet Planetary Health say this is the most comprehensive assessment to-date of global wildfire mortality. The findings come as the smoke from yet another season of record-breaking wildfires in the Northern Hemisphere impacts air quality hundreds of miles away from burn areas.
“Policy makers and public health professionals should raise awareness of wildfire pollution to guide prompt public responses and take actions to reduce ... Read more ...
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Line 3 resisters light the way in a battle for life on earth - Truthout (Sep 09, 2021) |
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Sep 09, 2021 · Amid record hurricanes, wildfires and droughts, battles are being waged over the fate of the Earth. Many of those battles are being fought by Indigenous people, and by others whose relationship to life, land and one another compels them to push back against an extractive, death-making economy that renders people and ecosystems disposable. On the front lines of the struggle to halt construction of Enbridge’s new Line 3 pipeline - which would bring nearly a million barrels of tar sands per day from Alberta, Canada, to Superior, Wisconsin - Water Protectors have locked themselves to excavators and drills, and overturned cars and barrels of cement, while also deploying aerial blockades, ... Read more ...
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