Climate Change

Pelosi Office & Hallway Taken Over By Calls For A Green New Deal

November 13, 2018 Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance Resist! Climate Change, Climate Justice

Climate Justice activists organized by the Sunrise Movement held a sit-in in Rep. Nancy Pelosi's office calling for a Green New Deal and filled the hallway outside of her office. The hallway echoed with chants and speeches by activists calling for action to confront the climate crisis. They are demanding House Democrats: Champion a Green New Deal that would create millions of good jobs to transform society over the next decade to stop climate change; Mandate that any Democrat in leadership must take the No Fossil Fuel Money pledge, and reject campaign contributions from fossil fuel executives and lobbyists, and prioritize the health of people and planet over industry profits.

Judge Blocks Keystone XL Pipeline, Says Climate Impact Can’t Be Ignored

November 10, 2018 Phil McKenna, Insideclimatenews.org Resist! Climate Change, Courts, KXL pipeline

A federal judge in Montana on Thursday blocked all further work on the Keystone XL pipeline, saying the Trump administration had failed to justify its decision to reverse a prior decision by the Obama administration and to approve the tar sands oil delivery project. It was a striking victory for environmental advocates who have spent over a decade fighting the project to carry tar sands oil from Canada to markets in the United States and had turned the KXL line into a litmus test for climate action. Environmental advocates, landowners along the pipeline's route and indigenous rights groups hailed the ruling.

Why Was Climate Change Omitted From Colorado’s Debate Over Fracking?

November 9, 2018 By David Sirota and Chase Woodruff, Capitalandmain.com Educate! Climate Change, Colorado, Fracking

Oil and gas corporations spent roughly $40 million to oppose 112, which would have mandated larger distances between fossil fuel extraction sites and schools, hospitals and residential neighborhoods, and likely restricted some fossil fuel development. Some of that money also went into promoting 74, which would have empowered those same oil and gas companies to sue towns that try to restrict drilling and fracking. While the industry offered a smorgasbord of arguments in its campaign — it would defund schools, it would kill jobs, etc. — those criticisms were all based on one central premise: that the setbacks measure would allegedly ban all new oil and gas exploration.

No Food For 2 Weeks: These Protestors Are Fasting Over Climate Change

November 9, 2018 By Michael Sol Warren, Nj.com Resist! Activism, Climate Change, Fasting

A coalition of environmental groups gathered outside of the State House on Wednesday to announce the start of Climate Fast NJ, a two-week-long protest fast aimed at pressuring Murphy to take more immediate action on climate change. The press conference was capped off with coalition members walking to Murphy's office to hand-deliver their demands. Their specific goals are lofty: Climate Fast NJ is calling for Murphy to back a moratorium on new fossil fuel infrastructure projects like power plants and pipelines. Murphy's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The impetus for Climate Fast NJ, according to organizers, was the release of a dire new report from the International Panel of Climate Change.

The Pentagon Hits Home, Climate Changing Dinner & How To Address Addiction

November 8, 2018 Eleanor Goldfield, Occupy.com Resistance Report Climate Change, Drugs, Pentagon, Policy

The Pentagon broadens its horizons to domestic surveillance and “insurrection” - the all seeing eye is focused on the home front. Next, if we wanna survive humanity's demise that our choices designed, we have to start making different choices – at the dinner table. Finally, Dr. Sheila Vakharia joins us to talk harm reduction, addiction and drug policy.

Prayer And Fast For Climate Change

November 7, 2018 Community Roots, Popular Resistance. Resist! Climate Change, Fasting, Fossil Fuels

A group of concerned citizens will be publicly fasting and praying for ten days prior to Thanksgiving to focus attention on the issue of climate change. The fast and prayer will run from 7.30am Monday November 12 to 1pm Wednesday November 21st, 2018, the day before Thanksgiving. Fasters will be in front of the Court House on College Street from 7.30am to 8.30am, then at the Vance Monument from 8.30am until 5pm each day. A daily prayer at noon will be led by various local faith leaders, followed each day by a short talk on climate change issues.

The Dark Side Of The Biofuel Economy

November 7, 2018 Biofuel Watch, Popular Resistance. Resist! Biofuels, Climate Change, Energy, Environment

An international coalition of more than 120 organisations from 40 countries today warns that the rapid global growth of the so-called bioeconomy poses a grave risk to the climate, nature, and human rights. In addition to publishing an Open Letter [1], a petition [2] is being launched today to coincide with the International Day of Action on Bioenergy which calls on governments around the world to support proven low carbon technologies, reduce overconsumption, and protect forests and other ecosystems. In recent years, governments from the UK to Brazil to South Korea have promoted burning forest biomass for energy as a substitute for fossil fuels.

Fossil Fuels On Trial: Where The Major Climate Change Lawsuits Stand Today

November 6, 2018 By David Hasemyer, Insideclimatenews.org Resist! Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, Lawsuit

A wave of legal challenges that is washing over the oil and gas industry, demanding accountability for climate change, started as a ripple after revelations that ExxonMobil had long recognized the threat fossil fuels pose to the world. Over the past few years: Two states launched fraud investigations into Exxon over climate change, and one has followed with a lawsuit. Nine cities and counties, from New York to San Francisco, have sued major fossil fuel companies, seeking compensation for climate change damages. And determined children have filed lawsuits against the federal government and various state governments, claiming the governments have an obligation to safeguard the environment.

Washington’s I-1631: A Chance To Choose Hope, Not Fear

November 6, 2018 Adrienne Alvord, Blog.ucsusa.org Educate! Climate Change, Electoral Politics, Reform, Washington

It has been a tense and tragic time in the runup to the midterm election next week, and voters nationwide have reasons to feel fear about what may happen next, but we need to remember that there are also opportunities for great hope in the election next Tuesday. For example, few issues have generated as much excitement for climate action as the Washington State carbon pricing initiative, I-1631. This initiative, developed after a painstaking and highly inclusive planning process that has garnered enthusiastic support from a large, diverse coalition of constituencies, would create a groundbreaking carbon fee on polluters that would be reinvested in Washington’s communities, businesses, and clean energy industries.

Big Banks Just Flunked Their Own Test On Climate, Indigenous Rights

November 5, 2018 Earth, Food, Life, Independentmediainstitute.org Educate! Banks, Climate Change, Indigenous Peoples

On October 16, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Crédit Agricole and 91 other global banks met in Washington, DC, to revise the Equator Principles, industry-led due diligence standards meant to prevent banks from supporting environmentally and socially harmful projects. On the very same day, in a bitter irony, many of those same banks re-upped their support for Enbridge, the Canadian company behind the Line 3 tar sands pipeline, which tramples Indigenous rights and is flatly incompatible with the goals of the Paris climate agreement. They did so just days after the publication of a landmark United Nations report showing the desperate urgency of taking concrete steps to tackle the climate crisis. It’s as if the banks wanted to supply their own headline example of exactly why the Equator Principles are broken and in dire need of repair.

Extinction Rebellion: Direct Action Is Our Last Chance To Phase-Out Carbon

November 4, 2018 By Husna Rizvi, The New Internationalist Resist! Civil Disobedience, Climate Change

A new climate breakdown resistance movement is forming in Britain. On Wednesday 31 October in Westminster, ‘Extinction Rebellion’ – a nascent mass direct-action group, in the style of Occupy – came together to launch a rolling protest against the UK government’s failure to act to prevent climate change. In London’s Parliament Square, in front of Gandhi’s statue no less, thousands of people made a declaration of non-violent rebellion in an attempt to force concessions from the government. Their demands include: an immediate reversal of climate-toxic policies, net-zero emissions by 2025 and the establishment of a citizen’s assembly to oversee the radical changes necessary to halt global warming.

Supreme Court Decision Puts Landmark Climate Change Lawsuit Back On Track For Trial

November 3, 2018 By Anne Meador, Dcmediagroup.us Resist! Climate Change, Lawsuit, Supreme Court

By a 7-2 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a Trump administration motion to stop a constitutional lawsuit filed by 21 young plaintiffs from going to trial. The lawsuit, Juliana v. United States, asserts that the federal government is depriving youth of rights to life, liberty and property through an energy system contributing to climate change. Our Children’s Trust, the nonprofit supporting the case, has described the Department of Justice’s numerous legal maneuvers to thwart the case from going to trial as attempts to “circumvent the ordinary procedures of federal litigation.” The trial was originally scheduled for October 29 in Oregon. The case has been winding its way through the courts for three years.

Halt To Youth Climate Lawsuit Inspires Nationwide Resistance

October 31, 2018 By Alexandra Jacobo, Nationofchange.org Resist! Climate Change, Lawsuit, Youth

The three-year-long case has survived countless obstacles and the 21 youth plaintiffs don't plan on backing down now. This week should have been the start to the three-year-long landmark youth climate trial against the federal government, deemed the “trial of the century.”Instead, the Supreme Court halted the case in response to a last-ditch effort by the Trump administration to kill the case. Now the rest of the country is responding to the disgraceful decision. The 21 youth plaintiffs of the case, Juliana v. United States, have been joined by thousands across the country the past several days to “keep our government accountable for the effects of climate change.”

The Clock Is Ticking On Addressing Climate Change — Med Students Can Help

October 31, 2018 By Sidhant Gugale, Countercurrents.org Educate! Climate Change, Medicine, Students

The latest report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns us that we have only 12 years left to keep the maximum temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius and, thus, avoid calamitous environmental devastation. This report, over 1200 pages and written by 91 researchers across 44 countries, explains that global emissions will have to be slashed by 45 percent to reach this new target. Currently, it is estimated that the world’s temperature will rise by 3 degrees Celsius should no new measures be taken. While the difference between 1.5 degrees and 2 degrees Celsius may not seem substantial, make no mistake about it – the difference is absolutely staggering.

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