Climate Change

The “Greenest Governor” vs. The Climate Kids

June 23, 2016 Patrick Mazza, www.cascadiaplanet.blogspot.com Resist! Climate Change, Climate Justice, James Hansen, Washington

By Patrick Mazza for Cascadia Planet. June 23 is milestone in climate history. Today in 1988, then NASA scientist James Hansen told Congress human-caused global warming was with us. The fossil fuel industry knew it too. ExxonMobil scientists had accurately projected the track of climate disruption. Its oil industry peers were also well aware. If political leaders had been listening to Hansen then, we could have avoided a lot of death and destruction. Climate Trust youth have won a series of court victories, but, ironically, the administration of Gov. Jay Inslee, who came into office as the “greenest governor” with stellar credentials as a Congressional climate leader, is trying to overturn the most recent victory through an appeal to a higher court. In an astounding move guaranteed to provoke intense cognitive dissonance, it’s the “greenest governor” versus the climate kids.

State Refuses To Do Safety Study For Gas Plant

June 19, 2016 Staff, www.wearecovepoint.org Petitions and Online Actions Climate Change, Democracy, health, Oil and Gas

By We Are Cove Point. Lusby, Maryland - Dominion is building a gas refinery and export terminal in a densely-populated neighborhood in Southern Maryland without analyzing the risks to people in the community. Families are worried and want to know how likely it is that a chemical spill or explosion will happen and what damage it will do. That sounds reasonable doesn’t it? Wouldn’t you want to know if this was being built across the street from your house? Families are already leaving the community out of fear, and it’s causing a lot of heartache as they say goodbye to this beautiful waterfront and the friends they’ve made. Some families are staying because they can’t stomach selling their house and putting others in harm’s way or because their property values have dropped and they can’t afford to sell. This isn’t right. They deserve answers.

5 More US Nukes To Close

June 19, 2016 Harvey Wasserman, www.ecowatch.com Resist! Climate Change, Energy, health, Nuclear Energy

By Harvey Wasserman for EcoWatch. A rising tsunami of U.S. nuke shut-downs may soon include California’s infamous Diablo Canyon double reactors. But it depends on citizen action, including a statewide petition. Five U.S. reactor closures have been announced within the past month. A green regulatory decision on California’s environmental standards could push the number to seven. The focus is now on a critical June 28 California State Lands Commission meeting. Set for Sacramento, the hearing could help make the Golden State totally nuke free, ending the catastrophic radioactive and global warming impacts caused by these failing plants. A public simulcast of the Sacramento meeting is expected to gather a large crowd at the Morro Bay Community Center near the reactor site.

Biggest US Coal Company Funded Dozens Of Groups Questioning Climate Change

June 16, 2016 Suzanne Goldenberg and Helena Bengtsson, www.theguardian.com Educate! Climate Change, Coal, Peabody Coal

By Suzanne Goldenberg and Helena Bengtsson for The Guardian - Peabody Energy, America’s biggest coal mining company, has funded at least two dozen groups that cast doubt on man-made climate change and oppose environment regulations, analysis by the Guardian reveals. The funding spanned trade associations, corporate lobby groups, and industry front groups as well as conservative think tanks and was exposed in court filings last month.

Six-Day Tree Sit Against Fracked Gas Pipeline Ends

June 14, 2016 Rising Tide Vermont, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Climate Change, Fracking, Oil and Gas, Pipelines

By Rising Tide Vermont. Monkton, Vt. - A six day aerial blockade of Vermont Gas Systems' fracked gas pipeline has ended with one arrest and significant delays at a construction site along the proposed route. Sam Jessup, who occupied a platform in a tree since last Tuesday to halt construction activity, came down voluntarily after police disconnected the cell phone he was using to communicate with supporters on the ground. "As we continue to effectively halt pipeline construction, we are seeing an escalation in tactics from the police in their response," said Will Bennington, a spokesperson with the climate justice group Rising Tide Vermont. "AT&T has reported to us that Sam's phone was disconnected from nearby cell towers, and state troopers confirmed that they had 'other tricks up our sleeves' to disrupt the action, including interfering with the cell phone."

The Doomsday Clock Is About To Strike 12

June 14, 2016 Noam Chomsky, www.tomdispatch.com Educate! Climate Change, Future, Nuclear Weapons

By Noam Chomsky for Tom Dispatch - In January 2015, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists advanced its famous Doomsday Clock to three minutes before midnight, a threat level that had not been reached for 30 years. The Bulletin’s statement explaining this advance toward catastrophe invoked the two major threats to survival: nuclear weapons and “unchecked climate change.” The call condemned world leaders, who “have failed to act with the speed or on the scale required to protect citizens from potential catastrophe,”

4 Lessons For Climate Organizers From Anti-Nuclear Movement

June 11, 2016 Will Lawrence, www.wagingnonviolence.org Strategize! Anti-Nuclear, Climate Change

By Will Lawrence for Waging Nonviolence - I’m imagining an American social movement that defeats a dangerous form of energy through mass organizing, legal appeals and nonviolent direct action. In only 30 years, the movement wins the support of the public, drives corporations out of business and demonstrates that alternatives are more economically viable. A daydream about the climate movement, right? Actually, activists in the United States (and other countries) already showed how it’s done in the movement against nuclear power.

Surveying Damage On World Oceans Day

June 10, 2016 Deirdre Fulton, www.commondreams.org Educate! Climate Change, Environment, Oceans

By Deirdre Fulton for Common Dreams - Threatened by climate change, pollution, overfishing, and oil spills, the world's oceans are suffering, scientists warned on Wednesday—the day designated by the United Nations as one to honor the deep blue sea. From widespread coral bleaching to floundering fish species to garbage stretching across the water's surface and hundreds of feet down, it's clear that human activity is taking its toll on the world's oceans, which cover more than 70 percent of the Earth's surface.

Why Climate Change Needs 60,000 Artists To Tell Its Story

June 10, 2016 Elizabeth Boulton, www.theconversation.com Organize! Art, Climate Change

By Elizabeth Boulton for The Conversation - In 2013, one of the world’s leading public relations experts, Bob Pickard, cried out to the climate world: “mobilise us!” In a frustrated op-ed, he listed 20 key problems with climate communication. One of them was “story fatigue”: bland stories with “highly repetitive and stale” themes. Climate information is still often confusing, unengaging and absent from the wider public discourse.

LNG Has No Climate Benefit For Decades, IF EVER*

June 8, 2016 Joe Romm, www.thinkprogress.org Educate! Climate Change, Fracking, LNG

By Joe Romm for Think Progress - One of the country’s leading experts on natural gas leaks told me, “a close reading of the DOE report in the context of the recent literature indicates that exporting natural gas from the U.S. as LNG is a very poor idea.” So you may wonder why the Financial Times had this headline on its story: “US LNG exports could help countries curb emissions.”

Tree-Sit Stops Pipeline Construction For Second Time In 3 Days

June 8, 2016 Rising Tide Vermont, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Climate Change, Oil and Gas, Pipeline

By Rising Tide Vermont. Monkton, Vt.- In a new wave of public opposition to the project, participants in the campaign to stop the fracked gas pipeline have stopped construction for the second time this week. Early this morning, Samuel Jessup scaled a tree on an active work site to begin yet another indefinite delay, this time by tying the support line of his platform to machinery meant to blast open the hillside where Vermont Gas Systems plans to build the pipeline. "The climate crisis is already deadly, and it's getting worse" Jessup said. "Each passing month there are new records set for heat and drought across the planet, and with each passing year, fossil fuels kill five million more people. We simply can't afford to let this pipeline get built."

American Unions Form Alliance To Prevent Climate Disaster

June 8, 2016 Joe Uehlein and Jeremy Brecher, www.uslaboragainstwar.org Organize! Climate Change, Labor Unions

By Joe Uehlein and Jeremy Brecher for US Labor Against The War - Step by step the American labor movement is increasingly recognizing and responding to the threat of climate change. While the AFL-CIO never supported the Kyoto or Copenhagen climate agreements on the grounds that they were bad for jobs and the American economy, it “applauded” the Paris climate agreement as a “landmark achievement in international cooperation” and called on America to “make the promises real.”

Planting Seeds Of Resistance Along Pipeline Route

June 8, 2016 Staff, www.boldnebraska.org Resist! Climate Change, Oil and Gas, Pipelines

By Bold Nebraska. Ponca Nation member and Bold Oklahoma coordinator Mekasi Horinek Camp, Nebraska farmer Art Tanderup, and Bold Nebraska’s Jane Kleeb will visit Virginia and West Virginia from June 6-8 to plant “Seeds of Resistance” on land that lies in the paths of the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley fracked gas pipelines. The first “Seeds of Resistance” were planted in 2014 by the Cowboy & Indian Alliance, when sacred Ponca corn was returned to the tribe’s ancestral homeland in Nebraska for the first time in 137 years — since the tribe was forcibly removed from Nebraska. The corn was planted on land that lies both in the path of the Keystone XL pipeline, and on the historic Ponca Trail of Tears.

Vermont: Lockdowns Prevent Pipeline Construction

June 6, 2016 Vermont Rising Tide, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Climate Change, Oil and Gas, Pipeline

By Vermont Rising Tide. Williston, Vt. - Members of the Stop the Fracked Gas Pipeline Campaign are blocking pipeline construction, enforcing what they call a "keep fossil fuels in the ground" strategy to avert the worst impacts of global warming. Several people are locked to equipment, and others are blocking an access road to stop construction. Participants say they need to take direct action to stop the pipeline because state regulators and Governor Shumlin have refused to cancel permits, despite a groundswell of opposition to the project over the past three years. The work disruption comes in the beginning stages of the 2016 construction season. Vermont Gas hopes to finish construction in the fall, and has stated the significant delays in construction and easement acquisition could threaten the viability of the project.

Attorney Generals Investigating ExxonMobil Refuse Congress

June 5, 2016 Michael Virtanen, , www.AP.org Resist! Climate Change, Courts, Exxon

By Michael Virtanen for the Associated Press. Republicans on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology sent a letter to 17 attorneys general on May 18th claiming that they were being influenced by environmental activists and were seeking all communications between their offices and environmental groups. They are also seeking documents related to communications among the attorneys general about their investigations of ExxonMobil. Below is an article about the response from Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. In addition, the Baltimore Sun reported that Maryland "struck back with a withering reply" to Rep. Lamar Smith who chairs the committee, which included: "You state, without any foundation, that the actions of this office 'may even amount to an abuse of prosecutorial discretion.' If you have any basis whatsoever for that assertion, please let us know what it is. Absent such explanation, your letter looks like an attempt to intimidate this office or to thwart it from performing its constitutional functions."

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