Fossil Fuels

Historic Protest At Harvard-Yale Football Game Was Years In The Making

November 28, 2019 Emily Pontecorvo, Grist. Resist! climate crisis, Divestment, Fossil Fuels, Youth

Saturday marked the 136th annual Harvard-Yale football game, a tradition known simply as “The Game” by students and alumni of the rival Ivy League schools. Tens of thousands of people flocked to the Yale Bowl in New Haven to watch. Many more tuned in on ESPNU. But what viewers likely didn’t expect to witness was a historic show of unity between the two schools in the name of fighting climate change. Just before 2 p.m., as the halftime show was ending and the Yale marching band exited the field, about 150 people ran down the steps of the stadium and onto the turf, staging a sit-in near the 50-yard line. They unfurled banners that read “Nobody Wins: Yale and Harvard are complicit in climate injustice,” “Presidents Bacow and Salovey: Our future demands action now,” and “This is an emergency.”

Court Decision Against BLM For Ignoring Climate Impact Results In Suspended Oil & Gas Leases

November 21, 2019 By Nicholas Kusnetz, Insideclimatenews.org Resist! Climate Change, Courts, Fossil Fuels

The Trump administration's relentless push to expand fossil fuel production on federal lands is hitting a new snag: its own refusal to consider the climate impacts of development. The federal Bureau of Land Management's Utah office in September voluntarily suspended 130 oil and gas leases after advocacy groups sued, arguing that BLM hadn't adequately assessed the greenhouse gas emissions associated with drilling and extraction on those leases as required by law.

World’s Largest Bank Ends Fossil Fuel Financing

November 20, 2019 By Alexandra Jacobo, Nationofchange.org Create! Banks, Fossil Fuels, Investment

The bank's decision to end all financing of oil, gas, and coal projects after 2021 will make it the first multilateral lender to rule out financing for projects that contribute to the climate crisis. Environmentalists have a reason to celebrate this week. The European Investment Bank (EIB) announced on Thursday that it will phase out its financing completely for fossil fuels within the next two years. The bank’s decision to end all financing of oil, gas, and coal projects after 2021 will make it the first multilateral lender to rule out financing for projects that contribute to the climate crisis.

How The Fossil Fuel Industry Undermined Climate Science

November 14, 2019 Naomi Oreske, Tomdispatch.com Educate! Climate Change, Climate Science, Fossil Fuels, Science

Scientists have been seriously investigating the subject of human-made climate change since the late 1950s and political leaders have been discussing it for nearly as long. In 1961, Alvin Weinberg, the director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, called carbon dioxide one of the “big problems” of the world “on whose solution the entire future of the human race depends.” Fast-forward nearly 30 years and, in 1992, President George H.W. Bush signed the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), promising “concrete action to protect the planet.”

‘No More Fossil Lovers!’, BXE Disrupts Hearing For New FERC Commissioner

November 6, 2019 Beyond Extreme Energy, Popular Resistance. Resist! Congress, FERC, Fossil Fuels, Renewable Energy

Washington, DC - Members of Beyond Extreme Energy (BXE) spoke out at the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing for James Danly, who was nominated by President Trump to be the third Republican commissioner at FERC, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. BXE members unfurled a banner reading “Reject Danly” and yelled "FERC: No more fossil lovers! Wind and solar now!" before being arrested. The Danly nomination has been controversial because the Republican Danly was not paired with a Democrat nominee, as has been the norm at FERC for years. Danly is not qualified to be a FERC commissioner. Let us count the ways: He just graduated from law school in 2014. He had no regulatory experience when he was appointed by Pres. Trump in 2017 to be general counsel at FERC.

Natural Gas Vs. Renewable Energy: Beware The Latest Gas Industry Talking Points

October 21, 2019 Derrick Z. Jackson, Blog.ucsusa.org Educate! Fossil Fuels, Propaganda, Renewable Energy

The campaign is loaded with disinformation. The American Petroleum Institute (API) says it’s pushing gas as a “foundation for the future” because it is “clean.” Major fossil fuel companies including BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, and Shell are API members. The Independent Petroleum Association of America is playing up outdated 2008 praise of gas by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to decry pledges by leading 2020 Democratic presidential candidates to ban hydraulic fracturing (fracking) for gas.

Our Tax System Rewards Polluters

October 18, 2019 By Charlie Simmons, Otherwords.org Educate! Fossil Fuels, pollution, Taxes

Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist who sparked student protests across the globe, had this to tell the UN General Assembly in New York: “People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction. And all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth.” As a retired businessman and engineer, I can’t help but look at Greta with admiration. Yet I shudder to think that my generation has abdicated our duties to such an extent that we are leaving the mess of climate change on the shoulders of high schoolers.

WSJ, NYT Celebrate ‘Shale Revolution’ For Investor Class, Despite Its Leading To Our Doom

October 17, 2019 Joshua Cho, Fair.org Educate! Corporate Media, Energy, Fossil Fuels, Oil

It’s not hard to figure out that corporate media represent the perspectives and interests of a small elite investor class of the US population, rather than its vast working class majority. Simply compare the size of the “Business” section in major newspapers like the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times—ostensibly on opposite sides of the political spectrum—with the nonexistence of their “Labor” sections. But it is hard to think of a more palpable example of corporate journalists seeing themselves aligned with the interests of the investor class, against literally everyone else on the planet...

How Arts Workers Took On Big Oil

October 14, 2019 By Katherine Hearst, Newint.org Organize! Fossil Fuels, Oil, Workers

Seven and a half years ago, a group of arts workers, actors and campaigners jumped on stage before a BP-sponsored Royal Shakespeare Company production to do a guerrilla Shakespearean performance against the oil industry. The group soliloquized over the RSC’s decision to accept the sponsorship in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon drilling disaster, and BP’s decision to start extracting oil from the highly polluting and destructive tar sands in Canada. That first performance marked the launch of BP or not BP’s manifesto.

How Britain Ended Its Coal Addiction

October 2, 2019 Nathalie Thomas, Leslie Hook and Chris Tighe, Insideclimatenews.org Create! Coal, Energy, Fossil Fuels, United Kingdom (UK)

At Aberthaw Power Station on the coast of South Wales, Tom Glover examines a dwindling pile of coal for what may be the last time. At its peak in 2013, the coal-fired power plant generated enough electricity to keep the lights on in 3 million homes every year. But today—after almost half a century in operation—all is quiet. The furnaces are not running, there are no plumes from the smokestack, and there is no soot resting on the vehicles in the car park. The plant is simply trying to use up its remaining stockpile of coal before it closes for good early next year.

Largest Green Action Since 1970s In New Hampshire Targets Coal Power Plant

September 29, 2019 Shawne K. Wickham, Union Leader. Resist! climate crisis, Coal, Fossil Fuels

Bow. NH — Sixty-seven activists were arrested Saturday for trespassing at the Merrimack Station coal-burning power plant, in what organizers said was the largest environmental civil disobedience action since the Clamshell Alliance demonstrations against the Seabrook nuclear plant in the 1970s. The group had been planning the action for weeks, and the arrests were not unexpected. They chose the Bow plant on the Merrimack River because it has two coal-fired steam units, along with two kerosene-powered turbine units. The coal-fired units “serve as seasonal and peak demand resources,” according to the website for Granite Shore Power, which purchased the plant from Eversource in early 2018 as part of the state’s deregulation of the electric market.

Texas Charges Oil Port Protesters Under New Fossil Fuel Protection Law

September 18, 2019 BY Nicholas Kusnertz, Insideclimatenews.org Resist! Fossil Fuels, Oil, Protests, Reform, Repression, Texas

A group of activists who shut down one of the nation's largest oil ports by hanging off a bridge over the Houston Ship Channel have been charged under a new Texas law that imposes harsh penalties for disrupting the operations of fossil fuel infrastructure. The charges could present the first test for a wave of similar state laws that have been enacted around the country over the past three years in response to high-profile protests against pipelines and other energy projects.

As We Transition Away From Fossil Fuels, We Must Also Tackle Inequality

September 16, 2019 By J. Mijin Cha, Truthout.org Create! Fossil Fuels, Inequality, New Economy

Two truths lie at the heart of efforts to transition away from fossil fuels. The first is that to stave off the worst impacts of climate change, we must rapidly and dramatically reduce our carbon dioxide emissions. The second is that the resulting decrease in fossil fuel use and extraction will cause displacement of workers and the loss of tax revenue for many communities, and in some cases, it will eliminate entire tax bases. The second truth does not change the first, and the costs of inaction will far outweigh the cost of decarbonization.

Time Has Come To Nationalize The US Fossil Fuel Industry

August 27, 2019 Carla Santos Skandier, Roarmag.org Strategize! Fossil Fuels, Nationalization

As we gear up for a war-type of mobilization to mitigate the climate crisis, a federal takeover of the oil, gas and coal industry should be on the table. No other generation understands better the implication of climate change than today’s teens. As sixteen year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has famously summarized it, “this is an emergency.” But despite this emergency, the response from national governments has been to hype up the private sector as the silver bullet capable of providing the financial means and innovations needed to address climate change...

Climate Activists Are Building Power, Declare We Have An Emergency

August 26, 2019 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG. Podcast climate crisis, Extinction Rebellion, Fossil Fuels, Wildfires

Wildfires are raging around the world, creating a negative feedback loop for the climate by releasing greenhouse gases and destroying the forests' capacity to sequester carbon. The United States is on track to be the biggest producer of oil and gas in the 2020's. According to Global Witness, seven of the top ten producers of new fossil fuels are states in the US, with Texas producing nearly four times more than Canada and almost ten times more than Russia. Democratic Party leadership is preventing a presidential debate on climate and is suppressing efforts to develop a Green New Deal. Scientists say that we don't have any time left to take action on the climate. We should have made changes decades ago. In response, climate activism is escalating. We speak with Greg Schwedock of the Extinction Rebellion in New York City about actions being planned this fall and the current political environment.

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