Permafrost Collapses 70 Years Early
Robert Hunziker | counterpunch.org | 2019-06-21
Fasten your seat belt! Global warming is on a rampage. As a consequence, many ecosystems may be on the verge of total collapse. In fact, recent activity in the hinterlands surely looks that way. Over time, the backlash for civilized society, where people live in comfort, could be severe, meaning extreme discomfort. But still, nobody…
counterpunch.org/2019/06/21/permafrost-collapses-70-years-early/

Climate crisis: We are not all in this together
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-06-21
Long-time climate campaigner David Spratt and former fossil fuel company executive Ian Dunlop have issued a bold call for unlikely partners to work together to avoid climate catastrophe. | In particular, their policy paper, Existential climate-related security risk: A scenario approach appears to call on the national security sector to step in and save the day. | The 10-page paper put out by the climate-focused think tank Breakthrough is a succinct warning of the dire consequences of not acting on the climate science now and spells out possible scenarios…
greenleft.org.au/content/climate-crisis-we-are-not-all-together

'We do not approve!' Stop Adani sit-in
AlexBainbridge | greenleft.org.au | 2019-06-21
Two thousand people took over a major roadway in Brisbane on a Friday night, standing and sitting in. The action is likely to be the prelude to future disruption in the city if approval for the Adani coal mine is not withdrawn. | The rally first heard from a range of speakers, including Wangan and Jagalingou spokesperson Adrian Burragubba; MUA Qld state secretary Bob Carnegie; and organisers with University Students for Climate Action, Front-Line Action on Coal and others. | Numerous community groups were visible in the rally, noticeably some bearing Extinction Rebellion signs announcing a day of disruption to be…
greenleft.org.au/content/we-do-not-approve-stop-adani-sit

Union solidarity motion for September 20 climate strike
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-06-21
School Strike 4 Climate is encouraging unionists to move the following motion at meetings of their trade unions. | We, Positive Universe: Earth Protection Team | a. Recognise that climate change: | Presents an existential threat, being a "global emergency" according to the 2018 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report; | Has already had negative impacts both internationally and in Australia, as evidenced by the breaking of heat records, prolonged and more aggressive bushfire seasons, bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef and increased droughts; | Is the product of corporate greed and profiting off the environment, with 70% o…
greenleft.org.au/content/union-solidarity-motion-september-20-climate-strike

Mark Field called for 'much firmer grip' on climate protests two months before he grabbed a protester
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-06-21
Mark Field, the Conservative minister facing criticism for grabbing an environmental protester, sent a letter in April urging police to "take a much firmer grip" on climate change demonstrations.In the letter to Metropolitan Police chief Cressida Dick, the MP for the Cities of London and Westminster — who is facing a party investigation over the incident — complained that constituents were "quite rightly fed up" with the travel disruption caused by Extinction Rebellion protests. | Activists brought parts of the city to a standstill throughout the month in a call for net carbon emissions to be reduced to…
thecanary.co/breaking-news/2019/06/21/mark-field-called-for-much-firmer-grip-on-climate-protests-two-months-before-he-grabbed-a-protester/

Extinction Rebellion: 'Our movement must be global or it will fail'
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-06-21
Green Left Weekly's Rachel Evans and Jonathan Lockhart spoke to Extinction Rebellion Sydney spokesperson Caz Chattin to find out more about this growing international movement. | When did Extinction Rebellion come about and why? | Extinction Rebellion was established in mid-2018 after all previous attempts to enact systemic change failed. It is based on studies on effective protest movements and focuses on non-violent direct action or civil disobedience to put pressure on the media and government. | What is Extinction Rebellion's understanding about the cause, nature and extent of the environmental crisis?
greenleft.org.au/content/extinction-rebellion-our-movement-must-be-global-or-it-will-fail

Food companies are still selling products contaminated by Monsanto weedkiller
Ruth Milka | nationofchange.org | 2019-06-20
Popular foods contaminated by glyphosate are still being sold by major companies in the United States. | New samples tested by the Environmental Working Group revealed that glyphosate, the main ingredient in Roundup, Monsanto's popular herbicide, is still present in children's cereal and snack products. | EWG tested 21 oat-based products. All 21 showed traces of glyphosate and all but four had levels of glyphosate that are higher than what EWG scientists consider safe for children. | The newest tests are a follow up from EWG's findings last year when the group tested samples in July and October and found consi…
nationofchange.org/2019/06/20/food-companies-are-still-selling-products-contaminated-by-monsanto-weedkiller/

'Huge victory' for grassroots climate campaigners as NY lawmakers reach deal on sweeping climate legislation
Julia Conley | nationofchange.org | 2019-06-20
Grassroots climate campaigners in New York applauded on Monday after state lawmakers reached a deal on sweeping climate legislation, paving the way for the passage of what could be some of the country's most ambitious environmental reforms. The legislature reached an agreement just before midnight Sunday on the Climate and Communities Protection Act (CCPA), one of several climate bills …
nationofchange.org/2019/06/20/huge-victory-for-grassroots-climate-campaigners-as-ny-lawmakers-reach-deal-on-sweeping-climate-legislation/

A report on economic impacts of climate change by norvergence
George Stacey | nationofchange.org | 2019-06-20
Scientists have been doing comprehensive research over the past decade about the impact of climate change on economies of different countries. Till now, what they found that climate change badly affects the growth rate of the global economy and the number of people will get poorer in the upcoming years. At the same time, due …
nationofchange.org/2019/06/20/a-report-on-economic-impacts-of-climate-change-by-norvergence/

The Dangerous Methane Mystery
Robert Hunziker | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-06-20
The East Siberian Arctic Shelf ("ESAS") is the epicenter of a methane-rich zone that could turn the world upside down. Still, the ESAS is not on the radar of mainstream science, and not included in calculations by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), and generally not well understood. It is one of the biggest …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/06/the-dangerous-methane-mystery/

The Dangerous Methane Mystery
Robert Hunziker | counterpunch.org | 2019-06-20
The East Siberian Arctic Shelf ("ESAS") is the epicenter of a methane-rich zone that could turn the world upside down. Still, the ESAS is not on the radar of mainstream science, and not included in calculations by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), and generally not well understood. It is one of the biggest…
counterpunch.org/2019/06/20/the-dangerous-methane-mystery/

Greenpeace activists halt Philip Hammond's speech at black tie event in London
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-06-20
Climate change protesters have disrupted chancellor Philip Hammond's Mansion House speech.Hammond had barely started his address when the activists interrupted the black tie event in the City of London.The activists were quickly escorted from Mansion House (Greenpeace/PA)The disruption lasted several minutes. Hammond got back to his feet at 9.05pm.Greenpeace later said 40 of its activists, some of whom wore red evening dresses with sashes that read "climate emergency", had interrupted the event, which was being broadcast live on television.In a statement, Greenpeace UK climate campaigner Areeba Hamid said: "This…
thecanary.co/breaking-news/2019/06/20/greenpeace-activists-halt-philip-hammonds-speech-at-black-tie-event-in-london/

'Our Climate Is Breaking Down. Business As Usual Is Over': Campaigners Interrupt Televised Speech of UK Treasury Official
Jon Queally, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-06-20
"The people in this room have been funding climate change, and we're not giving the banks and hedge funds a pass for their unethical investment decisions anymore," said one Greenpeace campaigner | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/screen_shot_2019-06-20_at_4.49.55_pm.png…
commondreams.org/news/2019/06/20/our-climate-breaking-down-business-usual-over-campaigners-interrupt-televised-speech?cd-origin=rss

The Dangerous Methane Mystery
Robert Hunziker | counterpunch.org | 2019-06-20
The East Siberian Arctic Shelf ("ESAS") is the epicenter of a methane-rich zone that could turn the world upside down. | Still, the ESAS is not on the radar of mainstream science, and not included in calculations by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), and generally not well understood. It is one of the biggest mysteries of the world's climate puzzle, and it is highly controversial, which creates an enhanced level of uncertainty and casts shadows of doubt.
counterpunch.org/2019/06/20/the-dangerous-methane-mystery/

US States, Industry Push Action on 'Green New Deal'
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-20
Individual states and industry groups are charting their own course towards achieving climate goals defined in the Green New Deal legislation introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives as Resolution 109 in February but which remains unresolved and stuck in House committees. | RELATED | AOC, Naomi Klein Predict the World's Future With Green New Deal | In one example of independent action by industry groups, The Architecture Lobby (TAL) recently issued a public memo providi…
telesurenglish.net/news/US-States-Industry-Push-Action-on-Green-New-Deal-20190620-0023.html

Europe Also Suffers From US Worldwide Sanctions: Putin
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-20
Russian President Vladimir Putin points out that United States sanctions against other world countries means that Europe suffers billions in lost trade. This follows news that some European countries are keen to end U.S. dollar-dominance in global trade, something Russia and China see as a priority to reshape international relations. | RELATED: | Russia: Putin Promises China-Friendly Investment Climate | On Thursday, during Putin's annual live "Direct Line Q&A" event, he laid out the…
telesurenglish.net/news/Europe-Also-Suffers-From-US-Worldwide-Sanctions-Putin-20190620-0009.html

New shadow climate justice minister demands fracking ban
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-06-20
Labour's new climate justice minister has demanded a ban on fracking.Danielle Rowley, who has been appointed as shadow climate justice and green jobs minister, also wants to see more onshore wind turbines and free bus travel for under-25s.The Midlothian MP plans to meet climate justice activists, including the climate school strikers, to formulate Labour policy.Pushing for an 'immediate ban on fracking' and 'kickstarting a Green Industrial Revolution': Rowley said: As a campaigner I'm really excited that I'll be working more closely with the climate movement, including the inspiring youth climate strikers,…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2019/06/20/new-shadow-climate-justice-minister-demands-fracking-ban/

National week of action: Consumers demand an end to foods grown with bee-killing pesticides
NationofChange Staff | nationofchange.org | 2019-06-20
In honor of National Pollinator Week (June 17-June 23), thousands of people across the US are participating in a week of action to demand that the retail food giant Kroger eliminate pollinator-toxic pesticides from their food supply chain and increase their organic food offerings. | World insect decline has been rapidly increasing, with more than 40% of insect species declining and a third endangered. Bees are particularly affected. The main reasons for global bee-decline or the "bee apocalypse" is industrial agriculture, parasites/pathogens, and climate change. Loss of biodiversity, destruction of habitat, an…
nationofchange.org/2019/06/20/national-week-of-action-consumers-demand-an-end-to-foods-grown-with-bee-killing-pesticides/

LaborFest: Fukushima, The Olympics and Labor
Laborfest | indybay.org | 2019-06-19
518 Valencia, San Francisco, near 16th St | BART at 16th and Mission…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/06/18/18824050.php

Capitalism = Extinction?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-06-19
In her Jacobin article 'Socialism or Extinction,' TRNN's climate bureau producer Dharna Noor boils down the UN's IPBES report to help us see what could lie ahead and how it is related to our economic system…
therealnews.com/stories/capitalism-extinction

Chorus of Outrage as Trump Admin. Throws Climate, Public Health Under Bus by Killing Obama-Era Clean Power Plan
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-06-19
"This is an immoral and an illegal attack on clean air, clean energy, and the health of the public." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/powerplant.jpeg…
commondreams.org/news/2019/06/19/chorus-outrage-trump-admin-throws-climate-public-health-under-bus-killing-obama-era?cd-origin=rss

'We Need to Ban Fracking': New Analysis of 1,500 Scientific Studies Details Threat to Health and Climate
Jake Johnson, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-06-19
"The data show that fracking impairs the health of people who live nearby, especially pregnant women, and swings a wrecking ball at the climate." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/fracking_14.jpg…
commondreams.org/news/2019/06/19/we-need-ban-fracking-new-analysis-1500-scientific-studies-details-threat-health-and?cd-origin=rss

New Analysis of Fracking Science (~1,500 Studies) Finds Serious Harms to Public Health, Environment, and Climate
commondreams.org | 2019-06-19
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commondreams.org/newswire/2019/06/19/new-analysis-fracking-science-1500-studies-finds-serious-harms-public-health?cd-origin=rss

For Not Mentioning Climate Crisis or Soaring Inequality, Sanders Calls Trump 'Man Living in Parallel Universe' Who 'Must Be Defeated'
Jake Johnson, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-06-19
"Our job is to keep our eyes on the prize, which is creating a decent life for all people," Sanders in video response to the president's official 2020 kickoff speech. "Our job is to resist Trump's effort to divide us up." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/bernie_sanders_9.jpg…
commondreams.org/news/2019/06/19/not-mentioning-climate-crisis-or-soaring-inequality-sanders-calls-trump-man-living?cd-origin=rss

Arctic warming & climate change 'should be the number one urgent conversation right now'
Andy Rowell | nationofchange.org | 2019-06-19
The news coming out of the Arctic over the last few days is further | evidence of our rapidly evolving climate emergency, which has | ramifications for all of us. | Arctic scientists are speaking out with increasing alarm at what they | are seeing, and as they keep repeating "what happens in the Arctic | doesn't stay in the Arctic." | Indeed, what happens in the Arctic will affect you and I. And what is | happening in the Arctic is not good. And its getting worse. By the day. | As I write, there is a "record challenging" melt | occurring in Greenland, where soaring temperatures were recorded last | week which…
nationofchange.org/2019/06/19/arctic-warming-climate-change-should-be-the-number-one-urgent-conversation-right-now/

Trump Administration's Replacement to Clean Power Plan Sends U.S. in the Wrong Direction on Climate Change
commondreams.org | 2019-06-19
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commondreams.org/newswire/2019/06/19/trump-administrations-replacement-clean-power-plan-sends-us-wrong-direction?cd-origin=rss

Scientists urge regulations to limit risk of GMO crops to Africa
CGTN Africa | cgtn.com | 2019-06-19
REUTERS — FILE PHOTO | African governments should establish solid regulatory frameworks to ensure that the introduction of genetically modified crops poses minimal risk to communities and the environment, scientists said at a forum in Nairobi on Wednesday. | Kenya is hosting a high-level conference to discuss innovative ways to harness nature-based assets to transform African agriculture amid threats linked to climate change, population pressure and shrinking arable land. | Scientists attending an organic farming conference underway in Nairobi urged African countries to embrace agricultural biotechnology wit…
africa.cgtn.com/2019/06/19/scientists-urge-regulations-to-limit-risk-of-gmo-crops-to-africa/

Carbon markets in a climate-changing capitalism
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-06-19
Carbon Markets in a Climate-Changing Capitalism offers an account of why these earlier expectations were not matched by experience. While the contradictions of market solutions have not gone away, the difference this time is that we are just over a decade away from the IPCC's 2030 benchmark for 1.5 ∞C. The concentration and centralisation of emissions […] | Source…
mronline.org/2019/06/19/carbon-markets-in-a-climate-changing-capitalism/

Bureau of Land Management Sued Again Over Climate Impacts of Oil and Gas
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-19
An environmental group based in New Mexico is suing the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) over alleged violations of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) related to climate change. It's the second lawsuit the agency has faced over its approval of oil and gas leases on public lands in recent years. | WildEarth Guardians has filed a lawsuit against BLM and the Department of Interior, asking a federal court in New Mexico to vacate 210 oil and gas leases…
truthout.org/articles/bureau-of-land-management-sued-again-over-climate-impacts-of-oil-and-gas/

As Trump Nixes California High Speed Rail Money, San Diego Considers Mass Transit Plan
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-06-19
San Diego, with some of the worst ozone levels and highest population of any U.S. county, has unveiled a plan to massively restructure its public transit system in the name of tackling the climate crisis.
therealnews.com/columns/as-trump-nixes-california-high-speed-rail-money-san-diego-considers-mass-transit-plan

Inslee Maintains Slim Lead in Updated Greenpeace Climate Ranking
commondreams.org | 2019-06-19
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commondreams.org/newswire/2019/06/19/inslee-maintains-slim-lead-updated-greenpeace-climate-ranking?cd-origin=rss

Trump's Bureau of Land Management Is Being Sued Again Over Climate Impacts
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-19
An environmental group based in New Mexico is suing the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) over alleged violations of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) related to climate change. It's the second lawsuit the agency has faced over its approval of oil and gas leases on public lands in recent years. | WildEarth Guardians has filed a lawsuit against BLM and the Department of Interior, asking a federal court in New Mexico to vacate 210 oil and gas leases…
truthout.org/articles/bureau-of-land-management-sued-again-over-climate-impacts-of-oil-and-gas/

Trump's Dirty Power Plan Will Aggravate the Climate Crisis
commondreams.org | 2019-06-19
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commondreams.org/newswire/2019/06/19/trumps-dirty-power-plan-will-aggravate-climate-crisis?cd-origin=rss

Rwanda launches scheme to help promote energy efficient cooling systems
CGTN Africa | cgtn.com | 2019-06-19
Rwanda on Tuesday launched a financial scheme that seeks to support the country's efforts to promote clean, environmentally friendly and energy efficient cooling systems. | "The financial scheme we have launched today is an important factor in Rwanda's journey to advance clean cooling, meet our obligations under the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer and play our part to address climate change crisis," said Vincent Biruta, Rwandan minister of environment, at the launch in Kigali, capital city of Rwanda. | The innovative financial mechanism dubbed Coolease Finan…
africa.cgtn.com/2019/06/19/rwanda-launches-scheme-to-help-promote-energy-efficient-cooling-systems/

The Earth May Have Already Passed a Critical Tipping Point
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-06-19
Climate scientists sound the alarm after it is discovered that areas of the Arctic permafrost are thawing 70 years ahead of schedule.
truthdig.com/articles/the-earth-may-have-already-passed-a-critical-tipping-point/

The DNC Can't Be Allowed to Ignore the Climate Crisis
George Ochenski | counterpunch.org | 2019-06-19
The Democratic National Committee continues to ignore the most pressing issue of our time — the global climate crisis — by refusing to allow presidential candidates to hold a debate focused specifically on the climate. Given that the president has launched a wholesale scorched earth attack on all things environmental, it's far past time for…
counterpunch.org/2019/06/19/the-dnc-cant-be-allowed-to-ignore-the-climate-crisis/

New York Is About to Pass One of the Most Ambitious Climate Bills in the Land
Raina Lipsitz | thenation.com | 2019-06-19
New York Is About to Pass One of the Most Ambitious Climate Bills in the Land…
thenation.com/article/new-york-climate-bill-cuomo/

350.org on New York's Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act
commondreams.org | 2019-06-19
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EPA Defies Climate Warnings, Gives Coal Plants a Reprieve
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-06-19
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Wednesday completed one of its biggest rollbacks of environmental rules, replacing a landmark Obama-era effort that sought to wean the nation's electrical grid off coal-fired power plants and their climate-damaging pollution. | Environmental Protection Agency chief Andrew Wheeler, a former coal industry lobbyist, signed a replacement rule that gives states leeway in deciding whether to require efficiency upgrades at existing coal plants. | Wh…
truthdig.com/articles/epa-defies-climate-warnings-gives-coal-plants-a-reprieve/

Carbon Markets in a Climate-Changing Capitalism
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-06-19
Carbon Markets in a Climate-Changing Capitalism offers an account of why these earlier expectations were not matched by experience. While the contradictions of market solutions have not gone away, the difference this time is that we are just over a decade away from the IPCC's 2030 benchmark for 1.5 ∞C. The concentration and centralisation of emissions […] | Source…
mronline.org/2019/06/19/carbon-markets-in-a-climate-changing-capitalism/

Community organisations come together to combat gentrification in West London
Mohamed Elmaazi | thecanary.co | 2019-06-19
On Saturday 22 June, residents and campaigners in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea will meet to discuss tackling homelessness, gentrification and climate change. Save Earls Court Supporters Club, T.H.I.N.K., Save Silchester, and Westway 23 will host the event which is supported by the Radical Housing Network (RHN). Attendees can expect "workshops, t…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/06/19/community-organisations-come-together-to-combat-gentrification-in-west-london/

Capitalism = Extinction?
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2019-06-19
counterpunch.org/2019/06/19/capitalism-extinction/

90,000 Comments Submitted Opposing Plan for New Drilling and Fracking on Public Lands
Los Padres ForestWatch | indybay.org | 2019-06-19
Monday, June 10 marked the end of the second and final public comment period on the Trump administration's plan to open more than 1 million acres of public land and mineral estate across the central coast region to new oil drilling and fracking. The 45 day period, which opened with the release of the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement, a study of the impacts that fracking would have on in the lease plan area, was the shortest allowed by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/06/17/18824025.php

The uphill battle for communities that ban pesticides
Meg Wilcox | nationofchange.org | 2019-06-19
WELLFLEET, Mass.–On a recent moonlit evening, with spring peepers in | chorus, a dozen Wellfleet residents gathered inside their town's | grey-shingled library for a public information session on the | controversial herbicide, glyphosate. | A bucolic, seaside town with | less than 3,000 year-round residents, Wellfleet is famed for its | picturesque harbor and sweet, briny oysters. | Its residents, like | the rest of Cape Cod, rely on a sole source of drinking water, a shallow | underground aquifer, and protecting that aquifer from pollutants such | as pesticides and septic wastes from household wastewate…
nationofchange.org/2019/06/19/the-uphill-battle-for-communities-that-ban-pesticides/

Mali's Civil War Fueled by Climate Crisis and Corporate Greed
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-06-18
Baba Aye discusses the failure of French and German peacekeepers in Mali and the real role they play, after almost one hundred people were killed in a Dogon village and Fulani are blamed for the attack…
therealnews.com/stories/malis-civil-war-fueled-by-climate-crisis-and-corporate-greed

'This Should Scare the Hell Out of You': Photo of Greenland Sled Dog Teams Walking on Melted Water Goes Viral
Jon Queally, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-06-18
In yet the latest shocking image depicting just how fast the world's natural systems are changing due to the global climate emergency, a photograph showing a vast expanse of melted Arctic ice in Greenland—one in which a pair of sled dog teams appear to be walking on water—has gone viral. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/greenland_melted_ice_dogsled_team.png…
commondreams.org/news/2019/06/18/should-scare-hell-out-you-photo-greenland-sled-dog-teams-walking-melted-water-goes?cd-origin=rss

The Remorseless Working of Things: A Political Tragedy in Three Parts
John Atcheson | commondreams.org | 2019-06-18
An ambulance drives on a flooded street in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in San Juan, Puerto Rico on September 22, 2017. (Photo: RICARDO ARDUENGO/AFP/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/tragedy_climate_emergency.jpg…
commondreams.org/views/2019/06/18/remorseless-working-things-political-tragedy-three-parts?cd-origin=rss

90,000 Comments Submitted Opposing Plan for New Drilling and Fracking on Public Lands
Los Padres ForestWatch | indybay.org | 2019-06-18
Monday, June 10 marked the end of the second and final public comment period on the Trump administration's plan to open more than 1 million acres of public land and mineral estate across the central coast region to new oil drilling and fracking. The 45 day period, which opened with the release of the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement, a study of the impacts that fracking would have on in the lease plan area, was the shortest allowed by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/06/17/18824025.php

Letter to Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf Demands Fracking Permit Pause, Investigation of Cancer Crisis
Food & Water Watch | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-18
Over a hundred groups and more than 800 individuals from Pennsylvania signed onto a letter to Governor Tom Wolf calling for an official investigation into recent reports of rare cancers in counties heavily impacted by shale gas development over the …
globalresearch.ca/letter-wolf-demands-fracking-permit-pause-investigation-cancer-crisis/5680980

The scary new math of factory farm waste
Tia Schwab | nationofchange.org | 2019-06-18
Factory farms are exempt from reporting requirements under the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts. Now a new tool can provide solid evidence of the environmental harm they can cause.
nationofchange.org/2019/06/18/the-scary-new-math-of-factory-farm-waste/