Coalition slams Newsom administration for approving 24 new fracking permits
Dan Bacher | indybay.org | 2020-04-12
The issuing of new fracking permits took place less than two months after Consumer Watchdog and the FracTracker Alliance reported that the total number of oil and gas well permits issued in 2019 under the Newsom Administration rivals the number issued during the last year in office of former Governor Jerry Brown.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/11/18832287.php

WATCH Ukrainian firefighters battle massive flames near disused Chernobyl nuclear plant
rt.com | 2020-04-12
Hundreds of personnel, supported by multiple fire engines and special aircraft, were filmed fighting a forest fire that broke out in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, reportedly stirring up radiation levels in the abandoned area. | Already on nationwide lockdown because of Covid-19 outbreak, Ukraine is dealing with wildfires that have engulfed the so-called alienation zone set up after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. The fires have easily consumed the grass, bushes and forest trees that had dried out following a warm end to winter. | A Ruptly video, made public on Sunday, shows a fire engine making its way through a…
rt.com/news/485596-chernobyl-forest-fire-radiation/

Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Prevails as Federal Judge strikes down DAPL permits
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-04-12
This validates everything the Tribe has been saying all along about the risk of oil spills to the people of Standing Rock. We will continue to see this through until DAPL has finally been shut down.

Amid COVID-19, It's Time to Nationalize Airlines and Other Industries
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-12
The $2 trillion stimulus bill that Congress passed on March 27 gave billions to industries like the airlines, but it did not explicitly give money to the oil and gas industry. Senate Democrats negotiated out the $3 billion to oil and gas (and lost clean energy provisions in the meantime) that Trump wanted to fill oil reserves "to the top." The omission was a tiny win for the climate [m…
truthout.org/articles/amid-covid-19-its-time-to-nationalize-airlines-and-other-industries/

Amid the Howl of the Pandemic the Silence of the Climate Watchdogs
Mark Hertsgaard | zcomm.org | 2020-04-12
Some government and corporate officials appear to have chosen this moment of anxiety and distraction to engineer financial giveaways and regulatory rollbacks that under normal circumstances would be bitterly contested…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/amid-the-howl-of-the-pandemic-the-silence-of-the-climate-watchdogs/

Biden Must Become the Climate-Commander-in-Chief
Karyn Strickler | commondreams.org | 2020-04-11
Over 150 middle and high school students demonstrated at the U.S. Capitol building urging senators to back the Green New Deal. (Photo: Sunrise Movement) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/sunrise_climate.jpg …
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Neoliberalism, Climate Change and the Future of Architecture
Caoimhghin àì Croidheáin | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-11
Introduction What is the future for architecture in these times of climate change and economic crises? Should sustainability and affordability be a major factor in the design and development of future buildings? What about aesthetics? There are many individual examples of modern buildings today that have positive aesthetic qualities, but can major future problems, like …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/04/neoliberalism-climate-change-and-the-future-of-architecture/

Fascists Are Using COVID-19 to Advance Their Agenda. It's Up to Us to Stop Them
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-11
The COVID-19 crisis is a story of a predictable pandemic. It is a result of the willful ignorance of the impact of the climate crisis and unsustainable expansion, a failure of multiple governments and the intentional under-resourcing of public health and medical systems. It results from our societies' ignoring of the conditions for poor people, the unhoused, disabled and chronically ill peopl…
truthout.org/articles/fascists-are-using-covid-19-to-advance-their-agenda-its-up-to-us-to-stop-them/

Pairing 'Green Deal' With 'Just Recovery' in EU, Groups Embrace Tackling COVID-19 and Climate Emergency in Tandem
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-04-10
The global climate advocacy group 350.org on Friday welcomed a new demand from 11 member nations of the European Union to use the continent's Green Deal policy guidelines as a framework for economic recovery from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/47334840292_fa37a41eed_o_1.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/04/10/pairing-green-deal-just-recovery-eu-groups-embrace-tackling-covid-19-and-climate?cd-origin=rss

Coronavirus Is a Dress Rehearsal for Climate Change
Ana María Archila, George Goehl, Maurice Mitchell | thenation.com | 2020-04-08
Ana María Archila, George Goehl, Maurice Mitchell Coronavirus Is a Dress Rehearsal for Climate Change…
thenation.com/article/politics/coronavirus-climate-change-rehearsal-for-climate-change/

Civil Disobedience in the Time of Climate Crisis
H. Patricia Hynes | zcomm.org | 2020-04-04
What we–citizens, corporations, courts and government–do about the climate crisis will determine life on earth within the next few decades…
zcomm.org/zmagazine/civil-disobedience-in-the-time-of-climate-crisis/

First U.S. Union-Authorized Climate Strike?
Jeremy Brecher | zcomm.org | 2020-04-04
If Local 26 is forced to strike again, one thing is clear: It will do so not only as the representative of its own members, but as the champion of everyone who knows they are threatened by climate change…
zcomm.org/zmagazine/first-u-s-union-authorized-climate-strike/

[Correspondence] Racism and discrimination in COVID-19 responses
Delan Devakumar, Geordan Shannon, Sunil S Bhopal, Ibrahim Abubakar | thelancet.com | 2020-04-01
Outbreaks create fear, and fear is a key ingredient for racism and xenophobia to thrive. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has uncovered social and political fractures within communities, with racialised and discriminatory responses to fear, disproportionately affecting marginalised groups.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30792-3/fulltext?rss=yes