(2022-12-11). Inaugural EOPA CA Climate Emergency & Energy Security Summit focused on offshore wind. indybay.org The Summit focused on the urgency for affordable clean energy security for all Californians — and highlighted energy solutions including scaling up offshore wind power. EOPA CA also supported Governor Newsom's windfall profits cap on oil companies that are price gouging Californians at the pump…
(2022-12-11). Elected officials show support for a windfall profits cap on oil industry for price hikes. indybay.org State lawmakers and local elected officials urged legislation on a windfall profits cap on oil companies for the price gouging practices. The penalty would provide a rebate for CA consumers. Elected Officials to Protect America (EOPA) California local elected officials from frontline communities spoke about how their communities are being affected from gas prices as the oil industry continues to rake in billions of dollars in profits with no regard for how it hurts Californians, our climate and security.
(2022-12-10). Climate Change Lockdowns. Yup, They Are Actually Going There… globalresearch.ca Important article by Michael Snyder | I suppose that we should have known that this was inevitable. After establishing a precedent during the pandemic, now the elite apparently intend to impose lockdowns for other reasons as well. | What I have detailed …
(2022-12-10). A Behind-The-Scenes Look At The Global Plastics Treaty. popularresistance.org Could countries come together to find a solution to the plastic pollution crisis? International collaboration on environmental issues has a mixed track record. The Montreal Protocol successfully reduced the refrigerants and other chemicals burning a hole in the ozone layer, but the efforts of the United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCCC) are still not on track to stabilize greenhouse gas emissions enough to stave off the worst impacts of the climate crisis. | Now, nations are trying again with an international treaty on plastic pollution. The first meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee…
(2022-12-10). [Correspondence] "Your people have always been servants": internalised racism in academic medicine. thelancet.com The COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests catalysed a global racial awakening, intensifying an outcry to abolish structural racism, including making science more equitable and accountable. Many minoritised people had an epiphany: that we are standing at the foot of a "hostile obstacle course",1 which contrasts with the popular, but passive, leaky pipeline analogy.
(2022-12-09). Portland's Circular Economy Is Primed For Success. popularresistance.org Portland, Oregon – This year's climate conference, COP 27, focused a lot on loss and damage compensation. The question of who should foot the bill for our current climate crisis has highlighted a growing conversation around planetary boundaries and collective responsibility. | The disparate impacts of historical emissions on Global South communities show us that pushing waste, emissions, and externalities out of sight isn't only unjust, it's unsustainable. And while these problems continue to unfold on a global scale, each country, city, and locality's role in perpetuating them — or helping to craft solutio…
(2022-12-09). China sends Gaofen-5 01A satellite into space. ecns.cn It will be used for remote sensing and applications in diverse fields, such as pollution reduction, environmental monitoring, natural resource surveys, and climate change studies.
(2022-12-09). Radical tactics are likely to help the climate movement, not hurt it. nationofchange.org Why are people resorting to these tactics? The common view among activists is that conventional methods have failed to bring about any meaningful change on climate issues.
(2022-12-09). Typhoon rips through Western Alaska exposing high cost of climate change. iacenter.org By Paddy Colligan October 6, 2022 A New York Times weekly news quiz Sept. 9 asked which of these climate disasters happened this summer: floods in Pakistan; drought in China; heat wave on the U.S. West Coast; wildfires in Europe; or all of the above. To these are added September's disasters: historic hurricanes in the Caribbean and the southeast U.S. and Typhoon Merbok in Alaska. And the season has just begun. The destructive remnants of Typhoon Merbok are a recent example of an unexpectedly catastrophic weather phenomenon. Typhoon aftermath Merbok formed in cold waters off Japan; it regained power and moisture a…
(2022-12-09). How Retirees End Up Funding The Climate Crisis. levernews.com In Cheshire, Ohio, the General James M. Gavin Power Plant dumps toxic coal ash into unlined "storage ponds" that sit above the area's groundwater. Thick blue plumes of sulfuric acid rise up from the plant's smokestacks and occasionally settle over what's left of the town. The coal-burning plant, a project of the 1970s, has outlasted most of Cheshire itself. After its former owner, American Electric Power, protected Gavin's future by buying out nearby homes, a joint venture firm called Lightstone Generation LLC snatched up the massive coal plant, ensuring its prosperity with support from a network of private equi…
(2022-12-09). Bad Deal: Seeno's and Tagami's Newest Proposal for Concord. indybay.org The latest term sheet proposal by the Concord First (yes, really that's their name) Partners is a bad deal for Concord. Not only is it more of the same sprawl that fails at addressing climate challenges, the proposal reinforces the widening economic disparity in the region.
(2022-12-09). What Climate Debt Does the North Owe the South? orinocotribune.com By John Feffer Dec 6, 2022 | To keep the planet from overheating, there's just so much more carbon that humans can pump into the atmosphere. From the onset of the Industrial Revolution until today, humanity has used up approximately
(2022-12-09). Climate Instability Worldwide: Does the US Military "Own the Weather"? "Weaponizing the Weather" as an Instrument of Modern Warfare? globalresearch.ca Weather-modification, according to the US Air Force document AF 2025 Final Report, "offers the war fighter a wide range of possible options to defeat or coerce an adversary", capabilities, it says, extend to the triggering of floods, hurricanes, droughts and earthquakes…
(2022-12-09). The Rockefeller Way: The Family's Covert 'Climate Change' Plan. globalresearch.ca First published in December 2016, this article is of relevance to an understanding of the ongoing debate on Climate Change as well the Green New Deal, largely controlled by the financial establishment. The Rockefellers also play a key role in …
(2022-12-09). Environmental Justice Advocates Successfully Block Manchin's Side Deal. popularresistance.org West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin's so-called dirty side deal was dealt another blow when Democratic leadership declined to attach it to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). | The legislation, which would have fast-tracked permitting for energy projects and pushed through the controversial Mountain Valley Pipeline, was reportedly supported at first by President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. However, support wavered after more than 750 frontline communities and environmental justice organizations wrote a letter to Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer Monday opposing the deal. | "Ma…
(2022-12-09). Recycled gold from SIM cards could help make drugs more sustainable. imperial.ac.uk Researchers have used gold extracted from electronic waste as catalysts for reactions that could be applied to making medicines.