(2023-01-28). 2022 Was A Big Year For Climate Action In The Courts. popularresistance.org A pair of climate cases from opposite sides of the country appear to be the closest yet to holding fossil fuel companies accountable in court. Lawsuits filed by Honolulu, Hawaii, and by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts have both overcome initial procedural hurdles and are advancing in state courts, despite dogged attempts by lawyers for the fossil fuel firms to punt the cases into federal courts where they hoped to find an easier path to dismissal. And the two cases have each taken a big leap forward in state courts with judges denying fossil fuel defendants' requests to dismiss the litigation. | Earlier this ye…
(2023-01-28). Arresting Greta Thunberg: Germany's Crackdown on anti-Coal Protests is not a Good Look. juancole.com By Edgar Meza |  ; ( CleanEnergy Wire )  ; The protests against the razing of the village of Làºtzerath in order to expand the brown coal mining operations of energy giant RWE are damaging Germany's image and standing in international climate negotiations, Richard Klein, researcher at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) told Table.Media. The …
(2023-01-28). U.S. and EU to launch first-of-its-kind AI agreement. ecns.cn The U.S. and European Union on Friday announced an agreement to speed up and enhance the use of artificial intelligence to improve agriculture, healthcare, emergency response, climate forecasting and the electric grid.
(2023-01-28). Oil Industry Seeks Supreme Court Review of California Offshore Fracking Ban. indybay.org 9th Circuit Refused Previous Request, Upheld Lower Court Decision…
(2023-01-28). Gigawatts of Offshore Wind Power in Big Apple Pipeline: Dirty Fossil Power Plants in Queens, NY, to become Green Energy Hubs. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment)  ; Rise Light & Power LLC announced on Tuesday that it will invest in an offshore wind facility so as to turn its Ravenswood Generating Station in Queens, New York City's largest fossil fuel power plant, into a clean energy hub. The area around Ravenswood, mostly home to low-income minorities, is …
(2023-01-27). Africa Objects To US Chairing UN Climate Fund, Citing Unpaid $2 Billion. popularresistance.org Developed countries nominated the US Treasury's Victoria Gunderson to jointly lead the UN flagship climate fund's deliberations in 2023. These appointments are typically approved without discussion. | On behalf of African board members, Kenyan environment official Pacifica Ogola raised an official objection. The US has contributed just $1 billion to the fund in its 12-year history, compared to $9bn from EU countries and $3bn from Japan. A further $2bn pledged under former president Barack Obama was never delivered. His successors Donald Trump and Joe Biden have not paid in a cent. | Ogola stressed, in a letter da…
(2023-01-27). United States: 'Spectacular failure of climate leadership', as Biden outpaces Trump on oil and gas permits. greenleft.org.au Just days after US President Joe Biden called global warming 'an existential threat to human existence', the US proceeded with the nation's largest-ever auction of oil and gas permits, reports Kenny Stancil.
(2023-01-27). Collapsing Britain and the Climate Crisis. dissidentvoice.org People in power get nervous when the population's trust in national institutions plummets. It has often been a precursor of significant social unrest, even revolutions. This is an underlying reason why UK prime minister Rishi Sunak proclaimed, in the face of mounting pressure over the tax affairs of Nadhim Zahawi, chairman of the Conservative Party …
(2023-01-27). Chevron More Than Doubled Its Profits Last Year as Gas Prices Squeezed Wallets. truthout.org As Americans were struggling to afford to survive due to skyrocketing gas prices and facing horrific environmental disasters worsened by the climate crisis, fossil fuel giant Chevron was having its most profitable year in history, the company's latest revenue report reveals. In its quarterly report published on Friday, Chevron announced that it collected a profit of $36.5 billion in 2022. |
(2023-01-27). Headlines for January 27, 2023. democracynow.org Five Fired Memphis Police Officers Arrested for Murder of Tyre Nichols, Georgia Gov. Declares State of Emergency, Calls Up National Guard Amid "Cop City" Protests, Haitian Police Blockade Port-au-Prince Streets After Gangs Kill 14 Officers, Israel Bombs Gaza Strip One Day After Israeli Forces Kill 9 in West Bank Raid, Democratic Lawmakers Slam Biden for Mass Expulsion of Migrants at U.S. Border, NYT: Bill Barr Pushed Trump-Russia Investigator to Use False Russian Intelligence Claims, Chevron to Buy Back $75 Billion in Own Stock After Posting Record Profits in 2022, Dutch Police Arrest Climate Activist…
(2023-01-27). 1, 0+ Scientists Slam Punishment of Colleagues for Peaceful Climate Action. commondreams.org 
More than 1, 0 scientists on Thursday released a letter declaring that they are "appalled by the recent retaliation against colleagues who dared to exercise their civil and human rights" with a peaceful protest at a December conference in Chicago. Published by news outlets around the world in English, French, and Portuguese, the letter comes after …
(2023-01-27). Lone Democrat Jared Golden Joins House GOP in Passing Massive Big Oil Handout. commondreams.org 
House Republicans and a single Democrat—Rep. Jared Golden of Maine—passed legislation Friday that would require the federal government to lease a certain percentage of public lands and waters for fossil fuel extraction for every non-emergency drawdown of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, a trade-off that climate advocates slammed as a huge gift to Big Oil. …
(2023-01-27). For all the Hooplah, Nuclear Fusion won't Save us from Climate Change, and it is Dangerous. juancole.com 
By Joshua Frank |  ; ( Tomdispatch.com )  ; I awoke on December 13th to news about what could be the most significant scientific breakthrough since the Food and Drug Administration authorized the first Covid vaccine for emergency use two years ago. This time, however, the achievement had nothing to do with that ongoing public …
(2023-01-27). How Is the Process of Trading Oil With Bitcoin? southfront.org SPONSORED: | Illustrative Image | There are many intermediaries between the oil producer and the consumer. To move the product, the oil must first be extracted from one or more upstream production fields — a process that focuses on collecting resources from the earth. Upstream producers then sell their product to a midstream company that transports crude oil by ship or pipeline. | The cast products are then sold to refineries for further processing before being put to final use. Starting with the simplest…
(2023-01-27). Santos ignores cumulative impact of new Pilliga gas pipeline. greenleft.org.au Faulty valves, broken vents and a myriad of technical problems have already been shown to be standard operational features in Santos' gas projects, reports North West Protection Advocacy.