2023-01-29: News Headlines

Center for Biological Diversity (2023-01-29). 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). 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…

Center for Biological Diversity (2023-01-29). 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). 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…

Clean Energy Wire (2023-01-28). Arresting Greta Thunberg: Germany's Crackdown on anti-Coal Protests is not a Good Look. juancole.com By Edgar Meza | &#1 ; ( CleanEnergy Wire ) &#1 ; 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 …

ecns.cn (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.

Jake Johnson (2023-01-28). Lone Democrat Jared Golden Joins House GOP in Passing Massive Big Oil Handout. truthout.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. "Fossil fuel companies are… |

Mark Keenan (2023-01-28). Transcending the Climate Change Deception — Toward Real Sustainability. globalresearch.ca

Prof. Claudia von Werlhof (2023-01-28). Climate Disruption: It's Not Due to CO2. globalresearch.ca The UN's climate change summit (COP27) "has opened in Egypt. | More than 120 world leaders are attending the COP27 summit in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, amidst a stylized propaganda campaign: | "Our Planet is "Sending a Distress Signal". …

Juan Cole (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) &#1 ; 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 …

Staff (2023-01-28). No False Solutions! Citizens Rise Up to Resist Dangerous Carbon Pipelines in the Midwest. commondreams.org Iowa is the battle ground where the fate of world's largest proposed carbon capture and storage pipeline is being decided. Summit Carbon Solutions intends to build a 2,000-mile pipeline to carry CO2 captured from ethanol plants across five states, to eventually inject and store it underground in North Dakota to supposedly reduce carbon emissions. But …

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