Monthly Archives: November 2023

2023-11-26: News Headlines

Dana Drugmand, DeSmog. (2023-11-25). Oil And Gas Production Set To Escalate Under Landmark US Climate Law. popularresistance.org A new report warns that oil and gas production in the United States is expected to rise under Biden's signature climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), even as the legislation helps to moderately lower fossil fuel demand through billions of dollars in clean energy investments. | The report, "Biden's Fossil Fuel Fail: How U.S. Oil and Gas Supply Rises under the Inflation Reduction Act, Exacerbating Environmental Injustice," details how, despite the IRA's significant spending on renewable energy, electric vehicles, and batteries, the policy will not be enough for the U.S. to meet its 2030 climate target of…

Katya Schwenk (2023-11-25). YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Here Come The Solar Canals. levernews.com Good things are happening! Construction gets underway at one of the first solar canals in the United States, New York files an "unprecedented" lawsuit against PepsiCo for plastic pollution, Florida is blocked from enforcing its ban on drag, and Starbucks workers walk out on the company's flagship sales day.First Solar Canal Breaks Ground: In the sunny, drought-ridden Southwest, some policymakers have been advocating adoption of a new climate technology: covering canals with solar panels. Officials hope this will create renewable energy while also preserving water. Now, in Arizona, the first of these proje…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-11-25). Workers hold protests and strikes on global day of action to "Make Amazon Pay" peoplesdispatch.org Workers in different parts of the world took to the streets on the 4th global day of action to "Make Amazon Pay" to protest the corporation's anti-worker policies, its role in fueling the climate crisis, and its complicity in the Israeli occupation of Palestine…

Siri Chilukuri (2023-11-25). Building Less Parking Space Helps Us Fight Climate Change and the Housing Crisis. truthout.org In the beginning, parking lots were created to curb chaos on the road. But climate change has turned that dynamic on its head. Since the 1920s a little-known policy called parking minimums has shaped a large facet of American life. In major cities, this meant that any type of building — apartments, banks, or shopping malls — needed to reserve a certain amount of parking spaces to accommodate… |

Talha Burki (2023-11-25). World Report] Health at COP28: three things to watch for. thelancet.com The 28th UN climate change conference will see declarations related to health and humanitarian crises, as well as an assessment of progress on the Paris Agreement. Talha Burki reports.

Robert Hunziker (2023-11-26). High-ranking Climate Scientists Rebel against the IPPC. pressenza.com It's 35 years since the formation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) "to advance scientific knowledge about climate change caused by human activities." Subsequently, COP21 at Paris '15 warned the world not to exceed 1.5 ∞C, and worst case, not to exceed 2.0 ∞C above pre-industrial or risk lasting damage to crucial life-supporting ecosystems, ultimately leading to some level of an extinction event. | Following three decades of IPCC failures to convince nations/states to make a dent in greenhouse gas emissions, which increase more and more each year, a high-ranking group of rebellio…

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2023-11-25: News Headlines

Dana Drugmand, DeSmog. (2023-11-25). Oil And Gas Production Set To Escalate Under Landmark US Climate Law. popularresistance.org A new report warns that oil and gas production in the United States is expected to rise under Biden's signature climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), even as the legislation helps to moderately lower fossil fuel demand through billions of dollars in clean energy investments. | The report, "Biden's Fossil Fuel Fail: How U.S. Oil and Gas Supply Rises under the Inflation Reduction Act, Exacerbating Environmental Injustice," details how, despite the IRA's significant spending on renewable energy, electric vehicles, and batteries, the policy will not be enough for the U.S. to meet its 2030 climate target of…

Talha Burki (2023-11-25). World Report] Health at COP28: three things to watch for. thelancet.com The 28th UN climate change conference will see declarations related to health and humanitarian crises, as well as an assessment of progress on the Paris Agreement. Talha Burki reports.

Derek Seidman (2023-11-24). Private Equity Is Using Prison Phone, Food and Health Systems to Rack Up Profits. truthout.org Private equity firms, one of the most powerful arms of Wall Street, have become key adversaries of movements from labor rights to climate action to housing justice. With their wealthy CEOs and aggressive cost-cutting tactics aimed at delivering big returns, these firms are one of the most rapacious expressions of financial profiteering today. This makes it all the more alarming that private equity… |

Elsy Fors Garzon (2023-11-24). António Guterres visits Antarctica with the Chilean president. plenglish.com Santiago de Chile, Nov 24 (Prensa Latina) The Secretary General of the UN, António Guterres, continued his tour of Antarctica today, where together with the President of Chile, Gabriel Boric, he confirmed the damage caused by climate change in the so-called White Continent.

Global Research News (2023-11-24). Selected Articles: The Climate Change Mental Asylum — CO2 Fanatics Suffering from Ideological Insanity. globalresearch.ca By The UN climate change, sustainable development and green economy policies over the past 30 years are little more than worldwide marketing …

Mouna Hashem, Martha Mundy (2023-11-24). Why the United Arab Emirates is a Poor Choice for a Global Climate Summit. counterpunch.org It is no joke; the man who will preside over the upcoming climate summit, COP28 (which will take place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), from November 30 to December 12), is the chief oil executive of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), the third largest oil company in the Arabian Peninsula: Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, who also is the United Arab Emirates Minister for Industry

Kate Brown (2023-11-24). Classified: The Secret Radiation Files. counterpunch.org In 1987, a year after the Chernobyl accident, the US Health Physics Society met in Columbia, Maryland. Health physicists are scientists who are responsible for radiological protection at nuclear power plants, nuclear weapons plants, and hospitals. They are called on in cases of nuclear accidents. The conference's keynote speaker came from the Department of Energy

Maddie Stone (2023-11-24). Discarded Toys Are Creating an Electronic Waste Crisis. Here's How to Stop It. truthout.org This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist's weekly newsletter here. With the holiday season fast approaching, parents around the world are deciding which new toys to purchase for their kids this year. Many will opt for classic favorites like Lego bricks, Mr. Potato Heads, Jenga sets, and Barbie dolls. Others will choose toys with more high-tech flair — like remote-controlled… |

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