2022-09-20: News Headlines

Oil & Gas Action Network (2022-09-20). Tuesday 9/20: Send a Message to Chase: Stop Funding Climate Chaos. indybay.org Chase Center ‚Ä¢ 1 Warriors Way, San Francisco, CA 94158 US…

Center for Biological Diversity (2022-09-20). Lawsuit Aims to Protect West Coast Fisher. indybay.org Rare Forest Carnivore Threatened by Logging, Climate Change, Poison…

Pip Hinman (2022-09-20). 'Unrelenting opposition to fracking' behind Origin's Beetaloo pull-out. greenleft.org.au Origin Energy's decision to pull out of exploring and fracking at three sites is testament to the effectiveness of a grassroots campaign led by Traditional Owners. Pip Hinman reports.

WSWS (2022-09-20). Powerful Typhoon Nanmadol tears through Japan. wsws.org The increased intensity of violent storms is a further indication of the impact of climate change.

____ (2022-09-20). Ocean is not Japan's waste dump: FM spokesperson. ecns.cn The ocean is not Japan's waste dump; and the Pacific Ocean is not Japan's sewer.

_____ (2022-09-19). Europe's Real-Time Experiment In Energy Contraction. popularresistance.org European society is currently undergoing a real-time experiment in energy contraction. Sanctions imposed on Russia in the wake of the Russia-Ukraine conflict have led to a dramatic reduction in imports of Russian oil and natural gas. The Europeans are still receiving some Russian oil via pipeline though that flow was reduced last month. The reasons for the decline in natural gas deliveries from Russia—deliveries not prevented by Western sanctions—are disputed with each side accusing the other of being the cause. | Those of us who have been warning about the coming energy stringency believed that it wo…

____ (2022-09-19). Ambassador works on U.S. farm for a day. ecns.cn China's Ambassador to the United States, Qin Gang, on a trip to the US Midwest, has called for the two countries, both major producers of farm products, to work more closely together on agricultural technology, climate action and sustainable development.

_____ (2022-09-19). Internal Documents Show Big Oil PR Messages Still 'Mislead' Public. popularresistance.org New documents released by a congressional committee show that major oil companies, under pressure from the worsening climate crisis, have carefully crafted public messages to convey an effort of transitioning to cleaner technologies, but that the campaigns appear aimed at obscuring the fact that they remain "devoted to a long-term fossil fuel future," the committee report states. | The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform released a memo on September 14 that detailed documents and internal communications from oil companies including BP, Shell, and ExxonMobil, which show efforts to heavily promote their in…

Laith Fadel (2022-09-19). World leaders descend on UN for first time since 2019. america.cgtn.com World leaders will descend on the United Nations headquarters in New York this week their first face-to-face gathering since 2019. More than 1 heads of state and high-level representatives will deliver speeches Tuesday through Monday. Between climate change, a worsening food crisis and the …

Juan Cole (2022-09-19). Climate Crisis and the Age of the Super-Typhoon: Storms Batter Puerto Rico, Pakistan, Japan, and Shanghai. commondreams.org New, unprecedented disasters are striking daily.

____ (2022-09-18). Qin calls for deep China-U.S. ties in agricultural technology. ecns.cn Chinese Ambassador to the U.S. Qin Gang conducted another Midwest agriculture trip on Friday. He said China and the U.S., as two major agriculture countries, should build deep cooperation in agricultural technology, climate action and sustainable development.

Staff (2022-09-18). Government of Colombia and FARC-EP dissidents explore restart of peace talks. en.cubadebate.cu Representatives of the Colombian government and members of the so-called Central General Staff of the extinct FARC-EP dissidents, held an exploratory meeting to assess the return to peace talks. In a joint statement they detailed that the exploratory meeting took place in the department of Caquetá with the accompaniment of the representative of the UN Verification Mission in Colombia and another from the Norwegian government. According to the document, they expressed the willingness and need for these dialogues to be set by a bilateral ceasefire, whose execution must be verified.

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