2022-09-22: News Headlines

Sam Wainwright (2022-09-22). Fight climate change, not prepare for war on China. greenleft.org.au Not only are we being told to prepare for war with China, but to expect it. It's the stuff of nightmares, writes Sam Wainwright.

Ramon du Houx (2022-09-22). Beyond Oil & Gas Alliance urged to deliver on real climate leadership during Climate Week. indybay.org During Climate Week NYC, after a high level event organized by the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance on the margins of the UN General Assembly in New York, civil society organizations launch a position paper urging the coalition and its members to deliver on commitments to promote a global phase out of oil and gas production, and turn aspirations into bold and ambitious climate action in line with equity, justice, and science. While CA had major laws passed this session, worldwide BOGA should do more to make the change we need to save the planet.

Imperial.ac.uk (2022-09-22). Professor Maggie Dallman gives evidence to House of Lords Committee. imperial.ac.uk Earlier this month, Professor Dallman appeared in front of the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee to discuss the UK STEM skills pipeline.

Rachel Hu, Chris Garaffa (2022-09-21). CovertAction Bulletin: Whistleblower Exposes Apple's Toxic Waste Cover-up, Secret Police Intimidation & Government Ties. covertactionmagazine.com Apple, Inc. spends billions on projecting a clean, fun and progressive image, even claiming on its website that "the products you love also love the planet." But the reality is very different. Whistleblower Ashley Gjà∏vik worked at Apple's Sunnyvale, CA office. After she discovered that the office was built on top of an EPA superfund site known as the "Triple Site," Gjà∏vik was silenced and attacked by the company for trying to ensure the safety of herself, her co-workers and community. We spend our entire episode discussing the case, exposing Apple's environmental cover-up, the internal "secret police"

_____ (2022-09-21). Why the climate movement should target oil refineries. popularresistance.org Husky Friends may have used humor, but its message about the danger refineries pose was deadly serious — and by no means exclusive to Superior and Duluth. Approximately a third of refineries in the United States currently use hydrogen fluoride, many of them near population centers. Several have even had near-miss accidents in the past few years. Refineries also spew carcinogens, neurotoxins and hazardous metals onto surrounding communities, leading to a litany of health problems, including cancer, chronic respiratory illness and birth defects. All this pollution creates sacrifice zones, with people living a…

Amanda Yee (2022-09-21). Five of the worst climate crisis disasters this summer. liberationnews.org From droughts to heat waves to severe rainfall and flooding, this summer saw extreme weather events across the globe induced by the ever-worsening climate crisis.

_____ (2022-09-21). Detroiters Say 'Hell No!' to DTE's Proposed Electricity Rate Hike. popularresistance.org Recurring power outages have become a fact of life in Detroit and Southeast Michigan. The most recent mass outage left hundreds of thousands in Metro Detroit without power following a brief windstorm on August 29th. Four days on, tens of thousands were still unable to run their medical devices and prevent their food from spoiling. With outages becoming more severe and more frequent as the climate crisis worsens, profit-driven utilities want to take more out of the pockets of working people struggling to afford their unreliable energy service. | Even before the most recent outages, the frustration in Detroit and s…

_____ (2022-09-21). Finally We Have A Global Registry Of Fossil Fuels. popularresistance.org New data published today shows that producing and combusting the world's reserves would yield over 3.5 trillion tons of greenhouse gas emissions, over seven times the remaining carbon budget for 1.5C and more than all emissions produced since the industrial revolution. | The finding comes from the Global Registry of Fossil Fuels, launched today by Carbon Tracker and Global Energy Monitor. | To date, climate change policy efforts have focussed on reducing demand and consumption of oil, gas and coal, but ignored the supply of those fuels. The Paris Agreement, for example, does not even mention fossil fuels, despite…

____ (2022-09-21). Fossil eggs show dinosaur decline before extinction. ecns.cn Chinese researchers found evidence to support the hypothesis that dinosaurs were not very diverse before their extinction and had declined overall during the last part of the Cretaceous.

Center for Biological Diversity (2022-09-21). Lawsuit Aims to Protect West Coast Fisher. indybay.org Rare Forest Carnivore Threatened by Logging, Climate Change, Poison…

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