(2023-06-24). Car Plants Are Making Medical Equipment – And Things Should Stay That Way. indybay.org The time has come for progressive nationalization and socialization. This includes the financial sector, because only if we gain control over the financing of socially necessary areas of production will it be possible to ensure that we as a society can plan our future and the future of our finite planet democratically and thus avert the impending climate catastrophe.
(2023-06-24). YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Amazon Under Fire. levernews.com Good things are happening! Workers and regulators are holding some of the country's biggest corporations accountable for workers' rights violations. Plus, an Arkansas judge makes a landmark gender-affirming ruling, NYC tenants get a climate break, and more.Amazon Takes Some Hits: Amazon is in the hot seat. On Tuesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
(2023-06-24). Will The Federal Trade Commission Lead The Climate Reformation? popularresistance.org
(2023-06-24). Paris summit stressed urgency of reforming financing architeture. plenglish.com Paris, Jun 24 (Prensa Latina) A well-known and denounced reality reverberated here at the summit for a New Global Financing Pact: the urgency of reforming the world financing architecture in the face of challenges such as poverty and climate change.
(2023-06-23). MT Climate Trial Plaintiff: "Climate Change Has Impacted My Ability to Breathe" truthout.org For 20-year-old college student Olivia Vesovich, climate change is not a future concern. It's a current and near-daily crisis. "Climate change has impacted my ability to breathe," Vesovich testified from the witness stand of a Montana courtroom last week. The college student, who suffers from asthma, is one of more than a dozen young people who have undertaken a landmark legal challenge against… |
(2023-06-23). El Niño Is About to Accelerate the Global Climate Crisis. It's Time for Action. truthout.org El Niño has arrived — and it will likely be the hottest in human history. It may already have made its presence felt in the April-May heat wave in Asia. The current heat waves in Mexico and the U.S. bear its imprint too. In El Niño years, warmer seas in the equatorial Pacific raise global temperatures. The upcoming El Niño years will probably breach the 1.5 degrees Celsius global warming limit… |
(2023-06-23). Montana's narrow defense in youth climate trial was devoid of climate science. nationofchange.org Last week, some of Montana's foremost climate scientists and ecologists testified in the historic trial, in support of the plaintiffs' claims.
(2023-06-23). Oregon County sues fossil fuel entities and enablers for contributing to deadly 2021 heatwave. nationofchange.org "Multnomah County is utilizing irrefutable climate science to hold corporate polluters accountable for their role in causing a discreet and disastrous event, as well as recent wildfires."
(2023-06-23). Insurance industry refuses policies to those most in need as climate change unfolds. mronline.org 
State Farm recently announced that it is halting new insurance policies for homeowners in the state of California, where the agency is currently the top insurance provider, due to rising "catastrophe exposure" coupled with inflating construction costs.
(2023-06-23). Inequality must be "priority" in climate change discussion, says Lula in Paris. peoplesdispatch.org President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva made an impromptu speech during the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact, on June 23, in Paris. In addition to discussing the key topics for Brazilian diplomacy, such as deforestation, global warming, and the agreement between the European Union and Mercosur, he defended the importance of fighting inequality. | "It is not possible that in a meeting with so many presidents of important countries, the word inequality does not appear. Inequality in salary, race, gender, education, health," the president listed, sitting to the right of the president of France, Emmanuel Macron, wh…
(2023-06-23). UNICEF warns high risk for children ahead of climate crisis. plenglish.com Washington, Jun 23 (Prensa Latina) UNICEF's Children ¥s Climate Risk Index revealed that over 1 billion children are at extremely high risk of the impacts of climate crisis.
(2023-06-23). Headlines for June 23, 2023. democracynow.org Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Receives Lavish Welcome in U.S. State Visit, Activists ID Hundreds Killed by Paramilitaries and Arab Militias in Sudan's Darfur Region, Greek Authorities Rescue 145 Migrants Stranded on Turkey-Greece Border, Search for Missing Tourists Ends as Debris from Sub Is Found Near Wreckage of Titanic, Beijing Suffers Warmest June Day on Record; Southern U.S. and Mexico Bake Under Heat Wave, Mexican Environmentalists àÅlvaro Arvizu and Cuauhtémoc Márquez Found Murdered, French Government Bans "Earth Uprising" Direct-Action Climate Group, Supreme Court Rules Again…
(2023-06-23). Climate Change Funding Neglects Over 1 Billion Youngsters. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, the Children's Environmental Rights Initiative (CERI), Plan International, Save the Children, and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) released a report showing that global warming puts over 1 billion youngsters at extremely high risk. | RELATED: | The "Falling Short: Addressing the Climate Finance Gap for Children" report states that only 2.4 percent of key global climate funds can be classified as su…
(2023-06-23). Paris Climate Summit Ends with Disappointing Results. telesurenglish.net On Friday, President Emmanuel Macron's "Summit for a New Global Financing Pact" concluded by disappointing the expectations of developing countries. | RELATED: | The high-level meeting failed to reach even a deal for a tax on the greenhouse gas emissions produced from international shipping. | The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) promised "more inclusive changes" but did not specify mechanisms to conv…
(2023-06-24). U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues: Peltier, Oak Flat and Line 5 in Final Report. indybay.org The priorities in the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues final report include the release of imprisoned Leonard Peltier, the protection of Apaches sacred Oak Flat, and decommissioning Enbridge's Line 5 pipeline. Censored News looks at what is included in the final report, and what is not.
(2023-06-24). Barbecue restaurant explosion kills 31 in NW China's Ningxia. ecns.cn According to witnesses at the scene, a gas tank in the barbecue restaurant on the first floor exploded, detonating the gas pipeline on the second floor.
(2023-06-24). Now the Pay-off Comes from Blowing Up the Nord Stream Pipeline. dissidentvoice.org 
On June 23, Jamison Cocklin headlined at Natural Gas Intelligence, "Venture Global Set to Become Germany's Biggest Long-Term LNG Supplier" and reported: "Venture Global LNG Inc. has agreed to supply a state-owned German company with the super-chilled fuel for two decades as European offtakers continue to line up deals to replace Russian natural gas imports." …
(2023-06-23). Japan Gets Ready to Dump Nuclear Water Into the Ocean. telesurenglish.net Despite ongoing opposition from both home and abroad, Japan has been rushing to carry out its plan of dumping radioactive wastewater from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean, raising growing anger among the global community. | RELATED: | Tokyo Electric Power Company(TEPCO), the plant's operator, began trialing the equipment for discharging the nuclear-contaminated water into the Paci…