Oregon Republicans End 9-Day Walkout as Climate Bill Fails
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-06-29
SALEM, Ore.–Republican lawmakers returned to the Oregon Senate on Saturday, ending an acrimonious nine-day walkout over a carbon-emissions bill that would have been the second-such legislation in the nation. | The boycott had escalated when the Democratic governor ordered the state police to find and return the rogue Republicans to the Senate so the chamber could convene, and a counter-threat by one GOP senator to violently resist any such attempt. Senate Republicans fled the state to avoid being forcibly returned b…
truthdig.com/articles/oregon-republicans-end-9-day-walkout-as-climate-bill-fails/

Energy Commons: From Energy Transition to Climate Justice
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-29
In 2019, only oil lobbyists and shabby orange politicians persist in denying the influence of human activities on the Earth's climate. Scientific evidence is piling up and we know that we must change our ways. The concept of energy transition has become mainstream. | Our leaders have forgotten that the poorer half of our societies should not have to clean up the mess produced by the richest half. That it should not be our kids cleaning up our mess. | Doing It Ourselves: | Facing a lack of political will, an interesting and vivid grassroots movement has taken shape to reclaim our energy sys…
truthout.org/articles/energy-commons-from-energy-transition-to-climate-justice/

Environmental and Public Interest Groups Demand EPA Revoke Monsanto's License to Pollute
Friends of the Earth | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-29
Today, environmental and consumer organizations are delivering more than 149,000 public comments to the Environmental Protection Agency advocating for a ban on glyphosate, aka Monsanto's RoundUp, which is linked to cancer. The EPA is collecting public comments …
globalresearch.ca/environmental-public-interest-groups-demand-epa-revoke-monsantos-license-pollute/5682090

The Compelling Evidence of Global Warming
Evaggelos Vallianatos | counterpunch.org | 2019-06-28
The meteor of Al Gore Al Gore was very ambitious. Following on the footsteps of his father, he entered politics and served as a Congressman and Senator from Tennessee. At the same time, he grasped the importance of climate change and he wrote a book about the political implications of rising global temperature. Gore knew…
counterpunch.org/2019/06/28/the-compelling-evidence-of-global-warming/

Behind Oregon's GOP Walkout Is a Sordid Story of Corporate Cash
Zoà´ Carpenter | thenation.com | 2019-06-28
Behind Oregon's GOP Walkout Is a Sordid Story of Corporate Cash…
thenation.com/article/oregon-republican-walkout-climate-change/

Water Not Oil: Battle Cry of the "Blue Planet"
Irwin Jerome | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-28
It's a battle cry inspired by the dire climate crisis that has been sung by many for years yet still hasn't been resolutely taken up by the world as a whole. So the question remains: what ultimately is more important: …
globalresearch.ca/water-not-oil-battle-cry-of-the-blue-planet/5682066

Climate Chaos and Our Own Responsibilities
Arshad Khan | counterpunch.org | 2019-06-28
On the last day of the UN Climate Change (June 17-27, 2019) meeting in Bonn the key IPCC report on 1.5 C was blocked from further discussion by Saudi Arabia and an unlikely set of allies: the US, Iran and Russia. The report as the saying goes has been deep-sixed meriting only a five-para watered…
counterpunch.org/2019/06/28/climate-chaos-and-our-own-responsibilities/

Just 15 Minutes on Climate Change in First 2 Democratic Debates
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-06-28
The first two Democratic debates, which together spanned four hours, included just fifteen minutes of discussion on the climate crisis–even though climate change was the number one issue on which voters wanted to hear from candidates. | "It's hard to get candidates to talk about anything in-depth," tweeted youth-led climate organization the Sunrise Movement during the second debate night. "When it comes to the broa…
therealnews.com/columns/just-15-minutes-on-climate-change-in-first-2-democratic-debates

Hidden Plastics: Glitter Gum and the Air we Breath
Graham Peebles | counterpunch.org | 2019-06-28
The plastic contamination of the natural world flows from three main sources: complacency, apathy and ignorance, a poisonous trinity that is itself the result of a narrow and destructive approach to living. While there are signs of a shift in attitudes among many people, resistance to changing the lifestyle habits that feed the environmental crisis,…
counterpunch.org/2019/06/28/hidden-plastics-glitter-gum-and-the-air-we-breath/

Climate Change is Devastating India With Heat Waves and Water Shortages
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-06-27
India's climate disasters are fueled by its governments' resource mismanagement and fossil fuel consumption, says political economist Shouvik Chakraborty…
therealnews.com/stories/climate-change-is-devastating-india-with-heat-waves-and-water-shortages

She the People's Aimee Allison: We Need a Candidate to Support Economic, Racial and Gender Politics
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-06-27
The first night of the two-part 2020 presidential debate kicked off Wednesday night with a focus on the economy, healthcare, immigration, gun control, Iran and climate change. It was a historic night with three female candidates taking part: Senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii. It marked the first time more than one female candidate appeared in a major political party debate in the United States. We speak with She the People founder Aimee Allison about the women in the race and foreign policy in Afghanistan and Iran. Allison won an ho…
www.democracynow.org/2019/6/27/she_the_peoples_aimee_allison_we

Activists Still Want a Separate Debate on Climate After It Received Just 7 Minutes in First Debate
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-06-27
As the Democratic debate took place in Miami, climate activists from the Sunrise Movement protested the Democratic National Committee's refusal to host a climate change-centered primary debate. Climate activists are still camping out in front of DNC headquarters in Washington, D.C. At last night's two-hour debate, about seven minutes focused on climate issues.
www.democracynow.org/2019/6/27/activists_still_want_a_separate_debate

Part 2 of First Dem Debate Takes a Deeper Dive Into Climate, Class & Race (2/2)
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-06-27
Kimberly Moffitt and Lester Spence analyze the importance of what was said and not said in the first Democratic Debate…
therealnews.com/stories/part-2-of-first-dem-debate-takes-a-deeper-dive-into-climate-class-race-2-2

Sunrise Sits In at DNC Headquarters, Demanding Climate Debate
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-06-26
The day before the first Democratic debate in Miami, dozens gathered at the DNC to demand a climate debate. They say they plan to stay until the DNC meets their demands…
therealnews.com/stories/sunrise-sits-in-at-dnc-headquarters-demanding-climate-debate

Oregon's Cap and Trade Bill is Dead
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-06-26
Oregon's Republican state Senators have gone into hiding to avoid voting on a groundbreaking climate bill. But the Senate's top Democrat says his party can't muster up the support to pass it, anyway.
therealnews.com/columns/oregons-cap-and-trade-bill-is-dead

Oregon Republicans Backed by Right-Wing Militias Flee State to Stall Vote on Historic Climate Bill
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-06-25
The Oregon state Legislature has been in a standoff for nearly one week, after 11 Republican lawmakers fled the Capitol Thursday to avoid voting on a landmark climate change bill. Some are believed to be hiding out in Idaho. Right-wing militias supporting the rogue GOP legislators have threatened violence, which led the remaining lawmakers to shut down the state Capitol in Salem. The climate crisis bill aims to decrease emissions by implementing a statewide cap-and-trade model. Without at least two of the rogue Republican senators present, Oregon Democrats, who control the state Senate and House of Representative…
www.democracynow.org/2019/6/25/oregon_lawmakers_flee_avoid_climate_vote

New York Passes Nation's Most Comprehensive Clean Energy Legislation
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-06-25
Adrien Salazar, who fought for the bill discusses how this bill, which calls for no fossil fuel energy by 2050, will affect poor communities hardest hit by the climate crisis…
therealnews.com/stories/new-york-passes-nations-most-comprehensive-clean-energy-legislation-in-the-nation