Biden Must Become the Climate-Commander-in-Chief
Karyn Strickler | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-13
Now that Bernie Sanders has suspended his run for President Joe Biden is the presumptive Democratic nominee. But not so fast. Sanders' voters are going to support Biden when he earns it. Sanders blazed new trails of climate leadership, making it compulsory to have multi-billion dollar plans to decarbonize. He defined the terms of the…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/13/biden-must-become-the-climate-commander-in-chief/

Apocalypse Now: Stop the Madness
Ronnie Cummins | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-13
"April is the cruelest month." –T.S. Eliot, "The Wasteland," 1922 COVID-19 has now violently emerged, alongside the Climate Emergency, as an existential threat. Our health, economic livelihoods, climate stability, democracy–our very survival as a human species–is under attack. If we're going to survive this pandemic, and avoid the pandemics lying in wait, if we're going…
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Climate after corona
Benjamin Wehrmann | zcomm.org | 2020-04-13
Green stimulus package could boost the economic recovery…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/climate-after-corona/

Coalition slams Newsom administration for approving 24 new fracking permits
Dan Bacher | indybay.org | 2020-04-13
The issuing of new fracking permits took place less than two months after Consumer Watchdog and the FracTracker Alliance reported that the total number of oil and gas well permits issued in 2019 under the Newsom Administration rivals the number issued during the last year in office of former Governor Jerry Brown.
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Coalition slams Newsom administration for approving 24 new fracking permits
Dan Bacher | indybay.org | 2020-04-13
The issuing of new fracking permits took place less than two months after Consumer Watchdog and the FracTracker Alliance reported that the total number of oil and gas well permits issued in 2019 under the Newsom Administration rivals the number issued during the last year in office of former Governor Jerry Brown.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/11/18832287.php

Wildfire rips through Chernobyl's exclusion zone, raging just TWO MILES from crippled nuclear plant (PHOTO, VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-04-13
Ukrainian firefighters are struggling to contain a blaze raging near Pripyat, in the contaminated area heavily hit by the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, as a wall of fire creeps dangerously close to its abandoned nuclear power plant. | Due to strong winds on Monday, the flames crossed over a firebreak and reached the Yanov railway station near the town of Pripyat, the agency in charge of exclusion zone said in a statement. Maps show that the station is located just three kilometers (1.9 miles) away from the ill-fated power plant. | The member of the public council at that agency, Yaroslav Emelianenko, described t…
rt.com/news/485714-chernobyl-wildfire-exclusion-zone-nuclear/

Indigenous celebrate victory against Dakota Access Pipeline, but remain wary of Judge Boasberg
Albert Bender | peoplesworld.org | 2020-04-13
On March 25, tribal nations won a notable victory in their long-standing war with the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) when U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg for the District of Columbia ruled that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers must develop a full environmental review of the much-maligned project. This was a historic triumph for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, which with the support …
peoplesworld.org/article/indigenous-celebrate-victory-against-dakota-access-pipeline-but-remain-wary-of-judge-boasberg/

Ok, Google, Play Funeral March: NASA Says Two Asteroids Will Intersect Earth's Orbit This Week
sputniknews.com | 2020-04-13
Devastating wildfires in Australia, the coronavirus pandemic, a fire in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, and now asteroids. It seems that humanity has really pissed off nature and the universe.
sputniknews.com/science/202004131078936291-ok-google-play-funeral-march-nasa-says-two-asteroids-will-intersect-earths-orbit-this-week/

Raging Chernobyl Wildfires Raise Risks of New Radiation Contamination
sputniknews.com | 2020-04-13
Once severely traumatised Chernobyl in Ukraine's Kiev Region is now struggling to battle another disaster – forest fires that have been devouring vast parts of its Exclusion Zone for the past week.
sputniknews.com/society/202004131078936938-raging-chernobyl-wildfires-raise-risks-of-new-radiation-contamination/

The Last Stimulus Ignored Climate. Activists Are Determined That Won't Happen in the Next One
Rachel M. Cohen | commondreams.org | 2020-04-12
A demonstrator holds a placard reading "time is running out" during a global youth climate action strike in Barcelona, on September 27, 2019 at the end of a global climate change week. (Photo by JOSEP LAGO/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/climate_coronavirus.jpg …
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Amid COVID-19, It's Time to Nationalize Airlines and Other Industries
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-12
The $2 trillion stimulus bill that Congress passed on March 27 gave billions to industries like the airlines, but it did not explicitly give money to the oil and gas industry. Senate Democrats negotiated out the $3 billion to oil and gas (and lost clean energy provisions in the meantime) that Trump wanted to fill oil reserves "to the top." The omission was a tiny win for the climate [m…
truthout.org/articles/amid-covid-19-its-time-to-nationalize-airlines-and-other-industries/

Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Prevails as Federal Judge strikes down DAPL permits
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-04-12
This validates everything the Tribe has been saying all along about the risk of oil spills to the people of Standing Rock. We will continue to see this through until DAPL has finally been shut down.

Biden Must Become the Climate-Commander-in-Chief
Karyn Strickler | commondreams.org | 2020-04-11
Over 150 middle and high school students demonstrated at the U.S. Capitol building urging senators to back the Green New Deal. (Photo: Sunrise Movement) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/sunrise_climate.jpg …
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Neoliberalism, Climate Change and the Future of Architecture
Caoimhghin àì Croidheáin | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-11
Introduction What is the future for architecture in these times of climate change and economic crises? Should sustainability and affordability be a major factor in the design and development of future buildings? What about aesthetics? There are many individual examples of modern buildings today that have positive aesthetic qualities, but can major future problems, like …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/04/neoliberalism-climate-change-and-the-future-of-architecture/

First U.S. Union-Authorized Climate Strike?
Jeremy Brecher | zcomm.org | 2020-04-04
If Local 26 is forced to strike again, one thing is clear: It will do so not only as the representative of its own members, but as the champion of everyone who knows they are threatened by climate change…
zcomm.org/zmagazine/first-u-s-union-authorized-climate-strike/

Civil Disobedience in the Time of Climate Crisis
H. Patricia Hynes | zcomm.org | 2020-04-04
What we–citizens, corporations, courts and government–do about the climate crisis will determine life on earth within the next few decades…
zcomm.org/zmagazine/civil-disobedience-in-the-time-of-climate-crisis/

[Correspondence] Racism and discrimination in COVID-19 responses
Delan Devakumar, Geordan Shannon, Sunil S Bhopal, Ibrahim Abubakar | thelancet.com | 2020-04-01
Outbreaks create fear, and fear is a key ingredient for racism and xenophobia to thrive. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has uncovered social and political fractures within communities, with racialised and discriminatory responses to fear, disproportionately affecting marginalised groups.
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