(2022-01-29). Only climate repair can save the reef. greenleft.org.au Kuku Yallanji woman Pat O'Shane has criticised the federal government's Great Barrier Reef funding election promise while proposing a series of climate-related policies that would help save it. Alex Bainbridge reports.
(2022-01-28). Activists Target Public Relations Groups For Greenwashing Fossil Fuels. popularresistance.org Duncan Meisel used to help climate activists tell their stories, as a communications adviser to environmentalists trying to convince the public that oil and gas companies must change to avert a climate crisis. Now he is putting pressure on consultants shaping those industries' own messages. | Clean Creatives, the group Meisel helped found, is at the vanguard of a new tactic in the environmental movement: to target advisers who, activists claim, help fossil fuel companies continue polluting and slow government action by distorting climate debates. | Last September, Clean Creatives published an "F-List" of advertis…
(2022-01-28). Climate Change In The American Empire. popularresistance.org Here's to 2022. | A new year to displace one of the twenty previous warmest years globally since records began: the last twenty apart from 1998 with its strong El Niño. | The summer of 2021 saw the Met Office in the UK issue what was its first-ever "extreme heat warning." Over in Germany's North Rhine-Westphalia, flash floods left more than 120 people dead. | "You don't expect people to die in a flood in Germany. Maybe in poorer countries, you could understand it, but not in Germany" was a comment that went viral. | Question: What's the difference between climate change and COVID?
(2022-01-28). Judge Annuls Gulf Of Mexico Oil Auction Over Climate Impact. popularresistance.org A federal judge invalidated the results of an oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday saying the Biden administration failed to properly account for the auction's climate change impact. | The decision has cast uncertainty over the future of the U.S. federal offshore drilling program, which has been a big source of public revenue for decades but also drawn the ire of activists concerned about its impact on the environment and contribution to global warming. | The Gulf of Mexico accounts for 15% of existing U.S. oil production and 5% of dry natural gas output, according to the Energy Information Ad…
(2022-01-28). Biden wants Chevron lawyer who helped jail Steven Donziger to stay on as federal judge. liberationnews.org 
In a flagrant insult to climate and Indigenous rights activists, President Biden has renominated Jennifer Rearden, a lawyer for multi-billion dollar polluter Chevron, for a federal judgeship.
(2022-01-28). How an undercover cop set back a climate movement. nationofchange.org There had to have been some who were suspicious of Mark 'Flash' Stone when he first joined UK activists fighting climate change in Nottinghanshire, which includes Nottingham, a popular tourist destination in the eastern English midlands, in 2003. He became active in the self-managed community social space, the Sumac Center, which had become a regional …
(2022-01-28). Climate Hope: Record $920 bn. was invested in Low-Carbon Tech in 2021. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — BloombergNEF reports that in 2021, a record-breaking $920 billion was invested globally in low-carbon technology, just short of $1 trillion. The report says that $755 billion was spent to implement low-carbon technologies, with $366 billion going into renewable energy and $273 billion into electrifying transportation. That $273 billion put into …
(2022-01-28). Snubbing Russia's Red Lines, the U.S. Shows Strategic Hand. strategic-culture.org The U.S. policy of confrontation and tensions is all about finding a suitable cover for the American sabotaging of Europe's energy trade with Russia. | The intransigent response this week by the United States to Russia's security concerns shows that Washington wants conflict. At the same time, also this week, the U.S. inadvertently revealed its hand when it reinforced its objective that the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline would not go ahead "if Russia invades Ukraine". | This is no mere coincidence. The tensions and crisis that have been stoked in recent months over Ukraine — to the point where, incredibly, a wo…
(2022-01-28). Headlines for January 28, 2022. democracynow.org U.S. Calls for Security Council Meeting on Ukraine as Russia Warns of Nuclear Confrontation, Biden Pledges to Nominate Black Woman to Supreme Court in February, Burkina Faso Coup Leader Paul-Henri Damiba, Who Was Trained by U.S. Military, Gives First Speech, Xiomara Castro Sworn In as First Woman President in Honduras's 200-Year History, Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Survivors Sue over Cancer Diagnoses, 70 Confirmed Dead After Tropical Storm Brings Flooding to Southern Africa, Massive Iceberg Breaks Up in Southern Atlantic, with Unknown Environmental Toll, Federal Judge Cancels Biden Administration's Largest-Ever Of…