Kenny Stancil (2023-01-27). United States: 'Spectacular failure of climate leadership', as Biden outpaces Trump on oil and gas permits. greenleft.org.au Just days after US President Joe Biden called global warming 'an existential threat to human existence', the US proceeded with the nation's largest-ever auction of oil and gas permits, reports Kenny Stancil.

Media Lens (2023-01-27). Collapsing Britain and the Climate Crisis. dissidentvoice.org People in power get nervous when the population's trust in national institutions plummets. It has often been a precursor of significant social unrest, even revolutions. This is an underlying reason why UK prime minister Rishi Sunak proclaimed, in the face of mounting pressure over the tax affairs of Nadhim Zahawi, chairman of the Conservative Party …

Staff (2023-01-27). Headlines for January 27, 2023. democracynow.org Five Fired Memphis Police Officers Arrested for Murder of Tyre Nichols, Georgia Gov. Declares State of Emergency, Calls Up National Guard Amid "Cop City" Protests, Haitian Police Blockade Port-au-Prince Streets After Gangs Kill 14 Officers, Israel Bombs Gaza Strip One Day After Israeli Forces Kill 9 in West Bank Raid, Democratic Lawmakers Slam Biden for Mass Expulsion of Migrants at U.S. Border, NYT: Bill Barr Pushed Trump-Russia Investigator to Use False Russian Intelligence Claims, Chevron to Buy Back $75 Billion in Own Stock After Posting Record Profits in 2022, Dutch Police Arrest Climate Activist…

Tomdispatch (2023-01-27). For all the Hooplah, Nuclear Fusion won't Save us from Climate Change, and it is Dangerous. juancole.com By Joshua Frank | &#1 ; ( Tomdispatch.com ) &#1 ; I awoke on December 13th to news about what could be the most significant scientific breakthrough since the Food and Drug Administration authorized the first Covid vaccine for emergency use two years ago. This time, however, the achievement had nothing to do with that ongoing public …

Center for Biological Diversity (2023-01-27). Oil Industry Seeks Supreme Court Review of California Offshore Fracking Ban. indybay.org 9th Circuit Refused Previous Request, Upheld Lower Court Decision…

americanthinker (2023-01-26). WEF is Chicken Licken: 'The climate is changing! The climate is changing!'. americanthinker.com EU food supply infected with crickets and mealworms "in accordance with ruling class ideology" — but what about streaming services and pornography?>

Andy Kroll (2023-01-26). Nuclear Fusion Won't Save the Climate. tomdispatch.com I awoke on December 13th to news about what could be the most significant scientific breakthrough since the Food and Drug Administration authorized the first Covid vaccine for emergency use two years ago. This time, however, the achievement had nothing to do with that ongoing public health crisis. Instead, as the New York Times and CNN alerted me that morning, at stake was a new technology that could potentially solve the worst dilemma humanity faces: climate change and the desperate overheating of our planet. Net-energy-gain fusion, a long-sought-after panacea for all that's wrong with traditional nuclear-fissio…

Brett Wilkins (2023-01-26). Biden restores vital protections for Alaska's Tongass National Forest gutted by Trump. nationofchange.org "As our nation's largest national forest and the largest intact temperate rainforest in the world, the Tongass National Forest is key to conserving biodiversity and addressing the climate crisis."

Editor (2023-01-26). Short video on the U.S. military and climate disaster. mronline.org Ireland has to stop collaborating with the U.S. military/industrial complex by allowing U.S. troops and in Shannon Airport (3 million and rising so far).

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-26). Colombian President Petro's Davos Proposal and What it Reveals. libya360.wordpress.com Eder Peña The Colombian president went to present his concern about the global environmental crisis to those who are generating it On January 17, Colombian President Gustavo Petro participated in the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, which brought together heads of state and world leaders, and presented Colombia's proposals to address the climate…

Jake Johnson (2023-01-26). 4 + Climate Groups to UN: 'No COP Overseen by a Fossil Fuel Executive' Can Be Legitimate. commondreams.org

Kenny Stancil (2023-01-26). New Research Details Promise of Converting From 'War Economy to a Green Economy'. commondreams.org

A pair of reports published Thursday show that many workers employed in the U.S. military-industrial complex support shifting manufacturing resources from military to civilian use—a conversion seen as vital to the fight against the climate emergency.Moving "from a war economy to a green economy" can help avert the worst consequences of the climate crisis, noted the Costs of War project at Brown University's Watson Institute, publisher of the new research."Ever-higher military spending is contributing to climate catastrophe, and U.S. lawmakers need a better understanding of alternative economic choi…

Sean Callebs (2023-01-26). The Heat: Climate Change &#1 ; Ozone Layer. america.cgtn.com Earth's protective layer is healing. What's behind the change and what does it mean for the environment? There's good news to report about the environment. The Earth's ozone is set to fully recover within the next four decades. A new United Nations report indicates efforts …

Staff (2023-01-26). Reaching 1.5 ∞C of Global Heating by 2024 Isn't Even the Whole Story. commondreams.org With the warmer El Niño climate pattern about to replace the colder La Niña in the Pacific Ocean at the end of the year, we are about to get a real glimpse into our collective future. While our governments have been pretending to focus on a distant 20 target to limit warming to 2.7 ∞F (1.5 ∞C), …

Staff (2023-01-26). Científica cubana es premiada por biofarmacéutica Bayer. cubadebate.cu La empresa químico-farmacéutica alemana Bayer concedió el premio en ciencias médicas a la científica cubana Yanira Méndez por el desarrollo de nuevos métodos para elaborar vacunas antibacterianas y modificar anticuerpos para obtener agentes anticancerígenos. Méndez también aportó sus conocimientos a las vacunas contra la covid-19.

Staff (2023-01-26). EPA Allowing Vast Oil Refinery Waste to Pollute US Waterways. commondreams.org The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is failing to uphold its legal obligation to regulate the nearly half-billion gallons of toxic wastewater that petroleum refineries dump into the nation's waterways on a daily basis, according to an exhaustive study published Thursday. The Environmental Integrity Project (EIP), a watchdog founded by former EPA enforcement attorneys, analyzed publicly …

Sean Callebs (2023-01-26). The Heat: Climate Change &#1 ; Ozone Layer. america.cgtn.com Earth's protective layer is healing. What's behind the change and what does it mean for the environment? There's good news to report about the environment. The Earth's ozone is set to fully recover within the next four decades. A new United Nations report indicates efforts …

_____ (2023-01-25). CELAC's Buenos Aires Declaration Promotes LATAM Integration. popularresistance.org On Tuesday, 33 countries of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) signed the "Buenos Aires Declaration," through which they pledged to deepen integration, climate action, democratic institutions, and multilateralism. | The 111-point agreement highlights the importance of consolidating Latin America as a zone of peace, advancing food security, and deepening cooperation in health. | At the close of the event, Saint Vincent & the Grenadines Prime Minister, Ralph Gonsalves, highlighted the efforts that Argentina and Mexico made to consolidate CELAC in 2022. | "We will work for peace, socia…

_____ (2023-01-25). Designing A US Transit System With Smaller, Fewer Cars Could Cut Lithium Demand And Mining Harms Of EV. popularresistance.org One of the less sustainable aspects of the drive to transition from gas to electric vehicles (EVs) is that building them requires metals and minerals that must be mined from the Earth, an activity that raises both ecological and environmental justice concerns. | In fact, a new report from the Climate and Community Project and the University of California, Davis (UC Davis), found that, if current trends for EV demand hold through 2050, the U.S. alone will require three times the amount of lithium that is now available on the market globally. However, replacing every gas-powered car with an EV isn't the only way to…

_____ (2023-01-25). Democrats 'Funneled' Utility Money To Climate Candidate Challenger. popularresistance.org Louisiana – Louisiana Democratic Party leaders are accused of funneling thousands of dollars from utility companies to the campaign of a fossil fuel—friendly candidate who ran for reelection on the state's utility regulatory committee. | Campaign finance records filed this week show that the Party received more than $90,000 in donations from utility companies, energy producers, and their executives during the elections for two Louisiana Public Service Commissioners. The same utility companies — Entergy, Cleco, and CenterPoint Energy — also donated directly to incumbent Lambert Boissiere III, who…

Gayle Spinazze (2023-01-25). Doomsday Clock set at 90 seconds to midnight. canadiandimension.com Photo by Jamie Christiani/Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists | WASHINGTON, DC — The Doomsday Clock was set at 90 seconds to midnight, due largely but not exclusively to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the increased risk of nuclear escalation. The new Clock time was also influenced by continuing threats posed by the climate crisis and the breakdown of global norms and institutions needed to mitigate risks associated with advancing technologies and biological threats such as COVID-19. | Rachel Bronson, PhD, president and CEO, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, said: | We are living in a time of unprece…

Nova 'Jade' Sobieralski (2023-01-25). Climate activists found guilty and charged for trying to stop Scarborough gas. greenleft.org.au Three climate activists have been found guilty and charged for resisting Woodside's Scarborough gas hub in the Burrup. Nova 'Jade' Sobieralski reports.

Staff (2023-01-25). Doomsday Clock Moves Closer to Midnight: Peace Activist Frida Berrigan Demands Nuclear Disarmament. democracynow.org On Tuesday, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reset the Doomsday Clock for 2023 to 90 seconds to midnight, warning the world is closer to global annihilation than ever before, in part due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Since 1947, the Bulletin has maintained a Doomsday Clock to illustrate how close humanity is to the end of the world due to existential threats including nuclear war and the climate emergency. We speak with Frida Berrigan, longtime peace activist and nuclear weapons abolitionist, whose new cover story for In These Times is "How to Avoid Nuclear Stand-Offs That Threaten the Entire…

Staff (2023-01-25). Biden administration restores the "Roadless Rule," protecting our largest National Forest. commondreams.org In response to the Biden administration's announcement to reinstate "Roadless Rule" protections, Amy Moas, Ph.D., Greenpeace USA Senior Climate Campaigner, said: "Today, the U.S. Forest Service rescued the nation's largest national forest, Alaska's Tongass, from new and catastrophic surges of clearcut logging. The reinstatement of this popular 2001 conservation measure that conserves old growth is …

Staff (2023-01-25). U.S. Forest Service restores critical protections to Tongass National Forest. commondreams.org In a win for Southeast Alaska communities, wildlife, and the climate, the U.S. Forest Service reinstated Roadless Rule protections across the Tongass rainforest in Southeast Alaska. Tribal leaders, recreational small-business owners, commercial fishing operators, and conservationists cheered the agency's restoration of this critical safeguard. The move restores federal protection — from industrial logging and damaging …

Ted Glick (2023-01-25). Be a Hero, Joe. Declare a Climate Emergency Now! dissidentvoice.org An important article just published in Inside Climate News revealed good news from a new federal government report, Short Term Energy Outlook. That study stated that: "Renewable energy is poised to reach a milestone as a new government report projects that wind, solar and other renewable sources will exceed one-fourth of the country's electricity generation …

Staff (2023-01-25). Oil Industry Seeks Supreme Court Review of California Offshore Fracking Ban. commondreams.org The American Petroleum Institute and two oil companies filed a petition for certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court today, seeking a review of a lower court decision that halted offshore fracking in federal waters off California. A previous request by the Biden administration to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals for an "en banc" review …

Staff (2023-01-25). NEC Updates: Initial Discovery, Bellwethers, & Defense Strategy With Sara Papantonio. trofire.com Mass Tort News LegalCast: Levin Papantonio Rafferty Associate attorney Sara Papantonio serves as point for the firm's involvement in mass tort litigation for Necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) contamination in baby formula. Sara graduated from Stetson University College of Law in 2020 and served as a member of the Stetson Trial team, ranked #1 nationally. Sara earned …

Carey Gillam (2023-01-25). New US Research Finds "Worrying" Evidence Linking Monsanto Weedkiller to Cancer. globalresearch.ca

Global Research News (2023-01-25). Selected Articles: New US Research Finds "Worrying" Evidence Linking Monsanto Weedkiller to Cancer. globalresearch.ca By New research by top US government scientists has found that people exposed to the widely used weed killing chemical glyphosate have biomarkers …