(2022-09-21). CovertAction Bulletin: Whistleblower Exposes Apple's Toxic Waste Cover-up, Secret Police Intimidation & Government Ties. covertactionmagazine.com Apple, Inc. spends billions on projecting a clean, fun and progressive image, even claiming on its website that "the products you love also love the planet." But the reality is very different. Whistleblower Ashley Gjà∏vik worked at Apple's Sunnyvale, CA office. After she discovered that the office was built on top of an EPA superfund site known as the "Triple Site," Gjà∏vik was silenced and attacked by the company for trying to ensure the safety of herself, her co-workers and community. We spend our entire episode discussing the case, exposing Apple's environmental cover-up, the internal "secret police"
(2022-09-21). Tuesday 9/20: Send a Message to Chase: Stop Funding Climate Chaos. indybay.org Chase Center ‚Ä¢ 1 Warriors Way, San Francisco, CA 94158 US…
(2022-09-21). Why the climate movement should target oil refineries. popularresistance.org Husky Friends may have used humor, but its message about the danger refineries pose was deadly serious — and by no means exclusive to Superior and Duluth. Approximately a third of refineries in the United States currently use hydrogen fluoride, many of them near population centers. Several have even had near-miss accidents in the past few years. Refineries also spew carcinogens, neurotoxins and hazardous metals onto surrounding communities, leading to a litany of health problems, including cancer, chronic respiratory illness and birth defects. All this pollution creates sacrifice zones, with people living a…
(2022-09-21). Detroiters Say 'Hell No!' to DTE's Proposed Electricity Rate Hike. popularresistance.org Recurring power outages have become a fact of life in Detroit and Southeast Michigan. The most recent mass outage left hundreds of thousands in Metro Detroit without power following a brief windstorm on August 29th. Four days on, tens of thousands were still unable to run their medical devices and prevent their food from spoiling. With outages becoming more severe and more frequent as the climate crisis worsens, profit-driven utilities want to take more out of the pockets of working people struggling to afford their unreliable energy service. | Even before the most recent outages, the frustration in Detroit and s…
(2022-09-21). Finally we have a Global Registry of Fossil Fuels. popularresistance.org New data published today shows that producing and combusting the world's reserves would yield over 3.5 trillion tons of greenhouse gas emissions, over seven times the remaining carbon budget for 1.5C and more than all emissions produced since the industrial revolution. | The finding comes from the Global Registry of Fossil Fuels, launched today by Carbon Tracker and Global Energy Monitor. | To date, climate change policy efforts have focussed on reducing demand and consumption of oil, gas and coal, but ignored the supply of those fuels. The Paris Agreement, for example, does not even mention fossil fuels, despite…
(2022-09-21). Fossil eggs show dinosaur decline before extinction. ecns.cn Chinese researchers found evidence to support the hypothesis that dinosaurs were not very diverse before their extinction and had declined overall during the last part of the Cretaceous.
(2022-09-21). Lawsuit Aims to Protect West Coast Fisher. indybay.org Rare Forest Carnivore Threatened by Logging, Climate Change, Poison…
(2022-09-21). Does Mexico's wind industry deliver more dirty profits than clean energy? greenleft.org.au Almost all wind farms in Mexico are privately owned, typically by European and US transnational companies. While wind farms are touted as climate solutions, the profit-hungry companies are actually causing widespread damage to the regions they're based in, reports Tamara Pearson.
(2022-09-20). The Heat: UNGA President discusses major challenges. america.cgtn.com From climate change to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, world leaders at the United Nations are addressing some of the biggest crises of our time.
(2022-09-20). China's Imports of Russian LNG Triple in 2022. telesurenglish.net The latest customs data reveal that this year, LNG shipments to China from Russia (28.5 percent) and Qatar (66.7 percent) have increased so far this year. | RELATED: | The value of LNG coming into China from Russia via pipelines in the first eight months of 2022 totaled 2.39 billion dollars, nearly triple that of last year, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) said by consulting the data. | According to the SCMP, Chi…
(2022-09-20). Climate Change Skepticism Categorized as a Mental Disorder: Australian Study. globalresearch.ca
(2022-09-20). As African Countries Kick off Local Energy Projects, West Rolls Out Climate Agenda-Based Opposition. orinocotribune.com By Olga Borodkina Sep 17, 2022 | While many countries in Africa are experiencing energy poverty, suffering from electricity cuts, and are working on regional energy projects, the West appears to be skeptical of African nations' strive for self-sufficiency in this area. | The Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline (NMGP) project, an initiative of Nigeria and Morocco that was initially proposed in December 2016, officially kicked off with the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Nigeria, Morocco, and the Economic Community of West African States on Thursday in Rabat. | "Once completed, the project wil…
(2022-09-20). New type of investment could narrow funding gap for climate adaptation projects. imperial.ac.uk Creating a new type of investment could be the key to protecting infrastructure projects from the impact of climate change according to a new report.
(2022-09-20). Ocean is not Japan's waste dump: FM spokesperson. ecns.cn The ocean is not Japan's waste dump; and the Pacific Ocean is not Japan's sewer.
(2022-09-20). Powerful Typhoon Nanmadol tears through Japan. wsws.org The increased intensity of violent storms is a further indication of the impact of climate change.
(2022-09-19). World leaders descend on UN for first time since 2019. america.cgtn.com World leaders will descend on the United Nations headquarters in New York this week their first face-to-face gathering since 2019. More than 1 heads of state and high-level representatives will deliver speeches Tuesday through Monday. Between climate change, a worsening food crisis and the …