Winn Ellinger (2022-01-30). Karankawa nation protests dangerous pipeline expansion into sacred land. liberationnews.org Chiara, a Karankawa organizer, gave an impassioned speech defending the environment of her people's homeland and called out Bank of America for financing fossil fuel extraction.

sputniknews (2022-01-29). Wasted! Top 4 Losses of Key US Military Assets in South China Sea Over Two Decades of Posturing. sputniknews.com The US military mission in the South China Sea is mainly geared towards countering China's territorial claims in the disputed waters. China too has ramped up its maritime strength in the South China Sea, despite an overt commitment by both parties to avoid militarisation of the western Pacific Ocean.

Julia Rock (2022-01-29). YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Federal Court Blocks Biden's "Huge Climate Bomb" dailyposter.com

_____ (2022-01-29). How Europeans Get Their Electricity. strategic-culture.org "Worldwide efforts to address climate change is leading to the rapid electrification of numerous end-users from transport to industry, driving a massive increase in power demand as well as the need to generate as much of it as possible from renewable sources. The result is a dramatic transformation of power systems globally." — iea.org.

Alex Bainbridge (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.

Cecilia Paz (2022-01-29). Near New Orleans, weak regulations cause oil pipeline to leak 300k gallons. liberationnews.org On Jan. 12, federal documents revealed an oil spill of more than 300,000 gallons, which was discovered just east of New Orleans on December 27, 2021.

Naomi Craine (2022-01-29). Black farmers in Illinois fight for improved conditions. themilitant.com HOPKINS PARK, Ill. — "Black farmers in rural Pembroke Township protest Nicor plan to build gas pipeline through their community," read a headline in the Dec. 7 Chicago Tribune. It reported on a rally in downtown Chicago opposing the installation of natural gas service lines here, 65 miles south of the city. | But most Black farmers favor the chance to get natural gas, which can make their working and living conditions better. "The farmers aren't against the gas line. We've been fighting for it for 30 years," Pam Basu told the Militant. Her family owns the organic Basu Natural Farms. "We don't have natural g…

_____ (2022-01-29). So Much For Transparency: Navy Unwilling To Release Report On Red Hill. popularresistance.org The slow roll has begun. With transparency thrown out the window, the Navy's announced on January 26 that it would release only the summary of the report on how jet fuel got into the water supply. "When the review is complete, we expect the Navy to provide a summary of the conclusions in a public release," the chief of information for the Navy declared. The Navy has released full reports of previous leaks from the Red Hill tanks. | The full report was given to the Commander of the US Navy's Pacific Command, 12 days ago on January 14 and the completed report was only acknowledged on January 24. The Sierra Club's a…

Alex Bainbridge (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…

Claudia Drdul (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.

Derek Royden (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 …

Juan Cole (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…

Staff (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…