USA

As climate change creates its own weather, how many more people have to die, how many of our children do we have to bury or how many brave fire-fighters put their lives in danger, before society acts decisively?

How many more have to die? The global heat-wave of 2018, caused by climate change, is now killing in California.

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Climate Change

Climate Science

USA

Leave No Worker Behind: Will the just transition movement survive mainstream adoption?

29/07/18

Author:

Samantha M. Harvey

Link:

Earth Island Journal

photo Peg Hunter Grassroots activists worry that that once taken over by philanthropies and governments entrenched in a corporate model, the principles that birthed the just transition movement – principles of bottom-up community leadership, cultural inclusion, food sovereignty, and localized economies – would be lost forever.

Will the just transition movement survive mainstream adoption?

"There is a right way to do ‘just transition.’”

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Climate Change is Proving Worse Than We Imagined, So Why Aren’t We Confronting its Root Cause?

23/07/18

Author:

Kevin MacKay

Link:

Counterpunch

JULY 20, 2018

June 23 marked the 30^thyear anniversary of NASA climate scientist James Hansen’s presentation on global warming to the U.S. Congress. In his address Hansen argued that climate change – long predicted by scientists, was now here, and that it would get steadily worse.

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Baltimore Becomes Latest City to Sue Fossil Fuel Companies for Climate Damages

20/07/18

Author:

Jennifer Dorroh

Link:

Climate Liability News

Baltimore, devastated by Hurricane Isabel in 2003, understands the costs of climate damages will skyrocket and wants the oil industry to pay for them. Photo credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images

July 20, 2018

Baltimore became the second East Coast city to file a climate liability lawsuit against fossil fuel companies. Its suit, announced Friday, becomes the 12th suit filed across the country aiming to hold the industry accountable for flooding and other harms caused by climate change.

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Cities Are Drowning in Car Storage

15/07/18

Author:

Angie Schmidt

Link:

Street Blog USA

Groundbreaking research presents credible estimates of the total parking supply in several American cities, and it's not pretty.

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Transportation

Urban

USA

USA: Rhode Island files lawsuit against oil & gas companies over climate change impacts

05/07/18

Author:

various

Link:

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

Rhode Island becomes first state to sue oil industry, seek damages for climate change

Author: Valerie Richardson, The Washington Times

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Winona LaDuke Speaks After Line 3 Pipeline Approval

02/07/18

Author:

Uniocorn Riot

See video here: https://vimeo.com/277705697

On June 28, 2018, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission voted to approve the Line 3 oil pipeline over public opposition. Winona LaDuke spoke to the crowd outside after the PUC vote:

"Minnesota and Enbridge have asked us if this is gonna be like Standing Rock. And they have gotten their Standing Rock...It is time to come to Minnesota to protect the water."

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Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Effects - Eight Years After the Spill

29/06/18

Author:

As It Happens - CBC

Link:

CBC Radio

June 29, 2018, Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Effects
Eight years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, scientists uncover an ugly truth: it's having long-lasting effects on even the smallest organisms in the Gulf of Mexico.

Listen here at 41:00 http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-friday-full-episode-1.4728246

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