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BREAKTHROUGH!
Maryland Community Opts-In to Healthy Lawns Act, Restricting Toxic Pesticide Use on Public and Private Property
LOCAL REPORTS
To Manage Wildfire, California Looks to What Tribes Have Known All Along
Some Good News: Many of Big Basin's Ancient Redwoods Appear to Have Survived
In just a week, wildfires burn 1 million acres in California
Clean energy is not to blame for California blackouts, state agencies tell governor
Evacuees brave heat, pandemic to flee California's lightning-caused firestorms
GMOs, GLYPHOSATE & TOXINS
Michigan Agrees to Pay $600 Million to Flint Water Crisis Victims
Florida Approves Release of 750 Million GM Mosquitoes amidst Public Outcry
"The Florida Keys Mosquito Control District (FKMCD) approved Tuesday the
first-ever U.S. release of genetically modified mosquitoes. Despite
public outcry and scientific dispute over the human health and
environment risks posed by this field trial, the approval permits the
release of 750 million GM mosquitoes over a two-year period in Monroe
County, Florida, which may begin in 2021."
FOSSIL FUELS
Mauritius Arrests Captain of Ship Behind Devastating Oil Spill
"While other major oil spills
have been worse in terms of total oil released into the environment,
this spill was catastrophic because it occurred near two protected
marine ecosystems and one wetland of international importance."
U.S. LNG Industry's Business Model Doesn't Work
"In mid-July, Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette signed an order authorizing the export of liquefied natural gas, or LNG, from a proposed $10 billion terminal and gas pipeline project in Oregon. The news release accompanying
Brouillette's order hailed the approval as having “profound economic,
energy security, and environmental implications, both at home
and abroad.”
Mauritians launch rescue to save wildlife from oil spill — Scientific American
Revealed: how the gas industry is waging war against climate action
Oil Companies Wonder If It’s Worth Looking for Oil Anymore
PLASTIC & POLLUTION
Fire at Plastics Plant Sends Toxic Smoke Over North Texas
Atlantic Ocean Holds 10x More Plastic Pollution Than Previously Believed, New Study Finds
What’s in Wildfire Smoke, and How Bad Is It for Your Lungs?
What Happens When Wildfire Smoke Meets Coronavirus? Here’s What Scientists Know
California has the cure for the plastic plague. Let's use it
GREEN NEW DEAL
Sunrise Movement: Dems Must Address Climate Crisis as DNC Drops Pledge to End Fossil Fuel Subsidies (video)
"As soon as he wins president, the seat, he will have to cater to the
fossil fuel industry, and he will have to water down many of the
proposals that he’s talking about.”
WAKE UP CALL
Up to Half of The World's Oceans Are Already Affected by Climate Change
We Are in Danger Daily: Honduran Afro-Indigenous Garífuna Demand Return of Kidnapped Land Defenders (video)
"At least 212 land and environmental defenders were murdered last year.
That’s the highest number since the group Global Witness began gathering
data eight years ago, looking at the world. Around 40% of those killed
were Indigenous people. Colombia was the deadliest country, with 64 land
and environmental defenders killed. Honduras was also high on the list."
Methane Leaks in the Central Valley May Be Worsening COVID-19 Cases
"Volatile organic compounds such as methane from upstream oil and gas
operations interact with sunlight and nitrogen oxides to form harmful
ground-level ozone. The San Joaquin Valley’s air quality problems will
persist if the sources of air pollution are not mitigated. The good news
is that if the source is a point source, such as an oil well,
identifying exactly where the problem exists is a key first step toward
addressing the methane leak. Many of the wells in the region are over 90 years old, and while many
continue to pump oil they also emit high amounts of methane into the
atmosphere."
Thousands allowed to bypass environmental rules in pandemic
"Thousands of oil and gas operations, government facilities and other
sites won permission to stop monitoring for hazardous emissions or
otherwise bypass rules intended to protect health and the environment
because of the coronavirus outbreak, The Associated Press has found."
Earth has lost 28 trillion tonnes of ice in less than 30 years
THINK TANK & STRATEGY
With Covid comes the opportunity to shift the economy away from fossil fuel
DIRECT ACTIONS
Fridays for Future: Can They Keep the Pressure Up?
"We're Back": Greta Thunberg Kicks Off Third Year of Fridays for Future Protests in Germany After Meeting With Merkel
Meet the environmental activists campaigning to save Nairobi National Park
"Kenyan conservationists are mobilizing to stop luxury development
projects inside Nairobi National Park that threaten its abundant
wildlife."
Another two years lost to climate inaction, says Greta Thunberg
Community Voices: Be a climate champion
"California’s youth climate activists have been working after school,
between jobs, before and during the pandemic to organize support for
Assembly Bill 345, a bill that would have established a minimum buffer
zone between oil drilling and neighborhoods... When we heard our elected leaders condescendingly dismiss the lived
experiences of frontline communities during the hearing, and disregard a
body of scientific evidence about the health harms of living near oil
and gas wells, we saw environmental racism in action. Democratic state
Sens. Ben Hueso, Robert Hertzberg and Anna Caballero joined with
Republicans and the oil lobby to turn on the communities they claim to
defend when they killed the bill. Their failure to approve even the most
modest regulation on oil and gas extraction is further proof that the
fossil fuel industry has co-opted our state government."
Extinction Rebellion 'reclaim the streets' with critical mass cycle
Ocean Rebellion: XR offshoot trains sights on cruise industry's climate impact
"A group of Extinction Rebellion (XR) campaigners have turned their focus
towards highlighting the degradation of marine ecosystems, sparking a
seafaring offshoot of the influential pressure group which aims to
target its activitism against the luxury cruise industry."
Environmental Groups Sue Trump Admin to Stop LNG Trains
SUSTAINABLE LIVING
Dye-Filled Bacteria Could Replace the Fashion Industry's Dirty Dyeing Habits
ENDING ON A POSITIVE
Old Coffee Roastery To Be Reborn As A Net-Zero Carbon Office In London
Call To Action!
We urge all groups including schools,
neighborhood associations, organizations, clubs and groups of any kind to adopt
a Climate Declaration. Adopt ours or write your own. Share your
Climate Declaration with local governments, the media, write articles, and share
information.
Occupy Sonoma County Climate Declaration
Occupy Sonoma County, along with concerned, forward thinking
people all over the world, declares that climate change has reached
catastrophic proportions as evidenced by the current level of CO2 in the
atmosphere, the melting of polar ice caps, and the continual rising of global
temperatures. This is a global emergency, and we must act immediately.
We invite all forces of life to join together for our survival. We stand
up for life.
We recognize that the root of climate change is a capitalist
system run by money greedy corporations and the governments that they
control. We actively oppose greenhouse gas producers, nuclear power
investors, and fossil fuel companies by boycotting their products, developing
alternatives, divesting from corporations that endorse them and insisting that
governments at all levels take action. We call on all governments and
corporations to adopt life-sustaining practices immediately.
The people must act now to
stop this destruction from continuing and reverse the damage this has
caused. The future is in our hands. We are the 99%!
What Earth Actions are you taking?
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