Progressive Briefing for Monday, August 20, 2018
U.S. prisoners organize massive prison strike, Catholic leaders do damage control, ICE detains a man driving his pregnant wife to the hospital to give birth, and more.
Reminder: Climate change was no accident
The Exxon Mobil executives who’ve profited from fossil fuels did so while knowing that they were trading a few decades of profits for the entire future of the planet and all of the species on it.
Scientists develop robotic fish that consumes microplastics
“I think nanotechnology holds great promise for trace adsorption, collection, and detection of pollutants, improving intervention efficiency while reducing operating costs.”
Minneapolis joins Los Angeles and Long Beach to pass resolution on international ocean cargo...
"We commend the leadership of the Minneapolis City Council in urging major retailers, like Target Corporation, to tackle their massive maritime shipping pollution problem."
This database exposes the client conflicts of more than 1,500 Big Oil lobbyists
New group reveals that hundreds of schools, municipalities, nonprofit organizations, and more are paying lobbyists who also represent the fossil fuel industry.
As US officially quits Paris Accord amid election uncertainty, progressives say ‘make this disastrous...
“The U.S. exit from the Paris agreement is a shameful act and is especially cruel at a time when the world is reeling from devastating disasters worsened by climate change.”
‘Cancel this project’: Price tag of Trans Mountain expansion nearly doubles
One campaigner called on Canada's government to instead "put all of our energy and political will into a just transition that leaves fossil fuels in the ground and supports people, communities, and workers."
US poised to approve shipping LNG by rail for export with no new safety...
And all in the name of exporting fracked gas to the highest bidder abroad.
The fate of the US wolf heads to federal court
Wildlife advocates are hoping to put wolves back under the Endangered Species Act while government attorneys are claiming wolves are resilient and will bounce back easily and do not need to be put under federal jurisdiction.
Appalachian fracking faces financial risks, report warns. Hopes for petrochemical plastics boom ‘unlikely.’
The associated petrochemical buildout that the region has pinned its hopes on as the future of natural gas is “unlikely,” the report states.