Energy: Oil, Gas, Coal, Electricity
Oil And Gas Giants Spend Millions Lobbying To Block Climate Change Policies [Infographic]
The Latest | Corporate Mapping Project
Yes, Fossil Fuel Subsidies Are Real, Destructive And Protected By Lobbying
Energy Transfer and TigerSwan Face Bribery Charges
Alberta’s energy ‘war room’ launches in Calgary | CBC News
Fossil Fuel Industry Trying to Co-Opt Youth Climate Movement
Tracing Responsibility for Climate Change, Ocean Acidification | Union of Concerned Scientists
Disabled Protesters Shut Down PG&E Headquarters over Power Outages | Democracy Now!
A Bankruptcy Judge Just Approved PG&E’s $13.5 Billion Settlement With Fire Victims – Mother Jones
COP 25 Becomes First to Use ‘F Words’ to Call Out Fossil Fuels – The Energy Mix
Oilsands Firms ‘Morally Responsible’ for Deaths and Destruction from Climate Disasters | The Tyee
Downstream of oilsands, death by cancer comes too often | National Observer
Puyallup Tribe, Environmental Groups Hit Tacoma LNG with Legal Challenges | Earthjustice
Shell reveals it paid no UK corporate income tax in 2018 | Financial Times
As Fracking Companies Face Bankruptcy, US Regulators Enable Firms to Duck Cleanup Costs | DeSmog
A Methane Leak, Seen From Space, Proves to Be Far Larger Than Thought – The New York Times
Energy, salmon, economy: Accord on Snake River dams possible | The Seattle Times
600 Gallons of Diesel Fuel Just Spilled Near One of the Most Biodiverse Islands in the World – VICE
A Trump Policy ‘Clarification’ All but Ends Punishment for Bird Deaths – The New York Times
A Fracking Explosion In Ohio Created One Of Worst Methane Leaks In History | WOSU Radio
Tribes Win KXL Order in Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. Trump — Native News Online
After String of Rare Cancer Cases, Pennsylvania Investigates Potential Link to Fracking – WSJ
Scott Morrison Dragged In New Mural By Melbourne Artist Van T Rudd
https://globalnews.ca/news/6232081/ubc-study-northern-alberta-caribou-habitat-restoration/?
https://thenarwhal.ca/clean-b-c-is-quietly-using-coal-and-gas-power-from-out-of-province-heres-why/
https://thetyee.ca/News/2019/12/11/Canadian-Oilsands-Firm-Denied-Own-Science/?
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2019/12/16/Alberta-Poison-Wells-File/
https://www.ecowatch.com/electric-car-tax-credit-trump-2641647250.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/20/canada-indigenous-land-defenders-police-documents?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/12/19/biosphere-collapse/?
https://www.ecowatch.com/rcmp-indigenous-arrest-2641674109.html?rebelltitem=3#rebelltitem3
https://www.sightline.org/2019/12/27/2019-was-the-year-that-fracking-fell-apart/?
Pharma, Medical, Veterinary
That time a monkey flew to the edge of space and then smashed into a destroyer | Ars Technica
Grim life of some broodmares as blood donors in hormone industry described – Horsetalk.co.nz
Diabetes drug found to contain cancer-causing carcinogen: Health Canada | CTV News
Contaminants From Prescription-Drug Factories Polluting Waterways – Dr. Rath Health Foundation
Statin Drugs Increase Risk Of Diabetes And Skin Infections – Dr. Rath Health Foundation
All Pet Food Manufacturers MUST Decide – Truth about Pet Food
Fish Welfare In Research – Faunalytics
https://theintercept.com/2019/12/12/animal-people-documentary-shac-protest-terrorism/
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-12-drug-company-distortion-medical-evidence.html
https://www.ecowatch.com/fda-opioid-crisis-2643187003.html
Industrial Crop Farming
Deforestation is leading to more infectious diseases in humans
‘A crisis situation’: Extinctions loom as forests are erased in Mozambique
Coca farms close in on protected areas, isolated tribes in Peruvian Amazon
Dodgy science and corporate concessions in Indonesia’s bid for clean palm oil
FSC complaint filed against pulpwood firms tied to Indonesia’s richest man
Orangutans Pay a Steep Price for the World’s Palm Oil
Deforestation for potential rubber plantation raises concerns in Papua New Guinea
Malaysia to let RSPO publish oil palm concession maps
‘Certified sustainable palm oil is a con’ | Greenpeace UK
Green palm oil push: Kit Kat, Dove makers could face fines
Indonesian palm oil firm hit with $1.8m fine for 2015 fires
NGOs reject new oil palm plantation in southern Cameroon
Palm oil, fire pushing protected areas in Honduras to the ‘point of no return’
Animal Breeding, Ranching, Factory Farming, Puppy Mills
The Reality of Organic Dairy Farming: The Nonstop Torture of Cows | video
“This Is Horrific Abuse”: Rooney Mara Joins Shocking Investigation of Factory Farming
‘Not enough pork in the world’ to deal with China’s demand for meat | Business | The Guardian
Calf Life: A Story of Opioids, Export, and Abuse
Ag-Gag Laws Keep Animal Farming in the Dark and Diminish Public Trust
Revealed: fires three times more common in Amazon beef farming zones | Environment | The Guardian
His horn is being cut off without any pain relief
First-Ever Cruelty Investigation into an Organic Dairy Farm
PETA Investigation Reveals Horrors in the Global Betta Fish Trade | PETA Asia
petition: Pet Stores Are Lying About Where These “Rescue Dogs” Are Coming From
Vegan activists swarm pig breeding farm in Canada
Spending Bill Sets Stage for Eradication of America’s Mustangs | American Wild Horse Campaign
Sickening Video Reveals Calves Freezing to Death at Nebraska Dairy Farm – Mercy For Animals
Chickens are one of the most abused animals on the planet | World Animal Protection International
New laws against puppy farms to come into place in new year – EVOKE.ie
Why the mustangs of the West are disappearing | MNN – Mother Nature Network
Proposed animal law turns whistleblowers into the bad guys | The Star
Douglas County Wild HorseCapture Riles Public
Scientists Have Warned That We Absolutely Must Not Farm Octopuses
https://www.facebook.com/animaljusticecanada/videos/422754915269012/
https://sentientmedia.org/ag-gag-laws-keep-animal-farming-in-the-dark-and-diminish-public-trust/
https://www.mnn.com/family/pets/stories/blind-and-deaf-puppy-found-snow-delivery-driver
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-meat-proud-alberta-what-have-you-got-to-hide/
Fisheries, Fish Farming, Marine Life
Brave Mother Sperm Whale Dies Trying to Free Baby From Fishing Net – Mercy For Animals
Iceland Plans to Kill Over 2000 Whales Within the Next Five Years – Green World Warriors
Biologists Investigate Mass Die-Off Of Freshwater Mussels : NPR
Alaska Cod Fishery To Close For 2020 Season Amid Warming Waters : NPR
N.B. seafood giant won’t be disciplined after animal cruelty investigation | CBC News
Modern fishing methods are driving small whales and dolphins to extinction | Science | AAAS
Will salmon farmers abandon British Columbia? | Intrafish
Fire at B.C. fish farm may have allowed non-native salmon to escape | CTV News
Fire at B.C. fish farm may have allowed non-native salmon to escape | CTV News
Baby dolphin died ‘horrible death’ entangled in discarded fishing braid – NZ Herald
Japan’s unviable whaling nationalism | The Japan Times
https://hashilthsa.com/news/2019-12-05/johns-urges-government-address-salmon-emergency-coast
https://www.animalsaustralia.org/features/fish-in-farms-are-depressed.php?
Hunting, Trapping, Wildlife Trafficking
Ban the Import of Trophy-hunted Lions
Indonesian man jailed for smuggling 7,000 ‘living fossil’ horseshoe crabs
Rare Lynx Threatened by Snares and Traps
Nanaimo fur company wants to make coats from West Coast seal cull
Tigers Extinct in Laos • The Revelator
PETITION: Stop Killing Songbirds with Cruel Glue Traps
Vancouver Island whale watchers fight West Coast seal cull
Dog owner calls leghold traps ‘inhumane’ after his Labrador injured in B.C. forest | CBC News
Three pangolin species closer to extinction: IUCN
Scales from around 50,000 pangolins seized by Chinese customs
Our Greed, Their Death: Body Of Leopard Found In Maharashtra With Head & Paws Cut Off
Rare Lynx Threatened by Snares and Traps
250 Starving Lions Found In Raid On Trophy Hunting Farm
Scale of suspected illegal fox hunting in Cheshire claimed to be among worst in UK – Cheshire Live
Police ask for public’s help after 3 cow elk found killed, left to waste in North Bend | KOMO
Foxhunting carries on with impunity, says former police chief | UK news | The Guardian
petition: Tell UPS: Stop transporting cruelty!
https://www.facebook.com/KeepTheFoxHuntBan/photos/a.691554700955308/2438817049562389/?type=3&theater
Rare Lynx Threatened by Snares and Traps
Close the Pursuit-Only Season in British Columiba — Wildlife Defence League
Consumer Goods Manufacturers & Sellers
MacDuff’s Call: Supporting Alouette watershed – Maple Ridge News
Water Bandits: How one company almost got away with draining the Mojave Desert | Earthjustice
Profiles in Cowardice: Toyota, GM, and Fiat Chrysler Join the List – Union of Concerned Scientists
Palm Oil in Snack Foods Could Be Destroying the World’s “Orangutan Capital”
Court Upholds Protections for Rare California Gnatcatcher | Earthjustice
FDA Warning Letter to Hill’s Pet Food – Truth about Pet Food
House of Fraser still selling fur despite pulling coats from shelves after protests | Metro News
AAFCO’s ban of consumers explained – it’s worse than we thought – Truth about Pet Food
Frankincense trees—of biblical lore—are being tapped out for essential oils
As wildfires surround New South Wales, 25,000 litres of water stolen from Australia town | CBC Radio
How Much Oil Does The $1.5 Trillion Fashion Industry Use? | OilPrice.com
Coca Cola takes local water from shire in severe drought | Workers BushTelegraph
https://truthaboutpetfood.com/fda-warning-letter-alerts-us-to-more-pentobarbital-in-pet-food/?
Logging & Mining
The Supreme Court Is Tackling an Important Superfund Case and It’s—Messy – Mother Jones
A mine in the middle: travelling through the Nahanni, the ‘Grand Canyon of Canada’ | The Narwhal
Hopes dim as COP25 delegates dicker over Article 6 and world burns: critics
Tasmania’s flowering giants: ‘We will never see such trees again’ | Environment | The Guardian
B.C. mining company allowed to write own environmental report in U.S. | CTV News
Forest Service moves to open “America’s Amazon” to loggers | Salon.com
Deep-Sea Mining and the Race to the Bottom of the Ocean – The Atlantic
Rosemont takes mine ruling to appeals court | Local news | tucson.com
Plans for a new Indonesian capital put Borneo’s abandoned mines in the spotlight
Illegal gold rush causing ‘irreversible damage’ to rivers in the Brazilian Amazon
Amazon’s Mura indigenous group demands input over giant mining project
Mega-mining project slated for Brazilian Amazon sparks controversy
A Sacred Place And A Sacred Quest To Save It | HuffPost Canada
Illegal tin mining leaves trail of ruin in protected Brazilian rainforest
https://news.mongabay.com/2019/12/a-crisis-situation-extinctions-loom-as-forests-are-erased-in-mozambique/
https://www.facebook.com/stopthespraybc/posts/1047951162207094
Plastic
Rampant death for hermit crabs who confuse plastic trash for shells | TreeHugger
Oil industry is spending billions on increasing plastics production | TreeHugger
Sharon Lerner on Plastic Recycling | FAIR
Philippine coastal town leads war against plastic trash in Mindanao
The Plastics Pipeline: A Surge of New Production Is on the Way – Yale E360
Telecom & Electronic
Big Telecom wants to make lower internet prices in Canada virtually impossible | rabble.ca
IRREGULATORS vs. FCC: Exposing and prosecuting a vast, illegal financial scandal behind 5G
Tourism
Union packs room to support cruise ship industry at Victoria city council
Contaminated wastewater from ships harmful to endangered orcas: WWF | Times Colonist
Australian carriage driver repeatedly kicks downed horse | CTV News
Europe’s ‘ruthless’ animal attractions: Q & A with filmmaker Aaron Gekoski
petition: This Tourist Attraction is Using These Poor Sloths to Make a Buck
Yellowstone wolf pups fatally hit by vehicle | KECI
Judge refuses injunction request from Montreal caleche drivers ahead of deadline
Thai elephants ‘broken’ for tourism – Taipei Times
Galapagos Islands oil spill: Ecuador emergency teams respond after accident – CNN
Carnival Slapped With A $20 Million Fine After It Was Caught Dumping Trash Into The Ocean, Again
#RuthlessTourism – Break the Chains of Abuse | Four Paws
Tech & Media
Media outlets need to stop greenwashing fossil fuel industries | Ricochet
Chemicals, Pesticides, GMOs
Use of chemical hair products increases breast cancer risk | TreeHugger
France Bans Dozens Of Glyphosate Weedkillers – Dr. Rath Health Foundation
Help save Europe’s first-ever glyphosate ban
As pesticide approvals soar, Brazil’s tapirs, bees, other wildlife suffer
Protect Wildlife From Super-toxic Rat Poisons
Europeans Aim to Phase Out Toxic PFAS Chemicals by 2030
Doctors Confirm First Human Death Officially Caused by GMOs
Attorney for Roundup Cancer Plaintiffs Arrested on Criminal Charges – U.S. Right to Know
Monsanto Pleads Guilty To Illegally Spraying Banned Pesticide In Hawaii – Dr. Rath Health Foundation
Opinion | No One Should Have to Breathe These Chemicals – The New York Times
Six companies are about to merge into the biggest farm-business oligopoly in history
Protect Wildlife From Super-toxic Rat Poisons
Racing, Gambling, Animal Fighting, Bloodsports
Minister pushing for €84 million more for horse and greyhound racing
Minister ‘Hid Real Total Of Greyhound Race Deaths’
Funding stopped for four greyhound tracks after report
Today Is The Anniversary Of The Michael Vick Dogfighting Bust
Russian Circuses Face Calls to Ban Performing Animals – The Moscow Times
Two Horses Die in First Race at Los Alamitos; Vigil Planned Sunday – MyNewsLA.com
12 Greyhounds Seized At Dublin Port – Dublin’s FM104
Animal Activists Bust Dogfight, Betting Tournament In Punjab Where Dogs Were Starving To Death
Video Appears to Show Handlers ‘Electro-Shocking’ Horses in Popular East Bay Rodeo – NBC Bay Area
Movement grows to abolish dog sledding in Canada
Dozens of dogs removed from suspected dogfighting ring in Washington, | Atlanta’s News & Talk
Petition · Shut down Hancock NY Fire Department’s Coyote Hunting Tournament Fundraiser · Change.org
RSPCA investigating lawyer Jolyon Maugham who killed fox with a baseball bat – ITV News
Money, Banking, Investment
Why Sweden’s Central Bank Divested from Alberta and Reinvested in BC | The Tyee
Moody’s downgrades Alberta’s credit rating, citing continued dependence on oil | CBC News
Central bankers join climate strikers in fight against the carbon economy | Corporate Knights
Canada’s second largest pension fund gets deadly serious about climate crisis | Corporate Knights
It’s time for Climate Bonds Initiative to scrap its hydro certification scheme (commentary)
Goldman Sachs Announces It Will Stop Financing Arctic Oil | Sierra Club
Coal Giant Provided Secret Financing to Group Challenging Climate Lawsuits
The role of sustainable finance in Forest Landscape Restoration (commentary)
The latest green investment tool? Short-selling the fossil fuel economy | Corporate Knights
Hans Nicholas Jong Archives – Conservation news
Why UVic Faculty Massively Voted to Divest from Fossil Fuels | The Tyee
As Fracking Companies Face Bankruptcy, U.S. Regulators Enable Firms to Duck Cleanup Costs – EcoWatch
Transportation, Shipping
https://www.thepetitionsite.com/467/739/883/