Energy: Oil, Gas, Coal, Electricity

The environmental mismanagement of enduring oil industry impacts in the Pan Amazon

Indigenous efforts to save Peru’s Marañon River could spell trouble for big oil

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/deep-sea-expedition-captures-stunning-images-of-creatures-in-pacific-mining-zone-1.6831725

https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/how-much-time-do-we-have-contamination-in-prairie-groundwater-identified-1.6847525

https://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comment-with-the-sale-of-teck-coal-mines-make-polluters-pay-8633264

https://www.timescolonist.com/business/failure-to-clean-up-bc-oil-wells-nets-company-45k-fine-8637077

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/outdated-infrastructure-and-oil-spills-the-cases-of-colombia-peru-and-ecuador/

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/latest-peruvian-oil-spill-cuts-indigenous-communities-from-life-giving-river/

https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/cenovus-fined-2-5-million-for-biggest-oil-spill-in-newfoundland-and-labrador-history-1.6863269

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/26/nuclear-powers-lethal-larcenous-end-game/

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/26/the-forgotten-element-in-averting-nuclear-catastrophe/

Pharma, Medical, Veterinary, Animal Testing,

Pfizer’s Misleading COVID Vaccine Claims ‘Brought Discredit’ on Big Pharma, UK Regulator Finds • Children’s Health Defense

Quebec class action authorized against 16 pharma companies for role in opioid crisis | CBC News

Obstetric and gynecological violence: Empowering patients to recognize and prevent it

Watch: Bird Flu Vaccines ‘Ready for Mass Production’ • Children’s Health Defense

(2) Breaking: Jemma and three other innocent… – Lady Freethinker | Facebook

https://www.theanimalreader.com/2024/04/09/news-monkeys-laboratories-iceland-belgium/

https://grist.org/health/pediatricians-advised-talk-patients-parents-climate-change/

https://www.timescolonist.com/coronavirus-covid-19-local-news/ottawa-injects-another-36m-into-vaccine-injury-compensation-fund-8644580

https://www.propublica.org/article/cigna-medical-director-doctor-patient-preapproval-denials-insurance

Industrial Crop Farming

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/indigenous-community-fights-to-save-its-lands-on-indonesias-historic-tin-island/

Animal Breeding, Ranching, Factory Farming, Puppy Mills

Roar Wildlife News | Facebook

Hundreds Of Thousands Of Newborn Dairy Calves Endure Long & Grueling Journeys Across The U.S. Every Year – World Animal News

So you love your hamburgers and steaks and… – Rolling Justice Bus | Facebook

Is it time for a just transition in the meatpacking industry?

Ranchers, Livestock, and Wolves: Why We Should Coexist – CounterPunch.org

Knight Bites: The true cost of meat | Corporate Knights

We need to talk about meat

Moo Woo – George Monbiot

“According to the Oxford English… – Deep Green Resistance | Facebook

Goldman Prize honors Brazilian investigation linking JBS & deforestation

https://www.theanimalreader.com/2024/04/03/mass-killing-of-2-million-chickens-at-us-farm-after-bird-flu-outbreak/

https://www.ecowatch.com/eu-agriculture-subsidies-animal-farming-plant-based.html

https://www.iflscience.com/meet-the-toyger-an-adorable-pet-cat-with-a-wild-story-73795

https://worldanimalnews.com/new-bill-in-new-jersey-has-the-ability-to-stop-the-puppy-mill-to-pet-store-pipeline/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-makeshift-slaughterhouse-illicit-uninspected-meat-1.7184922

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/animal-rights-activists-ontario-agriculture-1.7189042

 

Fisheries, Fish Farming, Marine Life

Putting a value on Indonesia’s marine resources: Interview with Annisya Rosdiana & Heidi Retnoningtyas

100,000 Salmon Spill Off a Truck in Oregon–and Most Land in a Creek and Survive

In Java Sea, vigilantism and poverty rise as purse seine fishing continues

How predatory fishing has decimated Brazil coastal fish populations for decades

Annual ocean conference raises $11.3b in pledges for marine conservation

B.C. groups challenge Alaska’s sustainable fisheries status – Victoria Times Colonist

Warming seas push India’s fishers into distant, and more dangerous, waters

Fewer fish and more rules lead to illegal catches, Italian fishers say

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/report-shows-dire-state-of-mekongs-fish-but-damage-can-still-be-undone/

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/deep-sea-expedition-captures-stunning-images-of-creatures-in-pacific-mining-zone-1.6831725

https://thenarwhal.ca/lake-ontario-fish-salmon-trout/

https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/04/03/In-Graphic-Detail-Gluts-Of-Ghost-Gear/

https://hakaimagazine.com/videos-visuals/for-marlin-stripes-mean-stop/

https://hakaimagazine.com/news/putting-the-cart-before-the-redfish/

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/island-building-and-overfishing-wreak-destruction-of-south-china-sea-reefs/

https://grist.org/science/world-4th-coral-bleaching-event-official-climate/

https://hakaimagazine.com/news/the-deepwater-horizons-very-unhappy-anniversary/

https://www.raincoast.org/2024/04/hatcheries-good-intentions-bad-outcomes/

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/no-protection-from-bottom-trawling-for-seamount-chain-in-northern-pacific/

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/fishing-by-dodgy-fleets-hurts-economies-jobs-in-developing-countries-report/

Hunting, Trapping, Wildlife Trafficking

(1) Roar Wildlife News | Facebook

Ivory Continues To Be Trafficked Illegally Across The EU Despite New Strict Regulations – World Animal News

Roar Wildlife News | Facebook

Roar Wildlife News | Facebook

Roar Wildlife News | Facebook

(3) Roar Wildlife News | Facebook

(3) The harsh reality of rhino poaching in South… – Roar Wildlife News | Facebook

Man fined $35,000 for illegally importing turtles in boxes labelled ‘children’s building blocks’ | CBC News

Rising rhino poaching in South Africa

A single gang of poachers may have killed 10% of Javan rhinos since 2019

North Bay news: Local hunters fined $8,500 for illegal moose hunt | CTV News

Illegal grizzly hunting leads to fine, ban for B.C. man | CTV News

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=814427057382953&set=a.303012061857791

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/how-singapore-became-an-unexpected-stronghold-for-a-critically-endangered-bird/

https://www.timescolonist.com/the-mix/15-year-hunting-ban-and-10k-penalty-for-man-who-baited-killed-bc-grizzly-8661959

Consumer Goods Manufacturers & Sellers

Here’s how major car companies rank on ‘clean’ supply chains

A new report finds that Nestlé adds… – Give A Shift About Nature | Facebook

Court to Consolidate Lawsuits Alleging Baby Food Makers Knew Products Were Contaminated With Heavy Metals • Children’s Health Defense

Sustainable solutions to menstrual inequality

Meet the next generation of food campaigners

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/snack-giant-pepsico-sourced-palm-oil-from-razed-indigenous-land-investigation/

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/report-links-hm-and-zara-to-major-environmental-damage-in-biodiverse-cerrado/

Construction, Building, Infrastructure

Costa Rican community struggles to stop an airport ‘destroying our country’

There’s an urban tree revolution underway in North America | Corporate Knights

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/as-a-megaport-rises-in-cameroon-a-delicate-coastal-ecosystem-ebbs/

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/forests-in-vietnams-central-highlands-at-risk-as-development-projects-take-priority/

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/unseen-and-unregulated-ghost-roads-carve-up-asia-pacific-tropical-forests/

Logging & Mining

Mining jobs in Canada: ‘dirty’ image scares off young recruits | The Narwhal

Rapid growth of Bolivia’s lithium industry creating new problems for local communities

Brazil’s illegal gold trade takes a hammering, but persists underground

Protected areas bear the brunt as forest loss continues across Cambodia

Sumatra villages count cost of deadly river tsunami swelled by illegal logging

A new federal rule aims to protect miners from black lung disease | Grist

Forest officer’s killing highlights Bangladesh authorities’ waning power

Indigenous group detains 12 alleged gold miners in Amazon, hands over to police | CTV News

IKEA blamed for Romanian forest destruction

DRC’s 1 billion trees program makes progress, but hurdles remain

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/locals-slam-zimbabwe-for-turning-a-blind-eye-to-chinese-miners-violations/

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/deep-sea-minings-future-still-murky-as-negotiations-end-on-mixed-note/

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/deep-sea-expedition-captures-stunning-images-of-creatures-in-pacific-mining-zone-1.6831725

https://theintercept.com/2024/04/03/madagascar-rio-tinto-mine-water-contamination/

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/mining-in-the-pan-amazon-in-pursuit-of-the-worlds-most-precious-metal/

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/stop-the-mining-before-it-starts-interview-with-community-organizer-carlos-zorrilla/

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/destructive-gold-miners-clock-overtime-to-restore-thousands-of-acres-of-amazon-rainforest/

https://rabble.ca/columnists/water-for-a-thirsty-land/

https://www.ecowatch.com/africa-mining-great-apes-threatened.html

https://sharenews.pival.me/https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/rewilding-program-ships-eggs-around-the-world-to-restore-raja-ampat-zebra-sharks/

https://wildsight.ca/2024/04/11/british-columbians-want-mining-industry-to-clean-up-its-mess-or-pay-survey-reveals/

https://secure.wildsight.ca/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=134&source=Website%20-%20Home&_gl=1*157cgxd*

https://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comment-with-the-sale-of-teck-coal-mines-make-polluters-pay-8633264

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/liberia-puts-a-wartime-logger-in-charge-of-its-forests/

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/25/alliance-for-the-wild-rockies-stops-100-miles-of-roads-and-5000-acres-of-clearcuts-on-montana-public-lands/

https://www.facebook.com/PacificWild/posts/pfbid02inAtcNyRGiX1iJWjpFV1cYms4fTrvHVRSG8Q6RbNEBnnjHoCEmeRqFkzajcuq4m8l

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/etelvina-ramos-from-coca-farmer-to-opponent-of-the-illegal-crop/

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/indigenous-bolivians-flee-homes-as-backlash-to-mining-protest-turns-explosive/

Tech & Media

Here’s How Millions of Linux Computers Almost Got Hacked

B.C. places online harms bill on hold after agreement with social media companies | CTV News

Rip ‘n’ Read, 2024 style

News unfit to print (or broadcast)

Plastic

Amazon Has Increased Plastic Packaging in U.S. Despite Global Phaseout: Oceana Report – EcoWatch

Sign up for an Earth Day 2024 Event: Planet vs. Plastic – Environmental Defence

Just Six Companies Create About a Quarter of Global Plastic Waste, Survey Finds – Mother Jones

https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/cap-on-plastic-production-remains-contentious-as-ottawa-set-to-host-treaty-talks-1.6855804

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/bioplastics-as-toxic-as-regular-plastics-both-need-regulation-say-researchers/

https://thenarwhal.ca/pfas-factory-fois-north-bay/

https://www.ecowatch.com/plastic-pollution-global-companies-responsible.html

https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/pro-plastic-lobbyist-presence-at-un-talks-is-troubling-say-advocates-1.6863023

https://grist.org/science/the-more-plastic-companies-make-the-more-they-pollute/

Telecom & Electronic

Staggering quantities of energy transition metals are winding up in the garbage bin | Grist

Tourism

Roar Wildlife News | Facebook

How Many Tourists Are Too Many? | The Tyee

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/resort-in-philippines-protected-chocolate-hills-sparks-uproar-probes/

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/04/jared-kushner-albania-resort-developers-environmental-disaster-vital-ecosystem/

Chemicals, Pesticides, GMOs

UK’s Food Standards Agency wants to fast-track and greenlight lab-grown meat

Is decaf coffee safe to drink? | CTV News

A step in the right direction, but there’s… – Rolling Justice Bus | Facebook

US Unveils First-Ever Regulations to Remove ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Drinking Water

B.C. gets set for non-browning GMO apples – Victoria Times Colonist

EPA Finalizes New Standards for Cancer-Causing Chemicals — ProPublica

20% of Common Produce Contains ‘Risky Pesticide Levels’: Consumer Reports Study – EcoWatch

Philippines: Farmers and citizens win court case against GM golden rice and Bt eggplant

High Levels of PFAA (Subgroup of PFAS) Found in Sea Spray – EcoWatch

Field trials planned in Italy with rice plants obtained from new genetic engineering

The EPA is cracking down on PFAS — but not in fertilizer | Grist

California communities are fighting the last battery recycling plant in the West — and its toxic legacy | Grist

How to investigate toxic lead lurking in your community’s soil | Grist

EU Court: Member states do not properly carry out pesticide assessments

After Decades of Disinformation, the US Finally Begins Regulating PFAS Chemicals – Union of Concerned Scientists

EU Parliament votes on GMO/NGT and seeds: Repeated violations of farmers’ rights

https://gmwatch.org/en/106-news/latest-news/20408-canada-argues-against-mexico-s-restrictions-on-gm-corn

https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/how-much-time-do-we-have-contamination-in-prairie-groundwater-identified-1.6847525

https://www.timescolonist.com/resources-agriculture/bc-pulp-and-paper-mill-fined-22000-for-leaking-toxic-gas-into-atmosphere-8602618

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/afro-brazilian-communities-fight-a-rain-of-pesticides-the-company-behind-it/

https://www.propublica.org/article/epa-acephate-pesticide-adhd-autism-regulations

https://gmwatch.org/en/106-news/latest-news/20419-eu-parliament-vote-on-new-gmos-blow-to-food-and-environmental-safety

Animal Entertainment, Racing, Bloodsports

Roar Wildlife News | Facebook

Facebook

Emma Hurst – Randwick Races went ahead today despite 230mm of rain… | Facebook

Truth! – A Voice of Sentience | Facebook

(3) A Voice of Sentience | Facebook

Stop horse racing of all kinds! – A Voice of Sentience | Facebook

Billy Bob’s Texas – Fort Worth, Texas – Atlas Obscura

Stop horse racing and horse slaughter! You… – A Voice of Sentience | Facebook

A wolf was reportedly taken to a bar in Wyoming… – Lady Freethinker | Facebook

Hunter Brothers to play 2024 Stampede Grandstand Show | CTV News

A Voice of Sentience | Facebook

Three horses died at Grand National horse jumping race in England

Pigeon Racing season has begun on Vancouver Island with spring races | Curated

What a wonderful… – DawnWatch – Daily Animal World News Watch | Facebook

https://worldanimalnews.com/over-120-dogs-rescued-from-suspected-dogfighting-operation-in-new-jersey/

https://www.cheknews.ca/theyre-a-poor-mans-race-horse-pigeon-racing-flies-high-in-popularity-on-vancouver-island-1200619/

https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/we-always-have-a-thoughtful-process-for-that-the-dark-reality-facing-aging-zoo-animals-1.6859366

Money, Banking, Investment

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/world-banks-ifc-under-fire-over-alleged-abuses-at-liberian-plantation-it-funded/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/rbc-green-energy-nyc-pensions-1.7165467

https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/nation-wide-rallies-held-against-fossil-fuel-investment-climate-crisis-1.6836484

https://www.corporateknights.com/category-finance/four-ways-canadian-banks-can-deliver-on-climate-promises/

https://rabble.ca/indigenous/indigenous-leaders-and-land-defenders-censored-at-rbcs-2024-annual-general-meeting/

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/04/water-rights-trading-ban-bill-elizabeth-warren-ro-khanna/

https://www.cheknews.ca/ottawa-to-force-banks-to-call-carbon-rebate-a-carbon-rebate-in-direct-deposits-1200184/

https://environmentaldefence.ca/2024/04/25/sustainable-finance-101-transforming-finance-for-a-sustainable-future/

https://www.propublica.org/article/cigna-medical-director-doctor-patient-preapproval-denials-insurance

 

Transportation, Shipping

Demand to ban live animal exports intensifies with protests in CT

In Chicago, tired of truck pollution and counting traffic | Grist

In the Rush to Decarbonize, the Shipping Industry Is Exploring Alternative Fuels | Hakai Magazine

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/minister-outraged-after-afn-national-chief-s-headdress-taken-from-air-canada-cabin-1.6863175