Industry Ecocide Global — August 2021

Energy: Oil, Gas, Coal, Electricity

Indonesia’s coal phaseout is just more business as usual, report says

‘Polluters Should Pay’: Biggest Energy Companies Could Face $6 Billion in Annual Bills Under Proposed Law • Children’s Health Defense

Federal government says Grassy Mountain coal project ‘cannot proceed’ | CTV News

Big Oil’s no-good, very-bad week continues | Corporate Knights

Planned dam in Philippine national park catches flak from activists, officials

Cambodian dam a ‘disaster’ for local communities, rights group says

Burning forests to make energy: EU and world wrestle with biomass science

Blue Hydrogen Study Finds It Isn’t Climate-Friendly, Igniting Fierce Debate Over Emissions

SLO County CA approved illegal oil drilling in Arroyo Grande | San Luis Obispo Tribune

Guess Which Company Ranks Worst for Environmental Racism? – Mother Jones

The Need to Prevent Orphans: the American Oil and Gas Industry is Leaving a Big, Dangerous Mess – CounterPunch.org

Dam builder denies responsibility as logjam chokes river in Malaysian Borneo

This election shouldn’t be about the climate crisis — it should be about curbing fossil fuel’s influence | rabble.ca

Enbridge Line 3 Opponents Camp at Minnesota Capitol to Protest Oil Pipeline

Canada’s oil and gas sector filled up on federal COVID emergency cash | Canada’s National Observer: News & Analysis

Clearing the Air: Is Hydrogen the Future of Clean Energy or a Fossil Fuel Industry Bait and Switch? | Sierra Club

What mining, oil and gas can learn from Sudbury – Corporate Knights

https://pbicanada.org/2021/08/03/ojibwe-water-protector-tara-houska-shot-with-rubber-bullets-paid-for-by-calgary-based-enbridge-inc/

https://www.treehugger.com/fossil-fuel-facebook-ads-climate-misinformation-5196295

https://theintercept.com/2021/08/07/minnesota-pipeline-line-3-public-records/

https://www.ecowatch.com/mountain-valley-pipeline-activists-2654615116.html

https://apnews.com/article/business-environment-and-nature-dakota-access-pipeline-f07ffb809cc57d760d8db24c7919731c

https://www.corporateknights.com/channels/climate-and-carbon/methane-burning-through-global-carbon-budget-16286096/

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/08/joe-biden-infrastructure-bill-blue-hydrogen-worse-than-coal-study-emissions-climate-change/

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/secretive-israel-uae-oil-deal-endangers-prized-eilat-corals-1.5547169

https://www.nsnews.com/highlights/canadian-doctors-group-erect-anti-lng-billboard-next-to-major-bc-ferry-terminal-4218047

https://www.ecowatch.com/blue-hydrogen-bipartisan-plan-2654666968.html

https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/08/18/Nurses-Doctors-Take-Aim-BC-LNG-Ambitions/

https://www.deseret.com/utah/2021/8/17/22629173/utah-misusing-public-funds-for-fossil-fuel-projects-environmental-groups-allege-oil-slick-report

https://www.theenergymix.com/2021/08/17/alberta-oil-output-pushes-past-pre-pandemic-high-grows-86-2-since-2010/

https://earthjustice.org/brief/2021/oil-giant-enbridge-defies-line-5-pipeline-shutdown-order-faces-profit-seizures

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/biden-administration-restricts-lending-for-overseas-fossil-fuel-projects

https://www.alaskapublic.org/2021/08/18/federal-judge-reverses-trump-environmental-approval-of-major-alaska-oil-project/

https://www.desmog.com/2021/08/13/lng-projects-canada-net-zero-expansion/

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/can-portland-oregon-stand-oil-industry

https://environmentaldefence.ca/2021/08/23/18-billion-fossil-fuel-subsidies/

https://www.goldstreamgazette.com/news/canadian-coal-company-appeals-tough-u-s-selenium-rule-as-provinces-consider-mines/

https://environmentaldefence.ca/2021/08/30/this-election-we-need-real-climate-plans-not-false-solutions/

Pharma, Medical, Veterinary, Animal Testing,

A horseshoe crab’s blood is vital in testing drugs. Critics say using it endangers the ancient creature. – The Washington Post

The Untold Story of Purdue Pharma’s Cozy Relationship With the American Medical Association – Mother Jones

Journal Board Members Resign After Controversial Papers

Dietary supplement industry doesn’t need mandatory product listing

A Pfizer Win Against Uncle Sam Could Unleash ‘Gold Rush’ in Sales — and Cost Taxpayers Billions • Children’s Health Defense

The Hidden Face of Animal Research – CounterPunch.org

Purdue Pharma Spent Over $1.2 Million on Lobbying

Big Pharma Keeps Trying to Convince Women They Need Libido Drugs – Mother Jones

Does DMDM hydantoin really cause hair loss? Here’s what you need to know | Environmental Working Group

Big Pharma Eyes Next Childhood Vaccine Cash Cow — mRNA Vaccines for RSV • Children’s Health Defense

https://act.pcrm.org/5nXAkhR310a61sTGmenxmw2

Significant Hill’s Prescription Pet Food Lawsuit Will Continue – Truth about Pet Food

UK could allow animal tests for cosmetic ingredients for first time since 1998 | Animal experimentation | The Guardian

From Chimpanzees to Children: The Origins of RSV — Respiratory Syncytial Virus • Children’s Health Defense

Industrial Crop Farming

The Fight Against Industrial Agribusiness: Remembering Ernesto Galarza – CounterPunch.org

Deforestation surge continues amid deepening uncertainty in Myanmar

Calls mount for Indonesian ban on new palm oil plantations to be extended

https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/plantations-and-roads-strip-away-papuas-forests-theyre-just-getting-started/

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/industrial-ag-planetary-human-health-emergency/?itm_term=home

https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/highway-cutting-through-heart-of-borneo-poised-to-be-very-very-bad/

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fda-full-approval-pfizer-vaccine-lack-scientific-debate/

https://theecologist.org/2021/aug/25/agribusiness-devastates-our-environment

Animal Breeding, Ranching, Factory Farming, Puppy Mills

Protecting undesignated forests seen as key to slowing Amazon deforestation

Disempowered By Tyson: How Big Chicken Hurts Farmers, Workers, and Communities (and Why You Should Care)

Agreement Reached to Protect Endangered Species From Livestock on Arizona, New Mexico Waterways – Center for Biological Diversity

PROGRESS: Three of the Largest Supermarkets Commit to Reducing Suffering for Chickens

More than six hundred pigs suffocate after ventilation failure in Dutch stable

California voted to improve pig welfare. The pork industry is facing a reckoning.

36 Cows Will Be Forced to Give Birth at New York State Fair

Animal Rebellion blocks UK’s largest dairy factory

https://worldanimalnews.com/new-lawsuit-challenges-iowas-revised-ag-gag-law-that-was-passed-banning-video-audio-recordings-in-factory-farm-investigations/

https://www.idausa.org/campaign/farmed-animal/wool-cruelty/

Fisheries, Fish Farming, Marine Life

Breaking News Archives – World Animal News

Hong Kong Customs Seize HK$3.2 Million Worth Of Endangered Totoaba; Hunting Of This Fish Has Led To The Decline Of The Critically Endangered Vaquita Of Which Only 10 Remain – World Animal News

Indonesia assessing fish stock health to improve sustainable planning

Protecting Colombia’s shark paradise: Q&A with Sandra Bessudo

With Trout Dying Across the Northern Rockies, Why is Poisoning More Trout in the Scapegoat Wilderness Area a Top Priority? – CounterPunch.org

Geopolitical standoff in South China Sea leads to environmental fallout

96,000 Fish Die in Chlorine Leak at Norwegian Fish Farm

Marine Protected Areas Are Less Effective Than We Thought — Illegal Fishing Is to Blame

New Strain of Deadly Marine Mammal Virus Identified in Stranded Maui Dolphin

X-Press Pearl sinking shines a light on seafood safety in Sri Lanka

Breaking! The UK Government Announces Plans To Ban The Brutal Shark Fin Trade As Part Of The New Action Plan For Animal Welfare – World Animal News

Trawling bycatch increases risk of marine life extinction in Brazil

Illegal fishing rampant on Fraser in year of scarcity – Resources & Agriculture | Business in Vancouver

More than 200 illegal fishing nets seized on Fraser River by fishery officers – Goldstream News Gazette

Kenya port and ship-breaking projects threaten livelihoods and environment

Climate Change Will Force Tuna Migration, Cripple Small Island Nations, Study Finds

The Promise and the Challenge of “Restorative Aquaculture” | Sierra Club

https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/china-joins-the-foreign-fleets-quietly-exploiting-madagascars-waters/

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-the-wednesday-edition-1.6137524/a-chemical-in-plastic-is-tricking-hermit-crabs-into-thinking-trash-is-food-1.6137530

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-to-introduce-world-leading-ban-on-shark-fin-trade

https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/brazil-a-wreck-on-trawling-control/

https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/scientists-communities-battle-against-philippine-land-reclamation-project/

https://www.ecowatch.com/human-noise-marine-ecosystems-2654722367.html

https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news/2021/08/forever-chemicals-contamination-defense-department-sites-threatens

Hunting, Trapping, Wildlife Trafficking

Nearly 2,000 Rescued Animals Released Into Columbian Lagoons and Forests

For Malagasy trapped in poverty, threatened lemurs and fossas are fair game

New study finds that minority of animals host majority of zoonotic viruses

Breaking! Another Cecil The Lion? Mopane, A Well-Known Male Lion Was Shot & Killed With An Arrow By A Trophy Hunter Outside Of Hwange National Park – World Animal News

Weak controls fuel surge in wildlife trafficking by air across Latin America

Weak Protections Fuel Surge in Wildlife Trafficking by Air Across Latin America

Stranded dugong in Indonesia reportedly cut up for traditional medicine

Breaking! Hong Kong Passes History-Making Amendment Bill That Targets The Criminal Networks & Syndicates Behind Illegal Wildlife Trafficking – World Animal News

Court Rules Minnesota Lawsuit to Protect Lynx From Fur Trapping Can Continue – Center for Biological Diversity

VICTORY: Man Jailed for Illegally Trapping & Shooting Coyote 13 Times

Breaking! For The First Time In Indonesia, Dog Meat Traders To Be Prosecuted After Truck With 78 Traumatized Dogs Is Intercepted By Police – World Animal News

PETITION: End Pay-to-Poach for Endangered Animals in the Congo

An 80-Pound Cougar Is Removed From A New York City Apartment : NPR

https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/usaid-redirects-funding-in-cambodia-as-future-of-prey-lang-wildlife-sanctuary-hangs-in-the-balance/

http://www.sierranevadaally.org/2021/08/13/wolf-pup-killings-a-black-eye-to-idaho-counterproductive-for-ranchers/

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/08/16/oregon-is-better-than-this-stop-killing-wolves/

https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/mother-tiger-and-her-cubs-found-dead-in-sumatra/

https://www.cheknews.ca/birds-of-prey-face-global-decline-from-habitat-loss-poisons-875352/

Consumer Goods Manufacturers & Sellers

Thousands of children’s sweets contain additive unsafe for human consumption | Environmental Working Group

78 Sunscreens, including 5 J&J Products, Contain Cancer-Causing Ingredients, Testing Shows • Children’s Health Defense

Stink, Sulfur and Soot: Billionaire Kraft Deals an Air Pollution Crisis to South Carolina

Expired doughnuts and Cookies in Dog Food – Truth about Pet Food

https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/drive-toward-green-cars-shouldnt-rely-on-mining-seabed-conservationists-say/

https://truthaboutpetfood.com/significant-hills-prescription-pet-food-lawsuit-will-continue/

https://www.facebook.com/standearth/photos/a.415188889220/10158819214769221/

Construction, Building

Steel giants sign up for carbon-cutting transformation | Corporate Knights

Indonesian farmers refuse to budge for train line through karst landscape

https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/plantations-and-roads-strip-away-papuas-forests-theyre-just-getting-started/

https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/scientists-communities-battle-against-philippine-land-reclamation-project/

https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/highway-cutting-through-heart-of-borneo-poised-to-be-very-very-bad/

Logging & Mining

USAID redirects funding in Cambodia as future of Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary hangs in the balance

Advocates raise alarm over proposal to reopen DRC forests to loggers

How to Defeat the New Era of Extractavism – CounterPunch.org

Wildfires on a Warming Planet: Debunking the Myths – CounterPunch.org

In Chile, a prickly coalition tries to bring a salt flat back to life

An Ecuadoran town that survived illegal miners now faces a licensed operator

Even as the government bets big on carbon, REDD+ flounders in Madagascar

Malaysian timber giant Samling takes conflict over logging activity to court

Half of burned forests across Latin America don’t survive, study finds

Indonesian pulpwood firms told to protect peat are doing the opposite: Report

Deforestation-free supply chains in Vietnam rely on working with small scale farmers (commentary)

Does Nature Have Rights? – CounterPunch.org

Drug trafficking and illegal logging threaten Indigenous communities in Peru

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/08/05/we-cant-log-our-way-out-of-global-baking/

https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/drive-toward-green-cars-shouldnt-rely-on-mining-seabed-conservationists-say/

https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/protecting-undesignated-forests-seen-as-key-to-slowing-amazon-deforestation/

https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/the-kichwa-woman-fighting-drug-traffickers-and-loggers-in-the-peruvian-amazon/

https://vancouversun.com/opinion/bev-sellars-clean-tech-cannot-be-built-on-dirty-mining-that-ignores-human-rights-and-safety

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Space_for_our_climate/Satellites_reveal_how_forests_increase_cloud_and_cool_climate

https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/dam-builder-denies-responsibility-as-logjam-chokes-river-in-malaysian-borneo/

https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-mines-landslide-climate-risk/

https://www.wildernesscommittee.org/news/wilderness-committee-stands-nuxalk-nation-calls-juggernaut-exploration-cease-operations-and

https://www.corporateknights.com/climate-and-carbon/what-mining-oil-and-gas-can-learn-from-sudbury/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-caribou-forestry-1.6155121

Plastic

Record Levels of Harmful Particles Found in Great Lakes Fish

How Exxon Is Lobbying to Make Plastics the Norm

St. James Parish Activists Win ‘Important Victory for Environmental Justice’ vs. Petrochemical Plant

The plastic blame game is getting old. Time to hold producers responsible. – Environmental Defence

One Parent’s Harrowing Encounter with Microplastic | Sierra Club

Telecom & Electronic

FCC Failed to Consider Evidence of Harm, Including to Children, From 5G and Wireless Radiation, Court Rules • Children’s Health Defense

Court orders FCC to revisit its safety guidelines for RF radiation | FierceWireless

Tourism

They safeguarded nature, but now Malaysia’s Mah Meri face eviction for an eco-resort

Tech & Media

Big Oil Spent Millions on Facebook Ads to Spread Fossil Fuel Propaganda

Media framing of climate change downplays the threat | rabble.ca

Former Google Employee Tells Russell Brand: Big Tech ‘Stripmining Brains for Profit’ • Children’s Health Defense

Canadian Nobel scientist’s deletion from Wikipedia points to wider bias, study finds | CBC News

https://www.goldstreamgazette.com/news/toronto-vancouver-island-protests-shine-spotlight-on-media-access/

https://theintercept.com/2021/08/04/dna-profiling-forensic-genetics-journal-resignations-china/

Chemicals, Pesticides, GMOs

Leaked Audio: EPA Overruled Scientists in “Hair-on-Fire” Cases

Bayer in Court Again, Faces Another Person Who Alleges Roundup Weedkiller Caused Cancer • Children’s Health Defense

Bayer Petitions U.S. Supreme Court in Last-Ditch Effort to Dodge Liability in Roundup Cancer Lawsuits • Children’s Health Defense

Suppressed EPA Report: Formaldehyde Causes Leukemia

EPA Chlorpyrifos Ban Rationale Could Give Others Pesticides a Pass

Nature takes a beating after chemical explosion in South Africa civil unrest

Interactive Map: Suspected industrial discharges of PFAS

Air Pollution From Household Products Is Cutting People’s Lives Short

EPA Takes Action to Protect Pacific Salmon From Pesticides

Stop the War on “Invasive” Plants, They Do More Good Than Harm

https://www.ecowatch.com/neonicotinoids-harm-bees-2654615209.html

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-the-wednesday-edition-1.6137524/a-chemical-in-plastic-is-tricking-hermit-crabs-into-thinking-trash-is-food-1.6137530

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/08/16/conservation-groups-stop-massive-poison-and-plant-project-on-the-north-fork-of-the-blackfoot-river-in-scapegoat-wilderness-area/

https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news/2021/08/thousands-childrens-sweets-contain-additive-unsafe-human-consumption

https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news/2021/08/does-dmdm-hydantoin-really-cause-hair-loss-heres-what-you-need-know

https://www.treehugger.com/bees-killed-pesticide-cocktails-5198100

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/78-sunscreens-cancer-causing-ingredients/

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/confidential-epa-report-linked-monsanto-weedkiller-cancer/

https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/epa-neonicotinoid-pesticides-harm-vast-majority-of-all-endangered-species-2021-08-26/

https://www.facebook.com/stopthespraybc/posts/1596465257355679

https://www.ecowatch.com/generational-harm-of-pesticides-2596453994.html

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/08/31/a-message-to-the-eu-address-the-spiralling-public-health-crisis-by-banning-glyphosate/

https://www.cheknews.ca/birds-of-prey-face-global-decline-from-habitat-loss-poisons-875352/

Animal Entertainment, Racing, Bloodsports

Should Horse Competitions Be Banned After One Horse Was Euthanized & Another Punched During The 2020 Olympic Games? – World Animal News

10 People Arrested, 89 Dogs Seized in Possible Largest Dogfighting Bust in NY History: Suffolk DA – NBC New York

Disney Cancels Plan for Live-Action Rodeo Film After Mounting Pressure From Activists

Oxford councillors speak out following protest against greyhound racing | Oxford Mail

Tell Congress Wild Animals Shouldn’t Suffer in Circuses

Animal Charity Sues IOC Over Olympic Horse Problems, Pentathlon Punch

No more elephant rides at African Lion Safari | World Animal Protection

Why Captive Cetaceans Have Been Dying | The Whale Sanctuary Project | Back to Nature

https://animaljustice.ca/blog/animal-justice-files-complaints-over-horse-mistreatment-abuse-death-at-alberta-chuckwagon-events

https://nypost.com/2021/08/17/wounded-nyc-carriage-horse-forced-to-work-animal-rights-group/

https://iheartcats.com/tiger-king-stars-give-up-remaining-61-animals-to-dept-of-justice/

https://mercyforanimals.org/blog/36-cows-give-birth-new-york-state-fair/

Money, Banking, Investment

Debt deal with deforester BrasilAgro puts UBS’s green commitment in question

‘Dump polluting stocks’

#CashFriday — How to Fight Big Banks’ Plan to Digitize the Global Economy • Children’s Health Defense

Water problems at Suncor Energy’s massive Fort Hills mine cast shadow over stock, analysts say | Financial Post

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives reports shows that fund managers boosted CPP stake in fossil fuel companies | Georgia Straight Vancouver’s News & Entertainment Weekly

Property insurers update risk modelling as Canada braces for climate impacts

Property insurers update risk modelling as Canada braces for climate impacts | CTV News

Climate Activists Target Banks’ Greenwashing in Nationwide #DefundLine3 Protests | Common Dreams News

Progressive Critics Say Investors in US Weapon-Makers Only Clear Winners of Afghan War | Common Dreams News

Flawed and Outdated Animal Models | National Anti-Vivisection Society

Insurance industry seeks to limit fossil fuel exposure amid growing climate threat | CTV News

15 Insurers Drop Trans Mountain Pipeline After Grassroots Pressure

Insurance industry seeks to limit fossil fuel exposure amid growing climate threat | CBC News

Rock Climbing Legend Alex Honnold Wants You to Stop Funding the Climate Crisis

Canada’s Trans Mountain Pipeline is ‘genocide against my people.’ Why it’s ‘climate suicide’ for insurance companies | The Star

12 Major Central Banks Continue to Fuel Climate Crisis, Report Says • Children’s Health Defense

Transportation, Shipping

https://www.cnn.com/travel/gallery/future-transport-spc-intl/index.html