Energy: Oil, Gas, Coal, Electricity
In Blow to Big Oil, Corporate Subsidy Quietly Dies in Texas
Permian Study Finds Overproduction Leading to More Methane Leaks – BNN Bloomberg
Exxon Loses Third Board Seat to Activist Investors
Meet the Reluctant “Green Hero” Behind ExxonMobil’s Shareholder Coup – Mother Jones
Low-Flying DHS Helicopter Showers Line 3 Protests With Debris
Vancouver Council Pushed to Weaken Climate Emergency Plan | The Tyee
Canada’s largest oil sands producers announce unprecedented
Controversial Keystone XL Pipeline Is Halted : NPR
Keystone XL pipeline project canceled by developer – CNN
Keystone XL Pipeline Project Is Canceled – The New York Times
Company officially nixes Keystone XL pipeline | TheHill
Fossil fuel industry faces an overdue reckoning | rabble.ca
In a Major Victory, Keystone XL Pipeline Canceled | Sierra Club
When the Frackers Get Too Close for Comfort – Mother Jones
Forest advocates press EU leader to rethink views on biomass and energy
Canada Boosts Finance Commitment as G7 Falls Short on Climate, Vaccines – The Energy Mix
Coal phase-out plan gets pushback in power-hungry Indonesia
Singapore launches new carbon marketplace for nature conservancy projects
The inside story of an Alberta coal mine devastated by a financial crisis
The Insurgency Against Big Oil – CounterPunch.org
Adani Strikes Coal – CounterPunch.org
https://www.treehugger.com/ontario-spend-234million-to-push-natural-gas-rural-areas-5188526
https://www.treehugger.com/canadian-oil-sands-companies-to-be-net-zero-by-2050-or-not-5188795
https://www.facebook.com/EnvironmentalDefenceCanada/photos/a.10150588740540198/10164934809670198/
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2021/06/21/news/world-against-trans-mountain-pipeline
https://www.facebook.com/environmentalinvestigationagency/photos/a.204552795647/10165033218000648/
https://www.greenbiz.com/article/net-zero-backlash-has-arrived
https://www.ecowatch.com/bp-gas-project-africa-biodiversity-2653507418.html
Pharma, Medical, Veterinary, Animal Testing,
Supreme Court: J&J Must Pay $2.1 Billion in Baby Powder Lawsuit • Children’s Health Defense
By backing drug patents, Bill Gates helped create a vaccine tragedy | rabble.ca
Conscientious Objection To Animal Research Among Veterinary & Human Medicine Students – Faunalytics
Contaminants in generic drugs may cause long-term harm to DNA: B.C. researcher | CTV News
How baboons made escape at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney
Industrial Crop Farming
West Papua revokes quarter of a million hectares of land from palm oil
Half of Your Grocery List Contains Byproducts of an Environmental Scourge – Mother Jones
As U.K. eyes new environmental rules, some firms want to pump the brakes
Indonesia’s biodiesel program fuels deforestation threat, report warns
Final court ruling orders Indonesian government to publish plantation data
Environmental benefits or social — but rarely both — under RSPO, study finds
Bigger is badder when it comes to climate impact of farms in the Amazon
Demand for soy puts pressure on Pantanal, Brazil’s largest wild wetland
Deforestation of orangutan habitat feeds global palm oil demand, report shows
https://news.mongabay.com/2021/06/deforestation-spikes-in-virunga-national-park-drc/
Animal Breeding, Ranching, Factory Farming, Puppy Mills
Jerome Flynn Joins Legal Action Against UK To Ban Factory Farming | Plant Based News
Corporate Changes Pave the Way for Animal Protection
Supermarkets suspend farm where workers kicked pigs and dying animals left to rot | The Independent
Victory! Israel Becomes The First Country In The World To Ban The Sale Of Fur – World Animal News
Harmful Texas Ag-Gag Legislation Defeated After Outpouring of Opposition
Empty animal welfare promises a bad look for the food industry | Corporate Knights
The regenerative ranching racket
EU Parliament Overwhelmingly Votes to End Caged Animal Farming – EcoWatch
Superbug fears raised as British supermarket pig farms escalate use of crucial antibiotics
European Parliament overwhelmingly backs ban on caged animal farming | Euronews
Beef industry causes deforestation in Colombia’s Chiribiquete National Park
https://www.treehugger.com/drone-pilot-rescues-animals-after-natural-disasters-5188376
https://sentientmedia.org/manitoba-becomes-fourth-province-in-canada-to-pass-ag-gag-laws/
https://sentientmedia.org/inside-the-dark-world-of-rabbit-farming/
Fisheries, Fish Farming, Marine Life
NGOs back Maldives’ ambitious plan to save Indian Ocean yellowfin tuna
SCIENCE ADVANCES PRV REPORT CALLED INTO QUESTION | BC Salmon Farmers Association
‘Watered-down’ plan to save India Ocean yellowfin tuna disappoints conservationists
Decades of research back the value of marine reserves to Kenya’s fisheries
Why the Ocean Needs the Illegal Fishing and Forced Labor Prevention Act | Earthjustice
Protecting the dolphins of the Amazon River | The Star
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=3096756240552916&set=a.1383950068500217
Hunting, Trapping, Wildlife Trafficking
Grizzly Bear Protection Yukon – Posts | Facebook
Wildlife trafficking, like everything else, has gone online during COVID-19
Manage man, not wildlife | TheHill
CSI, but for parrots: Study applies criminological tool CRAAVED to wildlife trade
Unregulated by U.S. at home, Facebook boosts wildlife trafficking abroad
DNA Test Saves Thousands of Bizarre Turtles
Chinese special economic zones hotspots for wildlife trafficking, surveys say
Poaching declines in Tanzania following prosecution of ivory trafficking ringleaders
Tanzania’s “Ivory Queen” denied release after appeal
$15,000 Reward Offered for Info on Wolf Poaching in Stevens County – Center for Biological Diversity
From common to captive, Javan pied starlings succumb to songbird trade
Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) – Posts | Facebook
In fight against wildlife trafficking, Brazil police turn to nuclear science
Researchers look to locals to fill knowledge gap on Philippine tarsier
His Passion For Protecting the World’s Most-Trafficked Mammal Just Earned Him a Major Award
https://therevelator.org/wildlife-trafficking-rescued-animals/
Consumer Goods Manufacturers & Sellers, Construction, Building
Is Chicken Really The First Ingredient? – Truth about Pet Food
Matchbox Joins LEGO and Hasbro in Environmental Initiatives Within the Toy Industry – EcoWatch
Study Finds Toxic Chemicals in Many Dollar Store Products
Toxic chemicals found in a variety of Dollar Tree’s products
Smucker’s Pet Foods Sales Drop (dramatically) – Truth about Pet Food
‘Concerning’ Levels of Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ Found in Bottled Water • Children’s Health Defense
Huge Victory! Canada Goose To Go 100% Fur-Free By The End Of 2022 – World Animal News
Logging & Mining
Mining linked yet again to another severe flood in Indonesian Borneo
Threat of legal action against Indigenous Borneans protesting timber company
From Flores to Papua: Meet 10 of Indonesia’s mangrove guardians
In Peru, officials play a losing game of whack-a-mole with illegal miners
World’s richest tin mine pollutes rivers serving Amazon Indigenous villages
Brazil’s environment minister faces second probe linked to illegal timber
May deforestation in the Amazon hits 14-year high, with 4 days of data still to process
Huge Land Purchase Could Be “Nail in the Coffin” for Alaska’s Pebble Mine – Mother Jones
In less than a generation, legal mining in Colombia deforested over 120,000 hectares
What is Forest Health? – CounterPunch.org
The women who keep the gold in Ireland’s ground
How a Grassroots Campaign Defeated a Big Mining Company in El Salvador – CounterPunch.org
Thinning or Clearcut? – CounterPunch.org
What’s the cost of illegal mining in Brazil’s Amazon? A new tool calculates it
Illegal miners block Indigenous leaders headed to protests in Brazil’s capital
After two collapses, a third Vale dam at ‘imminent risk of rupture’
Illegal logging in Philippines’ Palawan stokes fears of a mining resurgence
Tin mines close in on an Indonesian hamlet still clinging to nature
Will Nevada support renewable energy vs biodiversity & Indigenous rights? (commentary)
Malaysian council opens hearing into claims of timber certification flaws
Rush to turn ‘black diamonds’ into cash eats up Uganda’s forests, fruits
Deforestation spikes in Virunga National Park, DRC
With Indigenous rights at stake in Brasília, a territory is attacked in Paraty
Timber troubles fell Ricardo Salles, Brazil’s environment minister
Under assault at home, Indigenous leaders get a violent welcome in Brasília
https://theecologist.org/2021/jun/03/reject-extractive-eu-green-deal
https://theecologist.org/2021/jun/09/unearthing-buried-truth-about-green-mining
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/06/10/in-brazil-environmental-crimes-can-be-traced-to-the-top/
https://petition.act.greenpeace.org.nz/oceans-ban-seabed-mining
Plastic
Sri Lanka’s shores are flooding with plastic – Greenpeace USA
How to stop the coming plastic boom | Corporate Knights
Plastic Bottlers Are Lying About Recycling | Sierra Club
Telecom & Electronic
Tourism
Private investors look to high-end tourism to fund conservation in Mozambique
https://www.ecowatch.com/whale-safe-shipping-companies-cruise-lines-2653417054.html
https://www.treehugger.com/tourism-helping-save-pumas-patagonia-5190518
Tech & Media
Chemicals, Pesticides, GMOs
Pesticides Are Killing the World’s Soils – Scientific American
Firefighters and Veterans Denied Coverage for PFAS Illnesses
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/06/11/toxic-chemicals-engulf-the-planet/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/06/28/toxic-corporations-are-destroying-the-planets-soil/
https://theintercept.com/2021/06/30/epa-pesticides-exposure-opp/
Animal Entertainment, Racing, Bloodsports
Medina Spirit drug test confirmed; Kentucky Derby win in jeopardy | CBC Sports
Bobcat missing from zoo in North Grenville | CBC News
Nearly 70 Big Cats Rescued in Raid From ‘Tiger King Park’
No More Bikes and Dancing for These Circus Bears
Dublin Zoo and Fota recorded 165 animal deaths in 2019
CAGED Nationwide – Posts | Facebook
Money, Banking, Investment
Flying blind on climate change | Corporate Knights
Maine becomes the first state to pass law to divest from fossil fuels | Stand.earth
Banks increased deforestation-linked investments by $8B during Covid-19: report
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2021/06/21/news/world-against-trans-mountain-pipeline
https://thenarwhal.ca/alberta-coal-mine-vista-coalspur-finances/
Transportation, Shipping
New ecolabel will certify ‘Whale-Safe’ shipping companies and cruise lines
New Ecolabel to Certify ‘Whale-Safe’ Shipping Companies and Cruise Lines – EcoWatch
3,000 Shipping Containers Fell Into the Pacific Ocean Last Winter • The Revelator
Could Air Canada’s ban on emotional support animals be challenged? | rabble.ca
https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/sri-lankas-shores-are-flooding-with-plastic/