Energy: Oil, Gas, Coal, Electricity
Youth activists sue Montana, arguing state’s fossil fuel support violates their rights | Grist
Cyber attack targets Calgary-based Suncor | CTV News
Enbridge asks U.S. judge to ensure Line 5 runs during reroute | CTV News
A rule that could help save coal miners’ lives is mired in red tape | Grist
https://www.ecowatch.com/renewable-energy-capacity-global-increase-2023.html
https://grist.org/energy/it-will-cost-up-to-21-5-billion-to-clean-up-californias-oil-sites-the-industry-wont-make-enough-money-to-pay-for-it/
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/sea-dump-radioactive-water-pacific-ocean-fukushima-cd/?itm_term=home
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/spotlighting-oil-majors-ecocide-of-niger-delta-qa-with-michael-j-watts/
https://grist.org/temperature-check/nicole-horseherder-coal-navajo-water/
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/03/iraqs-oil-boom-blamed-for-worsening-water-crisis-in-drought-hit-south?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/bp-oil-well-marine-refuge-1.6865985
https://grist.org/energy/first-us-nuclear-reactor-40-years-online-georgia/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/06/06/nuclear-fusion-eternal-energy-eternal-damnation/
https://grist.org/project/accountability/excess-emissions-texas-pollution-refinery-houston/
https://www.monbiot.com/2023/06/05/hell-holes/?
https://grist.org/energy/in-oil-rich-new-mexico-officials-restrict-new-drilling/
https://www.corporateknights.com/energy/how-renewables-play-bigger-part-canadas-electricity-system/
https://thenarwhal.ca/suncor-carbon-capture-storage-strategy/
https://thenarwhal.ca/suncor-fort-hills-oilsands-critics-response/
https://www.goldstreamgazette.com/news/b-c-premier-nervous-about-foreign-bid-for-tecks-steelmaking-coal-business/
https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/infuriating-link-between-wildfires-and-fossil-fuel-companies
https://grist.org/accountability/gas-stations-underground-storage-tank-leaks-environmental-disaster/
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/venezuelas-environmental-crisis-is-getting-worse-here-are-seven-things-to-know/
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/indonesian-coal-giant-adaros-sustainable-smelter-slammed-as-greenwashing/
https://www.ecowatch.com/epa-oil-spill-chemicals.html
https://www.ecowatch.com/global-oil-demand-forecast-iea.html
https://theintercept.com/2023/06/18/guyana-exxon-mobil-oil-drilling/
https://in-sights.ca/2023/06/17/shareholder-value-built-on-destruction/
https://grist.org/accountability/closing-coal-ash-loophole-epa-proposal/
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/20/canada-wildfires-big-oil?
https://financialpost.com/commodities/energy/oil-gas/shell-power-trader-quits-over-pivot-back-to-oil?
https://theecologist.org/2023/jun/26/maladministration-and-terrible-precedent
https://grist.org/accountability/multnomah-county-lawsuit-exxon-deadly-2021-heat-wave/
https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2023/06/22/plastic-fossil-fuels-lifecycle/?
https://www.westernstandard.news/news/david-suzuki-foundation-targets-bc-with-anti-lng-ad-campaign/article_8d11293c-15c4-11ee-87e2-3374aee07773.html?
https://thenarwhal.ca/climate-change-clean-energy-tipping-point/
Pharma, Medical, Veterinary, Animal Testing,
Merck Sues Biden Administration to Protect ‘Sky-High Profits and Soaring Executive Pay’ • Children’s Health Defense
Blockbuster Weight-Loss Drug Linked to Serious Kidney Issues • Children’s Health Defense
After Decades of Debate, FDA Moves to Regulate In-House Lab Tests
To Study Pandemics: Many Critters, a Bit of AI, and Some Openness
Why Cancer Treatments Might Not Work Very Well for Older Adults
A Son Died, His Parents Tried to Sue. How U.S. Courts Protect Big Pharma + More • Children’s Health Defense
Merck Knew Its Popular Asthma Drug Could Lead Kids to Commit Suicide, Lawsuits Allege • Children’s Health Defense
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/federal-funding-merck-hpv-vaccine-behavior/?itm_term=home
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/canada-takes-steps-to-ban-toxicity-testing-on-animals-what-this-means-1.6440537
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/big-pharma-bleeding-horseshoe-crabs-testing-vaccines/?itm_term=home
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/06/26/medicine-residue-is-everywhere-in-our-rivers-and-lakes-and-fish-are-behaving-strangely/
Industrial Crop Farming
Sumatra Indigenous community displaced by Samsung palm oil unit await justice
Can the EU’s deforestation law save Argentina’s Gran Chaco from soy?
Sumatran farmers worry as government halts palm oil fertilizer subsidies
‘Tree islands’ boost diversity in oil palm plantations, study finds
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/u-s-conservation-investment-routed-to-eucalyptus-expansion-in-brazils-cerrado/
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/illegal-settlements-hunting-and-logging-threaten-a-state-reserve-in-mexico/
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/in-indonesia-companies-defy-governments-decision-to-revoke-their-permits/
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/venezuelas-environmental-crisis-is-getting-worse-here-are-seven-things-to-know/
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/planting-deforestation-the-forests-that-mexico-loses-to-agribusiness/
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/soy-the-agro-industry-that-devastates-the-maya-jungle/
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/avocados-the-green-gold-that-wipes-western-mexicos-forests-from-the-map/
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/palm-oil-company-in-ecuador-operates-illegally-on-ancestral-land-community-says/
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/palm-oil-the-crop-that-cuts-into-southeastern-mexicos-jungles-and-mangroves/
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/alleged-torturers-roam-free-as-indonesia-struggles-to-bring-charges-in-palm-oil-slavery-case/
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/communities-accuse-socfin-and-earthworm-foundation-of-greenwash-in-west-africa/
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/sugarcane-the-monoculture-that-transformed-southern-quintana-roo/
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/in-indonesias-aru-islands-a-popular-eco-defender-climbs-the-political-ladder/
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/in-the-land-of-honey-and-nuts-indigenous-solutions-to-save-brazils-cerrado/
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/the-amazon-saw-record-deforestation-last-year-heres-why/
https://faunalytics.org/animal-experiments-and-publishing-bias/?
Animal Breeding, Ranching, Factory Farming, Puppy Mills
Senators Cory Booker & Bob Menendez Hold Packers Sanitation Services’ Contracted Facilities Accountable After Employing Over 100 Minors At Slaughterhouses – World Animal News
A life of utter misery and suffering, ended… – Anti-Fur Society UK | Facebook
Rainforest cowboys: Rodeo culture sweeps the Amazon
Watch: Thousands of chickens stay put after tornado destroys farm | CTV News
What can the U.K. do to fight its dependence on soy?
Mercy For Animals Is Calling on President Biden to Protect Pigs
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/u-s-conservation-investment-routed-to-eucalyptus-expansion-in-brazils-cerrado/
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/illegal-settlements-hunting-and-logging-threaten-a-state-reserve-in-mexico/
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/iowa-industrial-hog-farms-animal-waste-agrochemicals-fish-kills/?itm_term=home
https://worldanimalnews.com/new-legislation-introduced-in-the-united-states-to-phase-out-cruel-mink-farms/
https://theintercept.com/2023/06/13/perdue-chicken-slaughterhouse-animal-cruelty-dxe/
https://www.theanimalreader.com/2023/06/13/news-barn-fire-netherlands/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/06/16/maya-villagers-resist-mega-hog-farms-in-yucatan/
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/in-the-land-of-honey-and-nuts-indigenous-solutions-to-save-brazils-cerrado/
https://worldanimalnews.com/authorities-take-action-after-new-investigation-from-lady-freethinker-reveals-animals-are-still-suffering-in-dog-alley-texas-flea-market/
Fisheries, Fish Farming, Marine Life
Indonesia looks into tuna farming to boost aquaculture, reduce overfishing
Newly Adopted UN High Seas Treaty Gives Ocean a ‘Fighting Chance’ – EcoWatch
Indonesia to expand ‘smart fisheries’ program aimed at empowering communities
Study finds locally managed marine areas in Fiji yield mixed results
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/indonesia-fisheries-ports-psma-iuu-illegal-fishing-sustainability/
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/illegal-fishing-for-fish-meal-widespread-in-ecuador-marine-reserve/
https://www.ecowatch.com/gill-net-fishing-great-barrier-reef.html
https://www.cheknews.ca/it-could-be-a-record-year-a-second-humpback-whale-is-found-entangled-in-bc-waters-1155321/
https://grist.org/climate/as-ocean-oxygen-levels-dip-fish-face-an-uncertain-future/
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/fishers-confirm-scientists-warning-brazils-belo-monte-dam-killed-off-the-river/
https://www.ecowatch.com/vaquita-population-gulf-of-california.html
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/iowa-industrial-hog-farms-animal-waste-agrochemicals-fish-kills/?itm_term=home
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/seeking-environmental-dna-in-himalayan-rivers-qa-with-adarsh-man-sherchan/
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/in-indonesia-companies-defy-governments-decision-to-revoke-their-permits/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/indigenous-salmon-emergency-pacific-1.6873770
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/climate-change-human-pressures-push-bangladeshs-national-fish-into-decline/
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fish-doorbell-netherlands-website-utrecht
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/indonesia-tuna-fisheries-catch-sustainable-fishing-strategy-management/
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/at-sea-as-on-land-activists-oppose-industrial-farming-in-u-s-waters/
https://www.ecowatch.com/seagrass-meadows-climate-change-conservation.html
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/privatize-ocean-big-ag-industrial-aquaculture/?itm_term=home
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/brazil-claims-record-shark-fin-bust-nearly-29-tons-from-10000-sharks-seized/
Hunting, Trapping, Wildlife Trafficking
Warfare for wildlife: Q&A with Rosaleen Duffy
24 Endangered Amazon Parrot Chicks Rescued From Sophisticated Wildlife Trafficking Operation In Florida – World Animal News
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/a-southeast-asian-marine-biodiversity-hotspot-is-also-a-wildlife-trafficking-hotbed/
https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/minnesota-bans-commercial-turtle-harvest/89-3bb0fe82-f244-4967-bf4d-ab1c553b3ea2?
https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/b-c-judge-finds-man-guilty-of-killing-black-bear-and-cub-near-tofino-1.6450742
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/when-cute-is-cruel-social-media-videos-stoke-loris-pet-trade-study-says/
https://www.etonline.com/tiger-king-star-doc-antle-convicted-in-wildlife-trafficking-case-faces-up-to-20-years-in-prison?
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/big-potential-and-immense-challenges-for-great-ape-conservation-in-the-congo-basin-experts-say/
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/brazil-claims-record-shark-fin-bust-nearly-29-tons-from-10000-sharks-seized/
https://worldanimalnews.com/legislation-has-just-been-introduced-to-ban-deadly-cyanide-bombs-on-public-lands-in-the-u-s/
Consumer Goods Manufacturers & Sellers
Chemicals in Cosmetics May Interfere With Fertility, Fetal Growth and Infant Development • Children’s Health Defense
Manufacturers Add Toxic Chemicals to Clothing to Make It Smell Better — and Boost Corporate Profits • Children’s Health Defense
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/06/26/medicine-residue-is-everywhere-in-our-rivers-and-lakes-and-fish-are-behaving-strangely/
Construction, Building, Infrastructure
Building Ukrainian cities back better
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/a-mega-highway-threatens-south-americas-vulnerable-gran-chaco/
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/fishers-confirm-scientists-warning-brazils-belo-monte-dam-killed-off-the-river/
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/seeking-environmental-dna-in-himalayan-rivers-qa-with-adarsh-man-sherchan/
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/why-did-the-orangutan-cross-the-toll-road-to-indonesias-new-capital-city/
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/in-the-land-of-honey-and-nuts-indigenous-solutions-to-save-brazils-cerrado/
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/the-amazon-saw-record-deforestation-last-year-heres-why/
Logging & Mining
Mechanized destruction of Brazil’s Amazon is rising, but not inevitable
A once-shuttered California mine is trying to transform the rare-earth industry | Grist
No new mining operations on Yanomami land after raids and deaths
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/license-to-log-cambodian-military-facilitates-logging-on-koh-kong-krao-and-across-the-cardamoms/
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/u-s-conservation-investment-routed-to-eucalyptus-expansion-in-brazils-cerrado/
https://www.monbiot.com/2023/06/05/hell-holes/?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-mexico-mining-mariano-abarca-1.6868459
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/europes-top-science-panel-supports-call-for-moratorium-on-deep-sea-mining/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/06/09/usdas-support-of-destructive-wood-pellet-industry-undermines-bidens-pledges-about-environmental-justice/
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/in-indonesia-companies-defy-governments-decision-to-revoke-their-permits/
https://in-sights.ca/2023/06/12/dangerous-actors-corporate-and-political/
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/venezuelas-environmental-crisis-is-getting-worse-here-are-seven-things-to-know/
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/red-floods-near-giant-indonesia-nickel-mine-blight-farms-and-fishing-grounds/
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/a-powerful-political-family-from-new-hampshire-is-behind-a-copper-mine-in-the-colombian-rainforest/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/agnico-eagle-caribou-monitoring-violations-cirnac-1.6876469
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/06/16/alliance-for-the-wild-rockies-challenges-massive-clearcut-and-burning-project-near-lake-pend-oreille-in-northern-idaho/
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/over-a-third-of-conflicts-over-development-projects-affect-indigenous-people-study/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/06/19/dispatch-from-the-lithium-mining-war-on-the-west-mcdermitt-creek-thacker-pass-and-beyond/
https://www.propublica.org/article/biodiversity-offsets-guinea-world-bank-group-chimpanzees-outbreak
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/chile-government-faces-backlash-after-u-turn-on-copper-mine/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/elliot-lake-radiactive-waste-1.6881433
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/norway-cites-green-transition-in-move-toward-embracing-deep-sea-mining/
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/the-amazon-saw-record-deforestation-last-year-heres-why/
https://theintercept.com/2023/06/30/biden-green-energy-mine-arizona-patagonia/
Tech & Media
Paleolithic conservatism and the decline of mainstream news media
Canadians will no longer have access to news content on Facebook and Instagram, Meta says | CBC News
When “cute” is cruel: Social media videos stoke loris pet trade, study says
Google set to remove Canadian news links in Canada over online news law
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/meta-blocking-news-canada-1.6863294
https://www.corporateknights.com/leadership/meet-man-calling-out-big-techs-climate-hypocrisy/
Plastic
How to slash plastic pollution by 2040 | Corporate Knights
There’s No Such Thing as a Styrofoam Cup
How to build a zero-waste economy | Grist
https://grist.org/solutions/the-global-plastics-treaty-can-fight-climate-change-if-it-reduces-plastic-production/
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/plastics-recycling-toxic-chemical-cocktail-ehn/?itm_term=home
https://environmentaldefence.ca/2023/06/05/world-environment-day/
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/un-paris-meeting-presses-ahead-with-binding-plastics-treaty-u-s-resists/
https://www.theanimalreader.com/2023/06/09/news-turtles-plastic-waste-lebanon/
https://www.ecowatch.com/microplastics-sand-temperature-sea-turtles.html
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/in-bangladesh-microplastic-threat-to-frogs-is-also-concern-for-rice-farming/
https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2023/06/22/plastic-fossil-fuels-lifecycle/?
https://www.treehugger.com/how-bpa-affects-animals-environment-5201650
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/tangled-in-marine-debris-skate-egg-cases-dry-up-and-die-on-peruvian-beaches/
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/nepals-rhinos-eating-plastic-waste-study-finds/
https://environmentaldefence.ca/2023/06/30/plastic-pollution-in-canada/
Telecom & Electronic
Faster Rollout of Wireless Infrastructure Serves Industry Not U.S. Citizens, Experts Say • Children’s Health Defense
Tourism
Canada clamps down on cruise liners dumping sewage, green groups want more | Reuters
Overcrowding Our National Forests – CounterPunch.org
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/venezuelas-environmental-crisis-is-getting-worse-here-are-seven-things-to-know/
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/indonesias-mandalika-megaproject-still-trampling-on-indigenous-communitys-rights-report/
https://www.cheknews.ca/canadas-new-cruise-ship-rules-dont-plug-loopholes-for-major-source-of-wastewater-pollution-1158231/
Chemicals, Pesticides, GMOs
The ‘Bloody’ Truth About Lab-Grown Meat • Children’s Health Defense
Genetically Engineered Salad Greens Coming to Grocery Stores — and They Won’t Be Labeled • Children’s Health Defense
You can’t run away from BPA — especially when its in your sports tee – Environmental Defence
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/glyphosate-disrupt-immune-function/?itm_term=home
https://www.iflscience.com/forever-chemicals-makers-covered-up-health-risks-for-decades-secret-documents-reveal-69197
https://environmentaldefence.ca/2023/06/01/canada-is-finally-strengthening-its-toxics-law-four-key-updates-you-should-know/
https://grist.org/accountability/3m-pfas-drinking-water-forever-chemicals-lawsuit/
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/dupont-3m-toxic-pfas-chemicals-harm-human-health/?itm_term=home
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/iowa-industrial-hog-farms-animal-waste-agrochemicals-fish-kills/?itm_term=home
https://www.ecowatch.com/epa-oil-spill-chemicals.html
https://www.ecowatch.com/epa-agent-orange-chemical-herbicides.html
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/toxic-chemicals-clothing-scent-corporate-profits-cola/?itm_term=home
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/lawsuit-vermont-monsanto-pcb-contamination-schools/?itm_term=home
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfas-chemicals-chevron-fracking-lawsuit-bryan-latkanich/?itm_term=home
https://www.ecowatch.com/3m-pfas-forever-chemicals-water-pollution-lawsuit.html
https://grist.org/health/3m-reaches-historic-settlement-over-pfas-contamination/
https://www.treehugger.com/how-bpa-affects-animals-environment-5201650
Animal Entertainment, Racing, Bloodsports
US Law Enforcement Acts Against Individual Involved in Online Monkey Abuse, Where Members Paid to Have Baby Monkeys Tortured and Killed on Camera
Sask. rodeo welcomes in summer with bull riding, petting zoos and chariot racing | CTV News
Facebook
(2) Another hot day, and they continue to race… – Close Hove Dog Track | Facebook
Facebook
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/kentucky-derby-deaths-horseracing-1.6863671
https://www.theanimalreader.com/2023/06/23/news-global-network-monkey-torture/
https://worldanimalnews.com/new-york-is-one-step-closer-to-becoming-the-9th-state-in-the-u-s-to-ban-wildlife-killing-contests/
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/when-cute-is-cruel-social-media-videos-stoke-loris-pet-trade-study-says/
Money, Banking, Investment
https://www.corporateknights.com/category-finance/major-investor-alliance-clean-up-greenwash-lurking-esg/
https://rabble.ca/environment/uottowas-entanglement-with-canadas-biggest-fossil-fool-rbc/
Transportation, Shipping
https://www.cheknews.ca/canadas-new-cruise-ship-rules-dont-plug-loopholes-for-major-source-of-wastewater-pollution-1158231/
