Energy: Oil, Gas, Coal, Electricity
Shell’s $22 billion Q2 write down is just the tip of the iceberg for fossil fuels | Fortune
Leaking and Looming, Legacy Coal Ash Ponds Spew Poisons. Is There One Near You? | Earthjustice
Record debts come due for Canadian oil patch after five years of crisis – Reuters
Oil slick threatens Philippine mangrove forest recovering from earlier spill
Energy Transfer Vows to Keep Pipeline Open After Court Order – Bloomberg
The quiet campaign to make clean energy racist – HEATED
How Alberta’s lithium-laced oil fields can fuel the electric vehicle revolution | Corporate Knights
IEA summit urges global energy ministers to adopt ambitious green recovery plans | Corporate Knights
Indigenous groups paying the price for Russia’s massive Arctic fuel spill | CBC News
These 5 Oil and Gas Pipelines Are the Next to Face Trouble
Apple Says Jury Trial on Phone Radiation Would Undermine FCC Authority
Abandoned tanker could spill 4 times more oil than Exxon Valdez, U.N. official warns – CBS News
Has Suncor Seen the Climate Crisis Coming for 61 Years? | The Tyee
They Spent Millions To Protect Polluters. Then They Got Busted by the FBI. – Mother Jones
Water Quality Agency Fines Phillips 66 Refinery, Again, for Polluting Bay | KQED
https://earthjustice.org/news/press/2020/judge-orders-dakota-access-pipeline-to-shut-down
https://www.worldoil.com/news/2020/7/8/energy-transfer-refuses-to-shut-dakota-access-pipeline-says-judge-exceeded-authority
https://thenarwhal.ca/alberta-coal-mining-kenney-ucp-explainer/
https://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/another-oil-pipeline-ordered-to-shut-down-in-north-dakota/article_820e81e0-7bc4-5d6f-ba07-8a70a1066c09.html
Pharma, Medical, Veterinary, Animal Testing,
Purdue Pharma Made Political Contributions After Bankruptcy
It was his dream job. He never thought he’d be bribing doctors and wearing a wire for the feds.
Africa to Become Testing Ground for “Trust Stamp” Vaccine Record and Payment System
Novartis Pays Over $700m To Settle US Kickbacks Case – Dr. Rath Health Foundation
Novartis Pays Over $700m To Settle US Kickbacks Case – Dr. Rath Health Foundation
Industrial Crop Farming
‘They took it over by force’: Corruption and palm oil in Sierra Leone
Groups demand financial, human rights probes into palm conglomerate Korindo
Shark finning: why the ocean’s most barbaric practice continues to boom | Environment | The Guardian
Canada’s Largest Agribusiness Bans Glyphosate Desiccation | The Detox Project
Corn growers in Brazil’s Cerrado reap a hostile climate of their own making
Only a few ‘rotten apples’ causing most illegal Brazil deforestation: Study
Photos: In southern Papua, navigating an alien world built on palm oil
Bubbles, lasers and robo-bees: The blossoming industry of artificial pollination
Animal Breeding, Ranching, Factory Farming, Puppy Mills
The Danger of Letting the Animal Agriculture Industry Operate in Secrecy
Five arrests as gardaí probe how horsemeat entered food chain – Farming Independent
Vigils and Rescues Ramp Up in the Wake of Activist’s Death
Gassed, Shot, and Suffocated: How Meat Companies Are Killing Farmed Animals During COVID-19
Meat and dairy production emit more nitrogen than Earth can cope with | New Scientist
Factory farms: Cory Booker and Elizabeth Warren have a radical bill to reform farming – Vox
Germany bans sow stalls | Compassion in World Farming
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Think You Know ‘Free-Range’ and ‘Cage Free’ Chicken? Think Again. – One Green PlanetOne Green Planet
Egg Farm Investigation Reveals Hens Living with Corpses and Maggots – Mercy For Animals
Animal Welfare Campaigners and UK Politicians Clash Over Live Exports
Post COVID-19, Let’s Forge a New Normal for Farmed Animals
Where there’s cattle ranching and soybean farming, there’s fire, study finds
Corporate animal agriculture’s days are numbered. What comes next? | Corporate Knights
KFC using ‘animal flesh cells’ to 3D-print chicken meat at Russian lab
San Francisco Fur Ban Upheld as Challenge is Dismissed – Animal Legal Defense Fund
Meat Industry Donates to Officials Stopping Covid-19 Lawsuits
Party for Animal Welfare – Posts
Investigation links meat giant JBS to Amazon deforestation
World Bank-backed attempt to commercialize Madagascar’s beef industry falters
Does “Certified Humane” Mean Cruelty-Free?
Dozens of Pooches, Including Pregnant Dogs, Rescued From NJ Hoarding Nightmare – NBC New York
KFC admits a third of its chickens suffer painful inflammation | Environment | The Guardian
Fisheries, Fish Farming, Marine Life
The Hidden Cost of Trump’s Move to Deregulate Fish Farms
Drug trafficking could be putting ‘fragile fisheries’ at risk, study says
Shark finning: why the ocean’s most barbaric practice continues to boom | Environment | The Guardian
Farmed salmon sales slide in Germany following critical TV documentary | Intrafish
Cruel elephant training process ‘the crush’ exposed | World Animal Protection
Risking death and arrest, Madagascar fishers chase dwindling sea cucumbers
An export boom threatens to put Madagascar’s mud crabs in hot water
Sea turns red in Faroe Islands as 250 whales slaughtered in ‘barbaric’ hunt: The Standard
Study: Chinese ‘dark fleets’ illegally defying sanctions by fishing in North Korean waters
China accused of using football stadium-style lighting to plunder fisheries
New assessment shows 74% of Sri Lanka’s freshwater fish threatened with extinction
https://theferret.scot/farmed-salmon-deaths-disease-reach-record-high/
Hunting, Trapping, Wildlife Trafficking
Five years after Cecil the lion was shot dead, trophy hunting continues – Channel 4 News
The Shocking Number of Snakes Traded Internationally Each Year • The Revelator
Several linked to Michigan’s worst suspected wolf poacher face charges
The G20 must act to end the global wildlife trade | World Animal Protection
Trafficking of thousands of songbirds highlights rampant trade in Indonesia
WWF targeted over trophy hunts | News | The Times
After canoe chase, Madagascar authorities seize 144 endangered tortoises
Quebec black bears, the next victims of COVID-19? | JDM
Dying Buffalo Gores Hunter Through Leg In Final Act Of Revenge – UNILAD
The Shocking Number of Snakes Traded Internationally Each Year • The Revelator
Video: As COVID-19 curbs patrols in Nicaragua, turtle eggs risk being poached
For the world’s rarest gorillas, a troubled sanctuary
Tiger, Pangolin Farming In Myanmar Risks ‘Boosting Demand’ – Barron’s
California warned against banning trophy hunting | The Chronicle
Petition · WWF – Stop Supporting Trophy Hunting!!! Back a Ban on UK Trophy Imports!!! · Change.org
Cecil the lion’s killer slaughters endangered Mongolian ram
Nigeria’s wildlife traders, who weathered Ebola, eye post-COVID-19 boom
New study quantifies impact of hunting on migratory shorebird populations
Pac-Man: The jaguar hunted for parts in Mexico
Wildlife crime syndicate members jailed for total of 56.5 years – kingpin due up later – EIA
We must curb the wildlife trade to prevent future pandemics – The Hill Times
Vietnam bans wildlife trade to curb risk of pandemics – Reuters
RSPCA appeal after fox found hanging from spring trap | Swindon Advertiser
Millions of animals trafficked in Brazil annually – report | World news | The Guardian
Brazilian Amazon drained of millions of wild animals by criminal networks: Report
Porcupines Face a Poaching Crisis — and It’s All Because of What’s in Their Stomachs • The Revelator
https://earthroots.good.do/trapping/nonightshooting/
Consumer Goods Manufacturers & Sellers
The blind spot of low-carbon buildings | Corporate Knights
Cocoa Farmers Say: Nestlé Don’t Cut our Pay During a Pandemic!
Ecological Consciousness – Posts
Why You Should Avoid Cosmetics That Contain Squalene
Logging & Mining
Gold priced at $1,700 per ounce brings new gold rush to Brazilian Amazon
Mexico’s Federal Mining Law Threatens Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples | Earthjustice
Mexico’s Federal Mining Law Threatens Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples | Earthjustice
Brazilian court orders 20,000 gold miners removed from Yanomami Park
‘Unacceptably high’ risk of tailings dam failure in Canadian miner’s Amazon project
Traditional villages dread living in shadow of Amazon tailings dams
Logging concession in Malaysian Borneo lacks consent of indigenous communities (commentary)
Sounding the alarm about illegal logging? There’s an app for that
Sediment plumes from deep-sea mining could pollute vast swaths of the ocean, scientists say
Niobium mining in Brazilian Amazon would cause significant forest loss: Study
Trump Administration Ignores Pebble Mine’s Dangers to Alaska | NRDC
Rosewood trafficking worsens in the Gambia – China Dialogue
For tool-wielding chimps of Ebo Forest, logging plan is a ‘death sentence’
Goldminers overrun Amazon indigenous lands as COVID-19 surges
Cameroon Approves To Destroy Ebo Forest Gorilla Habitat – ValueWalk
https://thenarwhal.ca/global-standards-prevent-mine-tailings-disasters-mount-polleyreport
https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-nova-scotia-boat-harbour-paper-excellence-northern-pulp/
https://www.facebook.com/nathanwinograd/photos/a.159167054107547/3468636636493889/?type=3&theater
Plastic
Hawaiian Group Breaks World Record with Biggest Ocean Plastic Cleanup Ever
Europe’s Plastic Recycling is Getting Dumped in the Ocean
Thanks to the Coronavirus, We Really Are Being Buried in Plastic
Study Finds That ‘Chemical Recycling’ Is All Talk and No Recycling
https://earthjustice.org/features/petrochemicals-explainer
Telecom & Electronic
Apple Says Jury Trial on Phone Radiation Would Undermine FCC Authority
Government and industry combine to downplay the science on cell phone danger – SFChronicle.com
The World Threw Away 54 Million Tons of Electronics Last Year
FCC Ignoring Evidence Of Wireless Tech Harms, DC Circ. Told – Law360
Tourism
Tech & Media
Coverage of the energy sector falls short if it ignores climate change: Don Pittis | CBC News
Chemicals, Pesticides, GMOs
How Big Oil is Using Toxic Chemicals as a Lifeline – and How We Can Stop It | Earthjustice
Mexico Bans Monsanto’s Roundup Herbicide
New Studies Show Glyphosate Causes Reproductive Health Damage
More bad news for BPA: Novel analysis adds to evidence of chemical’s health effects – EHN
Health impacts of synthetic chemicals doubled in last 5 years – CNN
Trump’s EPA Sued Over Understating Risks of Deadly Chemical | Earthjustice
Animal Entertainment, Racing, Bloodsports
Petition · Irish Government: Stop Giving Millions of Euro to Cruel Greyhound Racing · Change.org
FOUR PAWS International – Posts
Cruel elephant training process ‘the crush’ exposed | World Animal Protection
Seal Is Beaten Unconscious By Tourists So Children Could Take Pictures With It | The Hearty Soul
USDA Finds Numerous Starved and Ailing Animals at ‘Tiger King’ Zoo
CHDC Identifies More Standardbreds Sent to Slaughter – Canadian Horse Defence Coalition
Greyhound racing: Bill filed to end sport after expose of cruel training
Money, Banking, Investment
World Bank’s IFC pumped $1.8b into factory farming operations since 2010
Queen Elizabeth’s Wealth Manager Dumps Oil Sands – The Energy Mix
Banks and pension funds among investors bankrolling meat and dairy | Environment | The Guardian
Brazilian meatpacker expands with World Bank funding but fails to reduce impacts in the Amazon
World Bank-funded factory farms dogged by alleged environmental abuses
Climate Change Poses ‘Systemic Threat’ to the Economy, Big Investors Warn – The New York Times
Deutsche Bank says it won’t finance any new Arctic region or oil sand projects – MarketWatch
RBC signs solar-power agreement in a first for a Canadian bank – BNN Bloomberg
Join us on July 30th | Rainforest Action Network – Fighting for People and Planet
Transportation, Shipping
The Rich Are Different From You and Me; They Emit Way More Carbon