As EPA backs off enforcement, states and cities have little capacity to fill gap

As EPA backs off enforcement, states and cities have little capacity to fill gap

Big Oil is using the coronavirus pandemic to push through the Keystone XL pipeline | Bill McKibben

Big Oil is using the coronavirus pandemic to push through the Keystone XL pipeline | Bill McKibben

States Quietly Pass Laws Criminalizing Fossil Fuel Protest Amid Coronavirus Chaos

States Quietly Pass Laws Criminalizing Fossil Fuel Protest Amid Coronavirus Chaos

As More Communities Sue for Climate Damages, State Houses Consider Bills to Stop Them

Republican legislatures backed by fossil fuel money and big business orgs like the US Chamber of Commerce are trying to dismantle democracy and local control in defense of the fossil fuel industry.



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U.S. accuses Ameren of failing to comply with pollution order at Rush Island

U.S. accuses Ameren of failing to comply with pollution order at Rush Island

Exxon Downplays Climate Risk to Oil and Gas in New Report

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Criminals.

N.A.A.C.P. Tells Local Chapters: Don’t Let Energy Industry Manipulate You

N.A.A.C.P. Tells Local Chapters: Don’t Let Energy Industry Manipulate You

Students at Prestigious Universities Rise Up Against Fossil Fuel Money

Students at Prestigious Universities Rise Up Against Fossil Fuel Money

Court OKs controversial power line despite Missouri landowners’ objections

Court OKs controversial power line despite Missouri landowners’ objections

Exposing a Hidden Climate Threat: Methane ‘Super Emitters’

Exposing a Hidden Climate Threat: Methane ‘Super Emitters’

It’s Time to Try Fossil-Fuel Executives for Crimes Against Humanity

It’s Time to Try Fossil-Fuel Executives for Crimes Against Humanity

Study Shows Surface Coal Miners Are Exposed To Toxic Dust That Causes Black Lung

Study Shows Surface Coal Miners Are Exposed To Toxic Dust That Causes Black Lung

Utilities don't want Peabody Energy's "clean coal" awards anymore - Energy and Policy Institute

Utilities don't want Peabody Energy's "clean coal" awards anymore - Energy and Policy Institute

America Has Forgotten The Biggest Execution In Our History — But We Haven't

America Has Forgotten The Biggest Execution In Our History — But We Haven't



In relation to understanding Estes better, read this gripping and heart-breaking account of the Dakota 38, the warriors hanged by Lincoln in 1862.

Is shale development worth the costs? A CMU study says no.

Is shale development worth the costs? A CMU study says no.

EPA ignores health benefits of coal rule it plans to weaken: economists

EPA ignores health benefits of coal rule it plans to weaken: economists

Utilities Running Uneconomic Coal Plants Cost Consumers $3.5 Billion From 2015-2017

Utilities Running Uneconomic Coal Plants Cost Consumers $3.5 Billion From 2015-2017

New Energy secretary: Trump has directed agency to find 'different ways to utilize coal'

New Energy secretary: Trump has directed agency to find 'different ways to utilize coal'

Carbon Dioxide Emissions Hit a Record in 2019, Even as Coal Fades

Carbon Dioxide Emissions Hit a Record in 2019, Even as Coal Fades

Our History Is the Future: Lakota Historian Nick Estes on Thanksgiving & Indigenous Resistance

Our History Is the Future: Lakota Historian Nick Estes on Thanksgiving & Indigenous Resistance

The Coal Industry also knew about climate change as early as 1966 (and check out info on Peabody and Fred Palmer)

We talked about the problem that Peabody gives money to WUSTL to say "clean coal" but it is also involved in climate science denialism, although new evidence suggests that Peabody knew about climate change tied to CO2 as early as 1966.

Also, the article details Fred Palmer and Peabody's lies about CO2 in more detail (as we discussed in class in past lectures).  This is the kind of associate WUSTL is dealing with while it says it is a leader in sustainability.  Both false and shameful.

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/coal-industry-climate-change_n_5dd6bbebe4b0e29d7280984f?ri18n=true

From the article:

"While Peabody Energy, the largest private-sector coal company in the world and the largest producer of coal in the U.S., now acknowledges climate change on its website, it has been directly and indirectly involved in obfuscating climate science for decades. It funded dozens of trade, lobbying and front groups that peddled climate misinformation, as The Guardian reported in 2016. 

As recently as 2015, Peabody Energy argued that carbon dioxide was a “benign gas essential for all life.” 

“While the benefits of carbon dioxide are proven, the alleged risks of climate change are contrary to observed data, are based on admitted speculation, and lack adequate scientific basis,” the company wrote in a letter that year to the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

At the heart of big coal’s denial campaign was Fred Palmer, who served as Peabody’s senior vice president of government relations from 2001 to 2015. In 1997, Palmer founded the Greening Earth Society, a now-defunct industry front group that argued that burning fossil fuels was good for the planet. The group was based in the same office as the Western Fuels Association, a consortium of coal suppliers and coal-fired utilities that Palmer also ran. 

“Every time you turn your car on and you burn fossil fuels and you put CO2 into the air, you’re doing the work of the Lord,” Palmer told a Danish documentary team in 1997. “That’s the ecological system we live in.” 

Fossil Free Wash. U. interrupts Martin’s Parent & Family Weekend event with chants

Fossil Free Wash. U. interrupts Martin’s Parent & Family Weekend event with chants

Why Aren’t Fossil Fuel Companies Held Accountable for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women?

Why Aren’t Fossil Fuel Companies Held Accountable for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women?

PG&E Spent Millions on Lobbying Even After Declaring Bankruptcy

PG&E Spent Millions on Lobbying Even After Declaring Bankruptcy

My Water's On Fire Tonight (The Fracking Song) - YouTube

I don't think better oversight can fix fracking, but this video at least does a good job of pointing out why the current situation is a "toxic socio-technical assemblage."





My Water's On Fire Tonight (The Fracking Song) - YouTube

How utilities wield bad science to stunt clean energy

How utilities wield bad science to stunt clean energy

A contentious Russian-led gas pipeline in Europe will soon exist — Here's why it matters

A contentious Russian-led gas pipeline in Europe will soon exist — Here's why it matters

State looks to exempt Franklin and Jefferson counties from auto emissions tests

State looks to exempt Franklin and Jefferson counties from auto emissions tests

Coal companies again face financial pressure as demand slides; Murray Energy files for bankruptcy

Coal companies again face financial pressure as demand slides; Murray Energy files for bankruptcy

New Report: St. Louis Sees Fewest Unhealthy Air Pollution Days Ever; Still Gets “F” Grade for Ozone

New Report: St. Louis Sees Fewest Unhealthy Air Pollution Days Ever; Still Gets “F” Grade for Ozone

Illinois mine expanding despite safety, environmental concerns

Illinois mine expanding despite safety, environmental concerns



When I say the industry "degrades or does violence against nature and labor" this is why.

Fossil Fuel Execs Lied to the Public About Climate Science for Years

Fossil Fuel Execs Lied to the Public About Climate Science for Years

Revealed: the 20 firms behind a third of all carbon emissions

Revealed: the 20 firms behind a third of all carbon emissions

Despite Their Promises, Giant Energy Companies Burn Away Vast Amounts of Natural Gas

Despite Their Promises, Giant Energy Companies Burn Away Vast Amounts of Natural Gas

Exxon and Oil Sands Go on Trial in New York Climate Fraud Case

Exxon and Oil Sands Go on Trial in New York Climate Fraud Case

Internal US Gov’t Document Outlines Program of ‘Economic Warfare’ on Venezuela

Internal US Gov’t Document Outlines Program of ‘Economic Warfare’ on Venezuela

Mass Killings In Afghanistan Are Acts of White Supremacy

Mass Killings In Afghanistan Are Acts of White Supremacy

The #1 Reason to Have an All-Electric Home

The #1 Reason to Have an All-Electric Home

Colorado authorizes transfer of Xcel assets to Boulder, boosting city's municipalization efforts

Colorado authorizes transfer of Xcel assets to Boulder, boosting city's municipalization efforts

Sierra Club sues EPA over claim that climate change 'is 50 to 75 years out'

Sierra Club sues EPA over claim that climate change 'is 50 to 75 years out'