Resources

Videos:

Books:

• Todd Vachon – “Clean Air and Good Jobs”
• Matt Huber – “Climate change as Class War”
• Naomi Klein – “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Planet”

Newsletters:

• Bill McKibben – “The Crucial Years”
• Bill McKibben – “By the Numbers”
• Bill McKibben – “A Bit Closer to Holding Big Oil Accountable”
• Bill McKibben – “Memo to Joe: Fight a Climate Election”
• Labor Network for Sustainability (LNS)
• Third Act Union Newsletter Archive

Articles:

• Article from Inside Climate News by Phil McKenna – ‘Oil and Gas Executives Blast ‘LNG Pause’
  • Call Natural Gas a ‘Destination Fuel’: Following a global agreement to transition off fossil fuels, industry leaders gathered in Houston, doubled down on oil and gas.
  • “Granholm gave her keynote address on March 18, the first day of CERAWeek, kicking off a week-long conversation on the LNG pause by executives who were overwhelmingly opposed to the action.”
  • “I think this decision was incredibly misguided,” Toby Rice, president and chief executive officer of EQT Corporation, the largest U.S. natural gas producer, told those assembled at the energy conference. “This needs to be ended today.”
  • Michael Smith, chief executive officer of Freeport LNG Development, a leading U.S. liquified natural gas exporter, agreed.
    “It’s a bad policy and it sends a terrible message to the world,” Smith said.
  • For more than a decade, natural gas has been portrayed by industry executives and some politicians as a bridge fuel or “transition fuel” as the world shifts to cleaner, renewable energy alternatives.”
• Article from The Guardian by Oliver Milman – ‘World’s top fossil-fuel bosses deride efforts to move away from oil and gas’
  • Executives at Texas summit claim clean-energy transition is failing and say world should ‘abandon the fantasy’ of fossil-fuel phaseout
  • “The oil executives, gathered at the industry’s annual Cera Week conference in Houston, Texas, have taken turns this week to denounce calls for a rapid phase-out of fossil fuels, despite widespread acknowledgment within the industry, as well as scientists and governments, of the need to radically reduce planet-heating emissions to avoid the worst effects of the climate crisis.”
  • “We should abandon the fantasy of phasing out oil and gas, and instead invest in them adequately,” said Amin Nasser, chief executive of Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil company, to applause in the room.
  • Nasser dismissed projections by the International Energy Agency (IEA) that global demand for oil and gas will peak by 2030, claiming that rising energy costs mean that people will require “the importance of oil and gas security” rather than shift to renewables.
  • “In fact, in the real world, the current transition strategy is visibly failing on most fronts,” Nasser added, criticizing solar, wind and electric vehicles for what he said was a minimal impact in cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
  • “And, despite our starring role in global prosperity, our industry is painted as transition’s arch-enemy,” Nasser complained.”
• Article from The Guardian by Oliver Milman – ‘Surge of new US-led oil and gas activity threatens to wreck Paris climate goals’
  • World’s fossil-fuel producers on track to nearly quadruple output from newly approved projects by decade’s end, report finds
  • “The world’s fossil-fuel producers are on track to nearly quadruple the amount of extracted oil and gas from newly approved projects by the end of this decade, with the US leading the way in a surge of activity that threatens to blow apart agreed climate goals, a new report has found.”
  • There can be no new oil and gas infrastructure if the planet is to avoid careering past 1.5C (2.7F) of global heating, above pre-industrial times, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has previously stated. Breaching this warming threshold, agreed to by governments in the Paris climate agreement, will see ever worsening effects such as heatwaves, floods, drought and more, scientists have warned.
  • But since the IEA’s declaration in 2021, countries and major fossil fuel companies have forged ahead with a glut of new oil and gas activity. At least 20bn barrels of oil equivalent of new oil and gas has been discovered for future drilling since this point, according to the new report by Global Energy Monitor, a San Francisco-based NGO.
• Article from The New York Times by Stephen Markley – ‘A Planetary Crisis Awaits the Next President’
  • Still “just can’t vote for Biden”? Read this article by Stephen Markley.
  • We have 62 months to avoid catastrophic warming.
  • Trump to oil and gas executives: “I hate wind.”
  • We are in denial if we do not recognize that this is a crisis that will define this century, and if we fail, the entire human future.”
• Article from The New York Times by Neal E. Boudette – ‘VW Workers in Tennessee Vote for Union, a Labor Milestone’
• Article from The New York Times by Aatish Bhatia – ‘Carbon Dioxide Levels Have Passed a New Milestone’
• Article from Democracy Now – ‘Climate Activists Blockade Citigroup HQ in NYC to Demand Banking Giant Stop Funding Fossil Fuels’
  • Excerpt: “Hundreds of climate activists gathered at the global headquarters of Citigroup in New York on Wednesday to demand the banking giant stop financing fossil fuel companies. The protests come on the heels of a first-of-its-kind Earth Day hearing where environmental activists from around the world gathered in New York this week to condemn what they call Citigroup’s environmental racism. Citibank is the world’s second-largest funder of coal, oil and gas. “They always say, ‘We care about the planet.’ … But actions speak louder than words,” says Alice Hu, climate campaigner for New York Communities for Change. “Citibank has poured over $332 billion into fossil fuels since the Paris Agreements were signed in 2015.” We also speak with Roishetta Ozane, a Black environmental leader from Sulphur, Louisiana, who has been leading the fight against the expansion of Citigroup-funded liquified natural gas projects in her community. She says she has seen the health impacts of such projects on her own family. “I’m fighting not only for myself and my community, but for my children. And by fighting for my children, I’m fighting for everyone’s children,” says Ozane.”
• Bernie Sanders to Benjamin Netanyahu: ‘Stop Murdering Innocent People’
• Exxon Mobil is suing its shareholders to silence them about global warming
  • If you think of Exxon Mobile as a corporate bully and “bad actor” you are right!!  In their latest outrageous action, Exxon Mobile has filed a lawsuit against their own stockholders who introduced a resolution, calling for more aggressive action on sustainability measures to combat global warming. Silencing stockholders will not end this fight!!! Read the full article by clicking above.

Films:

• “The Third Harmony and the History of Nonviolence” – An excellent short film on NVDA.