Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/06/omni-climate-memo-mondays-236-june-23.html
Yale Climate Connections: Cities Sue Big Oil
NIRS: Nuclear Information & Resource Service
CLIMATE & CAPITALISM (3-18-25).
| “This week on Yale Climate Connections” (May 30 – June 5, 2025). Read to the bottom for a special Tom Toro cartoon available only to newsletter readers. “Puerto Rican municipalities take on Big Oil in court using a law made for the mob.” Melissa “Missy” Sims is an attorney with a long history of confronting powerful fossil fuel interests. Now she’s part of a legal team representing more than three dozen municipalities in a landmark lawsuit against Exxon and more than a dozen other oil and gas companies. The suit seeks damages tied to the devastating impacts of Hurricanes Maria and Irma in 2017 – storms that, according to recent science, were intensified by warming oceans and increased atmospheric moisture caused by climate-warming pollution. . Keep reading. |
NIRS: Nuclear Information & Resource Service, FOR A NUCLEAR-FREE, CARBON-FREE WORLD
WASHINGTON (May 27, 2025)—President Trump issued executive orders that violate the Atomic Energy Act and effectively terminate the independence of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)’s and its ability to protect the public health and safety in the operation of commercial nuclear facilities. The orders also reject settled science on the public health impacts of radiation, putting the safety of workers and the American people at risk. .
CLIMATE & CAPITALISM (3-18-25).
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, March 2025
Industrial agriculture, colonialism, Marx and democracy, human history, materialism, and Ricardo’s economics. [I hope to present some of the book reviews soon. –D]