FOURTH NATIONAL CLIMATE ASSESSMENT https://nca2018.globalchange.gov "Communities, governments, and businesses are working to reduce risks from and costs associated with climate change by taking action to lower greenhouse gas emissions and implement adaptation strategies. While mitigation and adaptation efforts have expanded substantially in the last four years, they do not yet approach the scale considered necessary to avoid substantial damages to the economy, environment, an

Photo from Shut It Down Today / Climate Direct Action More updated information please visit: http://www.shutitdown.today/blog On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ClimateDirectAction/ "It has been a long, emotional week. Three days before trial, we were bitterly disappointed when the Judge appeared to eviscerate our case by prohibiting all of our expert witnesses from giving testimony. Then, at the last minute, some of them -- including a health professional, a climate scien

GLOBAL WARMING OF 1.5 °C An Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty. Read the report here: http://www.ipcc.ch/report/sr15/ A1. Human activities are estimated to have caused approximately 1.

Via Ellen Sue Gerhart "I'm home." "Those two words are packed with enormous emotion, more than I ever thought possible. For the past two months I have been incarcerated in the Centre County Correctional Facility in Bellefonte, PA, by order of Huntingdon County Judge George Zanic, for indirect contempt of an order he issued in favor of Energy Transfer Partners' construction of the dangerous and still incomplete Mariner East 2 pipeline. My family, supporters, and I have fought

#FrackedGas #Infrastructure #Buildout #GreaterPhiladelphia "Adelphia Gateway LLC, which announced in November it is buying the underused pipeline for $189 million from Talen Energy Corp., filed its 1,285-page application Friday [1/12] with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Adelphia, a subsidiary of New Jersey Resources [a player in the PennEast pipeline], announced the filing late Monday." Full article: http://www.philly.com/philly/business/energy/adelphia-gate

Beyond Extreme Energy rally at FERC headquarters in Washington, D.C. Credit: Elvert Barnes FERC, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which rejected 2 gas pipelines out of 400 since 1999, to review approval policy... New report from Steve Horn of DeSmog Blog: https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/12/26/ferc-2-gas-pipelines-denied-400-approved-1999-rule Perhaps the most vocal #FERC critic, the group Beyond Extreme Energy #BXE has said that it does not trust the agency and remains s

This Climate Science Special Report, released by 13 federal agencies on Friday, is part of the quadrennial National Climate Assessment. “This assessment concludes, based on extensive evidence, that it is extremely likely that human activities, especially emissions of greenhouse gases, are the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century,” the report states. Read the full report: https://science2017.globalchange.gov/downloads/CSSR2017_FullReport.pdf https:

Photo by Julie Dermansky See full article by Julie Dermansky for Desmog Blog here: https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/11/01/exxon-refinery-fire-epa-pollution-gulf-louisiana From the article: Early morning skies Wednesday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, were alight from a fire that started around 2:30 a.m. at an ExxonMobil refinery. The blaze, though contained before the sun came up, is a reminder to the surrounding community of yet another danger of living next to refineries and chem

Photo of Michael Foster and Sam Jessup from Shut It Down - Climate Direct Action North Dakota Press Release posted by Jay O'Hara: Contact: Stephen Kent, skent@kentcom.com , 914-589-5988 [Cavalier, North Dakota – October 6, 2017] The landmark trial of Michael Foster, a mental health counselor in his 50s from Seattle, just ended in conviction on several felony charges for his action of shutting off the emergency valve on the Keystone 1 tar sands pipeline in North Dakota to fi

In a four-month public comment period, 99 percent of the 65,000 Scots who responded expressed opposition to fracking. (Photo: Friends of the Earth Scotland/Flickr/cc) After Overwhelming Public Opposition, Scotland Announces Fracking Ban "We have so much wind and wave power that it is retrograde in the extreme to lend any support to the fracking industry." by Julia Conley, staff writer for Common Dreams From Julia: "Environmental groups from around the world applauded Scotland