OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #236,
JUNE 23, 2025. Compiled by Dick
Bennett.
Yale Climate Connections: Cities Sue Big
Oil
NIRS: Nuclear Information & Resource Service
CLIMATE & CAPITALISM (3-18-25).
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“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.
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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]
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