[TheClimate.Vote] January 25, 2020 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

Sat Jan 25 10:45:48 EST 2020

/*January 25, 2020*/

[after years of activism]
*Facing Widespread Opposition, Jordan Cove LNG Withdraws Application to 
Oregon Department of State Lands*
Allie Rosenbluth
January 23, 2020
[SALEM, OR] - Amidst enormous public opposition and just one week before 
the Department of State Lands (DSL) was set to make a decision on a 
critical Removal-Fill permit on the Jordan Cove LNG export terminal and 
Pacific Connector fracked gas pipeline, Pembina has withdrawn their 
application to the agency...
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Other permitting processes, such as the Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission's certification under the Natural Gas Act, are still moving 
forward. However, the project cannot proceed without the Removal-Fill 
permit or the Clean Water Act permit that was denied by the Oregon 
Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) in May 2019. Oregon DEQ denied 
the Clean Water Act Section 401 permit with over 200 pages of detailed 
findings that the massive LNG export terminal and pipeline could not 
demonstrate that they would meet Oregon's clean water standards.

"If they have to withdraw an application like this after 15 years of 
outside companies trying to get approval, then it's time for them to 
withdraw the project altogether." Stacey McLaughlin, an impacted Douglas 
County landowner. "Leave Oregon farmers, fishermen, ranchers, and tribal 
members alone. It's time for Pembina to cancel this project. Oregon 
doesn't want this pipeline."

Impacted landowners, tribal members, fishermen, climate advocates, and 
more will be hosting a Press Conference in response to this application 
withdrawal at 9:30AM on Tuesday, February 4th at the Department of State 
Lands building in Salem.
https://www.rogueclimate.org/jordancovelngwithdraws

[Davos report $]
*Will Davos save the world, or put it out of its misery?*
At the alpine confab, global elites toast capitalism, fret about the 
climate and party like there's no tomorrow....
more at - 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2020/01/24/will-davos-save-world-or-put-it-out-its-misery/?arc404=true

[hiss and sigh from the Guardian]
*'Blatant manipulation': Trump administration exploited wildfire science 
to promote logging*
Revealed: emails show Trump and appointees tried to craft a narrative 
that forest protection efforts are responsible for wildfires
Political appointees at the interior department have sought to play up 
climate pollution from California wildfires while downplaying emissions 
from fossil fuels as a way of promoting more logging in the nation's 
forests, internal emails obtained by the Guardian reveal.

The messaging plan was crafted in support of Donald Trump's pro-industry 
arguments for harvesting more timber in California, which he says would 
thin forests and prevent fires - a point experts refute.

The emails show officials seeking to estimate the carbon emissions from 
devastating 2018 fires in California so they could compare them to the 
carbon footprint of the state's electricity sector and then publish 
statements encouraging cutting down trees.
The records offer a look behind the scenes at how Trump and his 
appointees have tried to craft a narrative that forest protection 
efforts are responsible for wildfires, including in California, even as 
science shows fires are becoming more intense largely because of climate 
change.

James Reilly, a former petroleum geologist and astronaut who is the 
director of the US Geological Survey, in a series of emails in 2018 
asked scientists to "gin up" emissions figures for him. He also said the 
numbers would make a "decent sound bite", and acknowledged that wildfire 
emissions estimates could vary based on what kind of trees were burning 
but picked the ones that he said would make "a good story"...
- - -
"As wildfire experts have repeatedly explained, you can't log or even 
'rake' our way out of this mess," O'Neill said. "The Trump 
administration and the interior department are pushing mystical theories 
that are false in order to justify gutting public land protections to 
advance their pro-industry and lobbyist dominated agenda."
more at - 
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/24/trump-administration-wildfire-science-promote-logging-california-emissions

[keep fighting]
*Trump's Latest Attack on the Environment May Be His Most Alarming Yet*
Early this month, the Trump administration released planned major 
changes to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the oldest 
environmental law in the U.S. The debate over NEPA is, like most other 
environmental debates in the U.S., a debate between people representing 
industry interests and people interested in protecting communities and 
the environment. And recently, the fossil fuel industry has helped push 
through another potential win against the law -- and this one could have 
major consequences...
more at - 
https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-latest-attack-on-the-environment-may-be-his-most-alarming-yet/

[comic skit in video rant]
*PIE NET ZERO*
Jan 24, 2020
Jonathan Pie
When Pie gets a gig presenting a new documentary about climate change by 
eco-filmmaker Franny Armstrong, he thinks he's in for a jolly couple of 
days by the seaside.
For more info and credits go to https://pienetzero.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-YuoWaCfhI

[Digging back into the internet news archive]
*On this day in the history of global warming - January 25, 1984 *
In his State of the Union Address, President Ronald Reagan says 
something that would be considered highly controversial by the right 
wing today:

    "...[L]et us remember our responsibility to preserve our older
    resources here on Earth. Preservation of our environment is not a
    liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense."

http://youtu.be/TdMTTlpfNP4 (21:52--22:08)
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=40205

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