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<font size="+1"><i>March 19, 2018<br>
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</i></font>[MSN/Popular Science]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-people-of-cape-town-are-running-out-of-water-%E2%80%94-and-they%E2%80%99re-not-alone/ar-BBKaFgr">The
people of Cape Town are running out of water - and they're not
alone</a></b><br>
Amal Ahmed<br>
Cape Town is one of the most dire cases we're seeing today. But
across the globe, water troubles are already straining the lives of
millions of people...<br>
<b>Bolivia</b><br>
Disappearing Andean glaciers, increasingly rare rainfalls in the wet
season, and a protracted drought dried up most of capital city La
Paz's drinking water in 2017. Mining operations have also had a hand
in depleting the scarce resource. The predictions of what could
happen in Cape Town have already come true in this city of almost
two and a half million. Military-guarded trucks deliver meager
rations of water, while contamination and protests wreak havoc on
the daily lives of citizens. Conservation, rationing, and limiting
industrial usage can only go so far if the rains don't come soon.<br>
<b>Morocco</b><br>
Farmers had been overusing water resources during what may have been
the country's worst drought in 30 years to continue growing
impractical, water-intensive crops, like watermelon. In October
2017, the government shut off water supplies in the rural town of
Zagora in response to shortages. It's a town where residents report
that clean drinking water is hard to come by, even when the taps are
running, and they quickly took to the streets in protest. While the
town got an official apology from the Prime Minister, the government
hasn't done much to mitigate the problem or encourage conservation
as the drought lingers on.<br>
<b>Bangladesh</b><br>
Three-quarters of the earth's surface is covered in water, but most
of it is undrinkable. In the Sundarbans, the world's largest
mangrove forests located in coastal Bangladesh, that paradox defines
the daily struggles of villagers who have to search further and
further for clean drinking water. As climate change intensifies,
melting ice in Greenland and Antarctica causes sea water to rise. In
the low-lying Sundarbans, that means salty sea water encroaches on
groundwater and reservoirs, rendering it useless for human
consumption...<br>
You'll die of dehydration if you drink too much salt water. The lack
of freshwater drives climate refugees towards Dhaka, one of the most
densely populated cities in the world. They may not get much relief
in their new home-the city's infrastructure can't keep up with its
ever-growing population, and millions of slum dwellers lack access
to clean water.<br>
<b>United States</b><br>
...the reality is that U.S. water access is far from equal. Climate
change and extended droughts are slowly drying up the Colorado
River, putting 30 million people in seven states in a precarious
position...Unincorporated townships are often denied access to the
water and sewer infrastructure of larger cities or towns. The
community of Sandbranch, for example, sits right in the shadows of
the Dallas's skyscrapers. But residents haven't had clean drinking
water since gravel mining contamination in the 1950s. On Native
American reservations, some 24,000 households don't have running
water, either.<br>
But being connected to a municipal supply doesn't always ensure
clean drinking water. Residents of Flint, Michigan have been
drinking bottled water since 2015, when elevated lead levels were
detected in residential tap water-despite city officials' insistence
that the water was safe. Just this week, a new round of testing
found traces of lead in water. Poor infrastructure, like climate
change, will continue to exacerbate America's water woes.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-people-of-cape-town-are-running-out-of-water-%E2%80%94-and-they%E2%80%99re-not-alone/ar-BBKaFgr">https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-people-of-cape-town-are-running-out-of-water-%E2%80%94-and-they%E2%80%99re-not-alone/ar-BBKaFgr</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Climate Law DB]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://climatecasechart.com/">Climate
Change Litigation Databases</a></b><br>
This site provides two databases of climate change caselaw. Cases in
the databases are organized by type of claim and are searchable. In
many cases, links are available to decisions, complaints, and other
case documents.<br>
<blockquote><font size="+1"><a
href="http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/files/2018/03/070031820-Arnold.pdf">Here</a> is
an article, "Patterns of Climate Change Litigation During Trump
Era," that appeared in the New York Law Journal on March 8. A
more detailed analysis, "U.S. Climate Change Litigation in the
Age of Trump: Year One," was published in February 2018; it is
available <a
href="http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/files/2018/02/Adler-2018-02-U.S.-Climate-Change-Litigation-in-the-Age-of-Trump-Year-One.pdf">here</a>. </font><br
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font size="+1">Columbia
Law School's Sabin Center for Climate Change Law maintains two
databases that attempt to comprehensively post all climate
change litigation. One has litigation in U.S. courts; the
other has litigation in the courts of other countries. Both
can be accessed <a href="http://climatecasechart.com/">here</a>.
If any readers are aware of cases we have missed, please send
them to me at the below e-mail address.</font></div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font size="+1">We
also issue a monthly update about new U.S. and non-U.S.
litigation developments. To be added to the mailing list,
please go <a
href="http://columbia.us13.list-manage2.com/subscribe?u=9906c7202590aac6a8bdbb7b9&id=a721b41b2d">here</a>.</font></div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font size="+1">In
conjunction with the Grantham Research Institute on Climate
Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics
and Political Science, we have produced a database, Climate
Change Laws of the World, which has laws and litigation for
most of the countries of the world. It is available <a
href="http://www.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/research-theme/governance-and-legislation/">here</a>.</font></div>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://climatecasechart.com/us-climate-change-litigation/">U.S.
Climate Change Litigation</a></b> <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climatecasechart.com/us-climate-change-litigation/">http://climatecasechart.com/us-climate-change-litigation/</a><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://climatecasechart.com/non-us-climate-change-litigation/">Non-U.S.
Climate Change Litigation</a></b> <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climatecasechart.com/non-us-climate-change-litigation/">http://climatecasechart.com/non-us-climate-change-litigation/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://climatecasechart.com/">http://climatecasechart.com/</a><br>
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<br>
[global water discussions]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.worldwaterforum8.org/en/8th-world-water-forum-march-18-23-2018">8th
World Water Forum - March 18 to 23, 2018</a></b><br>
The World Water Forum is the world's biggest water-related event and
is organized by the World Water Council (WWC), an international
organization that brings together all those interested in the theme
of water. Its mission is "to promote awareness, build political
commitment and trigger action on critical water issues at all
levels, to facilitate the efficient conservation, protection,
development, planning, management and use of water in all its
dimensions on an environmentally sustainable basis for the benefit
of all life on Earth".<br>
Founded in 1996 with its permanent headquarters in the French city
of Marseille, the World Water Council is an international
multi-stakeholder platform organization bringing together nearly 400
institutions from every horizon, from nearly 70 countries around the
world. By providing a platform to encourage debates and exchanges of
experience, the World Water Council aims to reach a common strategic
vision on water resources and water services management amongst all
stakeholders in the water community.<br>
In the process, the Council also catalyzes initiatives and
activities, whose results converge towards its flagship product, the
World Water Forum. The World Water Forum contributes to the dialogue
of the decision-making process on water at the global level, seeking
to achieve the rational and sustainable use of this resource. Given
its political, technical and institutional scope, one of the Forum's
main features is the open, democratic participation of actors drawn
from different sectors, making it an event of the greatest
importance on the international agenda.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.worldwaterforum8.org/">http://www.worldwaterforum8.org/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Trains a comin']<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/03/18/canadian-pipeline-capacity-more-tar-sands-oil-rail">Canada's
Pipeline Challenges Will Force More Tar Sands Oil to Move by
Rail</a></b><br>
By Justin Mikulka • March 18, 2018<br>
The Motley Fool has been advising investors on "<a
href="https://www.fool.ca/2018/03/13/how-to-profit-from-the-re-emergence-of-canadas-crude-by-rail-strategy/"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">How to Profit From the Re-Emergence of Canada's
Crude-by-Rail Strategy</a>." But what makes transporting
Canadian crude oil by rail attractive to investors?<br>
According to the Motley Fool, the reason is "… right now, there is
so much excess oil being pumped out of Canada's oil sands that the
pipelines simply don't have the capacity to handle it all."<br>
The International Energy Agency recently reached the same conclusion
in its<span> </span><a
href="https://www.iea.org/bookshop/768-Market_Series_Report:_Oil_2018"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">Oil 2018 market report</a>.<br>
<span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">"</span>Crude by rail
exports are likely to enjoy a renaissance, growing from their
current 150,000 bpd [barrels per day] to an implied 250,000 bpd on
average in 2018 and to 390,000 bpd in 2019. At their peak in 2019,
rail exports of crude oil could be as high as 590,000 bpd - though
this calculation assumes producers do not resort to crude storage in
peak months," the International Energy Agency said, as reported<span> </span><a
href="http://business.financialpost.com/commodities/energy/export-constraints-to-crimp-future-oilsands-gains-amid-rising-global-supply-risks-iea"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">by the Financial Post.</a><br>
To put that in perspective, however, the industry was moving 1.3
million barrels per day at the peak of the<span> </span><span
class="caps" style="font-size: 0.9em;">U.S.</span><span> </span>oil-by-rail
boom in 2014.<br>
And Canada has plenty of capacity to load oil on more trains, which
means if a producer is willing to pay the premium to move oil by
rail, it can find a customer to do it. The infrastructure is in
place to load approximately 1.2 million barrels per day...<br>
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "open
sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align:
start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space:
normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:
0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">- - - - </span><br>
As the Canadian oil industry begins to ramp up its rail exports, <a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2016/12/21/what-have-we-learned-lac-megantic-oil-train-disaster"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">has it learned anything</a> from the Bakken "bomb train"
experiment (which in 2013 claimed 47 lives in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec)?<br>
Unfortunately, the industry appears to have learned very little.
While it no longer uses the most dangerous<span> </span><span
class="caps" style="font-size: 0.9em;">DOT</span>-111 tank cars to
ship oil, most of the major oil train derailments and fires
actually have involved the<a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2015/07/23/most-recent-oil-train-accidents-and-spills-involved-safer-cpc-1232-tank-cars"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);"><span> </span>newer<span> </span><span class="caps"
style="font-size: 0.9em;">CPC</span>-1232 tank</a><span> </span>cars,
which make up the majority of the oil tank car fleet.<br>
In addition, the rail industry has refused to use modern braking
systems to improve safety and was able to get<span> </span><span
class="caps" style="font-size: 0.9em;">U.S.</span>regulators to<span> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/12/10/trump-admin-repeal-oil-train-safety-rule-electronically-controlled-pneumatic-brakes"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">repeal a rule</a> requiring modern brakes on oil trains.
The industry is also fighting proposed regulations requiring<span> </span><a
href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/railroads-want-one-man-crews-massive-freight-trains-n308541"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">two-person crews</a><span> </span>for oil trains.<br>
Furthermore, it remains unclear what exactly will be inside those
tank cars...<br>
- - - - -<br>
With the Trump administration actively rolling back safety
regulations for oil trains, some<span> </span><span class="caps"
style="font-size: 0.9em;">U.S.</span><span> </span>states and
communities are taking the initiative to protect themselves from the
risks of tar sands oil and oil trains.<br>
Washington state has been a battleground in the fight against new
oil-by-rail infrastructure. The recent decision to reject the
proposed<span> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/01/29/washington-inslee-rejects-oil-rail-vancouver-energy-tesoro-savage"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">Vancouver Energy oil-by-rail project</a><span> </span>at
the Port of Vancouver was a major victory for that movement and the
latest in a string of such efforts on the West Coast.<br>
Washington is also taking things a step further and is now requiring
rail companies to have oil spill response plans. The state recently
approved such plans for oil-by-rail leader<span> BNSF.</span><br>
<span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">"</span>This plan is a
significant step forward for the protection of Washington's
communities and environment," said<span> </span><a
href="https://www.lyndentribune.com/news/state-approves-oil-spill-response-plan-for-bnsf/article_0198de24-2789-11e8-a4a9-775b16c80d26.html"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">Dale Jensen</a>, the spills prevention program manager for
the state of Washington. "Oil by rail has expanded significantly in
recent years, and it's imperative railroad companies are prepared to
work with the state to respond to a spill in a rapid, aggressive,
and well-coordinated manner."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/03/18/canadian-pipeline-capacity-more-tar-sands-oil-rail">https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/03/18/canadian-pipeline-capacity-more-tar-sands-oil-rail</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Day 7 Hunger Strike]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/students-hunger-strike-over-universitys-14427660">Students
in hunger strike over university's fossil fuels policy</a></b><br>
Two students on hunger strike for seven days have vowed to continue
until their university stops investing in fossil fuel companies.<br>
Second year<span> </span><a
href="https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/health/flu-vaccine-pill-form-been-14401840"
title="https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/health/flu-vaccine-pill-form-been-14401840"
style="background: transparent; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration:
underline; color: rgb(219, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Cardiff
University<span> </span></a>students Frieda Lourken and Lucienne
Billy say they feel weak but determined after a week living on
nothing but water, herb tea and vitamin pills.<br>
The university's council meets tomorrow, when the two psychology
students hope members will agree to stop the investments within
three years.<br>
They are members of the university's People and Planet group which
is campaigning against what it says is the university's "continued
lack of commitment to fossil fuel divestment". The group says <a
href="https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/education/university-strike-talks-fail-putting-14406910"
title="https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/education/university-strike-talks-fail-putting-14406910"
style="background: transparent; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration:
underline; color: rgb(219, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Cardiff
University<span> </span></a>currently holds £10m of investments in
four companies involved in fossil fuel extraction, which represents
4.5% of its total investment portfolio.<br>
EU student Freida, 20, said: "I am feeling a but weak physically but
we are going to go on until Cardiff does not invest in fossil fuel
firms. We want them to commit to that in the next three years - that
is financially possible. If they do we will stop our hunger strike.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/students-hunger-strike-over-universitys-14427660">https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/students-hunger-strike-over-universitys-14427660</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[positive]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://psmag.com/environment/inspiring-environmentally-conscious-">WHAT'S
THE BEST WAY TO INSPIRE POSITIVE ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOR?</a></b><br>
While imagery of natural objects is often used to inspire climate
action, appeals to ego and altruism prove more effective for some.<br>
JOSHUA PARFITTMAR 16, 2018<br>
- - - - - <br>
MOTIVATING CLIMATE ACTION<br>
In Helm's paper, the scientists reference a 2009 publication by
WWF-UK whose authors, evolutionary biologist Tom Crompton and
psychology professor Tim Kasser, dissuade campaigners from
encouraging egoism as a means to engage climate action. This is
because, they argue, egoistic concerns can often engender a
separation from nature: one feels superior to, rather than a part
of, the natural world.<br>
Instead, Crompton and Kasser recommend that increasing awareness of
the inherent value of nature and empathy for non-human animals-in
other words, biospheric concerns-is best for long-term environmental
improvement...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://psmag.com/environment/inspiring-environmentally-conscious">https://psmag.com/environment/inspiring-environmentally-conscious</a>-<br>
<br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/ecotalkblog/2007/03/congressman_hen.html">This
Day in Climate History - March 19, 2007 </a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
March 19, 2007: James Hansen testifies before the House Committee on
Oversight and Government Reform regarding government efforts to
censor climate science. (Five days later, Rep. Henry Waxman [D-CA],
chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform,
discusses the hearings on Air America's "EcoTalk.")<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/2007/Testimony_20070319.pdf">http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/2007/Testimony_20070319.pdf</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/7kqADotHvhk">http://youtu.be/7kqADotHvhk</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/ecotalkblog/2007/03/congressman_hen.html">http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/ecotalkblog/2007/03/congressman_hen.html</a></font><br>
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