IM News April 26: Climate, National, International, State

Please donate to the show!This is IM news for Wednesday, April 26.This Week’s Activism!•Wed 4/26 3-4:30pm Acton Water Wise Nature Walk Meet @ Bruce Freeman Rail Trail 4 guided walk•A27th 6-8pm 15th Taste of Dorchester, 256 Freeport St•Noon-4 Saturday, April 29: Poor People's Campaign Statewide Meeting in Springfield•May 4th 10am – MassCare lobby day to pass Medicare for All at the state levelAnd if you know of any actions happening, please let us know!  We’ll announce them each week.  Find us, Incorruptible Mass, on any social media platform, or email us at [email protected]•The United Nations warns in a new report that record levels of greenhouse gasses led to planetary-scale changes on land, at sea and in the atmosphere in 2022. The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Global Climate report, released on Earth Day, found the years 2015 through 2022 were the eight warmest on record •​​A group called Last Generation have repeatedly blocked roads across Germany in the past year in an effort to pressure the government to take more drastic action against climate change. •A group of Western European nations led by Germany and France on Monday committed to massively ramp up the production of clean energy from wind turbines in the North Sea •EU Seeks to Ramp Up Response to Climate Crisis by Increasing Cost of Carbon Emissions. This includes a plan to charge polluters on Europe’s carbon market for all of their emissions and adds shipping emissions to the market. The change is expected to cut emissions by 62% from 2005 levels by 2030.  •Rolling blackouts due to an Electricity shortfall in South Africa delays planned closure of coal plants •New technology cleanses seawater of carbon dioxide and then returns it to the ocean so it can suck more CO2 out of the atmosphere to slow global warming •The Environmental Protection Agency will announce limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants to cut one of the main sources of U.S. air pollution by 2040.•A record-shattering heat wave has hit multiple Asian countries, including India, Bangladesh, Laos, Thailand and parts of China. In the Indian state of Maharashtra, at least 13 people died from heatstroke on Sunday. International•Still intense fighting in Sudan•Ukraine asking to join NATONational•President Biden has signed an executive order establishing an Office of Environmental Justice within the White House. •In Georgia, forest protectors are trying to stop the building of Atlanta’s $90M police training center dubbed “Cop City.” at least 42 activists arrested while protesting Cop City face state charges of domestic terrorism, and one activist was fatally shot by Atlanta police in January – 26yo activist Manuel Esteban Terán died after he was struck by at least 57 bullets in the police raid. •Fox News settled a lawsuit with Dominion at $787M around Dominion’s defamation suit – Fox claimed that Dominion voting machines were involved in rigging the 2020 election •NY Gov. Hochul Nominates Caitlin Halligan to Top NY Court. Halligan represented Chevron against human rights lawyer Steven Donziger, who successfully sued Chevron on behalf of Ecuadorian Amazonian Indigenous peoples for massively polluting their ancestral land with oil.•North Dakota Governor Signs Near-Total Abortion Ban •Tucker Carlson leaves Fox NewsState•Jet blue no longer doing flights from Worcester to NYC/JFK •Steve Kerrigan takes over as Massachusetts Democratic Party Chair, giving the governor more direct influence over the party’s operations.•House lawmakers start sifting through 1,566 budget amendments – more than usual•“Massachusetts health insurers to stop providing free at-home COVID tests,”