According to new documents from the Center for International Environmental Law, the industry chose to prioritize costs over the planet.

The new documents show oil companies chose to invest in climate denying instead of on technologies to reduce emissions.

Between the 1950s and 1970s, the industry also financed studies into how petroleum products could be used to control the climate.

The research included burning oil to clear areas of fog and smog, and constructing massive "artificial heat mountains" out of asphalt to increase rainfall.

As early as the 1980s, oil companies were beginning to invest in taller oil rigs that could withstand rising sea levels.

Tom Sanzillo, finance director at the Cleveland-based Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, told Vice there is a clear potential, perhaps even likelihood, that these documents will result in litigation against oil companies.

Sanzillo said, "This looks like it's pretty serious, and it just seems to get worse."

-Thom

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Tuesday's Daily Stack 

Hour One: Election 2016...Democracy is Messy and That's a Good Thing!
- Stephanie Miller, The Stephanie Miller Show  

Article: "BUSTED: Trump-loving comment trolls pose as Sanders and Clinton supporters to divide Democrats" by Bethania Palma Markus.

Events: "Sexy Liberal Tour".

 

Article: "Sanders names Cornel West, Keith Ellison to DNC platform committee" by Ben Kamisar.

Speech: "Official campaign launch speech on New York City's Roosevelt Island" by Hillary Clinton, Jun 13, 2015.

Speech: "Address at a New York Rally in Support of the President's Program of Medical Care for the Aged." by John F. Kennedy, May 20, 1962.

Article: "Fireside Chat. May 26, 1940" by Franklin D. Roosevelt. "Our present emergency and a common sense of decency make it imperative that no new group of war millionaires shall come into being in this nation as a result of the struggles abroad."

Speech: "Madison Square Garden Speech", President Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 31, 1936. "But while we guard our shores against threats of war, we will continue to remove the causes of unrest and antagonism at home which might make our people easier victims to those for whom foreign war is profitable. You know well that those who stand to profit by war are not on our side in this campaign"

Video: Ayn Rand - No Proof of God. "I will not die, it's the world that will end".

Article: "'Anyone can make money from a crash,' says market trader" by BBC. "I go to bed every night, I dream of another recession."

Speech: "Address Announcing the Second New Deal" by Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 31, 1936. " We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace--business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob."

Article: "From Outside or Inside, the Deck Looks Stacked" by Gretchen Morgenson.

Quote: "Less government in business and more business in government" - Warren Harding.

Speech: "Accepting the NY Liberal Party Nomination, 1960" by John F Kennedy, September 14, 1960 "I'm proud to say I'm a 'Liberal'".

Speech: "Great Society" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Radio and Television Remarks Upon Signing the Civil Rights Bill" by President Lyndon B. Johnson, July 2, 1964.

Speech: "First Inaugural Address", Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 4 March 1933. "There must be an end to speculation with other people's money."

Speech: "Address at the Democratic State Convention, Syracuse, N.Y." by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, September 29, 1936. "Let me warn you and let me warn the Nation against the smooth evasion..."

Article: "Address at Worcester, Mass." by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, October 21, 1936. "But in the barrage that we laid down against the depression we could not stop firing to haggle about the price of every shell"

Article: "State of the Union Message to Congress" by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, January 11, 1944 (second Bill of Rights).

Hour Two: What Happened to the Democratic Party?
- Thomas Frank, Listen Liberal  

Book: Pity The Billionaire by Thomas Frank.

Book: The Wrecking Crew by Thomas Frank.

Book: What's the Matter with Kansas? by Thomas Frank.

Law: "Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act", 2010.

Law: "Glass-Steagall Act", 1933.

Law: Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (1999) (Financial Services Modernization Act Of 1999).

Law: "Commodity Futures Modernization Act", 2000.

Article: "Consumer Financial Protection Bureau" (CFPB) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Credit Default Swap - CDS" by Investopedia.

Article: "Ralph Nader Sponsors Four Days of Civic Mobilization at "Breaking Through Power Conference"" by Between the Lines.

Law: "Civil Rights Act of 1964" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".

Quote: "I think we just delivered the South to the Republican party for a long time to come" - Lyndon B. Johnson.

Article: "Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting", December 14, 2012 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Romney: Once signed assault-weapons ban into law".

Article: "Romney campaign buys victory in CPAC presidential straw poll", 2007 (picture of "Flipper").

Article: "Why Is Clinton Disliked?" by David Brooks.

 

Article: "Metro single tracking on Red Line" by Rick Massimo.

Law: "Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 (PAEA)".

Speech: "Campaign dinner address of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (the Fala speech)", 9/23/1944 " there are some political candidates who think that they may have a chance of election, if only the total vote is small enough".

Hour Three: How Do We Take the Election Back From the Media?
- Jeff Cohen, Ithaca College/F.A.I.R./Roots Action/Cable News Confidential      

Event: D.C., May 23-26: "Breaking Through Power: A Historic Civic Mobilization".

Video: Community Organizing, Morning Session - Ralph Nader, May 23, 2016.

Video: Community Organizing, Afternoon Session - Ralph Nader, May 23, 2016.

Article: "Love Canal" by Wikipedia.

Site: Center for Science in the Public Interest.

Article: "All Three Networks Ignored Bernie Sanders' Speech Tuesday Night, 'Standing By For Trump'" by Ryan Grim, 03/15/2016.

Article: "CBS CEO: "For Us, Economically, Donald's Place in This Election Is a Good Thing"" by Lee Fang.

Article: "Yellow journalism" by Wikipedia. "You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war".

Book: This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral-Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking!-in America's Gilded Capital by Mark Leibovich.

Article: "Final Words: Cronkite's Vietnam Commentary" by NPR.

Quote: "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost Middle America" - Lyndon B. Johnson.

Article: "Pentagon Papers" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Watergate scandal" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fairness Doctrine" by Wikipedia.

Video: "Concord Project GOTV - the importance of precinct committee members".

Video: "Concord Project GOTV - how you become a precinct committee member".

Site: Zephyr Teachout for Congress.

Article: "The average age of Fox News viewers is 68 and a majority of them are politically conservative and white" by Alexandra Klausner.

Article: "Old News: The Impact of the Aging Viewership on Bill O'Reilly and Fox News" by Trevor LaFauci.

TV: NPR: All Things Considered.

TV: NPR: Morning Edition.

Site: Democracy Now!

Site: The Young Turks.

Site: The Nation.

Site: Common Dreams

Site: Alternet

Site: TruthOut

Site: Truthdig

Article: "Facebook changes algorithms but denies allegations of anti-conservative bias" by Telegraph

Book: The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins, Social Security, Unemployment Insurance by Kirstin Downey.

Video: Black Protests vs. White Riots.

 

Article: "How Melting Arctic Ice Contributes to Global Warming" by Yale Climate Connections.

Article: "What foods can help fight the risk of chronic inflammation?" by University Of Liverpool.

Article: "Can plastic program your baby to be obese? Chemical used in food processing" by Texas A&M University.

Article: "This is Your Brain on Jazz: Researchers Use MRI to Study Spontaneity, Creativity" by Johns Hopkins Medicine.

Article: "Mushroom For Depression: Can It Treat The Symptoms?" by Michael Finn.

Article: "Cells carry 'memory' of injury, which could reveal why chronic pain persists" by King's College London.

Article: "Scientists Confirm Folk Remedy Repels Mosquitoes" by University Of Mississippi.

Article: "Edible Rings On Six-Packs Feed Marine Life If They End Up In The Ocean" by Elyse Wanshel.

 

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