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The fallout from Friday’s crude by rail crash in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon is intensifying after numerous local elected officials called for a temporary halt to the so-called “bomb trains” through the area until the cause of the crash is known and wreckage cleared. However, the company involved, Union Pacific, has blataently ignored their concerns and started running trains again, even though the clean-up of the crash site is still ongoing.

The boss of oil giant Exxon, Rex Tillerson, will be an "oil man" until the day he dies. And on yesterday’s performance at the company’s AGM this old oil dinosaur is not going green anytime soon.

Over the last two weeks, in excess of 30,000 people have undertaken 20 hugely significant acts of disobedience on six continents as part of the #Breakfree2016 protests against fossil fuels.

Yesterday Australian climate activists blockaded the world's largest coal port and shut it down for several hours, leading to the arrest of 66 people. The protest managed to stop millions of tonnes of coal being exported for a whole day in a hugely significant protest.

There is growing outrage over pollution of two important rivers after three oil spills in the Peruvian Amazon.

At 9 AM tomorrow GMT, thirteen climate change activists will appear in court for sentencing for undertaking a non-violent protest in July last year at Heathrow against airport expansion.

Every day the low oil price is causing more pain for the oil and gas industry and no company or region is immune from the damage being caused.

Later this month, a judge in the UK is set to jail 13 non-violent protesters who occupied one of the runways at London Heathrow in July last year.

Well we will have to wait for another day and another trial for an American jury to rule on the “necessity defence” for direct action to prevent climate change.

History will be made later today in an unassuming grey court room in Snohomish county in Washington State, when five activists – known as the Delta 5 - who blocked an explosive crude by rail train last year, will argue that their actions were justified by the threat of climate change.