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Activists lose criminal case on climate change defense but judge praises effort
2016-01-15 21:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Five environmental activists who failed to convince a court that their attempt to block crude oil trains near Seattle was a legally justifiable act of civil disobedience on Friday were nonetheless praised by a judge as part of the solution to climate change. On Friday, the campaigners were convicted in a court in suburban Seattle of misdemeanor trespassing relating to a September 2014 protest in which they blocked railway tracks used by crude oil trains in Everett, Washington. They were acquitted...
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