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Rebecca Tarbotton, Environmental Activist, Dies at 39
2013-01-03 05:37:04| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Rebecca Tarbotton, an environmental activist who helped persuade big banks to stop financing mountaintop removal mining and who helped persuade Disney to reduce its use of paper made from trees cut down in rain forests, died on Dec. 26 in a swimming accident in Mexico. She was 39 and lived in Oakland, Calif. Ms. Tarbotton had been swimming in rough surf in the Pacific Ocean about a half-hour north of Puerto Vallarta while vacationing with her husband and friends and collapsed after making it back...
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