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Activists Want Fracking Ban in Denver, CO; Oil Backers Ready to Fight
2015-02-12 14:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Denver Business Journal: Colorado's fracking wars arrived at Denver city hall Tuesday, with a coalition of 25 groups that included some of the standard bearers of the anti-fracking movement in the state delivering a statement calling for Mayor Michael Hancock and the City Council to ban the use of hydraulic fracturing within the city limits. "We think it's just a matter of time before they start fracking in Denver," Sam Schabacker, the western region director for Food & Water Watch, who's been working on the fracking...
Activists urge brands to add to Rana Plaza fund
2015-02-11 15:50:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Activists are ramping up the pressure on Italian fashion giant Benetton to pay into the Rana Plaza victims' compensation fund, claiming that nearly 1m people have signed a petition backing their campaign.
Anti-Oil Sands Activists in the U.S. Are Getting Visits from the FBI
2015-02-09 14:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canadian Press: Unexpected visitors have been dropping in on anti-oil activists in the United States - knocking on doors, calling, texting, contacting family members. The visitors are federal agents. Opponents of Canadian oil say they've been contacted by FBI investigators in several states following their involvement in protests that delayed northbound shipments of equipment to Canada's oilsands. A lawyer working with the protesters says he's personally aware of a dozen people having been contacted in...
How a small band of activists saved tropical forests by turning around 'Big Doughnut'
2015-02-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Picture a doughnut. That's small and easy, right? Now picture palm oil. Drawing a blank? That's because palm oil, a prized vegetable oil, is relatively unknown in America. But its market is huge because it's used in many different products like instant noodles, shampoo and, yes, doughnuts. It's so big that palm oil is connected to the destruction of the Earth's tropical forests on a scale that the Indonesia-based Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) has called "an ecological disaster."...
Clean Harbors Inc (CLH), PetSmart Inc. (PETM): Why Are Activists Selling These Stocks?
2015-01-27 22:37:15| Waste Management - Topix.net
A pair of activist investors have disclosed selling off large chunks of their positions in recent filings with the SEC. Ralph V. Whitworth 's Relational Investors has shed 1.33 million shares of their position in Clean Harbors Inc , leaving them with 4.55 million shares, and a 7.59% activist stake.
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