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Republican platform declares coal is clean
2016-07-12 05:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The Republican platform committee met in Cleveland the week before the Republican National Convention to hammer out the party`s policies in a Trump era. Not to be outdone by Democrats, who approved the party`s strongest platform language yet on climate change this weekend, Republicans have gone as far as possible in the other direction - by endorsing coal as clean. After a unanimous vote on Monday, the RNC`s draft platform officially declares coal "an abundant, clean, affordable, reliable domestic...
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Rio state declares 'public calamity' over finances
2016-06-17 23:54:04| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state declares a financial emergency, citing a tax shortfall, less than 50 days before the start of the Olympics.
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Peru Declares Emergency to Fight Mercury Pollution from Gold Mines
2016-05-24 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Fight Mercury Pollution from Gold Mines Marcin Nowak/Wikimedia Fishing boats on the Madres de Dios River. Peru has declared a 60-day emergency in the Amazon due to widespread mercury pollution from the regions booming gold mining industry, the country's environment minister announced this week. Several studies have confirmed dangerously high levels of the neurotoxin in waterways, fish, and people living in the Madres de Dios region, near Peru's southeast border. Members of the Harakmbut indigenous...
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Peru declares mining-related emergency in remote part of Amazon
2016-05-23 19:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: President Ollanta Humala has declared a 60-day emergency in a remote part of the Amazon to curb high levels of mercury poisoning from rampant illegal gold mining, the country's environment minister said on Monday. A growing number of studies show that residents of the Madre de Dios region near Peru's southeastern border with Brazil have dangerous levels of mercury in their bodies, Environment Minister Manuel Pulgar-Vidal said in announcing the move. Tens of thousands of illegal miners who dredge...
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The Western Worlds Largest Coal Company Declares Bankruptcy
2016-04-13 15:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Peabody Energy, the largest coal company in the Western world, declared bankruptcy Wednesday. The announcement is a towering sign that coal power likely has reached a point of no return in a world seeking cleaner energy sources. Nearly 200 countries committed last December in Paris to cut emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases. Burning coal for electricity emits twice the carbon dioxide of natural gas, and the resulting pollutants have been linked to thousands of premature deaths and asthma...
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