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Coal executive turned climate change activist fights for seat on BHP board

2013-10-17 09:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: A former chairman of the Australian Coal Association, who has accused the fossil fuel industry of stuffing up effective action on climate change, is fighting an insurgent battle to gain a seat on the board of the mining giant BHP Billiton. Ian Dunlop, formerly a senior executive in the oil, gas and coal industries, is attempting to gain shareholder support for his bid to challenge what he claims is utter bullshit from a resources industry that has stymied an urgent transition away from carbon-intensive...

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NEWS RELEASE 10/13/13: PF&R Fights Early Morning Blaze, Three Dogs Missing

2013-10-16 20:08:17| PortlandOnline

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Chevron Fights Amazon Pollution Verdict in U.S. Court

2013-10-16 00:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Inter Press Service: Two years after they were awarded 18 billion dollars by an Ecuadorian court for environmental damage caused by Chevron in the Amazonian rainforest, a group of indigenous villagers and their U.S. lawyer went on trial Tuesday in New York, accused by the oil company of bribery and racketeering. Chevron was found liable in 2011 for an ecological catastrophe caused by pollution released in the 1970s and 1980s by Texaco, which Chevron acquired in 2001 and for which they agreed to assume legal obligations....

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