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McKibben on Fight Against Keystone XL, Fossil Fuel Divestment & Obama's Failures
2014-02-13 21:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Democracy Now: Hundreds of college students are expected to risk arrest on March 2 outside the White House to pressure President Obama to reject the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline project. Organizers of "XL Dissent" say they hope to stage one of the largest acts of civil disobedience against the pipeline to date. The Keystone XL would carry 830,000 barrels of oil a day from Canada to the Gulf Coast. In January, a long-awaited environmental impact statement from the State Department found the Keystone XL would...
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Bill McKibben to Obama: Say no to big oil
2014-02-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bill Moyers: After the State Department issued a long-awaited environmental impact statement on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline last week, environmentalists and those opposed to the 1,179-mile pipeline have intensified their push for the Obama administration to reject the project. This week, Bill Moyers talks with Bill McKibben, an activist who has dedicated his life to saving the planet from environmental collapse, about his hopes that Americans will collectively pressure Obama to stand up to big oil....
McKibben: We 'Dont Trust' Obama on Climate Change
2014-02-08 00:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Common Dreams: 'People don't trust him on [the climate change] issue,' said Bill McKibben (r) while speaking with Bill Moyers about President Obama and the Keystone XL. 'He's done some good things, but his record is mixed at best.' (Source: Moyers Media)In an interview with veteran journalist Bill Moyers set to air Friday evening, author and 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben, a key voice in the climate justice movement, says that President Obama's looming decision to approve or reject the Keystone XL tar sands will...
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Bill McKibben to President Obama: Say No to Big Oil
2014-02-07 19:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: In an interview with Moyers & Company, author and environmental activist Bill McKibben tells Bill Moyers that many who believed Barack Obama in 2008 when he called for ending the tyranny of the oil industry are about to find out whether or not they were right to believe. McKibben said President Obama is theoretically a good environmentalist, but in practice stood aside and opened up the Arctic to drilling, opened up huge swaths of offshore America to more oil drilling, opened up the Powder...
McKibben to Obama: Walk your talk on climate
2013-09-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Bill McKibben has an ideal place to put the oil from Alberta`s controversial tar sands project, as well as coal from America`s Powder River basin that industry and railroads want to send through Washington and Oregon cities and export to China from our ports. "These are huge piles of carbon we have to leave in the ground," McKibben, founder of the activist climate change resistance group 350.org, said in an interview Saturday in Seattle. The vast Alberta tar sands project: Canada exports 2.7...