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Why the fossil fuel divestment movement may ultimately win
2015-07-28 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale 360: Nestled in Vermonts bucolic Champlain valley, Middlebury College is a seedbed of environmental activism. Middlebury students started 350.org, the environmental organization that is fighting climate change and coordinating the global campaign for fossil-fuel divestment. Bill McKibben, the writer and environmentalist who is spearheading the campaign, has taught there since 2001. Yet Middlebury has declined to sell the oil, gas, and coal company holdings in its $1 billion endowment. McKibbens alma...
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Internal Documents Expose Fossil Fuel Industrys Decades of Deception on Climate Change
2015-07-09 14:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse created a stir recently when he speculated that fossil fuel companies may be violating federal racketeering law by colluding to defraud the public about the threat posed by carbon pollution. Whitehouse likened their actions to those of the tobacco companies that conspired to manufacture doubt about the link between smoking and disease when they were all too aware of it. In 2006, a federal district court ruled that the tobacco industrys deceptive campaign to...
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3 Presidential Candidates Shun Fossil Fuel Funding
2015-07-09 14:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Three of the candidates in the 2016 presidential race have pledged to shun campaign contributions from the fossil fuel industry. Democratic candidates Bernie Sanders and Martin O'Malley and Green Party candidate Jill Stein have agreed to a pledge from The Nation magazine that states: "In the name of protecting our country and the world from the growing dangers of climate change, I will neither solicit nor accept campaign contributions from any oil, gas, or coal company." The Nation called on candidates...
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Rising fossil fuel energy costs spell trouble for global food security
2015-07-06 03:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Ongoing efforts to feed a growing global population are threatened by rising fossil-fuel energy costs and breakdowns in transportation infrastructure. Without new ways to preserve, store, and transport food products, the likelihood of shortages looms in the future. In an analysis of food preservation and transportation trends published in this week's issue of the journal BioScience, scientists warn that new sustainable technologies will be needed for humanity just to stay even in the arms race against...
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Renewables Are Cheapest Energy Option When Fossil Fuel Subsidies Are Removed, Says REN21
2015-06-27 18:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: A significant threshold has been crossed by renewable energy as analysts report that the sector's size last year reached double the level it was at just 10 years earlier. This expansion happened in a year when the global economy and energy use both grew, but without a matching rise in emissions of carbon dioxidethe main greenhouse gas targeted in efforts to restrain global warming. The report by REN21, a global renewable energy policy network, says the result is an example of sustainable development....
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