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Students Push College Fossil Fuel Divestment To Stigmatize Industry
2015-04-11 16:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
WBFO: In the past few years, students at hundreds of colleges and universities have started pushing their schools to divest from fossil fuel companies as a way to slow climate change. The campaign has had some notable wins in the past year. But at tiny Swarthmore College, outside of Philadelphia, where the movement was born, students have been staging a sit-in for nearly a month to try to make their voices heard. On the first day of an extended sit-in at the elite liberal arts college, dozens of...
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Students Push College Fossil Fuel Divestment To Stigmatize Industry
2015-04-11 15:52:45| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
In the past few years, students at hundreds of colleges and universities have started pushing their schools to divest from fossil fuel companies as a way to slow climate change. The campaign has had some notable wins in the past year.
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Fossil fuel path is immoral and financially imprudent
2015-03-30 16:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: I am proud of the legacy of John D Rockefeller, who built the greatest fossil fuel enterprise in history. In his day, fossil fuel was a liberating force it literally changed the face of the earth, freeing many people from toil. The family business is now philanthropy; at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, which I chair, we use the money made from Standard Oil to advance social change that contributes to a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world. But the key phrase in the encomium above is in...
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Fracking: New aerial research track pollutants above western fossil fuel development zones
2015-03-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Summit County: A recent study of satellite data showing a hotspot of potent heat-trapping methane pollution over the Four Corners region makes it clear that we`re digging an ever-deeper global warming hole by fracking every last corner of the country. As NOAA put it, "Vast regions west of the Mississippi River are under development for oil and gas extraction ... but while one focus is on what comes out of the ground, NOAA and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences researchers and their...
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Revealed: Gates Foundation $1.4B in Fossil Fuel Investments
2015-03-20 13:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The charity run by Bill and Melinda Gates, who say the threat of climate change is so serious that immediate action is needed, held at least $1.4bn (1bn) of investments in the worlds biggest fossil fuel companies, according to a Guardian analysis of the charitys most recent tax filing in 2013. The companies include BP, responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, Anadarko Petroleum, which was recently forced to pay a $5bn environmental clean-up charge and Brazilian...
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