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The Tax Breaks That Are Killing the Planet
2014-04-16 00:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nation: ExxonMobil, the world's largest oil company, hauled in a $32.6 billion profit last year. Chief executive Rex Tillerson got a 3 percent bump in his pay package, sending it above $28 million. And today the company gets its annual boost from the federal government: an estimated $600 million in tax breaks. All told, the government gifts as much as $4.8 billion to the oil industry each year, more than any other country. Much of that comes not as direct handouts but instead via loopholes in the tax...
There Are No Human Rights on a Dead Planet
2014-04-15 08:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Today I spoke at the International Association of Democratic Lawyers congress in Brussels. In the audience there were over 500 hundred progressive lawyers from over 50 countries. Many of these lawyers focus on human rights issues. I called on the lawyers attending the congress to join me in campaigning for environmental protection and protecting environmental human rights defenders. Below is a summary of my remarks. Work is getting tougher and tougher for lawyers worldwide, especially those working...
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Cool climate clean planet: Research suggests cooling action will clean air
2014-04-14 07:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Ever-rising greenhouse gas emissions and the potential need to deploy untested and expensive climate engineering technologies are just two of the many bits of bad news in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's new report on "Mitigation of Climate Change," released on 13 April. But there's good news hidden in the bad. If we take action to cool the planet, we can also expect the added benefit of cleaner air, particularly in China, says Professor Edgar Hertwich, from the Norwegian University...
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Renewable fuels and biochar company Cool Planet closes on $100M Series D financing
2014-03-31 15:30:33| Green Car Congress
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The rich West is ruining our planet
2014-03-29 19:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: The storms that have battered parts of the UK this year and left hundreds of people facing the misery of flooded homes and ruined land have again brought questions about the impact of climate change to the forefront of the public consciousness. And this week the whole question has been put into still sharper focus, as the world's leading climate scientists publish a report on the subject putting our local problems into a deeply disturbing global context. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...
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