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Time for divestment and oil subsidy campaigns to join forces?
2016-06-23 12:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Despite the Paris pledge to limit global warming to well below 2C, large amounts of both public and private money continue to flow into the fossil fuel industry. The Paris Agreement refers only tangentially those financial flows even a reference to high-emission investments was cut. And only 13 countries mentioned fossil fuel subsidy reform in their national pledges. Yet outside of the UN climate talks, two different campaigns are shedding light on fossil fuel finance, and pushing to...
Southern Oil to build new biofuels lab in Queensland; focus on renewable diesel and jet
2016-06-23 11:56:01| Green Car Congress
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Increase in US rig count will not cap oil prices
2016-06-23 11:56:01| Green Car Congress
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US oil and gas production dramatically increasing harmful ozone-causing ethane
2016-06-23 10:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Harmful ozone-causing emissions are on the rise again, a new study has found. Naturally occurring ozone in the upper atmosphere is good, protecting us from the suns ultra-violet rays. But ground-level ozone, formed from reactions between nitrogen oxides and non-methane hydrocarbons can be very damaging, triggering a number of health problems such as asthma and lung diseases. Ethane, a non-methane hydrocarbon, is a major precursor of ground-level ozone. Ethane emissions peaked in 1970, but decreased...
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Oil prices rise as markets await opinion polls on Brexit
2016-06-23 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Oil prices have increased with money and equity markets awaiting opinion polls on Britons remaining in the EU in today's referendum on membership.
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