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Fossil fuel darling Ted Cruz demands the feds stop investigating Exxon
2016-05-27 21:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: He`s baaaack! Just a few weeks after Ted Cruz tucked his three-pronged tail between his legs and headed back to D.C., the Texas senator and one-time presidential hopeful has gone right back to advocating for his real constituents in Congress: Big Oil. The Guardian reports that Cruz, along with four other senators, has demanded that the Department of Justice cease any investigation into whether oil companies lied to the public about climate change. Exxon, which wasn`t specifically mentioned...
Trump: America First on Fossil Fuels, Last on Climate Change
2016-05-27 16:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inside Climate: Donald Trump vowed Thursday that if elected president he would dismantle the landmark global treaty to tackle climate change endorsed by the whole world in Paris last year. Instead, he promised the domestic fossil fuel industry a no-holds-barred, America-first development policy aimed at maximizing production of coal, oil and natural gas. Speaking on the day he clinched the delegates to win the Republican presidential nomination, Trump delivered his first substantive speech on energy and climate...
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Portugal Ditched Fossil Fuels for 4 Days. Can We Go Longer?
2016-05-27 13:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Portugal became the latest country to coast solely on renewable energy this month, going without fossil-fuel power for four days straight. Denmark, Germany, and others recently have declared similar feats. But are these temporary clean-power surges a mark of real change, and if so, how far can that go? "This is definitely signalling a shift in terms of the energy mix," says Luca De Lorenzo, project manager at Sweden's nonprofit research group Stockholm Environment Institute. Overall, renewable...
G7 leaders set 2025 deadline to phase out fossil fuel subsidies
2016-05-27 11:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Subsidies for oil, gas and coal should be history in under a decade, leaders from the Group of Seven (G7) nations declared in a statement on Friday after two days of talks in Japan. An estimated US$5.3 trillion a year is spent by governments worldwide supporting the fossil fuel sector, according to the International Monetary Fund. That runs against the spirit of the UNs new Paris Agreement on climate change, say environmental groups, which specifically calls for funds to be redirected towards...
G7 must stop propping up doomed fossil fuel industries
2016-05-27 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Today, seven of the worlds most powerful leaders wrote a new chapter in the climate history books when they called on all countries to end fossil fuel subsidies by 2025. Though it may sound familiar the G20 have been making noises about a phase-out since 2009 where the Ise-Shima promise differs is in setting an expiry date. We finally have an endgame for these perverse incentives, and although we could easily get there twice as fast, a yardstick for holding governments to account. Alongside...
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