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Portland City Council Votes Today to Oppose Fossil Fuel Infrastructure and Oil Trains
2015-11-05 17:52:28| PortlandOnline
Shelby R. King in the Portland Mercury, November 4, 2015
Portland Says No to Oil Trains and Delays Vote on Resolution to Oppose Fossil Fuel Infrastructure Expansion
2015-11-05 17:51:32| PortlandOnline
Shelby R. King in the Portland Mercury, November 4, 2015
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'Fire frogs' and eel-like amphibians: The Field Museum's Brazilian fossil discovery
2015-11-05 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Two hundred and seventy-eight million years ago, the world was a different place. Not only were the landmasses merged into the supercontinent of Pangaea, but the land was home to ancient animals unlike anything alive today. But until now, very little information was available about what animals were present in the southern tropics. In a study published in Nature Communications, scientists from The Field Museum and colleagues from around the world describe several new amphibia…
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Bernie Sanders launches new climate plan to curb US fossil fuel extraction
2015-11-04 17:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Bernie Sanders launched a new climate campaign on Wednesday, aimed at fighting global warming by banning new coal, oil and gas mining on public land. The Keep it in the Ground Act co-sponsored by the senator and Democratic presidential candidate aims at plugging one of the big gaps in Barack Obamas climate change plan: his administrations continued sanction of fossil fuel extraction on the governments lands and waters. The bill, jointly introduced with Jeff Merkley, a Democratic senator...
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When did ExxonMobil know about fossil fuels and global warming?
2015-11-04 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: Four Congressmen asked the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to investigate ExxonMobil, one of the worlds largest oil companies, suggesting the company knew about climate change and failed to disclose the associated risks associated with their business. In a Friday letter to SEC Chair Rep. Ted W. Lieu (D) of Calif.; Rep. Mark DeSaulnier (D) of Mass.; Rep. Peter Welch (D), of Vt.; and Rep. Matthew Cartwright (D) of Penn., asked the committee to examine ExxonMobils knowledge of anthropogenic...
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