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Activist investors put climate-change issue up for vote at bank
2013-02-20 23:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Activist investors have succeeded for the first time in placing a shareholder resolution on the risks of greenhouse-gas emissions up for a vote at a major bank, a step toward making climate change an important consideration for corporations. The resolution, which follows years of protests over banks financing certain coal operations, is to be included in proxy material being sent to shareholders of PNC Financial Services Group of Pittsburgh before the bank's April 23 annual meeting. It asks...
The nation's capital wasn't the only place climate-change protesters challenged business as usual
2013-02-19 15:20:26| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
In addition to the tens of thousands of protesters who showed up in Washington, D.C., Sunday to urge President Barack Obama to reject a permit for TransCanada to build the northern leg of its Keystone XL pipeline and generally call for action on climate change, there were smaller protests across the country.
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Holding Obama's Feet to the Climate-Change Fire
2013-02-18 14:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: At first glance, it was hard to tell whether they had come to bury Obama or to praise him. Thousands of activists from hundreds of environmental, social justice and community groups marched on Washington yesterday in the biggest climate rally ever held in the U.S. capital. Activists both called on President Obama to make good on his climate change policy promises and protested the Keystone XL pipeline project. For 25 years our government has basically ignored the climate crisis: now people in...
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Obama Cries Out for Climate-Change Solutions, but What Happens Now?
2013-02-13 06:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Atlantic: President Obama followed up his Inaugural Address with more strong words for climate protection in his State of the Union, delivering the lengthiest soliloquy on climate change in presidential history. "The 12 hottest years on record have all come in the last 15," Obama said. "Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, and floods -- all are now more frequent and intense," he said, echoing the data frequently cited by scientists and environmentalists. President Obama lays out his second-term vision for...
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Energy Secretary Chu steps down, blasts climate-change skeptics
2013-02-01 18:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yahoo: Secretary of Energy Steven Chu in 2011 (Larry Downing/Reuters)Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist frequently the target of Republican criticism, announced Friday that he was stepping down in the latest shake-up of President Barack Obama's Cabinet. Chu, who disclosed his decision in a letter to Energy Department staff, frequently clashed with GOP lawmakers over gas prices as well as government backing for green-energy companies like the failed firm Solyndra. In his letter,...
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