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Fossil fuel path is immoral and financially imprudent
2015-03-30 16:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: I am proud of the legacy of John D Rockefeller, who built the greatest fossil fuel enterprise in history. In his day, fossil fuel was a liberating force it literally changed the face of the earth, freeing many people from toil. The family business is now philanthropy; at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, which I chair, we use the money made from Standard Oil to advance social change that contributes to a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world. But the key phrase in the encomium above is in...
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Jerry Brown: Opposition on climate change borders on immoral
2015-03-22 17:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sacramento Bee: Gov. Jerry Brown said opposition to steps President Barack Obama is taking on climate change borders on the immoral, as he tore into Republicans in an interview aired Sunday on NBCs Meet the Press. Browns remarks came after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., urged states last week to ignore federal directives to reduce carbon emissions from power plants. Brown, a longtime champion of environmental causes, said McConnell was representing his coal constituents and putting at...
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"It would be easy for us to attack these companies by calling them immoral and unpatriotic."
2015-01-14 16:21:51| Semiconductors - Topix.net
So how did the previously obscure term tax inversions become part of Washington parlance, fodder for the next presidential campaign and the issue that helped derail a U.S. Treasury nominee? Thank, or blame, depending on your perspective, cutting-edge tax lawyers, populist Democrats, a banana seller, a drugmaker, a hamburger chain, the 35 percent U.S. corporate tax rate, and a Wall Street banker named Antonio Weiss. There is also the prospect that inversions could cost the U.S. Treasury up to $33.6 billion in lost revenue over the next decade, according to the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation.
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