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Big Oils heirs join call for action as climate summit opens
2014-09-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: For 140 years, the Rockefellers were the oil industrys first family, scions of a business empire that spawned companies called Exxon, Mobil, Amoco and Chevron. So it was no trivial matter when a group of Rockefeller heirs decided recently to begin severing financial ties to fossil fuels. There is a moral imperative to preserve a healthy planet, said Valerie Rockefeller Wayne, a great-great-granddaughter of oil magnate John D. Rockefeller Sr. and a trustee of the largest charitable foundation...
Rockefellers call for change
2014-09-22 09:18:35| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
For 140 years, the Rockefellers were the oil industry's first family, scions of a business empire that spawned companies called Exxon, Mobil, Amoco and Chevron. So it was no trivial matter when a group of Rockefeller heirs decided recently to begin severing financial ties to fossil fuels.
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Thousands call for action in NYC, around globe
2014-09-21 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Tens of thousands of activists walked through Manhattan on Sunday, warning that climate change is destroying the Earth in stride with demonstrators around the world who urged policymakers to take quick action. Starting along Central Park West, most came on foot, others with bicycles and walkers, and some even in wheelchairs. Many wore costumes and marched to drumbeats. One woman played the accordion. But their message was not entertaining: Were going to lose our planet in the next generation...
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Marchers sound call for climate change action
2014-09-21 16:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: Tens of thousands of people marched through Manhattan sounding an urgent call for action to reverse global climate change Sunday. One marcher's sign read "cut your emissions or you'll sleep with the fishes." The "People's Climate March" in New York was billed as the largest of several protests held around the world two days before the start of the United Nations' Climate Summit. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon walked with former U.S. Vice President Al Gore along the two-and-a-half mile route....
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Breaking It Down: FedEx Corporation's Q1 FY 2015 Earnings Call
2014-09-20 16:48:24| Air Courier - Topix.net
On September 17, 2014, FedEx Corporation reported Q1 FY 2015 net income of $606 million on sales of $11.7 billion, compared to net income of $489 million on sales of $11.0 billion in the same period last year. These figures beat Estimize -reported consensus estimates of $1.97 per share on sales of $11.47 billion.
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