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Are Environmentalists Using Native Americans, and Does It Matter?
2016-09-06 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Beast: In an unprecedented show of inter-tribal cooperation not seen, according to one elder, since the Battle of Big Horn, thousands of activists from at least 200 Native American tribes have gathered in a remote part of North Dakota to protest the construction of a new oil pipeline. Thousands more have joined them in support: dramatic moments of protesters tying themselves to bulldozers are streaming live on Facebook. A huge campground--dubbed Sacred Stone Camp--comes complete with sweat lodges and...
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Environmentalists challenge Wisconsin DNR sand mine pollution findings
2016-07-11 00:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: A new Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources draft report wrongly concludes that sand mining operations dont produce fine dust particles and shouldnt impact human health, an environmental advocacy group contends. The DNR released a potential update to its 2012 sand mining analysis for public comment this past week. The analysis tracks the latest scientific and socioeconomic information about sand mining in Wisconsin. The agency uses the analysis to inform policy discussions and decisions....
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Exxon Shareholders Disappoint Environmentalists, Vote Against Climate Change Proposals
2016-05-25 22:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: After a long battle to even get on the agenda for ExxonMobil`s 2016 Annual Meeting, the company`s shareholders on Wednesday voted against four initiatives to address climate change, even while the company is facing an investigation for its climate denial activities. Investors were hoping to force Exxon to add a climate expert to its board, to enact a policy to avoid 2°C warming, to increase capital distributions (with the understanding that continued investment in assets likely to be stranded...
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Why British environmentalists should vote for Brexit
2016-05-24 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The leading lights of the UK environmental movement would have us believe that a win by the Brexit camp on 23 June would be akin to a natural disaster. According to them, it is only our membership of the EU that renders our beaches swimmable, our water drinkable and our air almost breathable. Freed from the noble, ceaseless efforts of the ever-vigilant EU, troglodyte Britain would tear up decades of environmental legislation and return to our 1970s roots as the dirty man of Europe. This is complete...
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Radiation deniers: pro-nuclear environmentalists and the Chernobyl death toll
2016-04-07 12:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: Just as climate change deniers leap from scientific uncertainty over the precise impacts of greenhouse gas emissions to certainty of little or no impact at all, so 'pro-nuclear environmentalists' conflate uncertainty of the mortality arising from Chernobyl and other nuclear disasters to certainty of few if any deaths, writes Jim Green. Their position is equally indefensible. With few if any exceptions, self-styled pro-nuclear environmentalists peddle flapdoodle and tommyrot regarding the Chernobyl...
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