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Energy Policy Watch: Rep. Garret Graves Addresses Paris Accords Dirty Secret
2021-05-25 10:00:00| OGI
Rep. Garret Graves (R-LA, 6th) has a unique role in climate policy and that may present opportunities to help limit damage to the oil and gas industrys future.
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paris
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Dirty Energy, Dirty Tactics
2014-11-03 20:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: "Greenhouse gas emissions from human activity are higher than ever, and we`re seeing more and more extreme weather and climate events".We can`t prevent a large scale disaster if we don`t heed this kind of hard science." Question: Is that statement about the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report from Greenpeace or the U.S. State Department?The fact that Kerry must appeal to the fossil fuel industry's sense of morality rather than tough regulations on CO2 emissions makes...
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dirty
tactics
dirty energy
Oakland votes divest dirty energy economy based fossil fuels
2014-06-19 11:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Oakland city council has unveiled plans to become the fifth Californian city to move finance away from companies blamed for worsening climate change, while also banning transportation of coal in the city. The city council has unanimously approved plans to divest its funds from companies whose primary business or enterprise is extraction, production, refining, burning and distribution of any fossil fuels and put forward recommendations for city pension funds to exclude fossil fuels from their...
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energy
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economy
Keep dirty energy out of Green Climate Fund, demand activists
2014-05-18 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: A coalition of around 300 civil society organisations have voiced concerns after it emerged the Green Climate Fund (GCF) could be used to develop nuclear, dams and other fossil fuels. The calls come ahead of the operational launch of the fund when 24 of its board members meet at its headquarters in South Korea next week. It was launched as part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and aims to transfer money from the developed to the developing world. Board members...
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energy
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fund
Rachel Maddow Exposes Dirty Deal in Duke Energy Toxic Coal Ash Spill
2014-02-14 14:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Hear the latest on the 73 Olympic-size swimming pools worth of toxic sludge that Duke Energy dumped into North Carolina waterways starting Super Bowl Sunday in this Rachel Maddow interview with Michael Gerrard, professor of environmental law at Columbia University. Gerrard talks about a North Carolina federal investigation into this coal ash leak disaster. For more information on this third largest coal ash spill in U.S. history, read Waterkeeper Alliances four-part series: part one, part two,...