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McKibben on Fight Against Keystone XL, Fossil Fuel Divestment & Obama's Failures
2014-02-13 21:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Democracy Now: Hundreds of college students are expected to risk arrest on March 2 outside the White House to pressure President Obama to reject the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline project. Organizers of "XL Dissent" say they hope to stage one of the largest acts of civil disobedience against the pipeline to date. The Keystone XL would carry 830,000 barrels of oil a day from Canada to the Gulf Coast. In January, a long-awaited environmental impact statement from the State Department found the Keystone XL would...
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Keystone Public Comments Rushing in to State Dept
2014-02-13 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fuel Fix: Members of the public have filed more than 3,500 comments voicing their opinions on Keystone XL, just a week after the feds once again solicited input on the controversial pipeline. The process likely will set off another battle between supporters and opponents of the project to win the comments numbers game. The new round opened Feb. 5, days after the State Department released its long-awaited final environmental impact statement. Through Wednesday afternoon, the public had submitted 3,514...
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State Department Hiring of Oil Industry Consultant to Write Keystone XL Environmental Review
2014-02-12 16:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Today Sierra Club and Friends of the Earth submitted evidence to the State Departments Office of the Inspector General to support the ongoing inquiry into conflicts of interest and mismanagement in the environmental review of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. The groups request that the Inspector General takes steps to ensure that the tainted Final Environmental Impact Statement, released on Jan. 31, is excluded from the agencys National Interest Determination. The State Department hired an...
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Beyond Keystone XL: Eight Reasons for Optimism on Climate Change
2014-02-09 15:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Truthout: Climate change could have a crushing effect on the global economy, according to a recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the Nobel-Prize-winning committee of climate scientists from around the world. But there are reasons for hope, if we act quickly. Here are eight signs that it's still possible to turn things around and create a low-carbon future. 1. We already know how to engineer zero-carbon buildings. These buildings generate at least as much energy as they...
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Keystone XL: Is It the Right Fight for Environmentalists?
2014-02-09 09:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Last Monday night, when environmentalist activists staged 280 candlelight vigils in 49 states to protest the proposed Keystone XL pipeline-in Washington, D.C., demonstrators inflated a giant black tube in front of the White House-many no doubt wondered if their long campaign to halt the project had reached a turning point. "When I saw the photos coming in from the vigils happening all over the country, I looked at my husband and said, 'We have a real movement here,'" said Jane Klebb, who runs...
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