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Carbon Counterattack

2015-01-10 03:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

TomDispatch: Around the world, carbon-based fuels are under attack. Increasingly grim economic pressures, growing popular resistance, and the efforts of government regulators have all shocked the energy industry. Oil prices are falling, colleges and universities are divesting from their carbon stocks, voters are instituting curbs on hydro-fracking, and delegates at the U.N. climate conference in Peru have agreed to impose substantial restrictions on global carbon emissions at a conference in Paris later in the...

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Carbon Counterattack

2015-01-10 00:54:18| Oil & Gas - Topix.net

Around the world, carbon-based fuels are under attack. Increasingly grim economic pressures, growing popular resistance, and the efforts of government regulators have all shocked the energy industry.

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Environment coalition launches counterattack against Koch brothers

2014-03-25 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Washington Post: A coalition of environmental groups launched a seven-figure advertising campaign Monday in a handful of Senate battleground states, supporting candidates who back "clean energy and clean air policies' and kicking back at energy interests that oppose more muscular environmental regulation. The advertising and grass-roots organizing effort by a confederation of green groups -- including the Environmental Defense Fund and the Sierra Club -- is the opening salvo of an effort in 11 states to counter...

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Republicans' war on the environment: Time to counterattack

2013-08-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: The Republican leaders in Congress look so grim and dour on TV, always denouncing this and that, and voting -- for the 40th time in the House on Friday -- to repeal the health care reform law known as Obamacare. Appearances are deceiving. If you read their tweets, you'll quickly identify one thing close to the hearts of House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell: These guys love coal. They're out front going backwards. They want to strip the EPA of authority to...

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