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20 US attorney-generals join forces to tackle corporate 'climate fraud'
2016-03-30 10:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Attorney-generals (AGs) from a host of US states including Illinois, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Oregon have joined investigations by New York and Californian state attorneys into companies suspected of trying to mislead the public about climate-related risks. During a meeting of Democrat AGs yesterday, Massachusetts AG Maura Healey said her state would join investigations launched last year by New York and Californian AGs into whether oil giant Exxon Mobil misled investors about climate change...
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Revealed: The millions spent to bank success at Paris climate talks
2016-03-30 09:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Wealthy countries gave developing countries tens of millions of dollars in aid to bolster their stake in a new global warming accord, it has emerged. Government budgets and green funds provided at least US$26 million to help ill-equipped ministries deliver carbon-cutting pledges towards last years Paris Agreement. The findings highlight the scale of assistance offered to ensure a maximum amount of intended nationally determined contributions (INDCs), which formed the backbone of the UN deal....
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Climate change now bigger menace forest loss for snowshoe hares
2016-03-30 01:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceNews: For Wisconsins snowshoe hares, climate change now ranks as an even bigger menace than the bulldozing, paving and other destructive things people have done to northern forests. Habitat loss as humans reshape landscapes has loomed for decades as the main conservation problem for a lot of wildlife. Its still important, says climate change ecologist Benjamin Zuckerberg of the University of Wisconsin?Madison. But along the southern boundary of the snowshoe hares range, climate change bringing skimpy...
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Obama admin defends climate rule as 'eminently reasonable'
2016-03-29 13:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Lawyers for the Obama administration defended its controversial landmark climate rule for power plants in court Monday as a completely reasonable interpretation of the authority Congress gave it. The Justice Department is trying to answer complaints in a federal appeals court that accuse the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of violating the plain letter of the Clean Air Act last year when it made final the carbon dioxide regulation for power plants. In their opening volley last month against...
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This Is What Climate Change Has Done Great Barrier Reef
2016-03-29 05:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: A new aerial survey of the Great Barrier Reef shows the vast extent of a "severe" bleaching event that's caused widespread coral death over the past several weeks. The National Coral Bleaching Taskforce study found 95 percent of individual reefs in the most pristine section of the ecosystem showed severe bleaching. The research covered 520 reefs across more than 600 miles of coastline and found just four that didn't show signs of damage. Coral becomes "bleached" when the usually kaleidoscopic...
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