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Pacific trade deal bad news for climate, say activists
2016-02-04 11:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Climate campaigners are warning a free trade deal between a dozen Pacific countries on Wednesday risks handing polluters more power. In Auckland, representatives from twelve nations including the US, Australia and Japan inked the Trans-Pacific Partnership after five years of negotiations. President Barack Obama hailed the tariff-busting deal as including the strongest labor standards and environmental commitments in history. Activists fumed. Campaigners 350.org called it a fossil fuel industry...
Leonardo DiCaprio producing climate change-themed young adult novel adaptation
2016-02-02 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Film News: Leonardo DiCaprio is marrying his love of the environment and movies by producing an adaptation of climate change-themed novel The Sandcastle Empire. The Revenant star and his Appian Way partner, Jennifer Davisson, will produce the project, which is based on author Kayla Olson's book of the same name. The novel is set in the year 2049 when the Earth is "at a breaking point due to climate change, coastal flooding and overpopulation", and a "radical faction known as the Wolfpack overthrows the...
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Oil companies doled out big donations in climate bill fight
2016-02-02 08:09:56| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Oil companies that convinced California lawmakers last year to abandon part of a landmark bill to fight climate change donated more than $250,000 to their campaigns for re-election in the second half of 2015 -- with more money going to Democrats than Republicans. Since the state Senate bars its members from accepting campaign checks in the final weeks of the legislative session, a large share of the money went to lawmakers in the state Assembly, with five assemblymembers receiving more than $10,000 each from Chevron, Exxon and Tesoro, campaign finance statements show.
Oil companies doled out big donations in climate bill fight
2016-02-02 07:52:16| Energy - Topix.net
Oil companies that convinced California lawmakers last year to abandon part of a landmark bill to fight climate change donated more than $250,000 to their campaigns for re-election in the second half of 2015 -- with more money going to Democrats than Republicans. Since the state Senate bars its members from accepting campaign checks in the final weeks of the legislative session, a large share of the money went to lawmakers in the state Assembly, with five assemblymembers receiving more than $10,000 each from Chevron, Exxon and Tesoro, campaign finance statements show.
Oman gets high score on business climate index
2016-02-02 04:05:12| Logistics - Topix.net
Oman, along with Qatar, scores highest for its business environment among smaller emerging market economies having GDPs of less than $300b. Picture used for illustrative purposes only.
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