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Transition Alberta off oil sands, climate thinkers urge Trudeau
2015-11-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Observer: Alberta and its oil sands needs to be the focus of the Trudeau government's climate action if it is serious about helping limit dangerous planetary warming to two degrees this century, warned a national group of environmental thinkers. Climate Action Network Canada held a national media press conference Monday to give its recommendations to the federal government in advance of the Paris UN climate treaty talks, Nov.30 to Dec.11. Their toughest advice was focused on Alberta's crown energy jewel....
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One of the worlds largest coal companies misled investors about climate change risk
2015-11-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: Climate change could pose a serious risk to investors in publicly-traded fossil fuel companies, as governments around the world move to restrict carbon emissions. Many climate change advocacy groups say those companies have an obligation to their shareholders to be transparent about how demand for their product could diminish in the near future. Although Peabody escaped financial penalties this time around, it could still face litigation from aggrieved shareholders. According to Schneiderman's...
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Most states suing EPA's climate rule are also mulling how to comply
2015-11-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Legal opposition to U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan roared into action in recent weeks, with Mississippi being the latest of 27 states now challenging the regulation in court. But a review of how all the suing states are approaching the climate rule reveals that even though a state may be litigating the Clean Power Plan, it doesn't mean it's not actively considering how to achieve the required emissions cuts. Few suing states are not publicly discussing how they might comply with the rule; most...
How a 2012 book helped two teams journalists probe Exxon changing view of climate risks
2015-11-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: With the launch of an investigation into Exxon Mobil Corp.'s climate stance by New York's attorney general, talk of wide-ranging tobacco-style litigation against Exxon and other oil and gas companies has amplified. But if the Exxon inquiry does blow up into a battle against civil and criminal charges, the oil and gas major may have one big advantage that the tobacco industry, which for years denied that smoking was injurious to human health, did not: lessons from the tobacco industry's flawed...
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Clinton promises to expand climate efforts: 'There is no Planet B'
2015-11-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Hillary Clinton is pledging to build on the work President Obama has done on climate change if she wins the presidency next year. Climate will always be a high priority of mine, she told a New Hampshire crowd on Monday. Because after all, I think we have to use every tool we have. There is no Planet B, this is it. Clinton said that climate advocates had a few good weeks and credited Obama and other Democrats for taking steps to combat global warming. She said Obama was right to cancel...
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