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Obama turns down Keystone XL pipeline: 'Today the US is leading on climate change'
2015-11-06 20:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Barack Obama announces at the White House on Friday that he is rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline because he does not believe it serves the national interest. Keystone XL, which has divided petroleum interests and environmentalists, was designed to pump crude oil from the Alberta tar sands for 1,700 miles to the Gulf coast
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The Limits of the 'Tobacco Strategy' on Climate Change
2015-11-06 19:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: For years, activists and scholars have contended that groups who reject the scientific consensus on climate change are employing tactics once used to create doubt about the dangers of smoking. Now environmentalists are taking a page from tobacco opponents by suggesting oil companies misled investors and the public about the risks of climate change. The first step toward a legal inquiry came Wednesday evening when the New York attorney general subpoenaed records from Exxon Mobil. While this...
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Prodded by Climate Campaigners and Aided by Cheap Oil, Obama Kills Keystone
2015-11-06 19:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Congratulations are due to Bill McKibben, Jim Hansen and the tens of thousands of other climate campaigners who turned an obscure cross-border pipeline proposal into an effective national political campaign. After years of deliberations, President Obama today said the Keystone XL project was not in the national interest: In 2011, I split with McKibben and others as they were being arrested at the White House. I argued that the pipeline issue was a distraction from the core issues involving our...
UNs climate fund releases $183m to tackle global warming
2015-11-06 19:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The head of the UNs climate fund has hailed a paradigm shift as poor countries began receiving money to help them tackle global warming, weeks before climate talks take place in Paris. The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is intended to be the major conduit for funding to flow from wealthy economies built on fossil fuels to those that will suffer most from climate change they did not cause. On Friday at its board meeting in Zambia, the fund released $183m (122m) for eight projects in Asia, Africa...
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The fight against Keystone XL changed climate movement. Heres how
2015-11-06 18:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The U.S. climate movement has gained a lot of clout in the four years since it made Keystone XL into a major target. In part, thats because the organizing against Keystone helped the movement develop a number of assets it previously lacked. Here are the six big ones: * Focus In the few years leading up to and following President Obamas election in 2008, the environmental movements climate focus was on passing a big bill to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Congressional Democrats wanted to make...
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