Tag: climate change
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Historic Wildfires Scorch Colorado While Fracking Industry Continues to Drain Water Supply
Residents are watching their backyards burn while the oil and gas industry is using up Colorado’s most precious resource—water. The fire affects not just Colorado residents, who face water restrictions that accompany drought …
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Nobel Laureates to President Obama: Reject Keystone XL and Be On the Right Side of History
Recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize are calling for the rejection of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. A letter from 10 Nobel Peace Prize winners addressed to both the President and Secretary of State Kerry announced …
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22 Arrested in Chicago Urging President Obama to Reject Keystone XL
In protest of the Keystone XL pipeline, 22 activists were arrested today when they staged a sit in at the State Department in President Obama’s hometown of Chicago. The activists arrested today included former Obama staffers, donors and …
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Climate Change Fails to Make G8 Agenda, Report Finds 80 Percent of Fossil Fuels Need to Stay in the Ground
As world leaders gather at the G8 summit in Northern Ireland, tackling climate change is not even on the agenda. In fact the opposite will happen: Canada will use the meeting to push for the expansion of the tar sands. Last week, Canada’s Prime Minister …
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The Yes Men Want to be Sued by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Apparently, revenge isn’t a strong enough reason for the Chamber to to cough up information on their secret financial backers or their obstruction on solving the critical issue of global climate change, the issue which sparked …