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Mass Walk-Out at UN Climate Talks Protests Lack of Progress
By Paul Brown It is first time in 19 years of tortuous annual negotiations over targets and timetables for saving the Earth’s climate from overheating that the non-governmental organizations have felt sufficiently frustrated to take such a step. [caption id="attachment_312963" align="alignnone" width="500"] Organizations frustrated with the pace and progress of the UN climate talks in…
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Six-State Study Confirms Job Numbers Exaggerated by Fracking Industry
Drilling in the six states that span the Marcellus and Utica Shale formations has produced far fewer new jobs than the industry and its supporters claim, according to a report released today by the Multi-State Shale Research Collaborative, a group of state-level research organizations tracking the impacts of shale drilling. [caption id="attachment_312918" align="alignnone" width="531"] The oil…
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New Study Traces Two-Thirds of Industrial Carbon Emissions to Just 90 Institutions
New peer-reviewed research has found that just 90 entities are responsible for extracting most of the fossil fuels that have been burned over the past 150 years. These “carbon majors” include 50 investor-owned companies, such as ChevronTexaco and Exxon-Mobil, 31 state-owned companies, such as Saudi Aramco and Pemex, and nine government-run industries in the former…
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House Approves Bill to Fast Track Fracking on Public Lands
By a vote of 235-187, the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday approved its latest giveaway to the oil and gas industry—a bill that would fast track the approval of fracking on public lands, according to Environment America. [caption id="attachment_312869" align="alignnone" width="500"] The bill approved yesterday is one of three anit-environmental, pro-industry bills expected to pass the…
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UK Announces End of Public Financing for Coal
By Justin Guay First it was President Obama, standing before the American people at Georgetown University in June, telling us that it was time to act on climate. As one of the pillars of the climate action plan, President Obama pledged to end public financing for coal projects overseas, except in very specific situations. This was later backed…