Tag: Featured News
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Anti-Fracking Groups Call on NC Governor to Protect Homeowners’ Property Rights
Today the No Toxic Trespass—No Fracking Way tour rolled into Sanford, NC. At a press conference at the Lee County Courthouse, the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League called upon Gov. McCrory (R-NC) to defend the state’s rural and suburban communities from the fracking industry’s seizure of landowners’ rights. [caption id="attachment_312575" align="alignnone" width="500"] Homeowners face forced pooling, split estates…
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600,000+ Join Yeb Sano Signing #WeStandWithYou Petition Urging Action at UN Climate Talks
By Jamie Henn Civil society groups and young people joined Avaaz, 350.org and Filipino climate negotiator Yeb Saño at the UN Climate Talks today, to deliver more than 600,000 signatures from people around the world who are standing with the Philippines to demand progress here in Warsaw. “We stand here knowing that hundreds of thousands…
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King Coal Gets a Kicking at Warsaw Climate Talks
By Paul Brown Coal has dominated the agenda in Warsaw, with demonstrations against the Polish Government’s decision to hold a coal summit during the climate talks. Scientists, UN officials and green groups said coal reserves must be left in the ground if the climate is not to overshoot the internationally agreed safe maximum temperature increase…
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Butchering Keystone XL Facts, George W. Bush Says ‘Build the Damn Thing’
By Sharon Kelly Make private companies happy. Don’t worry about the environment. Stop fretting about long-term sustainability. Forget renewables, property concerns, the safety of our water and air. Make private companies happy. This was the forty-third president’s message to the current administration at the DUG East conference held by the shale gas industry on Thursday. With…
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Thousands Protest Outside UN Climate Talks in Warsaw Demanding Climate Action
By Hoda Baraka This morning in Warsaw, Poland, climate activists staged a public action in front of the Polish Ministry of Economy—the venue for the greenwashing Coal and Climate Summit—to voice their outrage and reiterate a simple reality: there is no such thing as clean coal. Organizations involved in the action included Polish Youth Climate…