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The Equator Principles have been around since June 2003 when 10 big banking firms adopted them. Since then, between 70 to 100 financial institutions in many countries have signed on to the Principles. There’s been criticism from NGOs about...
by birches
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on Wed Mar 06, 2024 at 08:00 AM PST
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The spotlight is a weekly, categorized compilation of links and excerpts from environmentally related posts at Daily Kos. Any posts included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Feb 04, 2024 at 08:09 AM PST
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Two new studies about the fossil fuel industry were published this past week. The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) found that the G20 nations pumped $1.4 trillion into explicit subsidies for the industry in 2022. In its study...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Aug 27, 2023 at 11:00 AM PDT
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Now that their most urgent priority—the creation of multiple new committees that will allow the loudest sedition-backing crackpots to yell at people on television—has been dealt with, it's time for House Republicans to at least pretend to take on the...
by Hunter
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on Mon Mar 06, 2023 at 10:25 AM PST
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In September, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 1137 barring oil drilling within 3,200 feet of dwellings, schools, hospitals, nursing homes, prisons, parks, and other sensitive areas. The law also tightens oversight of oil operations. The state...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Dec 04, 2022 at 01:05 PM PST
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One of the most common claims by the MAGA faithful is that everything was better under Donald Trump. “The country is falling apart,” they say. “The country is shittier” I’ve seen MAGAs claim. Most of their complaint is that inflation has risen to about...
by Frank Vyan Walton
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on Tue Oct 11, 2022 at 08:00 AM PDT
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Earth Matters: Delay is denial whoever's doing it; drilling permit lawsuit; nine new national trails Companies around the planet are suing for big bucks under trade agreements in their fight against climate action and playing pretend with “net zero” pledges. Many national, state, and local administrations are pushing climate-addressing goals onto the...
by Meteor Blades
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on Fri Jun 17, 2022 at 05:32 AM PDT
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I posted a gloomy little diary awhile back about how far we are from reducing our emissions enough to keep planetary warming below 1.5°C b y 2100. An insightful Kossack made the following heartbreaking comment: Tragically, as pointed out in Axios, data...
by SninkyPoo
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on Wed Aug 25, 2021 at 09:50 AM PDT
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If the rich, powerful, and corrupt thought the added separation of video conferencing during COVID-19 would protect them from Democratic Rep. Katie Porter of California, and her relentless pursuit of answers, they were wrong. Rep. Porter’s great...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Mar 10, 2021 at 10:30 AM PST
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Donald Trump hasn’t attended a COVID briefing session in five months, but he’s gone golfing at least five or six times since the election. And as the pandemic rages uncontrolled, with thousands of Americans dying every day, his...
by Michael Brune
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on Tue Nov 24, 2020 at 12:31 PM PST
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The backwards-facing moves by the Trump administration to boost the unhealthy fossil fuel industry include subsidies, deregulation of environmental protections, and drilling. Lots of drilling. Former Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke spent the first...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Jun 10, 2020 at 10:13 AM PDT
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Less than a month ago, I wrote about our new Stop the Money Pipeline campaign, which demands that big banks, asset managers, and insurers stop supporting the fossil fuel industry. We had just notched our first victory: The world’s largest...
by Michael Brune
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on Wed Feb 26, 2020 at 11:47 AM PST
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SACRAMENTO – On December 12, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra blasted the Trump Administration’s decision to open up 1.2 million acres of public lands in Central California, mainly in the San Joaquin Valley, to oil and gas drilling, including...
by Dan Bacher
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on Tue Dec 17, 2019 at 10:12 AM PST
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In January 2016 the Bundy clan threw down the gauntlet. They challenged the legitimacy of the Federal government's claims to any lands. They armed themselves, they took the land. They said "stop us". The government watched, and did nothing.. During the...
by sgtaotahto
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on Wed Jul 31, 2019 at 07:51 AM PDT
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Just over nine years ago, a blowout at the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 people and caused the worst marine oil disaster in history. I was so new at the Sierra Club that the catastrophe was the first issue I wrote about...
by Michael Brune
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on Wed May 08, 2019 at 04:46 PM PDT
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In her recent interview on Late Night with Seth Meyers, former first daughter Chelsea Clinton didn’t hold back her thoughts on Donald Trump and his supporters. Growing up in the media spotlight, Clinton is no stranger to harassment or abuse from people...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Tue Apr 09, 2019 at 01:01 PM PDT
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The United States District Court for the District of Alaska has declared Donald Trump’s opening of over 128 million acres of coastal waters to oil and gas drilling was illegal. At the same time, District Judge Sharon Gleason moved to block construction...
by Mark Sumner
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on Sat Mar 30, 2019 at 08:17 AM PDT
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This week was awful. That’s all I got right now. As I write this, the sun is streaming through the window by my desk, but I’m full of rage in the wake of Susan Collins’ grandstanding announcement of her vote to confirm Kavanaugh and Joe Manchin’s...
by Jessica Sutherland
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on Sat Oct 06, 2018 at 03:00 PM PDT
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“Our analysis looked at just this 4000-square-mile area. We’re fairly certain that when we look further, and we are, that we’ll find there’s ground movement even beyond that. This region of Texas has been punctured like a pin cushion with oil wells and...
by Pakalolo
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on Fri Apr 13, 2018 at 10:06 AM PDT
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In the first week of January, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced that the Trump administration was discarding decades of restrictions on offshore drilling, opening America to the joys of tar-covered beaches and oil-soaked wildlife. State and local...
by Mark Sumner
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on Wed Jan 24, 2018 at 08:07 AM PST
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