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Earth is running a fever. And UN climate talks are focusing on the contagious effect on human health DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — With Planet Earth running a fever, U.N. climate talks focused Sunday on the contagious effects on human health.
Under a brown haze over Dubai, the COP28 summit ...
by Associated Press
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on Sun Dec 03, 2023 at 11:20 AM PST
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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Climate activists have spraypainted a superyacht, blocked private jets from taking off and plugged holes in golf courses this summer as part of an intensifying campaign ...
by Associated Press
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on Mon Sep 04, 2023 at 01:00 PM PDT
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By Karl Grossman The two nuclear reactors at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, New York were shut down in the late 1990s because they had been leaking tritium into the water table below, part of the island’s aquifer system on which more...
by KarlHGrossman
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on Tue Aug 01, 2023 at 04:24 AM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and ...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri May 19, 2023 at 09:08 PM PDT
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We can barely afford to make ends kind of meet and hold on to our tiny 3+ acres in this megalopolus to protect the trees and wild animals who live here from development and wish we could support efforts of groups like Greenpeace financially. Since we...
by jkelloggkeyes
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on Sat Apr 22, 2023 at 01:34 PM PDT
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Today, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed a seven-year lawsuit against Greenpeace USA and Greenpeace International brought by Resolute Forest Products. After ...
by boatsie
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on Fri Apr 21, 2023 at 03:29 PM PDT
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the war that matters is the war against the imagination all other wars are subsumed in it. Diane di Prima, “Rant" On the History and Future of 100% Renewable Energy Systems Research (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9837910) is a marvelous paper, a...
by gmoke
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on Tue Aug 23, 2022 at 04:50 PM PDT
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Though this space is generally dedicated to the US-based climate disinfo shenanigans, there does in fact exist a larger world out there, we are told. For example, yesterday we came across a Greenpeace tweet that “activists have documented +100 examples...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Wed Feb 02, 2022 at 06:52 AM PST
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"Institutional investors are losing their patience (with Royal Dutch Shell). The whole world's economy is at risk because of climate change. Mark van Baal Investors' patience with corporations holding Royal Dutch Shell stocks in the oil industry has...
by Pakalolo
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on Fri Dec 10, 2021 at 07:33 AM PST
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Let's talk about the Exxon Mobil bipartisan infrastructure bill: following the money, what's missing Via MarketWatch, Basav Sen of the Climate Policy Program at the Institute for Policy Studies details how Exxon Mobil dictated key elements of the bill, stripping out some vital measures that would deal with climate — but hurt Exxon Mobil’s bottom line....
by xaxnar
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on Fri Jul 30, 2021 at 09:13 AM PDT
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On April 27, Amy Moas of Greenpeace began a series of pieces profiling some of the many ways that the fossil fuel industry exerts pressure across California’s government with a well-written and well-researched piece, “California’s Fossil Fuel...
by Dan Bacher
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on Thu May 20, 2021 at 05:52 PM PDT
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Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of Aotearoa/New Zealand, is urging that other countries follow the NZ example and end government subsidies of fossil fuels. Ardern said New Zealand had been leading the charge on "climate finance" such as ending fossil...
by senorjoel
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on Thu Apr 22, 2021 at 10:07 PM PDT
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Sacramento — During a year of an unprecedented epidemic, record fires and record heat, the California agency in charge of regulating oil and gas drilling, CalGEM, has approved over 1540 new oil and gas drilling permits so far. Faced with this...
by Dan Bacher
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on Thu Oct 08, 2020 at 06:40 PM PDT
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By Karen Rubin, News-Photos-Features.com Tornadoes this week swept through the South with windspeeds as high as 200 mph. 100-year floods are coming every few years. Record-shattering hurricanes. Unprecedented wildfires. Droughts. Locusts have attacked...
by NewsPhotosFeatures
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on Wed Apr 15, 2020 at 01:41 PM PDT
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Earth Day turns 50 April 22, 2020. Amid spiraling pollution, the tumultuous Nixon presidency and raging Vietnam War, Earth Day held out the hope and promise of a clean environment and an enlightened future. (Nixon, for all his issues, established the...
by dana anderssen
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on Wed Apr 22, 2020 at 05:01 AM PDT
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The lawsuit from 21 children and young adults argued that the federal government has failed to act to address global climate change. The lawsuit from 21 children and young adults argued that the federal government has failed to act to address global...
by Angmar
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on Fri Jan 17, 2020 at 11:30 AM PST
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Decades of Dying Anaconda, Montana was never intended to be a garden spot. It was conceived as a company town and for decades a massive copper smelter operation was the sole purpose for the town. Of course, the operation was spewing poison over a wide...
by Austin Bailey
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on Fri Oct 04, 2019 at 11:29 AM PDT
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Bernie released a major plan today to address climate change. Early responses are very positive. Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth like it: Naomi Klein praises it for “moving the goal posts” in a good way. High praise from the Sunshine Movement: More...
by TomP
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on Thu Aug 22, 2019 at 11:50 AM PDT
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Greenpeace ranked the major Presidential candidates on climate change plans. Governor Inslee got an A-. Not surprised that he was the best. Tied for a close second were Bernie and Booker with a B+. [Revised to correct an error — Originally erroneously...
by TomP
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on Thu May 30, 2019 at 02:15 PM PDT
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Presidential candidate Governor Jay Inslee is a curve breaker when it comes to environmental grades from activist groups. Seems like there is always one in every class!
Greenpeace released its climate grades for presidential contenders, judging...
by occupystephanie
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on Thu May 30, 2019 at 03:07 PM PDT
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