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Activist with celebrity backing ends prison stint
2013-04-21 13:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Out of the grip of the federal prison system, environmental and climate activist Tim DeChristopher plans to make Harvard Divinity School his next stop. DeChristopher, 31, has achieved folk status and inspired a documentary airing Monday - all for grabbing a bidder's paddle and running up prices at a federal oil-and-gas lease auction, trying to safeguard wild lands near Utah's national parks from drilling. The University of Utah economics graduate had no money for his $1.8 million in winning...
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