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McKibben: Exxon, Keystone, and the turn against fossil fuels
2015-11-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Yorker: The fossil-fuel industry--which, for two centuries, underwrote our civilization and then became its greatest threat--has started to take serious hits. At noon today, President Obama rejected the Keystone Pipeline, becoming the first world leader to turn down a major project on climate grounds. Eighteen hours earlier, New Yorks Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced that hed issued subpoenas to Exxon, the richest and most profitable energy company in history, after substantial evidence emerged...
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