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ExxonMobil Targets Journalists and Activists After Climate Change Investigation
2015-10-24 23:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Motherboard: After an investigation found that ExxonMobil has been funding climate-denying organizations--despite the findings of its own scientists on climate change--the worlds fourth-largest oil company is now going after the journalists who revealed it. Evidence that ExxonMobil has been deliberately leading a campaign of misinformation about climate change for decades began cropping up after InsideClimate News, a Pulitzer Prize-winning publication, led an investigation into the company. Shortly after...
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Activists say solar can power India, but politics and economics of coal win out
2015-10-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: One year ago, environmentalists hailed this tiny village as the future of clean energy in rural India. Today, it is powered by coal. Dharnai, a community of about 3,200 people in eastern India's Bihar state, had been without electricity for three decades. So when activists with Greenpeace set up a solar-powered microgrid in July of 2014, the excitement was palpable. But, residents said, the problems started almost immediately. Greater Expectations: The New Geopolitics of Climate Change exposes...
Australia: Anti-mining activists launch legal action against Acland coalmine expansion
2015-10-12 23:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: Anti-mining activists have launched legal action against the controversial expansion of Queenslands Acland open-cut coalmine. The Oakey Coal Action Alliance (OCAA) on Tuesday lodged a formal submission on the $900m stage-three expansion of the project. Acland mine challenge likely after Palaszczuk government moves to restore objection rights Read more The group last week made a decision to pursue an objection in the Queensland land court. The expansion should not go ahead because of the threat...
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Activists Plot Largest Climate Civil Disobedience at UN Summit Paris
2015-10-08 15:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Thousands of climate change campaigners have promised to blockade a major UN climate summit in Paris with what they say will be non-violent direct action on a scale Europe has not seen before. Grassroots groups from 350.org to Attac France are throwing their weight behind the Climate Games event for the landmark climate conference in December. The protests will involve 10 blockades, themed around red lines which they fear negotiators for the nearly 200 countries inside the summit may cross....
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In Play Today: Activists continue to drive shake-ups in real estate sector
2015-10-08 01:20:24| Furniture - Topix.net
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