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United Kingdom: Police spies court case suggests sexual relations with activists were routine
2013-01-17 21:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Hundreds of political activists were bedding down in a field near the Drax power station in North Yorkshire. It was August 2006 and eco-activists had erected tents beside the UK's single biggest carbon emitter. As night fell on the inaugural Climate Camp protest the campaigners near the coal-fired station had no idea that their camp had been infiltrated by three undercover police officers. Mark Kennedy, now the most famous of police spies, and, it now seems, a woman constable known as Lynn...
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Activists Rally to Stop Repeal of Virginia Clean Energy Law
2013-01-17 19:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Dozens of activists from across Virginia converged on the capitol in Richmond today for a rally and day-long action to protest legislation proposed earlier this week by Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli that would effectively repeal Virginias top clean energy law. The activists joined environmental and health leaders to call on state lawmakers to oppose the repeal and instead strengthen the Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) law so that it fulfills its original intent to spur the development of solar...
Climate change activists turn to plans, persuasion, prayer in Obama's second term
2013-01-16 01:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Miami Herald: Just before he and other environmentalists marched to the White House on Tuesday, climate change activist James Hansen warned he wouldnt be able to be arrested with them this time. Hansen, a NASA scientist by day and an activist on his own time, had to be available for a press conference in the afternoon announcing that worldwide temperatures in 2012 were in the top 10 hottest ever recorded. Id be honored to be arrested with you, Hansen said. A few hours later, he declined to discuss politics...
MIT to probe its role in Internet activist's suicide
2013-01-14 13:17:05| InfoWorld: Top News
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is conducting an inquiry into its role in the legal struggles that are believed to have lead to the suicide Friday of Internet activist Aaron Swartz. The institute's website was also defaced late Sunday to include messages from hacker group Anonymous, after being inaccessible for a number of hours.
Hagel wins support from climate activists for DOD post
2013-01-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: For environmentalists, the name Chuck Hagel is synonymous with America's abandonment of the world's only climate change treaty. But with Hagel facing myriad attacks as President Obama's likely nominee for secretary of Defense, the man who helped kill the 1997 Kyoto Protocol is now getting a wary embrace from the very policymakers who crafted and backed the agreement. Environmental leaders and former aides said they aren't aware of Hagel holding any strong environmental convictions. Still, several...
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