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Bill McKibben: Fracking Has Turned Out to Be a Costly Detour
2016-03-24 14:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: With a new piece in The Nation, environmental leader Bill McKibben upends widely held assumptions not just about President Barack Obama`s climate legacy, but about the so-called "natural gas revolution" that was once considered a "savior" in the fight against global warming. The author and 350.org co-founder points to "an explosive paper" published last month in Geophysical Research Letters, in which Harvard researchers "concluded that the nation as a whole is leaking methane in massive quantities."...
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Bill McKibben Arrested + 56 Others Against Proposed Gas Storage Seneca Lake
2016-03-07 16:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The fight over the fate of the Finger Lakes received national attention today when best-selling author, environmentalist and founder of 350.org, Bill McKibben, joined the opposition. McKibben, 55, was arrested this morning with 56 area residents as part of an ongoing civil disobedience campaign against proposed gas storage in Seneca Lakes abandoned salt caverns. This is a developing story, but at this time all arrestees have been released except for McKibben who is still in custody at the Schuyler...
Bill McKibben: What Paris conference on climate change can do for planet Earth
2015-11-29 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Starting Monday, diplomats and scientists, activists and heads of state at the 2015 U.N. climate change conference in Paris will scramble to reach the first truly global agreement on the greatest problem the planet has ever faced. It will make for compelling headlines, but it's not the real story. Because that already happened. Think back to Copenhagen in 2009 and the last of the great U.N. climate gatherings. There too the world watched expectantly, only to see negotiations break down. No firm...
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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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Bill McKibben Arrested Exposing Exxons Unparalleled Evil
2015-10-17 17:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Environmental activist and 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben was arrested on Thursday after staging a protest at a gas station in Burlington, Vermont to bring attention to Exxon Mobil`s decades-long efforts to undermine climate action for the corporation`s own gain--a strategy he called "unparalleled evil" in an op-ed for the Guardian on Wednesday. McKibben blocked a gas pump at Simon`s Quick Stop and Deli Mobile station, armed with a sign that read, "This pump temporarily closed because Exxon...
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