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One of Oil's Founding Families Is Divesting from Fossil Fuels, and Slamming ExxonMobil in the Process
2016-03-23 21:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Quartz: The Rockefeller Family Fundyes, those Rockefellersjust announced that its divesting from fossil fuels, saying we must keep most of the already discovered reserves in the ground if there is any hope for human and natural ecosystems to survive and thrive in the decades ahead. The nonprofit trust, which has a $130 million endowment devoted largely to grants for environmentalism, womens rights, and civic watchdogging, was borne of the fortune of John D. Rockefeller, one of Americas original oil...
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Rockefeller Fund To Divest Fossil Fuel Funds, Says Exxon Conduct Is Reprehensible
2016-03-23 20:33:10| Chemicals - Topix.net
In a Wednesday announcement, the Rockefeller Family Fund made a move to divest from fossil fuels by "eliminating holdings" of Exxon Mobil Corporation . In a Reuters article outlining the move, Rockefeller is unhappy with Exxon's actions and "allegedly misleading the public about the threat of climate change."
'Ethereal carbon': B.C. government presents a fossil fuel as 'clean'
2016-03-21 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Despite worldwide concern about the consequences of "fracking," the British Columbia (B.C.) government is presenting its proposed Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) industry as both an economic benefit to the Canadian province and a source of 'clean' fossil fuel. Writing in the journal Environmental Communication, Sibo Chen and Associate Professor Shane Gunster from Simon Fraser University, analyze text and images from the regional government's 'LNG in BC' website (http://engage.gov.bc.ca/lnginbc/) --...
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Bourne Energy Develops Clean Energy Technology That Closes The Gap With Fossil Fuels
2016-03-21 03:20:59| pollutiononline News Articles
Bourne Energy, an advanced energy startup, develops a new energy dense generation of clean power systems
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Universities' love affair with fossil fuel companies must end
2016-03-20 13:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: Climate change is perhaps our generation's greatest challenge, and few people are better placed to know it than academics in our top universities, writes James Dyke. But they are still accepting huge sums of fossil fuel money, in the process helping donors in their quest to extract and burn ever more coal, oil and gas. This must stop. This is what we know. If we are to avoid dangerous climate change, then we need to keep the majority of fossil fuel reserves in the ground. So continually exploring...
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