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China threatens death penalty for serious polluters
2013-06-19 16:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Chinese authorities have given courts the powers to hand down the death penalty in serious pollution cases, state media said, as the government tries to assuage growing public anger at environmental desecration. An increasingly affluent urban population has begun to object to China's policy of growth at all costs, which has fuelled the economy for three decades, with the environment emerging as a focus of concern and protests. A new judicial interpretation which took effect on Wednesday would...
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Stop paying the polluters
2013-04-09 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times of Oman: When the winds of change blow, says an old Chinese proverb, some build walls, and others build wind mills. These same words closed the meeting in March of the Climate Parliament, a forum in Brussels that brought together legislators from around the world who are committed to the fight against climate change. Parliamentarians, United Nations representatives, and the International Energy Agency (IEA) alike agreed that ending dependency on fossil fuels is one of the most urgent steps needed to combat...
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UK rewards polluters and locks up people who want to save the planet
2013-04-03 07:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: What if, instead of giving Marie Curie and Alexander Fleming Nobel prizes for their life-saving work on radiation and penicillin, they'd been thrown in jail? Or, instead of being awarded the Grand Croix of the Légion d'honneur for his work on the germ theory of disease, Louis Pasteur was imprisoned like Napoleon on Elba? It would be perverse to return the favour of great, public works by depriving people of their freedom. Yet that is just what we're doing in Britain right now. The contributions...
China's losing battle against state-backed polluters
2013-03-31 23:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: When Zijin Mining Group threatened to move its headquarters some 270 kms from its home county of Shanghang to Xiamen on China's southeast coast, a local Communist Party boss rushed to confront the company's chairman Chen Jinghe. "If you want to move, you'll have to move the Zijin Mountain to Xiamen as well," the official told Chen, referring to a vast local mine that has helped transform the firm into China's top gold producer and second-biggest copper miner. The exchange, recited with some...
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Senators propose long-shot carbon tax bill for big polluters
2013-02-14 19:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Two of the most liberal senators on Thursday proposed a bill to tax carbon emissions, raising up to $1.2 trillion in revenue over 10 years that would largely be returned consumers. Independent Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Barbara Boxer, a Democrat from California, attempted to seize on the momentum from Tuesday's State of the Union speech when President Barack Obama expressed support for efforts to battle climate change. "We have the opportunity right now, with the president's commitment in...
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