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Bankrupt Coal Miner Peabody Energy Paid Climate Denialist to Write Greenhouse Gas Reports
2016-07-11 06:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Truthout: A research center that has produced scores of reports dismissing the dangers of human-caused climate change was being paid by coal company Peabody Energy to produce reports about its greenhouse gas emissions. The Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change (CSCDGC) is revealed as having historical financial ties to Peabody in the coal company's bankruptcy papers. A DeSmog investigation has also uncovered undisclosed financial links between the center, run by veteran climate science...
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Coal Industry Worried Its Executives Might Somehow Be Responsible For Their Companies' Actions
2016-07-07 15:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: With Massey Energy's Don Blankenship in jail, coal companies are concerned about these tricky "law" thingies. After Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship knowingly conspired to violate the safety standards at his Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia, a jury of his peers said, "Yeah, you are totally guilty of conspiring to violate the safety standards at your mine.' In the wake of his malfeasance, the coal industry is taking a hard look at how it might redouble its efforts to comply with...
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Coal Companies Threaten to Destroy Last Remaining Habitat of the Highly Endangered Pangolin
2016-07-06 20:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
OneGreenPlanet: Let me introduce you to this adorable and kind of crazy looking mammal: the pangolin Pangolins are scaled mammals that are closely related to anteaters. These nocturnal creatures spend their nights eating ants and termites. Pangolins generally only give birth to one baby at a time. Their offspring, called pangopups, are very dependent on their mother and can be seen riding around on her tail when they are tired. Pangolins roll up into a ball when they are scared, stressed, or frightened. Indian...
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Banks urged to blacklist Czech coal guzzler EPH
2016-07-06 16:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: NGOs tell Citibank, HSBC and JP Morgan they are undermining climate policy by financing fossil fuel spree Green groups are calling on major banks to stop financing a dash for coal by Czech firm EPH. BankTrack, E3G, urgewald and Sandbag wrote to nine institutions that have helped raise EUR3 billion since 2012 for an acquisition spree across Europe. This bet on a future for polluting assets undermines EU climate policy, they told funders including Citibank, HSBC and JP Morgan. "EPHs business...
A flagship clean coal plant is a flailing mess. Does that mean the technology is doomed?
2016-07-06 15:05:47| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vox: But Kemper, a first-of-its-kind demonstration project, has been a outrageous disaster. Its now more than two years behind schedule and costs $4 billion more than its original $2.4 billion budget. As Urbina reveals through interviews and leaked documents, the project has been plagued by awful mismanagement by Southern Company and possible fraud. And Mississippi ratepayers now have to pay for these overruns. You can find all the grisly details in Urbinas piece, but I do want to offer a few stray...
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