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Obama campaign calls out 'climate deniers' as US cities ditch dirty investments
2013-04-26 12:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The campaign to make climate policy a central plank of President Obama's second term cranked up a notch this week, with the launch of a new push to embarrass Republicans over their climate scepticism and an important victory for the high profile 350.org campaign group. The Organizing for Action (OFA) campaign group, which was formed to support the President's re-election campaign, yesterday made one of its most significant interventions since the election, with the launch of a new campaign urging...
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Obama Administration Announces 21M-Acre Oil and Gas Lease Sale Offshore Texas
2013-04-26 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Green Car Congress: The US Department of the Interior will offer more than 21 million acres offshore Texas for oil and gas exploration and development in a lease sale that will include all available unleased areas in the Western Gulf of Mexico Planning Area. Proposed Lease Sale 233, scheduled to take place in New Orleans in August, will be the third offshore auction under the Administrations Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2012-2017 (Five Year Program). The sale builds on the first two auctions...
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Obama campaign launches plan to shame climate sceptics in Congress
2013-04-25 23:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The campaign group formed to support Barack Obama's political agenda has launched an initiative to shame members of Congress who deny the science behind climate change. In an email to supporters on Thursday, Organizing for Action said it was time to call out members of Congress who deny the existence of climate change, saying they had blocked efforts to avoid its most catastrophic consequences. The email linked to a video mocking Republicans who reject the science on climate change. "Right...
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Obama Administration announces 21M-acre oil and gas lease sale offshore Texas
2013-04-25 16:30:22| Green Car Congress
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Former Obama Staffer Leads White House Protests Against Pipeline
2013-04-24 06:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yahoo: Environmental activists are turning up the heat on President Obama as he faces what could be the trickiest decision of his second term: whether or not to approve the controversial proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which could reach his desk this summer. The project, which would transport oil from the tar sands of Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico, promises jobs and energy. But critics say it will ravage the environment and send oil overseas. We put him in the White House because we thought he was...
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