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The Democrats' climate change conundrum
2016-07-07 00:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: Climate change is a top liberal priority, but that very urgency is making the issue divisive as much as unifying for Democrats. A wide rift has opened over a basic question: Just how ambitious should the Democratic Party be in trying to reduce carbon emissions and stabilize Earths climate? Dueling views emerged as supporters of Hillary Clinton faced off against fans of Bernie Sanders in crafting the partys 2016 platform. The Sanders camp is seeing the platform as a missed opportunity for...
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Democrats Proposed Platform Plank Smacks Climate Change Skeptics
2016-07-04 18:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Legal Insurrecti: I have been following the antics of "AG`s United for Clean Power," a group of Democratic states attorneys general spearheaded by former Vice President Al Gore, who are threatening Big Oil and climate change skeptics with racketeering statutes. Despite scholarly reminders of this tactics` obvious constitutional abuses and outcries from proponents of First Amendment rights and sound science, the Democratic Party Platform Drafting Committee is keen to adopt the approach. The committee unanimously...
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Democrats force Clintons hand on prosecution of climate skeptics
2016-06-29 06:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Times: The debate over prosecuting climate change "fraud" has landed squarely in the lap of Hillary Clinton, who must now decide whether the Democratic Party platform will include a resolution urging the Justice Department to pursue climate dissent. So far it doesn`t look good for climate skeptics. The 15-member Democratic Platform Drafting Committee approved Friday a statement calling for a Justice Department investigation into "alleged corporate fraud on the part of fossil fuel companies who have reportedly...
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Democrats adopt climate change science investigation in platform
2016-06-27 16:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Members of the Democratic National Committees platform panel have formally endorsed federal investigations into climate research at fossil fuel companies, including a high-profile probe into Exxon Mobil Corp. While forming their platform this weekend, members of the committee included language saying, all corporations owe it to their shareholders to fully analyze and disclose risks they face including climate risks," according to Inside Climate News. Those who fail to do so should be held...
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Republicans and Democrats agree on at least one thing: Wildfires are a major threat
2016-05-30 12:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: A bipartisan group of U.S. senators is teaming up to do away with preordained spending caps on emergency fire recovery efforts as the American West braces for another wildfire season. Drier conditions, likely driven by climate change, have turned vast swaths of the continent into veritable tinderboxes; last summer, for example, five million acres of Alaska and 1.7 million acres across Washington, Oregon, and Idaho burned. We need to call mega-fires what they are -- disasters," said Sen. Mike...
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