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Beyond Paris: Finding the Courage to Face the Climate Emergency
Written by Russell Greene | Common Dreams
Last weekend in Orlando the platform committee of the Democratic Party added language into their platform acknowledging the official position of the Democratic Party to be that we are in a global climate emergency. Further, the platform acknowledges the scale of the threat to be so large that it will require a leadership response from our country on the scale of our national mobilization to confront the threat of fascism during WWII. The platform language I offered through an amendment entitled, Global Climate Leadership, explicitly acknowledges that anything short of that will bring catastrophic consequences to civilization:
Missouri to Generate Power By Covering Highway With Crowdfunded Solar Roadways
Written by Claire Bernish | The Free Thought Project
Earth Day Marks One-Year Anniversary of POPLA Bill, Which Would Ban Fracking on All Public Lands
Written by Food and Water Watch
Today, Earth Day, marks the first anniversary of the Protect Our Public Lands Act (POPLA), federal legislation introduced by Reps. Mark Pocan (D-WI) and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) that would ban fracking on all public lands. In the past year the bill has gained strong momentum, picking up 37 House cosponsors.
ExxonMobil, Rockefellers face off in climate battle
Written by Times India
US energy giant ExxonMobil is facing an onslaught from environmentalists and some shareholders alleging it hid what it knew about the effects of fossil fuels on climate change.
Spare Me Your Coal Requiems: Time For A Reckoning With Peabody And Coal Industry
Written by Jeff Biggers | Huffington Post Blog
As Peabody Energy teeters on the brink of bankruptcy, edging toward a Chapter II reorganization that will most likely allow it to walk away from massive reclamation and mine worker commitments, a flurry of poetic musings and giddy celebrations over of the death of Big Coal has begun to flow.
Why You Should Get Excited About 2016: It’s A Leap Year For Climate Justice
Written by Bianca Mugyenyi | Common Dreams
We are fast approaching February 29th, the beginning of the 2016 Leap Year. Every four years we add a day to our calendars to bring them into sync with the earth’s revolution around the sun—because it’s easier to change our human systems than to change the laws of nature.
Climate change could devastate Africa. It’s already hurting this Kenyan town.
Written by Abigail Higgins | The Washington Post
KALOKOL, Kenya — The lake that Philip Tioko relies on for survival is a fine turquoise strip that seems to recede farther into the distance each day. His fishing village once hugged the shore, but now it is 800 feet away, and everything — food, water and employment — is drying up.
Tioko, 46, remembers when fish were abundant in Lake Turkana, the world’s largest desert lake, and there was enough rain for his livestock. “I used to have so many animals. The lake used to be full — life was good,” he said.
Climate Justice Advocates Say COP21 Mobilization in Paris More Important Than Ever
Written by Sarah Lazare | Common Dreams
'We can think of few better responses to violence and terror than this movement's push for peace and hope.'
U.S. Mayors Say LED Lighting, Energy Efficient Buildings And Solar Energy Technologies Are Reshaping America’s Cities
Written by Solar Thermal Magazine
The nation’s mayors released a new survey report showing how cities are deploying solar electricity systems, LED lighting and low-energy buildings to meet their energy and climate goals.
Released at the Conference’s 84th Winter Meeting in Washington, D.C., the findings show mayors overwhelmingly identified these three technologies to be the “most promising” technologies for curbing climate emissions and reducing energy use in their cities.
Global Warming's Inconvenient Electoral Math
Written by Justin Talbot-Zorn | The Huffington Post
Four years ago, the author and climate activist Bill McKibben published a seminal article in Rolling Stone called "Global Warming's Terrifying New Math," laying out the stark cold numerical case for a carbon tax. To avoid a catastrophic 2 degrees' Celsius increase in global temperatures, he argued that humanity could only burn through another 565 gigatons of carbon dioxide -- a small fraction of the 2,795 gigatons of carbon that were then in fossil fuel producers' proven coal, oil, and gas reserves.
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'Huge Ovation': Citing #ExxonKnew, Vermont Governor Calls for Fossil Fuel Divestment
Written by Andrea Miller
'Owning ExxonMobil stock is not a business Vermont should be in,' declared Gov. Peter Shumlin during State of the State address
Spending deal to lift oil export ban
Written by Devin Henry | The Hill
Lawmakers have agreed to lift the four-decade-old ban on crude oil exports as part of a spending and tax package announced by congressional leadership on Tuesday night, according to a GOP lawmaker.
If you were wondering how seriously world leaders took the obligations they imposed on themselves in Paris over the weekend, the early returns would indicate: not very.
Major Electric Utility Dumps ALEC over Clean Power Plan
Written by Nick Surgey | DailyKos
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has suffered the loss of another major corporate sponsor, the Guardian reported Tuesday, with the electric utility American Electric Power (AEP) announcing it will no longer provide the climate change denial group with funding from 2016.