Divestment Campaign Is Having Little Effect On Dakota And Keystone Pipeline Funding

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Developers behind the Dakota Access (DAPL) and Keystone XL pipelines appear unfazed by an activist-led campaign pressuring banks and other institutions to divest from the two contentious oil projects. Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), the company behind DAPL, maintains that the crusade has not prevented them from finding institutions willing to invest in the project. ETP […]

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May 15, 2017 at 06:54AM

German Green Party Collapsing In ‘Existential Crisis’

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Germany’s Green Party is collapsing and the party could lose all its seats in the national legislature, according to a Monday article in the magazine Der Spiegel. The Greens are polling very poorly in upcoming national elections scheduled for September, and the party doesn’t seem to have a plan to solve the problem, according to […]

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May 15, 2017 at 06:54AM

Climate Science in the Comics

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Scott Adams’ Dilbert on what is wrong with climate science captured in six frames.  http://ift.tt/2qhNIpm  Sorry, copyright prevents me from posting the whole cartoon, so please click the link.  Scott Adams is known to be a skeptic of anthropogenic global … Continue reading →

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May 15, 2017 at 06:30AM

Abundant fossil fuels give Trump upper hand on climate

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It remains to finally be determined whether or not President Trump will follow through on a promise to withdraw U.S. participation from the non-binding Paris Climate “treaty” signed by his predecessor just prior to leaving office last September. Either way, that decision will have major impacts upon the future of Trump’s economic agenda and America’s competitive […]

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May 15, 2017 at 06:24AM