Submissions from commondreams.org

• GM and Ford Knew, Too: Reporting Reveals Auto Giants Recognized Looming Climate Crisis in 1960s—and Helped Bury Reality

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  Published 26th Oct 2020
• Study Shows U.S. Switch to 100% Renewable Energy Would Save Hundreds of Billions Each Year

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  Published 25th Oct 2020
• 'Frightening Milestone': Scientists Sound Alarm Over Record Amount of Open, Iceless Sea in the Arctic

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  Published 23rd Oct 2020
• Pressed on Climate Views and Ties to Shell Oil, Barrett Once Again Calls Established Climate Science 'Controversial'

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  Published 21st Oct 2020
• Investing $2 Trillion in US Clean Energy and Infrastructure Could Create Millions of 'Good Jobs,' Analysis Finds ""We don't have to choose between a strong economy or a healthy environment—we can have both," says an EPI data analyst."

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  Published 21st Oct 2020
• 'Sadistic and Depraved': Trump Rejects California Request for Federal Disaster Aid to Recover From Catastrophic Wildfires

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  Published 16th Oct 2020
• Greta Thunberg Rebukes Amy Coney Barrett Over Her Anti-Science 'Views on Climate Change' - "To be fair, I don't have any 'views on climate change' either. Just like I don't have any 'views' on gravity."

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  Published 16th Oct 2020
• 'We Don't Need a Climate Denier on the Supreme Court': Outrage as Barrett Says She Has No 'Firm Views' on Climate Crisis

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  Published 14th Oct 2020
• 'After All, It's Our Money': Global Climate Campaigners Call for Public Banks to Fund Just Recovery and Green Transition

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  Published 12th Oct 2020
• Australian Aboriginal Leaders Testify Mining Firm's Gag Clause Silencing Opposition to Destruction of Ancient Sacred Site

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  Published 12th Oct 2020
• Trump's USDA Sued Over Program Allowing 'Horrific' Mass Slaughter of Native Wildlife

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  Published 12th Oct 2020
• Scientists Warn 2020 on Pace to Become Hottest Year Ever as September Heat Smashes Previous Record

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  Published 8th Oct 2020
• Leaked Docs From Inside 'Omnicidal' ExxonMobil Reveal Plan to Increase Climate-Killing Emissions

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  Published 6th Oct 2020
• 'Very Bad News': Scientists Behind New Study Warn Warming Oceans 'Contributing to Climate Breakdown'

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  Published 29th Sep 2020
• 'Trying to Have It Both Ways': Investigation Reveals BP and Shell Still Back Anti-Climate Lobby Groups, Despite Pledges

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  Published 29th Sep 2020
• Planet Is Burning, But First Presidential Debate Set to Ignore Humanity's Most Pressing Issue: Climate

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  Published 23rd Sep 2020
• Massive 'Climate Clock' Urging Governments to #ActInTime Unveiled on Metronome in New York City

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  Published 21st Sep 2020
• To Block Trump's Gutting of Methane Regulation, Coalition of State and Local Governments Sues EPA

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  Published 15th Sep 2020
• "It'll Start Getting Cooler, You Just Watch": Trump Spits Climate Denialism Right in California's Face

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  Published 15th Sep 2020
• Sanders Delivers Message to Lawmakers Who Claim US Can't Afford Green New Deal: Climate Catastrophe Is 'Much More Expensive'

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  Published 14th Sep 2020
• With Wildfires Ravaging the West, Biden Slams Trump Denial and Calls Climate Crisis an 'Imminent, Existential Threat'

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  Published 13th Sep 2020
• 'Green New Deal or the Blood Red Apocalypse. Your Choice': Dems Urged to Embrace Bold Climate Action as West Burns

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  Published 11th Sep 2020
• With 'Irreparable Damage' Looming, 15 State AGs File Suit to Block Trump From Fossil Fuel Assault on Arctic Refuge

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  Published 10th Sep 2020
• 'This Is What a Climate Crisis Looks Like': Fires Have Now Burned Record 2 Million Acres in California This Year

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  Published 9th Sep 2020
• "Isn't Just Good Policy—It's Good Politics": 145 Groups Demand Biden Ban Fossil Fuel Execs and Lobbyists From Campaign and Cabinet

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  Published 1st Sep 2020
• "Is There No End to Big Oil's Evil?" Campaigners Condemn Industry Plan to Pour US Plastics Into Africa

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  Published 31st Aug 2020
• 'What's Radical Is Doing Nothing': Attacked as an Extremist, Sanders Condemns GOP for Ignoring Climate Crisis at Convention

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  Published 27th Aug 2020
• Proving 'A Different World Is Possible,' Exxon Dropped From Dow Jones After 92-Year Run

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  Published 26th Aug 2020
• 'What Stage of Capitalism Is This?' With over 100,000 people displaced by wildfires raging across California, Baupost Group collected more than $3 billion in July after betting on insurance claims against embattled utility company PG&E.

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  Published 25th Aug 2020
• Coalition Files Suit to Stop Trump's "Slapdash and Tragic Plan" to Drill in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

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  Published 25th Aug 2020
• Greenpeace Gives Democratic Platform C+ on Climate, Calling for 'Action at the Scale That Science and Justice Demand' | "We know the Republicans have no plan," says the advocacy group. "But that doesn't mean the Democrats can take their feet off the gas."

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  Published 20th Aug 2020
• 'Immoral, Criminal, Inexcusable': Climate Groups Furious as DNC Drops Support for Ending Fossil Fuel Handouts From Platform

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  Published 19th Aug 2020
• Following Outrage, Trump Pulls Nomination of "Unapologetic Racist' William Perry Pendley to Oversee Nation's Public Lands

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  Published 16th Aug 2020
• Trump EPA Plows Ahead With 'Mind-Bogglingly Stupid and Destructive' Rollback of Methane Emissions Rules

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  Published 14th Aug 2020
• 'Choose the People': Greenpeace Targets Vulnerable GOP Senators With Demand to Pass Urgently Needed Covid-19 Relief

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  Published 31st Jul 2020
• Coalition Sues to Block Trump's "Scorched-Earth Attack" on Bedrock Environmental Law

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  Published 30th Jul 2020
• Need Money for a Green New Deal? Get It From ICE

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  Published 26th Jul 2020
• 'Resounding' Win for Public Health and Climate as Judge Blocks Trump Attempt to Gut Methane Restrictions

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  Published 16th Jul 2020
• 'We Will Sue,' Vow Green Groups After Trump Guts Nation's Key Environmental Law

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  Published 16th Jul 2020
• In Blow to Trump and Win for Bears, Federal Appeals Court Upholds Endangered Species Protections for Yellowstone Grizzlies

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  Published 12th Jul 2020
• Watchdog Accuses Trump's NOAA of 'Choosing Extinction' for Critically Threatened Right Whales by Hiding Scientific Evidence

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  Published 12th Jul 2020
• In Blow to Trump and Win for Bears, Federal Appeals Court Upholds Endangered Species Protections for Yellowstone Grizzlies

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  Published 9th Jul 2020
• '24 Hours. 3 Dirty Pipelines Delayed': Supreme Court Rejects Trump Effort to Greenlight Keystone XL Construction

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  Published 8th Jul 2020
• 'The Poster Company for US Fracking Has Fallen' -- Chesapeake Energy Files for Bankruptcy: "Meanwhile the Trump administration continues to try and bail out this garbage fire industry with our tax dollars."

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  Published 30th Jun 2020
• 'Far-Right Ideology' of Trump Public Lands Nominee Why Senate Must Reject Him, Say Groups

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  Published 29th Jun 2020
• 'Warning Sign of Major Proportions': Number of Siberian Forest Fires Increase Fivefold in Week Since Record High Temperature

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  Published 28th Jun 2020
• DC Sues Fossil Fuel Giants for Decades of Spending Millions to 'Mislead Consumers and Discredit Climate Science in Pursuit of Profits': "Climate denial is not a victimless crime. Now, one by one states and local governments are stepping up to hold the perpetrators accountable."

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  Published 26th Jun 2020
• In Minnesota, Ellison Announces Climate Lawsuit Against Exxon, Koch, and API: “There are no more worthy targets of a climate fraud lawsuit than Exxon, Koch Industries, and API: the unholy trinity of climate denial."

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  Published 25th Jun 2020
• Judge Rules California Requirement of Cancer Warning Label for Glyphosate Violates Corporate 'Free Speech': WHO’s cancer research arm classified glyphosate—the active ingredient in weed-killers like Bayer's Roundup—as probably carcinogenic for humans.

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  Published 24th Jun 2020
• 'This Scares Me,' Says Bill McKibben as Arctic Hits 100.4°F—Hottest Temperature on Record

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  Published 23rd Jun 2020
• 'Shell Must Not Get Away With This': Niger Delta Still Waiting for Big Oil to Clean Up Devastating Pollution

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  Published 21st Jun 2020
• 'This Is Why We Continue to Fight': Indigenous Leaders Outraged as Trans Mountain Pipeline Spills 50,000 Gallons of Crude Oil

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  Published 18th Jun 2020
• To Support 'Urgently-Needed Clean and Just Energy Transition,' 450+ Groups Demand Federal Regulators Rebuff Attack on Community Solar

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  Published 16th Jun 2020
• Experts Say $17.5 Billion Writedown by BP Prove Oil Giant Knows 'Reserves of Oil and Gas Increasingly Worthless'

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  Published 16th Jun 2020
• Federal Court Urged to Hold 'Rogue' Trump EPA in Contempt for Blatant Defiance of Ban on Toxic Weed Killer: "EPA needs a lesson in separation of powers and we're asking the court to give it to them."

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  Published 12th Jun 2020
• 'Exceptionally Troubling' - Researchers Show Hack-for-Hire Operation Targeted Groups Fighting for Climate Action and Net Neutrality: "If the investigation demonstrates that Exxon is behind these attacks, it only shows how far the fossil fuel industry will go to silence critics," said 350.org

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  Published 11th Jun 2020
• Hmmm... its almost like permaculture is the only way...

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  Published 10th Jun 2020
• 62% Of Big Oil, Gas, And Mining Corporations Score Small Business Bailout Funds

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  Published 9th Jun 2020
• 'Quietly Putting Hundreds of Species at Risk,' Trump Opens 5,000 Square Miles of Atlantic Ocean to Commercial Fishing

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  Published 8th Jun 2020
• Global Meat Giants Fuel Major Future Risk of Creating Next Pandemic, Investor Group Warns - "Factory farming is both vulnerable to pandemics and guilty of creating them."

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  Published 4th Jun 2020
• 'The Planet Is at Stake': DNC Panel Pushes Biden to Back $16 Trillion Plan to Fight Climate Crisis

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  Published 4th Jun 2020
• With Nation Focused on Pandemic, Trump Interior Dept. to Greenlight Killing of Bear Cubs and Wolf Pups in Their Dens

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  Published 1st Jun 2020
• Trump-Connected Fossil Fuel Companies Permitted to Delay Payments of $56 Million in Pollution Fines During Pandemic

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  Published 28th May 2020
• Nearly 200 Groups in Canada Vow to Fight for Covid-19 Recovery That Puts Human and Ecological Health First

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  Published 26th May 2020
• Oil Companies Can Set Their Own Rates for Royalties From Drilling on Public Lands Thanks to Trump: "Oil and gas corporations already pay pennies compared to what they make in profits from plundering public lands - land that belongs to the American people - and now they'll pay even less."

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  Published 24th May 2020
• Trump's loyalty to the fossil fuel sector has been unremitting throughout his term, with Public Citizen reporting Wednesday that nearly two-thirds of high-level meetings at the Interior Dept are attended by oil, gas, and coal companies and lobbyists.

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  Published 22nd May 2020
• Climate Protesters Call Out 'Hot Air' of Financial Giant During BlackRock Annual Meeting: "The time for rhetoric and baby steps is long gone. BlackRock has to make substantial changes to its entire investment model in order to be the climate leader it claims to be."

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  Published 22nd May 2020
• EPA Chief Says Trump's Evisceration of Regulations "Make Things Better"—But Forgets to Add "For Polluters": "For Wheeler to claim these rollbacks were for the good of the nation is absurd and insulting," says environmental leader.

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  Published 22nd May 2020
• Naomi Klein and Arundhati Roy Help Launch Global Green New Deal Project With Worldwide Invitation. "The time to build the future we deserve is now, and international solidarity is the tool we need to begin its construction."

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  Published 21st May 2020
• After Dams Fail, Dow Admits Floodwaters in Midland, Michigan 'Commingling' With Toxic Chemical Storage Ponds

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  Published 21st May 2020
• 'Not Just Bad, It's Pathological': While Pushing Big Oil Bailouts, Trump Slaps Wind and Solar Industry With $50 Million in Old Rent Bills: "Robbing from a clean energy future to prop up the dirty energy past."

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  Published 19th May 2020
• Climate Campaigners Applaud Biden on Vow to Pull Plug on Keystone XL Permit: "We'll need just this kind of climate ambition to make way for a livable planet in the next four years."

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  Published 19th May 2020
• 'Shameful Does Not Even Begin to Describe' Trump EPA Decision on Chemical Known to Damage Children's Brains: "Yet another abdication of duty by those that are entrusted with protecting Americans from needless and preventable harm."

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  Published 17th May 2020
• Big Oil Taking $1.9 Billion in CARES Act Tax Breaks Aimed at Helping Small Businesses in 'Stealth Bailout': "In the name of 'small business,' we're shoveling out billions of dollars to big corporations and rich guys."

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  Published 17th May 2020
• 'Disaster Capitalism at Its Worst': Report Details Big Oil's Efforts to Cash In on Coronavirus | “Polluters fought hard for kickbacks in the first coronavirus stimulus package and they are undoubtedly up to it again."

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  Published 13th May 2020
• 'Not Today. Not Tomorrow. Not Ever': Indigenous Campaigners Protest As KXL Pipeline Construction Begins Amid Legal Challenges

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  Published 10th May 2020
• Slashing US Meat Consumption by Half Could Cut Diet-Related Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 35%: Study

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  Published 8th May 2020
• Slashing US Meat Consumption by Half Could Cut Diet-Related Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 35%: Study

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  Published 8th May 2020
• Trump Signs Executive Order Greenlighting 'Corporate Takeover of Our Oceans While They Hope We Aren't Paying Attention'

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  Published 8th May 2020
• 'Milestone Moment' as JPMorgan Chase Announces Former Exxon CEO to No Longer Be Lead Director of Bank's Board: The ousting of "America's #1 climate denier" from the leadership position on the board of the largest global lender of fossil fuels is being welcomed by the climate movement.

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  Published 3rd May 2020
• 'Silent Spring Is Already Here': Global Study Shows Nearly 25% Drop in Insect Population Over 30 Years | Common Dreams News

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  Published 26th Apr 2020
• "They're Crooks": Coal Industry Aims to Exploit Coronavirus Crisis to Cut Payments to Miners With Black Lung - Coal companies are "going to try to use this virus thing to stop paying benefits," warned one retired miner suffering from black lung.

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  Published 12th Apr 2020
• With Economy 'Overlord' Mnuchin Controlling Bailout Funds, Green Group Demands to Know What 'Climate-Killing Companies' Are Seeking Government Cash - Mnuchin "can pick winners and losers as he sees fit, even if it destroys our climate. That's terrifying."

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  Published 7th Apr 2020
• We Need a Green New Deal for Farmland

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  Published 6th Apr 2020
• Trump to Kneecap Obama-Era Fuel Efficiency Standards, Hurtling Nation 'Toward a More Dangerous Climate'

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  Published 31st Mar 2020
• Trump to Kneecap Obama-Era Fuel Efficiency Standards, Hurtling Nation 'Toward a More Dangerous Climate' - "Of all the bad things President Trump has done to the environment, this is the worst."

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  Published 31st Mar 2020
• 'Holy Crap This Is Insane': Citing Coronavirus Pandemic, EPA Indefinitely Suspends Environmental Rules

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  Published 29th Mar 2020
• 'Holy Crap This Is Insane': Citing Coronavirus Pandemic, EPA Indefinitely Suspends Environmental Rules - "The EPA uses this global pandemic to create loopholes for destroying the environment. This is a schoolbook example for what we need to start looking out for."

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  Published 27th Mar 2020
• New Report Takes Aim at 5 Banking Institutions Backing Amazon Rainforest Exploitation: "Five of the world's most powerful financial institutions are actively contributing to climate change by providing debt and equity financing for crude oil extraction projects in the Amazon."

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  Published 15th Mar 2020
• Record-Breaking Warm Weather Expected Around Globe As Human-Caused Climate Crisis Now As Powerful As El Niño's Effects, Says WMO

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  Published 3rd Mar 2020
• Record-Breaking Warm Weather Expected Around Globe As Human-Caused Climate Crisis Now As Powerful As El Niño's Effects, Says WMO

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  Published 3rd Mar 2020
• 'No Time for Being Patronized,' Say Youth Climate Leaders as UK Cops Warn Parents Over Fridays for Future Protest

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  Published 28th Feb 2020
• Landmark Win in 'Fight for Habitable Future' as Jury Refuses to Convict Climate Activists Who Presented Necessity Defense - "When citizens are told the truth about the climate crisis—which is the first of Extinction Rebellion's demands—they take appropriate and responsible action, as our jury did

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  Published 28th Feb 2020
• 'Groundbreaking Result for Climate Justice': UK Appeal Court Rules Plans for Third Runway at Heathrow Airport Illegal - Celebrating the win, campaigners declared that "no airport expansion is compatible with a #ClimateEmergency."

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  Published 27th Feb 2020
• With Bedrock Environmental Law Under Threat, Video Billboard Casts Interior Secretary as Trumpian 'Swamp Monster': "If this rollback happens, it will weaken communities' efforts to protect their air, water, and public health."

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  Published 26th Feb 2020
• Greenpeace Finds Labels on Plastic Products 'Mislead the Public and Harm America's Recycling Systems', corporations are hiding behind the pretense that their throwaway packaging is recyclable.

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  Published 20th Feb 2020
• 'One Hand Cannot Give What the Other Is Taking Away': Critics Skeptical of Bezos Pledge of $10 Billion to Fight Climate Crisis - "Will Jeff Bezos show us true leadership or will he continue to be complicit in the acceleration of the climate crisis, while supposedly trying to help?"

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  Published 19th Feb 2020
• 'Surprised, No. Disgusted, Yes': Study Shows Deepwater Horizon Oil Spread Much Farther Than Previously Known

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  Published 16th Feb 2020
• 'The Saddest Thing Is That It Won't Be Breaking News': Concentration of CO2 Hits Record High of 416 ppm | "Emissions from fossil fuels and deforestation need to be reduced to ZERO to stop this trend!"

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  Published 13th Feb 2020
• Save the Insects, Save Ourselves: Researchers Sound Alarm on Bugpocalypse

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  Published 11th Feb 2020
• Sanders Rips Trump for Lacking 'Courage' to Confront Fossil Fuel Industry After President Bragged About Oil Boom - "President Trump is turning his back on the children of America and on future generations, and dooming them to live in a planet increasingly unhealthy and uninhabitable."

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  Published 5th Feb 2020