Submissions from commondreams.org

• 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
• Condemning NAFTA 2.0 as 'Giveaway to Fossil Fuel Industry,' Sanders Vows to Immediately Renegotiate Trump Deal If Elected

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  Published 30th Jan 2020
• Climate Groups Thank Sanders for Being Only Candidate at Debate to Stand Against Trump-Led Trade Deal

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  Published 30th Jan 2020
• 57 Climate Scientists Object After Biden Falsely Claims "Not a Single Solitary Scientist" Thinks Sanders' Green New Deal Can Work

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  Published 30th Jan 2020
• Sanders Takes Aim at Corporate Polluters With Bill to Clean Up Toxic 'Forever Chemicals' in Drinking Water

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  Published 30th Jan 2020
• A Watershed Moment': The Guardian Applauded for Banning Ads From Fossil Fuel Companies - "Who's next?" asked climate campaigners, urging all media outlets and other institutions to cut ties with planet-wrecking polluters.

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  Published 29th Jan 2020
• 57 Climate Scientists Object After Biden Falsely Claims "Not a Single Solitary Scientist" Thinks Sanders' Green New Deal Can Work - In an open letter, the climate experts say Bernie's plan "not only possible," but necessary "if we want to save the planet for ourselves, our children, grandchildren,

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  Published 29th Jan 2020
• 'Biggest Loss of Clean Water Protection the Country Has Ever Seen': Trump Guts Safeguards for US Streams and Wetlands

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  Published 23rd Jan 2020
• Despite Trump Vows, Coal Industry Falling as Wind Power Surges in US and Worldwide - Trump is one of a handful of significant trans-generational genocidal maniacs whose policies will kill millions in the future.

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  Published 19th Jan 2020
• Mayor Pete and Joe Biden start taking money from fossil fuel companies.

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  Published 19th Jan 2020
• 'Scale of This Failure Has No Precedent': Scientists Say Hot Ocean 'Blob' Killed One Million Seabirds

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  Published 17th Jan 2020
• 'Unquestionably Alarming Signs': New Data Confirms Earth Just Had Hottest Decade on Record

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  Published 16th Jan 2020
• 'We Need Everyone in the Streets': More Than 180 Events Planned Across US to Protest Trump's March to War With Iran

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  Published 8th Jan 2020
• Climate Watchdog Warns US Fracking Boom Leading to 30% Rise in Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2025

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  Published 8th Jan 2020
• "Stop Making a Killing at the Planet's Expense": Climate Advocates Call for Fossil Fuel Companies to Foot Australia Fires Bill

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  Published 8th Jan 2020
• Trump Accused of 'Disgraceful Abdication' of Duty to Protect Earth for Proposal to Neuter Landmark Environmental Law

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  Published 7th Jan 2020
• 'Because Insects Are Key to Our Own Survival,' 73 Scientists Unveil Global Roadmap to Battle Bugpocalypse

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  Published 7th Jan 2020
• More Than One Billion Animals Killed in Australia Wildfires Called a 'Very Conservative' Estimate | Chris Dickman of the University of Sydney said "without any doubt at all" the animal death toll has exceeded one billion.

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  Published 7th Jan 2020
• 'Because Insects Are Key to Our Own Survival,' 73 Scientists Unveil Global Roadmap to Battle Bugpocalypse

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  Published 7th Jan 2020
• 'Entire Species Are Being Wiped Out': Ecologists Say Half a Billion Animals May Have Been Killed by Australia Wildfires

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  Published 2nd Jan 2020
• Sanders Vows to Create National Clean Drinking Water Standards to End Corporate Contamination

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  Published 1st Jan 2020
• Greta Thunberg Offers Advice to Young People, Dismisses Climate-Denying Politicians in BBC Radio Program

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  Published 31st Dec 2019
• 'Unprecedented National Crisis': Australians Flee to the Water as Fires Consume Coastal Town on Southern Coast in Victoria

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  Published 31st Dec 2019
• A Call to Action as World is Rapidly Depleting Essential Groundwater | We are rapidly depleting a relatively non-renewable natural resource that is essential for our survival. And the climate crisis is making it worse.

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  Published 30th Dec 2019
• Calling Him Only 2020 Candidate Whose Plan 'Can Save Our Planet,' US Youth Climate Strike Leaders Endorse Bernie Sanders for President

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  Published 8th Dec 2019
• Trump's Climate Recklessness Is Grounds for Impeachment - Despite the clear warning signs the worse is yet to come, Trump is shredding regulatory standards designed by law to curb the emission. His monarchical tyranny is of the kind that the nation's founders feared most.

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  Published 29th Nov 2019
• 'The Law Is on Our Side': Extinction Rebellion Celebrates Dropped Charges Against 105 Climate Activists

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  Published 28th Nov 2019
• Coal Knew Too: Explosive Report Shows Industry Was Aware of Climate Threat as Far Back as 1966

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  Published 25th Nov 2019
• While Warning of Nazi-Like Fascism and Corporate Crimes, Pope Francis Proposes Adding 'Ecological Sin' to Church Teachings

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  Published 17th Nov 2019
• Putting 'Health of All Species' in Danger, Trump EPA Proposal Guts Restrictions on Toxic Herbicide Linked to Birth Defects - "The pro-industry zealots now running the EPA's pesticide office are making a mockery of science & eliminating key safety measures, all for company profits."

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  Published 16th Nov 2019
• 'Beginning of the End of Climate-Wrecking Fossil Fuel Finance': World's Largest Public Bank Ditches Oil and Coal -- Climate activists celebrated Thursday the decision of the European Investment Bank to stop funding most oil and coal projects by 2021

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  Published 15th Nov 2019
• New Analysis Shows Billionaires' Dream of Space Tourism Would Be Disaster for Emissions, Climate Crisis

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  Published 14th Nov 2019
• The Greatest Scam in History: Science failed to have the necessary impact in significant part because of disinformation promoted by the major fossil-fuel companies, which have succeeded in diverting attention from climate change and successfully blocking meaningful action.

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  Published 12th Nov 2019
• Keystone Pipeline Does as Experts Predicted, Spills 383,000 Gallons of Oil in North Dakota

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  Published 31st Oct 2019
• Scientists Demand 'Paradigm Shift' After Study Shows 'Frightening' Decline of Insects and Spiders

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  Published 31st Oct 2019
• 'We Should Be Worried': Study Confirms Fear That Intense Ocean Acidification Portends Ecological Collapse

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  Published 24th Oct 2019
• 'What a Disgrace': Bernie Sanders Slams Trump Administration for Saying Climate Crisis Excluded From G7 Agenda. "Not only is Trump using the powers of the presidency to enrich himself, which is blatantly unconstitutional. He is ignoring a massive international crisis that threatens humanity."

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  Published 17th Oct 2019
• After Shell CEO Claims 'We Have No Choice' But to Invest in Fossil Fuels, McKibben Says, 'We Have No Choice But to Try and Stop Them' - With "overwhelming evidence that we are on the brink of climate and ecological collapse," executive's comment elicits intense rebuke

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  Published 16th Oct 2019
• 'How Dare You!': Greta Thunberg Rages at 'Fairytales of Eternal Economic Growth' at UN Climate Summit: "Entire ecosytems are collapsing. We are at the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money."

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  Published 24th Sep 2019
• If a House Is on Fire, You Don't Add Fuel': 530 Groups Back Call to Rapidly Phase Out Fossil Fuels Worldwide: Widespread support for the Lofoten Declaration comes as world leaders meet in NYC for the U.N. Climate Action Summit

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  Published 24th Sep 2019
• 'Because Business as Usual Is a Death Sentence': Youth Climate Strikers in Their Own Words

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  Published 20th Sep 2019
• 'Students Have Led and We Must Follow': Thousands of Scientists From 40 Nations Join Global Climate Strike

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  Published 20th Sep 2019
• Sanders Vows, If Elected, to Pursue Criminal Charges Against Fossil Fuel CEOs for Knowingly 'Destroying the Planet': "They knew that it was real. Their own scientists told them that it was real. What do you do to people who lied in a very bold-faced way, lied to the American people?"

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  Published 20th Sep 2019
• 'Young People Are Correct to Be Outraged': Seattle City Council Urges Public Schools to Let Students Join Global Climate Strike On Sept. 20

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  Published 17th Sep 2019
• German Study: Alarming Levels of Dangerous Plastics in Children's Bodies

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  Published 15th Sep 2019
• To Critics Who Say Climate Action Is 'Too Expensive,' Greta Thunberg Responds: 'If We Can Save the Banks, We Can Save the World'

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  Published 10th Sep 2019
• 'World Has Never Seen a Threat to Human Rights of This Scope,' UN Rights Chief Says of Climate Emergency

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  Published 9th Sep 2019
• 'That Corruption Needs to End': Biden Urged to Cancel Fundraiser With Fossil Fuel Executive Day After Climate Crisis Forum - "If Biden is serious about taking on the power of the fossil fuel lobby, why is he going to a fundraiser hosted by the co-founder of a natural gas company?"

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  Published 5th Sep 2019
• Because 'A World Without Insects Is Not Worth Living In,' Germany Announces Plan to Ban Glyphosate

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  Published 5th Sep 2019
• Leaked UN Draft Report Warns Rising, Warming Oceans 'Poised to Unleash Misery' Worldwide: The assessment details anticipated declines in fish stocks as well as increases in damage by superstorms and displacement due to rising seas

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  Published 3rd Sep 2019
• 'If Environment Were a Bank,' says Bernie Sanders, 'It Would Have Been Saved Already'

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  Published 3rd Sep 2019
• 'Everyone Should Mobilize': Climate Leaders Urge Massive Turnout for Global Climate Strikes

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  Published 2nd Sep 2019
• 'Sociopathic Disregard for Our Future': Trump EPA Set to Gut Restrictions on Planet-Warming Methane Emissions

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  Published 2nd Sep 2019
• Phoenix Voters 'Say Yes to the Future,' Rejecting Koch-Backed Effort to Ban Light Rail Expansion in Least Sustainable US City

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  Published 29th Aug 2019
• Refusing to Take Real Climate Action, Trump Suggests Using Nukes to Stop Hurricanes - "What if instead of dropping nuclear bombs on hurricanes we just passed a Green New Deal and made fossil fuel billionaires pay for the devastation of climate disasters?"

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  Published 27th Aug 2019
• Brazil's Bolsonaro—Outspoken Proponent of Deforestation—Denounced as 'Sick' and 'Pathetic' for Blaming Amazon Forest Fires on NGOs: "We will not watch our future burn away," said climate campaigners

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  Published 22nd Aug 2019
• #PrayForAmazonia Goes Viral as Twitter Users Call Attention to 'International Emergency' of Fires Devastating Brazil's Rainforest - "It's been burning for 3 wks! We are on the verge of losing it completely if it isn't put out. Loss of trees, biodiversity is what is accelerating climate change."

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  Published 20th Aug 2019
• Leaked Audio Shows Oil Lobbyist Bragging About Success in Criminalizing Pipeline Protests - "We've seen a lot of success at the state level, particularly starting with Oklahoma in 2017," said Derrick Morgan of American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers

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  Published 20th Aug 2019
• Fracking Boom in US and Canada Largely to Blame for 'Massive' Rise of Global Methane Levels: Study

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  Published 15th Aug 2019
• Farmers Hit Back as USDA Chief Sonny Perdue Mocks Those Harmed by Trump Trade War as 'Whiners'

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  Published 13th Aug 2019