Submissions from commondreams.org

• '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 18th 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 11th 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 10th 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 3rd 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 30th 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
• 'Gold Over Life, Literally': How Trump Forced Reversal on Mining Project EPA Scientists Warn Could Destroy Alaskan Salmon Ecosystem

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  Published 11th Aug 2019
• Study of Massive Smoke Cloud From 2017 Wildfires Offers Terrifying Hint of How Even Small Nuclear War Would Escalate Climate Crises

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  Published 9th Aug 2019
• RightToKnow publishes Monsanto(Bayer) documents, regarding spying & intimidation

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  Published 9th Aug 2019
• Alarming' Explosion of Toxic Pesticide Use Causing Insect Apocalypse in United States: Study

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  Published 7th Aug 2019
• New Study: U.S. Agriculture 48 Times More Toxic to Insects Than 25 Years Ago. Neonicotinoid pesticides account for 92 percent of toxicity increase

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  Published 7th Aug 2019
• Top Scientist Says He Quit USDA Because Trump Admin Tried to Bury His Study on Climate and Nutrition: "Once again, the Trump admin is silencing our scientists."

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  Published 6th Aug 2019
• Shifting Subsidies to Renewable Energy Instead of Propping Up Fossil Fuel Giants Would Prompt 'Clean Energy Revolution', Study Shows. Fossil fuel companies receive more than $370 billion per year in subsidies from world governments. Renewable energy companies are given only $100 billion yearly.

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  Published 4th Aug 2019
• 'Our Pressure Is Working' Says Sunrise Movement as CNN and MSNBC Announce Climate Events for 2020 White House Hopefuls

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  Published 29th Jul 2019
• While Global Temps Soared, Study Shows US Media Coverage of Right-Wing Think Tanks' Climate Lies Actually Rose Over Past 5 Years: "The media should not give these organizations a platform, and if they must cover them, do a better job of alerting readers and viewers who is funding them."

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  Published 26th Jul 2019
• It's Just Good Business: Even Red States Are Dumping Coal for Solar

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  Published 23rd Jul 2019
• Babies Born Near Oil and Gas Wells Are Up to 70% More Likely to Have Congenital Heart Defects, New Study Shows

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  Published 21st Jul 2019
• 'A Total Disgrace': Outrage as Trump EPA Says It Won't Ban Pesticide Linked to Brain Damage in Children

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  Published 19th Jul 2019
• Greta Thunberg: I don't want your hope. I don't want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

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  Published 19th Jul 2019
• Super-Charged by Climate Crisis, New Study Warns of 'Killer Heat' Set to Overtake US: "If we wish to spare people in the United States and around the world the mortal dangers of extreme and relentless heat, there is little time to do so and little room for half measures."

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  Published 17th Jul 2019
• Days Before Hurricane Expected to Hit New Orleans, City Endures 10 Inches of Rain as Mississippi River Swells - "Overlapping extreme-weather events aren't just a New Orleans problem."

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  Published 11th Jul 2019
• USDA Indefinitely Suspends Honey Bee Tracking Survey as States Get Approval to Use Bee-Killing Pesticide

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  Published 9th Jul 2019
• A "staggering" new warning from a top UN official that climate crisis-related disasters are now occurring at the rate of one per week, with developing nations disproportionately at risk, provoked calls for immediate global action to combat the human-caused climate emergency.

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  Published 9th Jul 2019
• 'We Are in a Climate Emergency, America': Anchorage Hits 90 Degrees for First Time in Recorded History

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  Published 6th Jul 2019
• Citing $69 Trillion Price Tag by 2100, Moody's Warns Central Banks of Far-Reaching Economic Damage of Climate Crisis: "There is no denying it: The longer we wait to take bold action to curb emissions, the higher the costs will be for all of us."

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  Published 6th Jul 2019
• 'Good News': Austria Poised to Become First EU Nation to Fully Ban Cancer-Linked Weed Killer Glyphosate

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  Published 5th Jul 2019
• Trump Wants to Remove Federal Protections for Wolves: Idaho’s Example Shows Why This Is a Terrible Idea

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  Published 5th Jul 2019
• EPA Urged to Put Public Health Over Monsanto Profits by Banning Cancer-Linked Glyphosate: "This dangerous herbicide causes serious health risks, including cancer, and threatens our environment."

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  Published 2nd Jul 2019
• On the Hottest Day in the History of France, Police Tear-Gas Peaceful Climate Change Protesters in Paris

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  Published 30th Jun 2019
• "I'm Not Willing to Do That": Trump Says He Won't Take Climate Action Because It Would Threaten Corporate Profits: The U.S. president reportedly worked to weaken G20 commitment to fighting climate crisis during summit in Osaka, Japan

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  Published 30th Jun 2019
• With 2019 Predicted to Be Among Planet's Hottest Years, France's 114º Heat Is 'Absolutely Consistent' With Warnings of Climate Crisis

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  Published 29th Jun 2019
• 'We Are Unstoppable, Another World Is Possible!': Hundreds Storm Police Lines to Shut Down Massive Coal Mine in Germany

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  Published 23rd Jun 2019
• 'This Should Scare the Hell Out of You': Photo of Greenland Sled Dog Teams Walking on Melted Water Goes Viral

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  Published 19th Jun 2019
• Even If All US Drilling and Fracking Halts Today, Warns New Report, 'Flood of Toxic Waste Streams' Will Grow for Decades

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  Published 19th Jun 2019
• Adding to Planetary Alarm Bells, Top US Finance Official Warns Climate Crisis a Recipe for Global Economic Collapse

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  Published 13th Jun 2019
• 6 Reasons Impossible Burger's CEO is Wrong About GMO Soy: It's time to demand more from the food we eat, better protection from our regulators and a higher level of truthfulness and transparency from food brands

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  Published 12th Jun 2019
• As Study Shows Methane Emissions 'Vastly Underestimated,' Warnings That US Fracked Gas Export Bonanza Imperils Planetary Stability: "Science confirms that gas is a climate killer."

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  Published 8th Jun 2019
• 'This Is an Emergency. We Need the Democrats to Act Like It': Outrage as DNC Announces It Will Not Host 2020 Debate on Climate Crisis (Common Dreams)

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  Published 7th Jun 2019
• 'Single Most Important Stat on the Planet': Alarm as Atmospheric CO2 Soars to 'Legit Scary' Record High: "We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases."

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  Published 6th Jun 2019
• Extreme Flooding Across Midwest 'Exactly In Line' With Scientific Warnings of Climate Crisis: Experts

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  Published 5th Jun 2019
• 'Gas Is a Loser and It's Time to Move On': OCI Report Debunks Myth That Natural Gas Can Help Fight Climate Crisis

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  Published 31st May 2019
• 'Blatant Attempt to Politicize the Science': Trump Reportedly Moving to End Long-Term Studies of Climate Crisis - "The Trump gang is attacking the scientific process itself in an attempt to prop up fossil fuel industries, delay inevitable action, & run the carbon bubble as long as it will last."

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  Published 28th May 2019
• 'A Green Wave Has Swept the European Parliament': In Show of Demand for Climate Action, Green Parties Surge in EU Elections - "A substantial share of the world has finally decided climate action is necessary now."

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  Published 27th May 2019
• Pete Buttigieg Calls for Carbon Capture and Tax—Climate Proposals Backed by the Fossil Fuel Industry | Critics warn policies that allow dirty energy development to continue are "a distraction from real solutions to the climate crisis that we face."

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  Published 20th May 2019
• 'We Don't Know a Planet Like This': CO2 Levels Hit 415 PPM for First Time in 3 Million+ Years

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  Published 14th May 2019
• 'Activism Works': UK Parliament Makes History in Declaring Climate Emergency

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  Published 2nd May 2019
• Green Groups Say Trump EPA Backing Monsanto's Claim Glyphosate Not a Health Threat 'Completely Ignores Science' - "Under the control of Trump & Wheeler, the agency is virtually incapable of taking steps to protect people from dangerous chemicals like glyphosate."

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  Published 1st May 2019
• Groups Warn Against Trump Effort to Unleash 'Fracking Frenzy' by Unlocking Million+ Acres of Public Land for Drilling - "This admin is dead set on letting oil & gas companies dig up every last drop of dirty fuel."

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  Published 28th Apr 2019
• Green Groups Urge Court to Stop Trump Effort to Approve 'Climate-Wrecking, Wildlife-Killing' Keystone XL - "Trump's trying to ram this dirty pipeline down America's throat, but we're not falling for it."

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  Published 24th Apr 2019
• 'We Will Occupy Until You Take Action': Extinction Rebellion Plans to Shut Down Heathrow Friday on Fifth Day of Protests | "We are facing a manmade disaster on a global scale. We're running out of time but there's still hope."

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  Published 19th Apr 2019
• 'Monumental': Chicago Commits to 100% Renewable Energy by 2040: The city council's vote makes Chicago the biggest city to pass such an ordinance

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  Published 11th Apr 2019
• "It is entirely feasible to design an ecologically representative, planet-wide network of high seas protected areas to address the crisis facing our oceans and enable their recovery. All that is required is the political will."

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  Published 5th Apr 2019
• 'Massive Win for the Environment': New York State Bans Single-Use Plastic Bags

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  Published 2nd Apr 2019
• 'Huge Victory for Our Oceans': Trump Effort to Open Arctic to Oil and Gas Drilling Ruled Illegal

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  Published 31st Mar 2019
• Leaked Audio Exposes Oil & Gas Execs Laughing With Joy Over Cozy Access to Trump Officials

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  Published 24th Mar 2019
• Following Monsanto, Exxon Could Be Next US Corporation to Face EU Lobby Ban. "It is the overwhelming consensus of experts studying the history of fossil fuel funding that companies, including ExxonMobil, have orchestrated, funded and perpetuated climate misinformation"

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  Published 24th Mar 2019
• Another Guilty Verdict for Bayer-Monsanto as Jury Finds Roundup was 'Substantial Factor' in Causing Man's Cancer: "As similar lawsuits mount, the evidence will grow that Roundup is not safe, and that the company has tried to cover it up."

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  Published 20th Mar 2019
• Going Backwards: Trump To Slash Renewables Funding in New Budget

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  Published 10th Mar 2019
• Anyone from Iowa attend this event? I’m curious to see what everyone else thinks as I am unsure.

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  Published 10th Mar 2019
• Trump's Pick of Wealthy Climate Denier for UN Ambassador Decried as 'Slap in the Face' to Planet and Humanity. Food & Water Watch executive director Wenonah Hauter said she is "disgusted but not surprised" by the president's nomination of Kelly Knight Craft.

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  Published 28th Feb 2019
• Evidence of Human-Caused Climate Crisis Has Now Reached 'Gold Standard'-Level Certainty, Scientists Say - "There's a one-in-a-million chance humans are NOT warming the planet."

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  Published 26th Feb 2019
• 'Kicking Ass for Her Generation': Applause for 16-Year-Old Greta Thunberg as EU Chief Pledges $1 Trillion to Curb Climate Threat

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  Published 23rd Feb 2019
• The real political danger to the Green New Deal is that Democrats will do what they did with healthcare—run from the issue and allow the Republicans to set the terms of the debate.

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  Published 18th Feb 2019
• 'A Red Screaming Alarm Bell' to Banish Fossil Fuels: NASA Confirms Last Five Years Hottest on Record - "We're no longer talking about a situation where global warming is something in the future. It's here. It's now."

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  Published 7th Feb 2019
• Senators Demand Federal Limits for Toxic Chemicals in Drinking Water Amid Reports of 'Unconscionable' Inaction by Trump's EPA: "We now face a serious challenge: aggressively addressing the health and environmental threats connected with PFAS."

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  Published 3rd Feb 2019
• In 'Victory for Land and Water,' Canada's Supreme Court Rules Bankrupt Fossil Fuel Companies Must Clean Up Pollution Left Behind

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  Published 1st Feb 2019
• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's call to get off fossil fuel by the 2030s is hard but technically achievable; the guarantee of a job in the renewable industry to anyone who wants one would actually provide the labor required to make a transition of this magnitude

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  Published 14th Jan 2019
• 'A Disaster': Critics Pounce on Trump USDA's New GMO Labeling Rule

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  Published 30th Dec 2018
• Dairy Farming is Dying. After 40 Years, I’m Done.

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  Published 26th Dec 2018
• Demands Grow for Republicans to Take 'Real Climate Action' as Death Toll From California Wildfires Hits Grim Record - "This is not the new normal. This is the new abnormal," said California Gov. Jerry Brown

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  Published 15th Nov 2018
• 'Disaster Waiting to Happen' as Trump Quietly Approves Massive Oil Drilling Project in Arctic Waters Off Alaska Coast - "This project sets us down a dangerous path of destroying the Arctic. We'll keep fighting this project & any new ones that follow."

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  Published 26th Oct 2018
• 'This Is a Scandal': With Hurricane Florence Barreling Toward US, Document Shows Trump Moved $10M From FEMA to ICE - "The administration transferred millions of dollars away from FEMA. And for what? To implement their profoundly misguided 'zero tolerance' policy."

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  Published 13th Sep 2018
• EPA Exodus: Nearly 1,600 Workers Have Left Since Trump Took Office - "My feeling was I could do better work to protect the environment outside the EPA," says one former agency employee

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  Published 12th Sep 2018
• In Win for Wildlife, Yellowstone Area Grizzlies Get 'Stay of Execution' - Federal judge grants temporary restraining order blocking planned trophy hunts in Wyoming and Idaho

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  Published 4th Sep 2018
• 'Belly Flop': With Only One Percent of Leases Sold, Even Fossil Fuel Industry Understands Trump's Offshore Drilling Plan Is Ridiculous

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  Published 20th Aug 2018
• New Survey of 63,000 Scientists Across 16 US Agencies Details How Trump Is 'Sidelining Science' - "When you can't research threats & share accurate info with the public, there are real consequences. People depend on federal science to protect them."

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  Published 15th Aug 2018
• Rhode Island Files Historic Lawsuit Against 21 Big Oil Companies "Here we are—the smallest state, the Ocean State—taking on the biggest, most powerful corporate polluters in the world"

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  Published 4th Jul 2018
• As GOP Pushes Overhaul, Conservationists Mobilize to Save 'Endangered Species Act From Extinction' - "This bill is all about politics. It's not about science. It's especially not about better ways to conserve endangered species."

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  Published 4th Jul 2018
• 'Unconscionable' & 'Shocking': Trump's Head of NOAA Proposes Axing 'Climate' & Conservation From Agency's Mission - "Redefining NOAA's mission is a serious threat to the breadth of science, services, & stewardship that NOAA provides," one scientist responded

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  Published 26th Jun 2018
• Affirming Belief That Waters Are for Drilling & Pillaging, Trump Erases Ocean Protection Policy

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  Published 22nd Jun 2018
• Zinke & Lamar Alexander's Big Plan? We Must Kill the Planet to Save the National Parks - New joint op-ed touts legislation that'd fund national parks' infrastructure repairs with leases for oil & gas drilling

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  Published 3rd May 2018
• With 'Merger From Hell' Reportedly Approved by Trump's DOJ, Warnings of Agrichemical Chokehold on Food System: Watchdog groups raise concerns over GMO and pesticide corporation Bayer-Monsanto

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  Published 11th Apr 2018
• There You Have It: Emails Confirm Coal, Oil, and Gas Extraction Drove Shrinking of National Monuments

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  Published 5th Mar 2018