Submissions from commondreams.org

• '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 on 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 on 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 on 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 on 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 on 7th 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 on 6th 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 on 6th Jun 2019
• Extreme Flooding Across Midwest 'Exactly In Line' With Scientific Warnings of Climate Crisis: Experts

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

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  Published on 1st 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 on 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 on 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 on 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 on 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 on 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 on 5th Apr 2019
• 'Massive Win for the Environment': New York State Bans Single-Use Plastic Bags

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  Published on 1st Apr 2019
• 'Huge Victory for Our Oceans': Trump Effort to Open Arctic to Oil and Gas Drilling Ruled Illegal

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

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

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  Published on 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 on 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 on 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 on 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 on 22nd 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 on 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 on 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 on 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 on 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 on 13th Jan 2019
• 'A Disaster': Critics Pounce on Trump USDA's New GMO Labeling Rule

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

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  Published on 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 on 14th 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 on 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 on 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 on 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 on 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 on 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 on 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 on 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 on 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 on 26th Jun 2018
• Affirming Belief That Waters Are for Drilling & Pillaging, Trump Erases Ocean Protection Policy

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  Published on 21st 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 on 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 on 11th Apr 2018
• There You Have It: Emails Confirm Coal, Oil, and Gas Extraction Drove Shrinking of National Monuments

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  Published on 5th Mar 2018
• Threatening the 'Warnings Upon Which the Country Depends,' Trump Budget Would Axe Nearly 250 Weather Forecasters

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  Published on 16th Feb 2018
• Earth Might Be Warming, Pruitt Finally Admits, But Would Be 'Arrogant' for Humanity to Act to Stop It - "There is no consistency at all to climate deniers' various arguments other than that we should continue to burn fossil fuels."

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  Published on 9th Feb 2018
• An 'Oil-Soaked Nightmare': New Analysis Shows Trump's Offshore Drilling Plan Could Mean Over 5,000 Spills - "No president has ever pushed a drilling plan that would do so much damage along so many American coastlines. It's really astonishing."

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  Published on 2nd Feb 2018
• With Oceans Under Greatest Threat Ever, Trump Administration Urges Even Less Protection for Marine Life - "It shouldn't be too much to ask to protect 2% of the U.S.'s exclusive economic zone off the Atlantic coast for future generations."

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  Published on 4th Jan 2018
• Fayetteville Becomes 54th US City to Make 100% Renewable Energy Pledge

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  Published on 4th Jan 2018
• In Bid to Save Big Oil $900M, Trump Moves to Scrap Offshore Drilling Safety Rules - The BSEE proposes eliminating regulations that were put in place in response to the deadliest offshore drilling disaster in U.S. history

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  Published on 27th Dec 2017
• Trump Disbands Panel That Helped Cities Respond to Climate Threat - The president shutters group that was "one of the last federal bodies that openly talked about climate change in public"

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  Published on 7th Dec 2017