The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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The Climate Insurgency Has Begun – Get Ready to Break Free From Fossil Fuels
One in six Americans say they will personally engage in nonviolent civil disobedience against corporate or government activities that make global warming worse – that's about 40 million adults, and the fate of the earth may depend on them.
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Top Drillers Shut Down U.S. Fracking Operations as Oil Prices Continue to Tank
Giants in the fracking business – from Chesapeake Energy and Continental Resources to Whiting Petroleum and Halliburton – closed down drilling operations nationwide, leaving thousands of oil job in the lurch.
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Hundreds of Professors At University of Chicago Push For Fossil Fuel Divestment
In a symbolic show of solidarity with student activists, professors urged the elite private university to purge its $7.6 billion endowment of coal, oil and gas companies, citing the “universal and existential” threat posed by climate change.
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Call To Arms: Why We Need to Keep 80 Percent of Fossil Fuels in the Ground
Unlike politics, when it comes to climate change it's people against physics, which means that compromise and trade-off don’t work – it’s not “we should do this” or “we’d be wise to do this,” instead it’s simpler: “We have to do this.”
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The Road From Paris: How to Finance a Trillion-Dollar Climate Change Transition
Changing the way the world is powered means big spending – and huge investment opportunities – with energy finance models suggesting clean power investments need to rise by an additional 75 percent, to $12.1 trillion, in the next 25 years.
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The Pipeline Strikes Back: The Audacity of TransCanada's $15 Billion Suit Against America
The Canadian oil giant is suing under the provisions of NAFTA because the U.S. rejected the Keystone pipeline – and demanding an amount that would cover annual community college tuition costs for nearly five million U.S. students.
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Flint Water Crisis: Michigan Officials Ignored E.P.A. Warnings About Toxicity, Expert Advice Dismissed
The federal agency warned of an unfolding toxic water crisis in Flint but was “met with resistance” by Michigan authorities, a fiery congressional hearing into the city’s public health disaster revealed Wednesday.
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Copenhagen Announces Plan To Divest $1 Billion From Fossil Fuels
If the mayor's proposal is approved at a finance committee meeting Tuesday, the Danish capital will become the country’s first investment fund to sell its stocks and bonds in fossil fuels.
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Scientists Now 99.99% Certain Humans Are Responsible for Record Heating Of Earth
13 of the 15 hottest years in the past century and a half occurred between 2000 and 2014 – and researchers found there is a just a 0.01% chance that this happened due to natural variations in the planet’s climate.
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"All Risk, No Reward": U.S. Tribes Oppose Massive Pipeline Expansion In Canada
Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain project would carry crude from Alberta's tar sands to the Vancouver area to be loaded on to tankers for Asian and U.S. markets – drastically putting the fishing and cultural heritage of U.S. tribes at risk.
