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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McKibben: Night of the Living Dead, Climate Change-Style
How to stop the fossil fuel industry from wrecking our world.
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Davos: Climate-Related Catastrophe Is Biggest Threat to World Economy in 2016
The annual assessment of risks conducted by the World Economic Forum before its annual meeting next week showed that global warming had catapulted its way to the top of the list of concerns.
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Climate Protests In 10 U.S. Cities Call For Tougher Clean Power Plan
Environmental justice leaders from communities hardest-hit by climate change will converge Jan. 19 on regional EPA headquarters to denounce the mining, fracking, burning and dumping of waste threatening U.S. towns and cities.
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Tipping Point for Anthropocene: Fossil Fuel Burning Is "Postponing the Next Ice Age"
“The bottom line is we are basically skipping a whole glacial cycle, which is unprecedented."
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British Columbia Puts the Kibosh On Kinder Morgan Pipeline Expansion
After fierce environmental and aboriginal resistance, the BC government said it will formally oppose the Trans Mountain pipeline's expansion to the Canadian west coast – signaling the latest blow to tar sands producers, and a victory for the climate.
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Exxon's Oil Industry Peers Knew About Climate Dangers in the 1970s, Too
Members of an American Petroleum Institute task force on CO2 included scientists from nearly every major oil company, including Exxon, Texaco and Shell.
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Global Warming-Induced Floods Hammer Britain As Tories Approve New Fracking Law
Legislation signed in mid-December enables frackers to drill beneath World Heritage Sites, Groundwater Protection Zones, and national parks across Britain.
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The Climate Battle Of 2016 Will Be Waged In The States
Following the Paris climate treaty and President Obama's Clean Power Plan, the ball is now in the court of the states to develop emission reduction strategy to hit their customized targets.
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Costa Rica Got 99% Of Its Energy – That's Right, 99% – From Renewables In 2015
Officials also say the country spent 285 days powered by 100 percent renewable sources – more than two-thirds of the year.
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Positive Anxiety: The Takeaway from Paris
The climate summit – which got up off its knees, then to its feet and ended with hands raised and loud cheering – will go down in history as a turning point in the protracted, half-baked global efforts of the last two decades.
