Their tactics to force construction of data centers even against significant opposition from local communities have become increasingly forceful and hostile.
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At Harvard Heat Week, Students and Faculty Demand Fossil Fuel Divestment Now
A mobilization and sit-in by students, alumni and other activists – including a civil disobedience blockade of Massachusetts Hall, housing the office of President Faust – seeks to spur America's elite university to divest from fossil fuels.
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Water or Wine: California Facing Record Drought Must Pick A Side, And Fast
The crisis for many in northern California comes down to this: we're exporting our precious water in the form of profitable wine.
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Scrap Fossil Fuel Subsidies Now and Bring In Carbon Tax, Says World Bank Chief
Jim Yong Kim predicts that putting taxes on the use of carbon would trigger a wave of clean technology to lift people out of poverty in the developing world while preventing global temperatures from rising by more than 2C above pre-industrial levels.
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Guardian Media Divests £800 Million from Fossil Fuels; Syracuse U. Dumps $1.18 Billion
The Guardian Media Group became the largest fund yet known to pull out of coal, oil and gas companies, while Syracuse University announced it too was divesting its billion dollar portfolio of fossil fuels.
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Subsidies To Industries That Cause Deforestation Worth 100 Times More Than Aid To Prevent It
Brazil and Indonesia have handed out over $40 billion in subsidies to the palm oil, timber, soy, beef and biofuels sectors between 2009 and 2012 – 126 times more than the $346 million they received from the UN to preserve their rainforests.
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Community vs. Corporation: From Ohio to Oregon, Citizens Escalating Fight for Home Rule
Across the country, battles are raging as communities attempt to protect the air, soil and water within their borders and the safety of their residents.
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A $600 Million Fracking Company Just Sued This Tiny Ohio Town For Its Water
A tiny town in eastern Ohio is being sued by an Oklahoma-based oil and gas company that bought more than 180 million gallons of water from the town last year.
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California Water Wars: Another Form of Asset Stripping?
It’s no longer just the farmers against the ranchers or the urbanites – it’s the people against the new “water barons” like Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Monsanto and the Bush family, who are buying up global water at unprecedented pace.
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Head of U.S. Episcopal Church Says Climate Denial Is Immoral
Katharine Jefferts Schori, one of the most powerful women in Christianity, says those who reject the underlying science of climate change are turning their backs on God’s gift of knowledge.
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Gates Foundation Faces Pressure To Divest $1.4 Billion In Fossil Fuels
The Guardian's "Keep It In the Ground" campaign, which launched last week and already has 136,000 supporters, is asking the world's largest charity to dump its investments in firms "dedicated to finding and burning more oil, gas and coal."
