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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British Doctors Vote To Divest From Fossil Fuels
The British Medical Association joins a growing movement of institutions – including dozens of universities, foundations and even the World Council of Churches – dumping oil, coal and gas holdings.
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Unions Gear Up for Climate Mega-March
With 400,000 members and 85,000 retirees, SEIU 1199 is among the biggest unions to sign up so far for the People's Climate March in New York in September.
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21 Tar Sands Resisters Arrested Blocking U.S. Oil Sands Project In Utah
On Monday, 80 protesters with Utah Tar Sands Resistance halted access to equipment where the company seeks to begin work on the first fuel-producing tar sands mine in the state.
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Exposed: United States Accused of Forcing European Union to Accept Tar Sands Oil
U.S. negotiators are working to permanently block a landmark regulatory proposal in the E.U. aimed at addressing climate change – and instead to force European countries to import the world's dirtiest oil.
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Is There Any Scientific Study – Not Sponsored By Industry – That Asserts Fracking Is Safe?
Extensive research and reports commissioned by the fracking industry are treated as seminal, informative works within the U.K. government – but to date, no one outside industry vouches for its safety.
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Grassy Narrows First Nation Demands Ontario Halt Clear-Cut Logging on Their Lands
The Premier of the Province, Kathleen Wynn, is being given another chance to respond to growing calls from the Indigenous community to protect their Territorial Rights.
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California Shuts Down Fracking Waste Sites Fearing Aquifer Contamination
Officials ordered the immediate closure of 11 oil and gas waste injection sites and a review of more than 100 others amid fears that companies pumped toxic fracking fluids into public drinking water.
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Tar Sands Protests Grow As Six Nations Halt Enbridge Pipeline Work In Ontario
“It is our law that we need to protect the land and the water so that our people will be here for another 9,000 years."
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What’s Killing the Children in Jadugora, India?
Before the uranium mines came, children did not crawl around in the dirt and die.
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Holy Divestment: World Council of Churches Pulls Plug on Fossil Fuel Investments
Campaigners hail "major victory" as council representing half a billion Christians says it will stop investing in fossil fuels.
