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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For $28K, TransCanada Buys Town’s Silence On Tar Sands Pipeline As Cancer Rates Rise
The as-yet-unapproved Energy East pipeline – the most expensive the company has ever proposed – would carry 1.1 million barrels of tar sands crude across Canada each day.
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Toying With Climate: Greenpeace Launches Protests to Rid Shell Oil Branding from Legos
The joint Shell/Lego relationship – which involves some 16 million Lego Ferrari-branded toy cars being distributed to kids at Shell stations around the world – is worth about $116 million.
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The Kellogg Boycott: Voting With Our Dollars To Rid Cereals of GMO's
We speak collectively to force food manufacturers to come clean with the ingredients they use in their products - and if they won’t remove GMOs, we will boycott them until they do.
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Earth Institute Issues U.N. First-of-a-Kind Roadmap to Avoid Climate Catastrophe
The report prescribes concrete actions the world's biggest 15 economies must take to keep warming below two degrees Celsius.
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Are You Kidding – Chevron’s Lobbyist Now Runs the Congressional Science Committee?
As CEO of Dow Lohnes Government Strategies, a lobbying firm retained by Chevron to influence Congress, Stephen Sayle was paid $500,000 before taking his current gig atop the House Science Committee.
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What Every U.S. Governor Really Believes About Climate Change – In One Handy Map
With all the recent talk at the federal level about the EPA’s proposed carbon regulations for new and existing power plants, it’s easy to forget about the executives that have front row seats to cutting American carbon pollution.
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As Global Crises Mount, Can Corporations Make the Big Pivot?
Business leaders are increasingly willing to address critiques brought forth by environmentalists, social justice advocates and social movements like Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring.
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Free Farmers, Food Liberty: This Fourth of July, Local Growers Declare Independence
We ask those growing our food to speak up for themselves and announce their statement of liberty: What does food freedom mean to you?
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In Breakthrough Decision, New York Court Rules That Towns Can Ban Fracking
The precedent-setting ruling Monday enables the towns of Dryden and Middlefield to use local zoning laws to outlaw oil and gas drilling within municipal borders.
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Unstoppable: America's Growing Food Safety Movement
Despite the overwhelming popularity of labeling, Congress refused to act – so citizens took up the cause in their own states.
