The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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After $93 Billion in Profits, Big Five Oil Corps Still Battling to Keep Tax Breaks
Despite their outsized earnings, the oil companies are not only fighting to keep their tax breaks but also lobbying to lift the crude oil export ban.
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RE-Volv Introduces "Pay-It-Forward" Strategy to Fund Solar Power in Communities
Rather than offering gradual return on an initial investment, donations to the San Francisco nonprofit are continually reinvested into solar installations.
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Seeking Climatic Shift, U.K. Pension Investments Are Starting to Undercut Big Oil
People invest money through pensions into industries that cause climate change, often unknowingly and against their own financial interest.
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No More Red Scares: Fighting Fair Against Keystone XL and Fossil Fuel Expansion
Tom Steyer and NextGen Climate’s anti-Keystone pipeline ad made Americans sit up.
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Is Fracking About to Arrive on Your Doorstep?
U.S. Energy Information Administration maps show landscapes so densely veined by gas pipelines – more than 350,000 miles of them run through the country – that they look like smashed windshields. The methane madness has to stop.
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Why Are Louisiana's Forests Being Sacrificed to Fuel Europe's Biomass Boom?
Environmentalists are crying foul over European corporations using Louisiana’s forests for their profit and polluting the planet in the process.
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Media Coverage Or No, The Winds of Climate Change Are Upon Us
The extreme storms recently battering Britain and Europe suggest you don't need to look as far as the Arctic to see climate change’s onset. Why does the media still refuse to cover this crisis?
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Researchers Find 7,300-Mile Ring of Mercury Around Alberta Tar Sands in Canada
Government scientists are preparing to publish a report that finds levels of mercury up to 16 times higher around the tar sand operations, principally due to oil and gas companies' excavation and transportation of bitumen in the sands.
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Are We Falling Off the Climate Precipice? Scientists Consider Extinction
If the record ongoing releases of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere are aided and abetted by massive releases of methane, an even more powerful greenhouse gas, life as we humans have known it might be at an end on this planet.
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McKibben: Obama, Climate Change and the Real Story of this Presidency
When the world looks back at the Obama years half a century from now, one doubts they'll remember the health care website; one imagines they'll study how the most powerful government on Earth reacted to the sudden, clear onset of climate change.