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With $32 Trillion In Assets, Investors Demand Immediate Action On Climate Change
The 2018 Global Investor Statement to Governments on Climate Change reiterated their support of the ongoing Paris Agreement discussions taking place during COP24 in Katowice, Poland.
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Gannett lays off journalists across the country
Four were let go at the Westchester (New York) Journal News. Four were let go at the Ventura County (California) Star. Five were let go at The Citizen Times in Asheville, North Carolina.
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How the fossil fuel industry got the media to think climate change was debatable
Late last year, the Trump administration released the latest national climate assessment on Black Friday in what many assumed was an attempt to bury the document. If that was the plan, it backfired, and the assessment wound up earning more coverage than it probably would have otherwise.
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The Farm Bureau: Big Oil’s Unnoticed Ally Fighting Climate Science and Policy
When Republican Rep. Steve Scalise stepped to the dais in the U.S. House of Representatives in July and implored his colleagues to denounce a carbon tax, he didn't reach for dire predictions made by the fossil fuel titans that pushed for the resolution. Instead, he talked about America's farmers.
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Dear New Midwest Governors: The Green New Deal and You
Derrick Z. Jackson | December 17, 2018 Getting traction on Green New Deal policies at the federal level won’t be easy—but new governors in the Midwest can make progress on climate and economic priorities right away. Here’s how.
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