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Climate Change #Liar-Deniers Are The New Racists

Creative Greenius

Your Greenius opines that today’s oil, coal and gas companies are the modern equivalent of pre civil war plantation owners raking in massive profits off the backs of black slaves and treating them worse than the slave owners in Jhango Unchained did. org , Bill McKibben , climate , Do the Math , environment , politics , science.

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Electric Company Too Scared To Tell Truth About Climate Change

Creative Greenius

If SCE Won’t Tell The Truth About Climate Change Why Should We Trust Them About Anything? But it’s too bad Javier was too afraid to tell the truth about climate change to the people who came to his presentation hoping to get the facts and the straight story.

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Seattle City Council passes resolution opposing transportation of coal through Seattle for export, measures for mitigating impact

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The Seattle City Council unanimously passed Resolution 31379 stating Seattle’s opposition to the transportation of coal through Seattle. There are currently four coal exports under permit review in the Northwest that collectively could increase US coal exports by 150 million tons of coal annually.

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UN Environment report says national GHG pledges only bring one-third of reductions needed for Paris Agreement

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The world’s 100 largest emitting publicly traded companies, for example, account for around a quarter of global greenhouse emissions (including emissions from the use of their products by customers). There are an estimated 6,683 operating coal-fired power plants in the world, with a combined capacity of 1,964 GW.

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There’s Only One Kind Of “Just” Transition I Want To See

Creative Greenius

Oil, gas and coal workers have all known for more than a dozen years that their work was helping to destroy people’s health and well being. So the justice I want to see is first, second and third for the victims in the sacrifice zones created by the oil, gas and coal companies. Make the victims a priority for a damn change.

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Eight energy majors commit to reduce methane emissions within natural gas industry

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The energy companies also agreed to encourage others across the natural gas value chain—from production to the final consumer—to do the same. Our analysis at IEA shows that credible action to minimise methane emissions is essential to the achievement of global climate goals, and to the outlook for natural gas.

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CicLaVia is Back This Sunday & We’ll Be Rolling Against Coal!

Creative Greenius

My favorite part of this next CicLaVia is t he Bike Parade coming from my friends at Greenpeace and Sierra Club which they’re calling ROLL AGAINST COAL. In case you didn’t know, the City of Los Angeles still gets 40% of its electricity from coal-fired power plants, the dirtiest polluters and greenhouse gassers on the planet.

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