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Fossil Fuels
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Feeling the Touch of the Goad: A Sense of Urgency as a Spur to Climate Action
To respond effectively to the threat of climate change, we must shed our complacency and arouse a sense of urgency. The texts of early Buddhism provide us with a …
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Carbon Capture and Clean Coal: Obama’s Multibillion-Dollar Climate Pipedream
Trapping carbon dioxide from burning coal and using it to extract more fossil fuels is a counterintuitive approach to addressing climate change.
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Worried About Climate Change? Ban Fracking on Federal Lands
It's up to Congress to protect our national treasures.
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Stanford’s Coal Divestment: Meet Two Students – and One President – Who Made It Happen
The movement to persuade schools to divest from fossil fuels has taken off around the country. Meet a few people who helped make it happen at Stanford.
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Is Modern Technology Killing Us?
An exploration of the social, cultural and environmental pitfalls of modern technology culminates in a proposed neo-Luddite framework for evaluating the risks and benefits of existing and emerging technologies.
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The Real Carbon “Monster” Revealed
The idea that climate scientists and climate activists are actually evil, that theyu2019re part of a big virus or u201cmonsteru201d thatu2019s sucking up money and resources all in the …
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How Residents of a Rural New Mexico County Fought the Fracking Barons and Won – for Now
Energy companies are seeking fracking permits in New Mexico's Mora County. But the area's traditional livelihoods, farming and ranching, rely on clean rivers and streams.
Time Is Running Out for Activists to Halt Fracked Gas Pipeline Into New York City, Connecticut, Rhode Island
Unless an extension is granted, concerned citizens have only until September 29 to comment to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission about the Algonquin Pipeline Extension pushing fracked gas through …
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Louisiana’s St. Tammany Parish Comes One Step Closer to Fracking
The Department of Louisiana Natural Resources has approved a unit permit for Helis Oil & Gas Company for a site in St. Tammany Parish that the company plans to …
Global Expansion of Fossil Fuel Transport, Drilling Underway as UN Climate Summit Approaches
Subhankar Banerjee: Don't expect much from global leaders gathering in NYC for the 2014 Climate Summit - most of their countries work with the fossil fuel industry.