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Open Democracy
January 6, 2018
If you hoped that 2017 would be the year Britain finally saw its economic fortunes improve, you were soon to be disappointed. Over the past twelve months, Britain's economic malaise has continued: investment remained the lowest among advanced economies, productivity stagnated yet again, real wagesÃÂ ...
vtdigger.org
January 6, 2018
Bernie Sanders will talk to a reporter from Seven Days. Likelihood: Low, since Bernie appears ... Especially given the college's refusal to divest out of fossil fuel investments, and its regrettable embrace of carbon-heavy, fracking-obtained fossil fuel from Vermont Gas. 10. Gov. Phil Scott will admit he's had itÃÂ ...
Common Dreams
January 6, 2018
WASHINGTON - The day after the State of the Union, 350.org will launch Fossil Free U.S. in an immediate rebuke of the Trump administration's assault on climate and communities with a clear call to action and roadmap for resistance. After a historic year of hurricanes devastating Houston, Florida, andÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
January 5, 2018
They are totally, madly in love with fossil fuels and find environmental concerns as irritating as an 18th-century chaperone who's getting between them and consummation. ... Or will they become the party of policies, ideas, of Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Franklin Roosevelt, the party of democracy?
EcoWatch
December 23, 2017
This was a year of tug-of-war for the environment. With Donald Trump becoming president of the U.S. at a time when wildfires, hurricanes, and floods were devastating the country, it was challenging for scientists, activists and concerned citizens to get their voices heard. But several stood out as globalÃÂ ...
Vox
December 14, 2017
A lot of countries (but especially Norway, if you're approaching things from a leftist perspective) use SWFs because they want to convert fossil fuel wealth ... Politically, I think this idea has gotten resonance because even though Bernie Sanders's ideas are pretty standard welfare state liberalism, he, for oddÃÂ ...
Unearthed
December 7, 2017
An area of protected land larger than California could be at risk from fossil fuel development, as the Trump administration looks to ramp up drilling on federal .... Responding to the investigation, Senator Bernie Sanders (VT) told Unearthed: “President Trump and Republicans in Congress should worry lessÃÂ ...
The Guardian
July 24, 2017
The second change is: we now have the solutions! A decade ago, the solutions were visible on the horizon. Now they're here. In a growing number of cities and regions, electricity from solar and wind is cheaper than electricity from burning fossil fuels. Electric cars are becoming more common place.
The Guardian
April 27, 2017
“Mr President, start listening to the people and the scientists, not the greed of the fossil fuel industry,” Sanders said at a rally on Capitol Hill, where he was ... Sanders, Merkley and Markey unveiled legislation which seeks to completely phase out the use of fossil fuels through a transition to 100% clean andÃÂ ...
HuffPost
December 31, 1999
In the time since Sanders attended the inauguration of President Donald Trump last January, he said, the White House began “eviscerating environmental legislation and making us more dependent on fossil fuel and not less.” The Republican-controlled Congress attempted to “throw 32 million people off ofÃÂ ...
Valley News
December 1, 2017
But three decades later, we've got 15 percent more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and a fossil-fuel toady dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency, so maybe comedy is our only refuge. Not that ... (A 76-year-old Vermonter you know has already endorsed this book: Bernie Sanders.) When a ...
Truthdig
November 30, 2017
Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and a handful of other colleagues have introduced a bill to extend $146 billion to Puerto Rico to properly rebuild and do debt ... Resilient and Renewable Energy: Instead of simply rebuilding an antiquated, centralized and inefficient system dependent on imported fossil fuels, the bill ...
The Recorder
November 29, 2017
The attempt to open the refuge comes as climate change, driven by the combustion of fossil fuels, is of increasing global concern. Some scientists warn that major Arctic fossil-fuel reserves should be left in the ground. “I think our children and our grandchildren are going to be looking back on meetings and ...
The Intercept
November 28, 2017
Properly administered, a global carbon budget would liquidate the fossil fuel industry wholesale along a rapid timeline, ideally through some sort of managed ... Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and U.K. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn have taken aim at Wall Street and rising inequality, Trump and Le Pen have targeted ...
HuffPost
November 28, 2017
The White House argues that the Stafford Act of 1988 allows the federal government to rebuild only what existed in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands before the hurricanes. That means exposed, fossil fuel-dependent grids that are vulnerable to the sea level rise and violent storms that are expected to ...
The American Prospect
November 16, 2017
They have been staunch opponents of fossil fuel infrastructure projects like the Keystone XL pipeline, but they also need a broader vision of national-scale policies that can energize popular support. Perhaps one reason why the response to the Clean Power Plan repeal has been so underwhelming is that ...
Common Dreams
November 9, 2017
In an email sent on Monday, November 6, 2017, Senator Bernie Sanders emphasized that we need to rebuild the Democratic Party. We need a Democratic Party ... We cannot lead the world in combatting climate change and transforming our energy system away from fossil fuels. No. We cannot reform our ...
The Daily Herald
November 9, 2017
Not that McKibben has given up the fight. Not at all. The hero of this “fable of resistance” is a 72-year-old radio announcer named Vern Barclay, who's inflamed with revolutionary fervor. (A 76-year-old Vermonter you know has already endorsed this book: Bernie Sanders.) When a conglomerate in Oklahoma ...
Oneonta Daily Star
November 7, 2017
... change primarily on the use of fossil fuels and other human activity. ... Bernie Sanders might have been correct when, during last year's ...
Los Angeles Times
November 5, 2017
Bernie Sanders speaks among supporters at an event calling on President ..... actions to support big business, billionaires and fossil fuels.
Vox
November 4, 2017
Bernie Sanders. ... not leading the world, leading this country, in telling us the damage that has been done and the need to move away from fossil fuel.” ... Bill Walker also made the case that the state needs more fossil fuels.
CleanTechnica
November 4, 2017
... Uses Colbert Show to Allege Russian Links to Fossil Fuel Lobbying ... Russia has a huge amount to lose if fossil fuels are phased out early across ... Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, who both used Colbert's talk show as a ...
Varsity
October 30, 2017
Bernie Sanders speaks at Con Hall ... powerful special interests” like campaign donors and large conglomerates like the fossil fuel industry.
Common Dreams
October 17, 2017
Indigenous Women's Delegation Pursues Fossil Fuel Divestment Across ... former advisor on Native American affairs to Bernie Sanders); along ...
Vox
October 13, 2017
Bernie Sanders (I-VT) at a news conference on October 4, 2017. ... to the insurance companies, to the drug companies, to the fossil fuel industry ...
NECN
October 12, 2017
Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, toured Sandia National Laboratories in ... vast majority of scientists who say emissions from burning fossil fuels are ...
Seattle Weekly
March 15, 2017
Trump's America, wrote the conservative National Review in January, is "an America that emulates (even if hypocritically so) the lost culture of the 1950s; exploits fossil fuels; is run by deal makers who make money ostensibly to achieve a GDP that can ...
Mad River Union
March 15, 2017
Stein strode to the podium in the Kate Buchannan room wearing a wide smile, flashing peace signs to a cheering crowd. Her speech topics ranged from corporate influence over the Democratic Party to cutting fossil fuel consumption, supporting Standing ...
ColorLines magazine
March 15, 2017
Sponsored by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and a range of grassroots groups, NNR featured cultural ceremonies, a women's press conference on International Women's Day, meetings with elected officials including Bernie Sanders, and the construction of a ...
The American Prospect
March 14, 2017
You've described yourself as a "pragmatic populist," your politics a combination of the politics of Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton.
KGBT-TV
March 14, 2017
Schneiderman made the accusation in a letter to a New York court Monday, March 13, 2017. He is investigating whether the company deceived investors and the public by hiding for decades what it knew about the link between fossil fuels and climate change.
CNN
March 14, 2017
And Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said it would raise premiums for older, low income Americans and must be defeated. The Republican plan was introduced last Monday.
NBC2 News
March 14, 2017
(AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File). FILE - In this Feb. 16, 2017 file photo, Supreme Court Justice nominee Neil Gorsuch and former New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte wait for a meeting with Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn.
WXOW.com
March 14, 2017
Bernie Sanders' campaign and undertrained poll workers for as many as 70 instances in which 17-year-olds illegally voted in Wisconsin's presidential primary.
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
March 13, 2017
It penalizes those who burn fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas because it is levied on the number of metric tons of carbon each energy source produces.
CBS News
March 12, 2017
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said on Sunday that he will travel to struggling McDowell County, West Virginia, on Monday to pitch his agenda on issues such as health care, jobs and education.
The Bakersfield Californian
March 11, 2017
"A lot of people are getting hurt in Kern County," she said, citing exposure to pesticides and fossil fuel emissions.
The Independent
March 10, 2017
Bernie Sanders has criticised the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), after he expressed doubts about carbon dioxide being a "primary contributor" to climate change.
Fordham Observer
March 9, 2017
Engineer and science educator Bill Nye 'the Science Guy' and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders conducted a Facebook Live stream and discussed what I believe to be the biggest threat to our nation and our world - climate change ...
Mother Jones
March 8, 2017
The 85-year-old geochemist and Columbia University professor not only coined the term "global warming," but was one of the first researchers to accurately predict how much the Earth's temperature would change because of fossil fuel burning. ... One ...
Daily Kos
March 8, 2017
But the Donald Trump White House has brought Big Oil capture of government to a new level, choosing Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State, as well as appointing other fossil fuel industry insiders to his cabinet. Now the White House is ...
India Climate Dialogue
March 7, 2017
It's therefore conceivable that economic factors alone will drive the shift away from fossil fuels. But if nothing more is done, and America and other countries continue to dish out billions in subsidies to the fossil fuel industry, it may take far ...
Seeker
March 7, 2017
Now, with authority over 500 million acres of public land, a fifth of US territory, Zinke will play a key role in determining the amount of fossil fuels that get pulled from the ground and burned, which contributes to glacier melt like that near Zinke ...
Huffington Post
March 6, 2017
My latest Counter Propa article explains the DNC's "Jedi Mind Trick" pertaining to Russia, Trump and Bernie Sanders. Are Democrats ... Democrats don't care about eliminating the use of fossil fuels; EPA regulations are more than enough for most Democrats.
Democracy Now!
February 24, 2017
And resistance meaning that it can take many forms, you know, but, obviously, the most obvious one being occupation and literally putting our bodies on the line to stop these infrastructure, fossil fuel industries, mining, that kind of thing. And I ...
Fast Company
February 24, 2017
Capital and Main: Bernie Sanders's Our Revolution is trying to move the Democratic Party toward an economic agenda that speaks more authentically to working families.
ABC News
February 23, 2017
Keith Ellison, one of the frontrunners in the race for DNC chair - he's Chuck Schumer's choice, and Bernie Sanders' too - said at a CNN forum Wednesday night that "Donald Trump has already done a number of things which legitimately raise the question ...
Common Dreams
February 23, 2017
Both Senators, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota and Joe Manchin of West Virginia, are from states that Bernie Sanders won big during the primaries, but that Trump won in November.
Grist
February 23, 2017
In other words, the market is convincing companies to keep these fossil fuels in the ground. Add climate regulations on top of that, and it could be the death of tar-sands development.
Los Angeles Times
February 23, 2017
I almost felt like that on Sunday night when I walked onto the stage of an ornate old theater in downtown Los Angeles where I had been invited to interview Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator whose run against Hillary Clinton was the unexpected ...
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