World Leaders Excoriate Trump & US, Promise Dramatic Action On Climate Change
World leaders voiced strong support for climate change mitigation strategies at the COP23 conference in Bonn this week, but a 12 year old boy from Fiji stole the show.
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Trump Admin. Desperate To Keep Coal Power Plant Alive With Taxpayer Dollars
The Navajo Generating Station in Arizona is no longer financially viable. The utility companies that own it have voted to shut it down. But the Trump administration wants to commit up to $2 billion in subsidies to keep it open — and please large campaign contributors.
Coal Lobbying Loses Steam As Climate Awareness Rises
Think of big businesses that lobby to restrict US work on climate change. ExxonMobil and its hard-line petroleum allies probably come up first. However, we sometimes forget the participation of many of the flagging US coal barons. The Climate Investigations Center, a small progressive group that monitors energy and environmental outliers, says … [continued]
