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    Idaho Residents Protest Auction of Public Lands for Oil and Gas Drilling

    Idaho Residents Protest Auction of Public Lands for Oil and Gas Drilling

    Yesterday, prior to the Idaho Oil and Gas Commission auctioning of mineral rights for 17,700 acres of state endowment land, a small but lively group of residents protested the sale, which saw every tract awarded to Alta Mesa Idaho for $1,148,435 in “bonus bids.” For an hour they sang the climate activism song “Do it […]

    ExxonMobil Ignores IPCC Warning, Vows to Burn All Oil Reserves

    ExxonMobil Ignores IPCC Warning, Vows to Burn All Oil Reserves

    Yesterday the world’s leading climate scientists, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published their final report in their recent trilogy of warnings about climate change. The latest authoritative document, produced by 1,250 international scientists and approved by nearly 200 governments, argued that climate change can be avoided if we move fast to decarbonise the […]

    93 Members of Harvard Faculty Call on University to Divest From Fossil Fuels

    93 Members of Harvard Faculty Call on University to Divest From Fossil Fuels

    Today, 93 faculty members from Harvard University sent an open letter to the president and fellows of the school, calling on the university to divest from fossil fuels. Graphic courtesy of Harvard Faculty for Divestment’s Facebook page In signing the letter, faculty members expressed disappointment with the April 7 statement from President Drew Faust that divestment is not an […]

    Six Arrested Attempting to Block Oil Train to Canada

    Six Arrested Attempting to Block Oil Train to Canada

    EcoWatch Yesterday, members of 350 Maine attempted to block a Pan Am train as it passed through downtown Fairfield, aiming to prevent roughly 70,000 barrels of crude oil from reaching the Irving Refinery in New Brunswick, Canada. The blockade was staged as part of a nationally coordinated week of action. Protestors assemble. Maine Media Today […]