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Under Rising Pressure on Climate, JPMorgan Rejects Shareholder Calls to Disclose Full Carbon Footprint

onMay 14, 2020 @ 14:44 PDT

America’s largest bank is shunning calls from shareholders to disclose its full emissions, despite warnings from its own economists that “catastrophic” climate change could end up threatening human...

us/Bucking GOP Elders, Some Young Republicans Embrace a Slower, Gentler Brand of Climate Activism

By Guest

onMay 13, 2020 @ 16:58 PDT

By James Bruggers, InsideClimate News. This story originally appeared in InsideClimate News and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening ...

Here’s How Shareholders Are Pressuring Oil Companies to Act on Climate Change

By Sophie Yeo

onMay 13, 2020 @ 06:21 PDT

Oil companies are preparing for their upcoming annual general meetings (AGMs), an occasion where shareholders gather to scrutinise directors, vote on resolutions, and express their concerns about h...

uk/National Portrait Gallery Drops BP Judge After Prolonged Protest

By India Bourke

onMay 4, 2020 @ 08:45 PDT

For the first time in over two decades the National Portrait Gallery has not included a representative from oil giant BP on the judging panel for its annual Portrait Award. The presence of BP as a...

us/Why Public Health Experts Support These Youth Suing the US Government Over Climate Change

By Dana Drugmand

onMar 25, 2020 @ 16:00 PDT

Leading experts in the medical community, including two former U.S. Surgeons General, recently filed supporting briefs backing a youth climate lawsuit against the federal government because, like t...

uk/FairFuel UK: Industry-funded Campaign Group Seeks to Pressure Treasury into Fuel Duty U-turn

By Rich Collett-White

onMar 9, 2020 @ 07:07 PDT

Rumours began swirling in February that the upcoming budget could bring the UK’s 10-year freeze on fuel duty to an end. Since then, an industry-funded pressure group has been furiously campaigning ...

uk/'Unfit for Purpose': Students Seek to Take Climate Education Into Their Own Hands

By Frances Rankin

onFeb 26, 2020 @ 01:39 PST

Students are today taking their education into their own hands and launching a climate emergency education bill in parliament, to call for rapid education reform and with the hopes of gaining suppo...

uk/‘It’s a Huge Step Backwards’: Teenagers Hunger Striking to Stop the UK's Newest Coal Mine

By Phoebe Cooke

onFeb 12, 2020 @ 01:15 PST

It’s 5pm on a dismal Monday and commuters are scurrying past Parliament on their way home. In the fast-fading light it’s easy to miss a solitary teenager perched on a wet ledge and holding up a car...

uk/Activists Occupy British Museum Calling for End to BP Sponsorship

By Frances Rankin

onFeb 9, 2020 @ 04:09 PST

Activists from theatrical protest group BP or not BP occupied the British Museum overnight in protest of the fossil fuel company’s sponsorship. The protest titled ‘BP Must Fall’ began the day bef...

us/Advocates Call on EPA to Expand Air Pollution Monitoring of Refineries After 10 Found Emitting High Benzene Levels

By Julie Dermansky

onFeb 8, 2020 @ 03:00 PST

Available for the first time, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) air monitoring data from over 100 U.S. oil refineries shows that 10 facilities have exceeded federal limits for cancer-causing be...

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Under Rising Pressure on Climate, JPMorgan Rejects Shareholder Calls to Disclose Full Carbon Footprint

ByAlex Varley-Winter