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COP25: Climate Science Deniers Attend on Behalf of Trump-Affiliated Lobby Group
By Rich Collett-White
onDec 11, 2019 @ 07:54 PST
A US thinktank with close ties to Donald Trump has obtained accreditation for a delegation of climate science deniers to the UN summit currently underway in Madrid. Organisations accredited to att...
COP25: Polluting Companies Blamed for Slow Progress at UN Climate Talks
By Sophie Yeo
onDec 11, 2019 @ 03:23 PST
Big polluters are to blame for slow progress in the annual UN climate negotiations in Madrid, Spain, according to activists — with several companies sponsoring the talks in exchange for tax breaks....
uk/Election 2019: More than 50 Conservative Candidates Fail to Show at Climate Hustings
By Isabella Kaminski
onDec 9, 2019 @ 10:17 PST
A former environment secretary is one of dozens of prospective Conservative Party MPs who have declined to discuss their plans for tackling climate change with constituents at local pre-election de...
us/EPA Watchdog: White House Blocked Part of Truck Pollution Investigation, Caused Lack of Public Information
By Guest
onDec 6, 2019 @ 17:51 PST
By Jordan Davidson, EcoWatch. Reposted with permission from EcoWatch.  The Trump administration pushed through an exemption to clean air rules, effectively freeing heavy polluting, super-cargo tru...
uk/Revealed: Brexit Party and Conservatives Have Received £8m From Aviation Industry
By Rich Collett-White
onDec 6, 2019 @ 02:32 PST
British political parties and individual politicians have received more than £9 million worth of donations from the aviation industry, with the vast majority going to the Brexit Party and the Conse...
uk/The UK's Pro-Brexit MEPs Didn't Want the European Parliament to Declare a Climate Emergency
By Mat Hope
onDec 5, 2019 @ 04:02 PST
The European Parliament has declared a climate emergency. And it did so without the help of many of the UK’s pro-Brexit MEPs. A resolution declaring the emergency and calling on all global actors ...
uk/Election 2019: Climate Pledges in the Scottish Party Manifestos
By Mike Small
onDec 4, 2019 @ 06:24 PST
The general election in Scotland is inevitably seen through the bifocal lenses of Brexit and independence, regularly morphed into a single telescope of 'constitutional crisis'. But alongside that e...
uk/Election 2019: Party Manifestos Go Green for the 'Climate Election'
By Sophie Yeo
onDec 3, 2019 @ 04:22 PST
Climate change has been high on the agenda this election. The UK had its first ever leaders’ debate on climate change (where an ice sculpture stood in for the prime minister, Boris Johnson), more v...
uk/Follow the Leader: Conservative Candidates Failing to Attend Local Climate Hustings
By Isabella Kaminski
onNov 28, 2019 @ 22:20 PST
Conservative Party candidates across the UK appear to be following their party leader by failing to participate in public debates on the climate crisis. From Glasgow to Hastings, hustings are bein...
uk/Boris Replaced By Melting Ice Sculpture As Party Leaders Outline Green Visions
By Sophie Yeo
onNov 28, 2019 @ 13:55 PST
Leaders of Britain’s major political parties – minus the governing Tories – have battled it out over their green credentials in the UK’s first ever general election debate on the climate emergency....

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COP25: Climate Science Deniers Attend on Behalf of Trump-Affiliated Lobby Group
ByRich Collett-White
onDec 11, 2019 @ 07:54 PST

A US thinktank with close ties to Donald Trump has obtained accreditation for a delegation of climate science deniers to the UN summit currently underway in Madrid. Organisations accredited to att...
COP25: Polluting Companies Blamed for Slow Progress at UN Climate Talks
BySophie Yeo
onDec 11, 2019 @ 03:23 PST

Big polluters are to blame for slow progress in the annual UN climate negotiations in Madrid, Spain, according to activists — with several companies sponsoring the talks in exchange for tax breaks....
uk/Election 2019: More than 50 Conservative Candidates Fail to Show at Climate Hustings
ByIsabella Kaminski
onDec 9, 2019 @ 10:17 PST

A former environment secretary is one of dozens of prospective Conservative Party MPs who have declined to discuss their plans for tackling climate change with constituents at local pre-election de...
us/EPA Watchdog: White House Blocked Part of Truck Pollution Investigation, Caused Lack of Public Information
ByGuest
onDec 6, 2019 @ 17:51 PST

By Jordan Davidson, EcoWatch. Reposted with permission from EcoWatch.  The Trump administration pushed through an exemption to clean air rules, effectively freeing heavy polluting, super-cargo tru...
uk/Revealed: Brexit Party and Conservatives Have Received £8m From Aviation Industry
ByRich Collett-White
onDec 6, 2019 @ 02:32 PST

British political parties and individual politicians have received more than £9 million worth of donations from the aviation industry, with the vast majority going to the Brexit Party and the Conse...
uk/The UK's Pro-Brexit MEPs Didn't Want the European Parliament to Declare a Climate Emergency
ByMat Hope
onDec 5, 2019 @ 04:02 PST

The European Parliament has declared a climate emergency. And it did so without the help of many of the UK’s pro-Brexit MEPs. A resolution declaring the emergency and calling on all global actors ...
uk/Election 2019: Climate Pledges in the Scottish Party Manifestos
ByMike Small
onDec 4, 2019 @ 06:24 PST

The general election in Scotland is inevitably seen through the bifocal lenses of Brexit and independence, regularly morphed into a single telescope of 'constitutional crisis'. But alongside that e...
uk/Election 2019: Party Manifestos Go Green for the 'Climate Election'
BySophie Yeo
onDec 3, 2019 @ 04:22 PST

Climate change has been high on the agenda this election. The UK had its first ever leaders’ debate on climate change (where an ice sculpture stood in for the prime minister, Boris Johnson), more v...
uk/Follow the Leader: Conservative Candidates Failing to Attend Local Climate Hustings
ByIsabella Kaminski
onNov 28, 2019 @ 22:20 PST

Conservative Party candidates across the UK appear to be following their party leader by failing to participate in public debates on the climate crisis. From Glasgow to Hastings, hustings are bein...
uk/Boris Replaced By Melting Ice Sculpture As Party Leaders Outline Green Visions
BySophie Yeo
onNov 28, 2019 @ 13:55 PST

Leaders of Britain’s major political parties – minus the governing Tories – have battled it out over their green credentials in the UK’s first ever general election debate on the climate emergency....

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