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WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG???? Killing endangered animals and dumping oil waste from drilling back into the ocean. “The company would be allowed to kill or seriously injure up to 14 whales and nine ice seals over five years while developing the $1 billion project………..Liberty Island would be the first offshore drilling development in federal …
Climate deniers and anti-science administration are the last folks on the planet to acknowledge manmade climate change…… “The Bureau of Land Management’s statement is simply false and shockingly out-of-step with what mainstream science tells us,” said Brenda Ekwurzel, director of climate science for the Union of Concerned Scientists. “This is nothing more than a coordinated …
“But that choice came to “no one’s surprise,” according to Adam Kolton, executive director of Alaska Wilderness League, who said the Trump administration was “not even pretending that this is about restraint or meaningful protection.” “With an eye on developing the entirety of the fragile coastal plain,” Kolton continued, “the administration has been riding roughshod …
d “This bill calls a halt to the administration’s headlong rush to sell off this special wilderness to corporate polluters,” said” John Bowman, senior director for federal affairs at the Natural Resources Defense Council. “And it preserves the fundamental human rights of the Gwich’in people whom these lands have sustained for thousands of years, and …
HSBC to stop financing most new coal plants, oil sands, arctic drilling | Reuters LONDON (Reuters) – Europe’s largest bank HSBC said on Friday it would mostly stop funding new coal power plants, oil sands and arctic drilling, becoming the latest in a long line of investors to shun the fossil fuels. Other large banks …
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