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When Climate Disaster Hits Home
I felt compelled to help with this film to show the world what extreme weather — likely linked to climate change — can do to a community. In this case, it…
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Monsanto, Student Activism, and a New Normal
After a long Wednesday of classes, I tossed my backpack onto the kitchen table and decided to check my emails one last time before cooking dinner. Scanning my inbox, I…
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Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa
There are moments in life when something so shocking, so seemingly impossible happens, that you forever remember where you were and what you were doing when you heard about it.…
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There’s Never Been a Better Time to Join the Environmental Movement
The author of this article is a Greenpeace volunteer group leader. To get involved and volunteer with Greenpeace, check out Greenwire. When I was little, I remember telling my parents that I…
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Third Financial Quarter Coal Market Report: Risks to U.S. Coal Mining and Export Proposals (October 2015)
All prices are in USD unless otherwise noted. The information in the report is not financial advice, investment advice, trading advice or any other advice. This report was prepared by: Greenpeace, Sierra…
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Coal Market Report – Risks to US coal mining and export proposals, July 2015
The US coal industry is facing structural decline and companies pursuing coal export proposals in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) are particularly at risk. This update highlights execution risks for PNW…
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Carbon Capture SCAM
Supporters of carbon capture for oil extraction claim that oil produced with CO2 injection is going to get produced somewhere else anyway, and therefore would actually be ‘green’ oil because it keeps CO2 from…
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Case studies: The impacts of extracting and burning natural gas
Numerous studies have shown that the processes of extracting and burning natural gas, including fracking, have grave environmental impacts. Here are a few of them.
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Natural gas: Methane’s contributions to global warming
Natural gas emits less carbon dioxide than coal and other fossil fuels. This has led to widespread support for replacing other fossil fuels with methane, the main component of natural gas. There’s only one catch—methane is actually a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.
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“Clean Coal” Pumps up “Green Oil”
Greenpeace USA just released “Carbon Capture Scam (CCS): How a False Climate Solution Bolsters Big Oil,” a report explaining why support for carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) must stop. Cynics…