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NewEnglandCoalition

@NECNP

The New England Coalition advocates for a safe, nuclear-free energy future. 🌎

 Brattleboro, VT
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“This is a moral imperative. There is no choice. We are going to have to take on the greed of the fossil fuel industry and the ignorance of Donald Trump by declaring a climate emergency.” vox.com/2019/7/9/20687526/be…
Bernie Sanders and AOC want Congress to declare a national emergency over climate change

Bernie Sanders and AOC want Congress to declare a national emergency over climate change

Climate activists around the world are pushing governments to treat global warming as an emergency.

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Bill McKibben
@billmckibben6 Jul 2019
By 2030, India will lose 5.8% of its working hours because it will be too hot to labor outside--that's the equivalent of 34 million jobs. Climate chaos crushes those who did the least to cause it. aljazeera.com/ajimpact/india…
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How weak can the climate movement get? This is the priority in combating climate change? ow.ly/ACYI30p5E6T #climatecrisis #climate2019 #keepitintheground
Under pressure from activists, DNC reportedly planning vote on climate debate

Under pressure from activists, DNC reportedly planning vote on climate debate

Pressure from protesters seems to be pushing the party establishment on climate change.

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Scott Stapf@stapf3 Jul 2019
Nuclear power is the ultimate unsustainable form of energy. For some electricity today, we are leaving a thousand generations of future humans dangerous radioactive waste. “If the Romans had had nuclear power, we would still be guarding the waste”. scotsman.com/news/opinion/co…
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Bill McKibben
@billmckibben9 Jul 2019
Glad to see @BernieSanders @AOC et al pushing hard for a Congressional climate emergency declaration. This has already passed the (conservative-controlled) UK Parliament, and it will help focus the fight here too! theguardian.com/environment/…
Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez move to declare climate crisis official emergency

Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez move to declare climate crisis official emergency

Exclusive: Democrats to introduce resolution in House on Tuesday in recognition of extreme threat from global heating

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Cruise ships emit more sulfur dioxide than 13 million cars every day. Learn about the effects of cruise ship pollution on marine wildlife and coastal environments with Friends of the Earth’s new #CruiseShipReportCard. businessinsider.com/which-cr…
An environmental-advocacy group graded 16 cruise lines on how well they limit pollution. Every...

An environmental-advocacy group graded 16 cruise lines on how well they limit pollution. Every...

Findings compiled by Friends of the Earth show most cruise lines do a poor job of limiting the damage they do to the environment.

businessinsider.com
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@billmckibben9 Jul 2019
More heat = more downpour. The six wettest of the 1,494 overlapping year-long spans since January 1895 have all occurred in the last five years. weather.com/news/climate/new…

The U.S. Just Had Its Wettest 12 Months on Record (Again) | Weather.com

No other year-long span has dumped more moisture on the U.S. in more than a century of recordkeeping.

weather.com
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Hanford Challenge@HanfordC8 Jul 2019
#HanfordNews Plutonium-contaminated Hanford ‘canyon’ is deteriorating. Environment is at risk, study says. tri-cityherald.com/news/loca… #HanfordSite #Contamination #Radiation #NuclearWaste
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@billmckibben9 Jul 2019
Truly remarkable reporting from the @latimes on how sea level rise is already transforming California's beaches--and may obliterate them altogether in the course of the century latimes.com/projects/la-me-s…
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@billmckibben2 Jul 2019
European satellite agency concludes that June was the hottest month ever recorded on earth, our planet. independent.co.uk/news/world…
June was the hottest ever recorded on Earth

June was the hottest ever recorded on Earth

Experts say climate change contributed to record-breaking temperatures across Europe

independent.co.uk
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Greta Thunberg
@GretaThunberg29 Jun 2019
Hope is contagious! I met with the inspiring Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, @AOC . Here is our discussion! #FridaysForFuture #SchoolStrike4Climate #ClimateStrike #GreenNewDeal #ClimateBreakdown theguardian.com/environment/…
When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez met Greta Thunberg: 'Hope is contagious'

When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez met Greta Thunberg: 'Hope is contagious'

One is America’s youngest-ever congresswoman, the other a Swedish schoolgirl. Two of the most powerful voices on the climate speak for the first time

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@billmckibben29 Jun 2019
This oil company only underestimated the size of its leak by a factor of a thousand. nytimes.com/2019/06/25/clima…
New Estimate for an Oil Leak: A Thousand Times Worse Than Rig Owner Says (Published 2019)

New Estimate for an Oil Leak: A Thousand Times Worse Than Rig Owner Says (Published 2019)

The leak, about 12 miles off the Louisiana coast, has been releasing oil and gas into the Gulf of Mexico since 2004, when a bundle of undersea pipes ruptured.

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The window to prevent the worst of it is closing. Fast. esquire.com/news-politics/po…
No System of Government Designed by Human Beings Can Survive What the Climate Crisis Will Bring

No System of Government Designed by Human Beings Can Survive What the Climate Crisis Will Bring

The window to prevent the worst of it is closing. Fast.

esquire.com
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Climate Reality
@ClimateReality24 Jun 2019
Bottom line: it's a direct connection from burning fossil fuels to a world where nutritious food and clean water become scarce. #ClimateCrisis bit.ly/2ZD2oju
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Bill McKibben
@billmckibben24 Jun 2019
Whoa, @JayInslee's new climate plan is entirely serious. No new fossil fuel infrastructure! mailchi.mp/ab7a9df8acc5/our-…
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Scott Stapf@stapf24 Jun 2019
Moving into emergency mode on climate change ow.ly/uPqG30oZbr7
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Scott Stapf@stapf20 Jun 2019
By 2030, wind and solar will "undercut existing coal and gas almost everywhere." ow.ly/fJd730oYcAX
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Bill McKibben
@billmckibben20 Jun 2019
Report says the federal govt can't afford all the seawalls need to protect American cities. If only there were some massive corporations that had lied about climate change for 30 years that we could force to disgorge profits. nytimes.com/2019/06/19/clima…
With More Storms and Rising Seas, Which U.S. Cities Should Be Saved First? (Published 2019)

With More Storms and Rising Seas, Which U.S. Cities Should Be Saved First? (Published 2019)

As the dangers and costs of climate change rise, policymakers are facing painful choices about how to decide which communities to protect.

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Bill McKibben
@billmckibben23 Jun 2019
GE to close gas-fired power plant 20 years ahead of schedule, site will be used instead for making storage batteries. Solar for the big win! mobile.reuters.com/article/a…
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The Trump administration is trying to roll back safety regulations that were put in place after BP spewed 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf. So we're taking them to court. #ProtectOurCoast foe.org/news/lawsuit-challen…
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