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Indigenous Youth Rally Calls on Biden to Cancel Line 3 and Dakota Access Pipelines

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 11 mins On March 31, President Joe Biden unveiled the blueprint for a $2.25 Army Corps of Engineers, calling for the cancelation of both projects, and for the Biden administration to “Build Back Fossil Free” while fulfilling promises on climate action, Indigenous rights, and environmental justice.

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Politicians Try to Rally Support for Coal Despite Economics and Biden Presidential Win

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Tags: coal Bankruptcy Peabody Joe Manchin mitt romney joe biden green new deal However, in the days since the results were announced November 7, two senators from both parties are finding common ground in a familiar space: opposition to the Green New Deal and support for a dying coal industry.

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Campaigners Put Forth 'Cabinet Climate Test' for President-Elect Biden

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org released a new guide Thursday to assess how likely President-elect Joe Biden's possible picks for top roles will be “to stand up to the fossil fuel industry to take on the climate crisis.”. Tags: joe biden Ernest Moniz 350.org Originally published on Common Dreams under CC BY - SA 3.0 Advocacy group 350.org

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Biden’s Climate Change Plans Can Quickly Raise the Bar, But Can They be Transformative?

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The day Joe Biden becomes president, he can start taking actions that can help slow climate change. Tags: joe biden action on climate change 2020 presidential election Carr , The Conversation. Reposted from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

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The climate crisis is a crime story

Renewable Energy World

As a candidate in 2020, Joe Biden said he would support efforts to prosecute the oil giant s for their lies. Restoring big oil’s lies to their rightful place at the heart of the climate story would offer an answer to that riddle, one that Joe Biden should be pressed on: big oil knew – shouldn’t big oil pay?

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The search for the Dr. Fauci of climate change

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President Joe Biden hopes to change that: His recent budget proposal calls for directing $110 million to climate-related health research at the NIH, as well as an additional $110 million for similar purposes at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.). Doctors put a price tag on the annual health impacts of climate change.

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Over 550 Environmental Groups Rally Around Call for Biden to Act on Plastics Pollution in 2021

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Read time: 8 mins Today, an unusually broad coalition of environmental groups, numbering more than 550, called on the incoming Biden-Harris administration to address plastic pollution alongside fossil fuels, releasing an eight-point platform that largely focuses on ways the next administration could act without a Democratic majority in the Senate.

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