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Andrew Coyne Helped Run Charity That Gave $6.4M to Climate Crisis Denial Groups

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One of Canada’s top political journalists and pundits served on the board of a foundation that gave $6.4 organization called the Atlas Network that for years has backed efforts in Canada and globally to vilify climate protesters as dangerous extremists. Coyne is listed as a director of the Aurea Foundation from 2006 to 2016.

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Frontline Communities Launch Hunger Strike to Protest Plastics Giant Formosa

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Fishers, organizers, and concerned citizens in Texas, Vietnam, and Louisiana — areas that are home to existing or proposed Formosa plants — have supported each other’s efforts to mobilize against the Taiwan-based firm, forming the organization International Monitor Formosa Alliance (IMFA). Formosa Plastics Corporation, U.S.A.

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Webinar: How clean energy makes life more affordable—and how to talk about it

Clean Energy Canada

Speakers from each organization will provide a collective crash course on the latest research around clean energy and affordability, including how best to communicate it and how we can help bring everyone along. The presentation will be followed by a discussion in which attendees can put their questions to panelists.

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China’s new frontier for VOC regulations

GreenBiz

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog. The 2016 wave of enforcement actions resulted in renewed effort by companies that hadn’t been shut down to take regulatory concerns more seriously since then. Policy & Politics. China’s new frontier for VOC regulations.

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4 things corporations should know about urban forestry projects

GreenBiz

It’s hard to make planting trees political, one reason this climate mitigation strategy has received rare bipartisan support for the past two decades. In a 2016 study, Seattle determined 28 percent of the city is covered in trees, close to its 2037 goal of 30 percent. 4 things corporations should know about urban forestry projects.

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 In Brazil, Right-Wing Think Tanks Align with Agribusiness to Seek a Path Back to Power

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“I even took off my farm boots and wore high heels to come here today,” Camila Telles told the audience of political activists, business executives, and students at April’s Liberty Forum, an annual conservative gathering in Brazil sponsored by the Atlas Network. Some camps supported the reelection of populist strongman Jair Bolsonaro.

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Jordan Peterson’s New Online School Will Be Rife with Climate Crisis Deniers

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Last year Hicks rhetorically asked on his blog whether climate researchers were “over-hyping because they have a political agenda,” terming them “those chronic-doomster semi-scientists.” Michael Shermer speaking at the 2016 FreedomFest in Las Vegas, Nevada. As for politics, I am liberal, while Dr. Peterson is conservative,” he said.