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Concluding #COP24 Without Bold Climate Action Plan 'Would Be Suicidal,' UN Chief Warns

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres

'We Need an Unprecedented Transformation in Every Sector': 250 Climate Activists Stage Sit-in at Pelosi's San Francisco Office

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

pelosi sit-in

Protest follows surge of support for the Green New Deal, with more than a dozen House Democrats signing on to the call since Monday

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Schumer Denounced for Giving 'Fossil Fuel Servant' Joe Manchin Top Spot on Energy Committee

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"Appointing Senator Manchin as ranking member of the Energy Committee is...

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'An Indication of What's Coming': Melting at North and South Poles Worse Than Previously Thought

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

arctic sea ice

While NOAA's annual report shows the Arctic has lost 95 percent of its oldest,...

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As Demand for Urgent Transformation Intensifies, New Study Shows Hotter Planet Making Extreme Weather Deadlier

The Longview Power Plant, a coal-fired plant, stands on August 21, 2018 in Maidsville, West Virginia.

As Trump Pushes Planetary Destruction at COP24, Investors Holding $32 Trillion Demand Bold Climate Action

140+ Arrested at Pelosi and Hoyer Offices as Youth-Led Protests Demand Green New Deal on Capitol Hill

"In the two months since our first action, we have expanded more than we imagined," Liam Geary Baulch, a U.K.-based Extinction Rebellion activist, told The Guardian. "We are now planning to change our structure so it can accommodate up to two million people." (Photo: Extinction Rebellion)

As Uprising Spreads Across Globe, Naomi Klein and Noam Chomsky Among Signers of Open Letter Backing Extinction Rebellion

#NoMoreExcuses: Mass Action on Capitol Hill to Demand Dems Back Green New Deal Instead of Fossil Fuel Interests

'These False Solutions Are a Joke': Trump's Pro-Coal Panel Shut Down With Laughter at COP24

The Sanders Institute's Gathering Was About Saving the World, But It Was Not About Bernie Sanders

COP24

US, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait Launch 'Ludicrous' Effort to 'Sabotage' Support for Key UN Climate Study

"Yellow Vests" demonstration

More Than a Thousand Arrested as Yellow Vests Protests Over Economic Frustration Rage on Across France

stop the pipeline

In Another Blow to Keystone XL, Judge Rules TransCanada Can't Conduct Pre-Construction Work

'Complete Wiping Away of Clean Water Act': Trump EPA Rule Would Free Corporations to Pollute Nation's Water as Much as They Please

Winona LaDuke

Winona LaDuke Calls for Indigenous-Led 'Green New Deal' as She Fights Minnesota Pipeline Expansion

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Where There's Smock There's Covfefe

Laughter Is the Best Medicine Followed By Impeachment and Jail Time Dept: A bad day for our perilously insecure "president" for whom mockery is the ultimate threat. Not only were his peeps laughed/ shamed off the climate talks stage by talking up "clean" coal and oil, but social media was alight with his latest moronic best words on "No Smocking Gun...No Collusion" - which, it was universally agreed, "makes a smockery of our democracy."

Progressive Newswire

Sierra Club

Trump Administration Proposes Free Pass for Water Polluters

Earthjustice

New Dirty Water Rule Would Trash Communities’ Drinking Water

Sunrise Movement

1000+ Youth Sit-in, 143 Arrested Demanding Dem Leadership Back Green New Deal

350.org

BREAKING: 1000+ Young People Sitting-in at Dem House Leadership Offices Demanding They Back a Green New Deal Before Holiday Recess

Friends of the Earth

New Report Confirms BlackRock’s Big Fossil Fuel Problem

Greenpeace

Greenpeace on COP24: Trump’s Allegiance to Coal Will Have Fatal Consequences

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Petrochemical Booster Rick Perry Rides to the Rescue of the Fracking Industry

Alison Rose Levy

How Regenerative Agriculture Could Be Key to the Green New Deal

Medea Benjamin, Alice Slater

Why Green New Deal Advocates Must Address Militarism

John Buell

The Yellow Vests Rise Up Against the Elites and Neoliberal Austerity

Subhankar Banerjee

Biological Annihilation: A Planet in Loss Mode

Debi Smith

By Accident of Fate: The Fires in Paradise

Stewart Phillip, Serge 'Otsi' Simon

Alberta Tar Sands Production Cuts Here to Stay: Indigenous-Led Movement Will Make Sure of It

Jeff Biggers

Climate Storytellers Inspire Roadmap to Action

Verner Wilson III

I Went Dungeness Crabbing in Washington. Here's Why I'm Concerned About Increased Shipping From Trans Mountain Pipeline

John Atcheson

Climate Change Is Likely to Come Sooner and Be Worse Than Latest Worst-Case Forecasts Suggest

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