The Transportation and Climate Initiative will raise gasoline costs, unfairly burdening rural Mainers and the working poor.
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Jane Fonda brings climate change protests to Los Angeles
Her four months of weekly protests in the nation’s capital, called Fire Drill Fridays, came to an end in January.
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Maine Compass: Tipping point on climate action likely to be later rather than sooner
History shows that in most cases, a destructive human activity is halted only after great harm has already been done.
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Climate activist Thunberg dismisses Treasury secretary’s mockery
Mnuchin had a day earlier dismissed Thunberg’s suggestion that governments and companies cut back dramatically on fossil fuels with a condescending barb.
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Earth just had its hottest decade on record
Two U.S. agencies say the decade that just ended was also capped off by the second-warmest year on record.
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Joaquin Phoenix, Martin Sheen join Jane Fonda’s final D.C. climate protest
Before being led off by cops, Phoenix addressed the crowd and took aim at the meat and dairy industry.
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Mainer among 4 activists arrested trying to block coal-carrying train
The group Climate Disobedience Center has held several protests recently trying to stop coal shipments to the power plant in Bow, New Hampshire.
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Maine Compass: Post-Madrid high hopes overshadowed by big polluters’ failure to make real progress
It is going to require a lot of work o get the world to net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
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Climate activist Greta Thunberg is Time ‘Person of the year’
The 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Thunberg is the youngest person to be named Time’s ‘Person of the year.’
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Greta Thunberg says voyage ‘energized’ her climate fight
Climate activist Greta Thunberg landed in Portugal after a three-week voyage across the Atlantic Ocean.