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They BuyPartisan: ExxonMobil donates $260,000 to Obama inauguration
By Steve Horn, January 21 2013. Source: DeSmog Blog President Barack Obama will be publicly sworn in today - on Martin Luther King Jr. Day – to serve his second term as the 44th President of the United...
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Obama under pressure after Nebraska governor signs off on Keystone XL
By Suzanne Goldenberg, January 22 2013. Source: The Guardian Barack Obama‘s powerful call for climate action faced an immediate test on Tuesday, with the president forced into a decision on one of the...
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Laugh or cry? Obama’s new commitment on climate change
Note: Rachel Smolker is co-director of Biofuelwatch, and long time friend and former staff at Global Justice Ecology Project. –The GJEP Team By Rachel Smolker, January 28 2013. Source: Huffington Post...
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Obama administration finalizes polar bear extinction plan
February 19, 2013. Source: Center for Biological Diversity After months of high-profile statements about climate change, the Obama administration today finalized a special rule that fails to protect...
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Obama’s fracking-friendly energy pick has environmentalists up in arms
By Michal Conger, March 4, 2013. Source: Washington Examiner President Obama this morning nominated physicist Ernest Moniz for energy secretary, to succeed outgoing secretary Steven Chu. Moniz, an MIT...
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Keystone XL: Environmental racism is rearing its ugly head once again
Note: Tom Goldtooth is the Executive Director of Indigenous Environmental Network. Global Justice Ecology Project works closely with IEN, and stands in solidarity with the below statement. -The GJEP...
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Obama’s former communications director’s firm does PR for Keystone XL...
By Steve Horn, May 3, 2013. Source: DeSmog Blog Double-dipping is a “no go” in the real world of eating chips and salsa with a circle of friends but an everyday reality in the world of lobbyists and PR...
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To power Mexico forward, Peña Nieto looks to energy reform
Note: After Obama’s visit to Mexico last week, we can rest assured that him and Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto discussed sweeping 21st Century energy reform: Privatize the state owned oil company...
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Phone records of journalists seized by U.S.
By Charlie Savage and Leslie Kaufman, May 13 2013. Source: The New York Times WASHINGTON — Federal investigators secretly seized two months of phone records for reporters and editors of The Associated...
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Obama administration caves to fracking industry in new proposed rules
Note: While these newly proposed rules allow the fracking industry to essentially regulate itself, McFeeley’s analysis falls short at the end. While we certainly “deserve better than rules that risk...
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US Military ‘power grab’ goes into effect
Note: More wonderfulness under the watchful eye of Obama… -The GJEP Team By Jed Morey, May 14, 2013. Source: Long Island Press The manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects offered the nation a...
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Obama climate plan touts gas fracking as “transition fuel,” doubling down on...
By Steve Horn, June 25, 2013. Source: DeSmogBlog Today, President Barack Obama announced his administration’s “Climate Action Plan” for cutting carbon pollution in his second term in the Oval Office at...
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Obama’s green agenda seen through Vermont eyes
Note: Will Bennington, featured in the article below, is Development and Campaigns Associate with Global Justice Ecology Project’s Vermont office. He is also a volunteer organizer with Rising Tide...
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Duke study links fracking to water contamination as EPA drops study on...
Note: More evidence that Obama’s Climate Action Plan is sure to take us over the climate and ecological cliff. As always, the devil is in the details (although they were also plenty apparent in the...
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API spent $22 million lobbying for Keystone XL; State Dept contractor ERM an...
Note from Steve Horn: Obama’s Climate Action Plan speech said Keystone XL won’t be approved ”if this project does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution.” The root of the...
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Biomass energy: The bad apple in Obama’s renewable energy barrel
Note: Biomass is but one ‘bad apple’ in Obama’s Climate Action Plan. Others, including nuclear, fracked gas, forest carbon offsets, ‘clean coal’ (sic) and other ‘advanced fossil energy’ sources also...
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Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz relies on dubious coal tech for Obama climate...
By Sharon Kelly, June 28, 2013. Source: DeSmog Blog The key takeaway from President Obama’s major climate change announcement this week was his intent to batten down on coal. But if history is any...
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Obama’s Africa trip bolsters US interests
Note: Obama, with an entourage of American business representatives, traveled to Africa to promote increased oil and gas drilling (part of Obama’s ‘all of the above’ energy strategy) and increased free...
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Whistleblowers blast NSA programs, award Snowden
July 8, 2013. Source: Institute for Public Accuracy Edward Snowden has been named recipient of this year’s “award for truth telling” given by Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence. The...
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Rapper Mos Def undergoes Guantánamo Bay-style force feeding
Note: The following video is extremely graphic and difficult to watch. However, Global Justice Ecology Project believes it is essential to understanding the inhumane torture being inflicted upon...
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