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Harvard Study: U.S. ‘Likely Culprit’ Global Spike Methane Emissions
Posted by Common Dreams: Andrea Germanos on February 18th, 2016
Common Dreams: New research has linked the U.S. to the massive rise in global methane emissions. Bobby Magill reported on the Harvard University study on Climate Central Tuesday.
Using satellite data, the researchers found that methane emissions in the country rose more than 30 percent over the 2002–2014 period and that increase "could account for 30–60 percent of the global growth of atmospheric methane seen in the past decade," the study`s abstract states.
Though the study does not attribute the increase...
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First Nations Vow: There Will Be No Tar Sands Pipeline
Posted by Common Dreams: Andrea Germanos on June 12th, 2014
Common Dreams: "We have drawn a line in the earth they cannot, and will not, cross," said Chief Martin Louie of the Nadleh Whut’en First Nation. There will be no tar sands pipeline. That is the message stressed by First Nations communities who say that even if Canada's Prime Minister Harper gives the federal OK to Enbridge's Northern Gateway project, First Nations law and their "responsibilities to future generations" will stop the project dead in its tracks. A federal decision on the project, which includes...