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#NH's Democrats & Republicans supported the forced closure of Concord Steam biofuel plant, pushed to convert the State House, state buildings, City of Concord and Concord School District to #frackedgas, then patted themselves on the back as #climate heroes saying they're in line with the Paris Climate Accord & #RF100. Closing more biofuel plants means fewer NH forestry jobs and legislators supporting more of Liberty Utilities' gas pipelines. By GEOFFREY JONES August 16. 2018

Dear Editor, Liberty Utilities hopes to build their 27-mile Granite Bridge Pipeline to transport natural gas from the coast to Manchester. In a recent statement, Liberty Utilities said they "understand that climate change is real," and they "are going to do everything they can to fight it." Really? How does investing $340 million dollars in fossil fuel infrastructure fight climate change? Does buying gas that is fracked, a process that contaminates water tables around thousan

Elizabeth Dunbar · St. Paul · Apr 23, 2018 The Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled on the side of climate change activists Monday in a case over an oil pipeline protest.The four activists — one from New York and three from Washington — admit they broke into Enbridge Energy property in northwestern Minnesota in an effort to stop oil from flowing through a pipeline. The activists' case is headed to trial in Clearwater County later this year. They've asked the court if they can use

"Jim Antal recognizes that most Americans are not engaged by the climate change issue. “Two in three Americans think global warming is happening (67%), yet most Americans (65%) rarely or never discuss it,” he writes, citing a Yale study in his new book, “Climate Church, Climate World.” Antal thinks a central reason we have ignored global warming is because the problem is a “long emergency” and overwhelming in scope. “(N)euroscientists tell us that our brains are not suited to

Methane emissions are the source of the greenhouse gas which, after carbon dioxide, probably causes climatologists more sleepless nights than any of the other gases. And now it appears they have quite a lot more to bother them than they had realised. Methane is reckoned to be at least 30 times more powerful than CO2 at warming the Earth, with some estimates putting its potency much higher still. The good news, research has suggested, is that there is far less methane than CO2

BIG OIL & GAS' NEW TACTIC: Agree that climate change is caused by humans and deny that fossil fuels are part of the problem. "Fossil fuels are the problem, say fossil fuel companies being sued. Big Oil and the cities suing them in federal court agreed on at least one thing on Wednesday: Human-made climate change is real. In the country’s first court hearing on the science behind climate change, a lawyer for Chevron, Theodore Boutrous Jr., said the oil company accepts the scie

"After Donald Trump won the presidential election, hundreds of volunteers around the U.S. came together to “rescue” federal data on climate change, thought to be at risk under the new administration. “Guerilla archivists,” including ourselves, gathered to archive federal websites and preserve scientific data.But what has happened since? Did the data vanish? As of one year later, there has been no great purge. Federal data sets related to environmental and climate science are

By Sharon Kelly Over the past few years, natural gas has become the primary fuel that America uses to generate electricity, displacing the long-time king of fossil fuels, coal. In 2019, more than a third of America's electrical supply will come from natural gas, with coal falling to a second-ranked 28 percent, the Energy Information Administration predicted this month, marking the growing ascendency of gas in the American power market. But new peer-reviewed research adds to t

🌎We find this article to have high value, pertinent information regarding our need to take immediate action on climate change. Arctic ice breakdown As extreme temperatures, the rate of sea ice melt, the collapse of Greenland glaciers, the thawing of Siberian and Canadian permafrost and increased evaporation in the Arctic drive cold snow storms into Europe and North America, and as hurricanes and wild fires affect tropical and semi-tropical parts of the globe, it is becoming

"The retired admirals and generals say climate change is putting key military facilities at risk of costly damage that could knock out critical operations for weeks." A growing number of U.S. military sites are being damaged by sea level rise fueled by climate change, and that will threaten the military's ability to protect vital national security interests if the Pentagon and Congress don't take faster action, a panel of retired admirals and generals warns in a new report. M

As the end of the year draws near, there is much activity taking place that will shape the upcoming year. Liberty Utilities has proposed a pipeline that, if approved, will open the door to more expansion of fracked gas and pipelines. The time for us to take action is now. Please take a few moments today to email your representative and ask them to VOTE NO on bills HB 592, HB 114 and HB 317 on January 3rd. We desperately need your support right now and increasingly as our scen

"French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday that France would cover the amount the U.S. contributed for climate science research to a United Nations panel after President Trump signaled America would exit the Paris climate change pact. “They will not miss a single euro,” Macron said, according to Reuters, referring to the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).The U.S. has given the IPCC about 2 million euros a year in the past.Trump announced in June he