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We revisit the divestment movement. What progress has been made?The post Refuelling progress: divestment in fossil fuels gathers pace appeared first on Positive News.

Can you imagine a place where the support for Señor Trumpanzee isn't just solid or firm, but "rabid?" Yeah... I guess that's not much of a stretch among the deplorables. Although...

Hemp hemp hooray, water cheats and Oregon oil + this day in history w/USS Liberty and our song of the day by Weaves on your Morning Monarchy for June 8, 2016.

Her reaction is very telling.
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Don Blankenship, coal baron and boss of Massey Energy (source). He made his money by exploiting miners. Should he and his kind be made to pay for his miner's transition out of his now-dying industry?

Dirty coal is going down in Oregon (source)by Gaius PubliusShort and very sweet. There are two states that don't use coal at all to generate energy, Vermont and Hawaii. All of the rest burn some coal, and no state has banned coal completely; until now; until Oregon. My emphasis below:

Climate champion P.G. Sittenfeld is the one choice for the U.S. Senate from Ohioby Gaius PubliusI've been watching the Ohio Senate primary contest between former governor Ted Strickland and progressive P.G. Sittenfeld with interest. I keep having to remind myself that Strickland is actually a Democrat and that the race is still in the primary phase.

The announcement comes in the wake of a three-year moratorium on new coal mines.
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Tuesday, in all the hubbub over the State of the Union, the House sat down to pass another piece of toxic legislation-- literally toxic legislation-- while no one was looking. They passed H.R. 1644, a bill to block the Department of Interior’s proposed Stream Protection Rule that aims to better protect mining communities from the harmful impacts of coal mining pollution.

You know those states where Democratic registration is higher than Republican registration but where the GOP wins all the time anyway-- states like West Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee? Far-off VA-09 in the southwest corner of Virginia borders on all 4 of those states. It's been an economically populist area but culturally conservative. As late as the 90's the district was a Democratic bastion and gave Bill Clinton 63% of its vote both times he ran.