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In the next five years, New York state’s pension fund will divest from fossil fuel. Thomas DiNapoli, the state comptroller, announced that the state will sell all its fossil fuel stocks along with all shares from climate change contributors by 2040. This is being hailed as “the most aggressive divestment target set by any U.S. […]
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A tipping point for the defeat of fossil fuels?
December 12th, 2020 
Awake Goy As Donald Trump gave in to the demand that the transition process to the Biden years officially begin, the administration and its fossil-fuel allies doubled down on their efforts to implement destructive environmental policies that President Biden might try to reverse. Those initiatives have included a campaign to jump-start oil drilling in the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; the approval by the U.S. […]
Trump administration targets banks divesting from fossil fuels in new anti-climate rule
November 29th, 2020 Awake Goy A new proposed regulation that would bar large banks from declining to do business with particular industries or groups of companies was released on Friday by the Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) — a move that could have major implications for a wide array of divestment and boycott campaigns nationwide, […]
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No Comments »The Industrial Age Is Ending, Low-Tech Neo-Feudalism Will Replace It, No Fossil Fuels, No ‘Green’ Energy
November 24th, 2020 Awake Goy Home » Economy, North America, Technology, World » The Industrial Age Is Ending, Low-Tech Neo-Feudalism Will Replace It, No Fossil Fuels, No ‘Green’ Energy “The process will be uncomfortably sharp and disorientating. The West especially will not know what hit it as it emergently self-reorganizes back into something that resembles the old-time feudalism. […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: ending, feudalism, fossil, fuels, green, industrial, replace No Comments »University of Cambridge announces divestment from fossil fuels after five-year student, staff campaign
October 4th, 2020 Awake Goy Image Credit: The Tab In a major break with the energy sector, the University of Cambridge committed to full divestment. The University will cut ties with the fossil fuel industry including BP, Royal Dutch Shell, and other companies in which they invested in for the past 20 years. The University of Cambridge announced it will […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: after, announces, Cambridge, divestment, fossil, fuels, university No Comments »New Fossil Fuel Projects Meet Indigenous Resistance
September 20th, 2020 Awake Goy By Randall Hyman, Truthout. September 19, 2020 Above photo: Navajo Tribal Council Member Daniel Tso and Mario Atencio of Diné CARE study a map of oil leases in the Nation’s Eastern Agency. The Bureau of Land Management’s new guidelines will allow up to 3,000 more frack wells in the Greater Chaco region. Randall Hyman. New Mexico – […]
Unilever to cut fossil fuels from cleaning brands by 2030
September 9th, 2020 Awake Goy Unilever Plc (ULVR.L), one of the world’s major manufacturers of cleaning and laundry products, has recently announced its promise. to accelerate the sustainability of their brands. According to Reuters, instead of petrochemicals, their products would use constituents created from plants and other biological sources, marine sources such as algae and waste materials. Chemicals in its […]
Sierra Club to DNC chairman: End tax breaks and subsidies for fossil fuel companies immediately
August 23rd, 2020 Awake Goy Image credit: Aaron Cynic/NationofChange In a letter to Tom Perez, the Democratic National Committee chairman, the Sierra Club demanded the reinstatement of language originally included in its platform, which calls for the end of tax breaks and subsidies for fossil fuel companies. The letter condemned the Democratic Party’s actions and said that developing a platform […]
Posted in Climate Change Tags: breaks, chairman, companies, fossil, immediately, sierra, Subsidies No Comments »Climate Activists Are Closer Than Ever To Ending All Fossil Fuel Investments
August 19th, 2020 Awake Goy Above photo: A group of NY2CL activists met in Albany to chalk pro-divestment messaging outside of the Capitol building when the legislative session began in May. NYYCL. Big Win Against Coal. When New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli announced last month that the state would divest its over $200 billion Common Retirement Fund from more […]
Fossil Fuel Industry Pollutes Black And Brown Communities
July 29th, 2020 Awake Goy 
Fossil Fuel Industry Pollutes Black And Brown Communities Above: Creative Commons Photos: Shell Gas Station (Mike Mozart); Chase (longislandwins); Chevron (Roo Reynolds); Wells Fargo (Mike Mozart); BlackRock (Thomas Hawk). While Propping Up Racist Policing. As movements for racial and environmental justice escalate across the US, these struggles – which, as groups like the National Black Environmental […]
The True Cost of the Fossil Fuel System Is Massive and Obscured
June 2nd, 2018 Awake Goy The prevailing opinion among today’s political and economic elites is that economic globalisation is in some sense inevitable, perhaps even the summit of human achievement. The oft-repeated mantra is that ‘there is no alternative’ and we should adapt to it as best we can. Rather than being inevitable, economic globalisation is, in fact, the result […]
Posted in World News, World Order, World Politics Tags: fossil, massive, obscured, system No Comments »Are Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaigns Working?
May 29th, 2018 Awake Goy Are Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaigns Working? Above Photo: Students and alumni at Tufts University protest near the Tufts University presidents office in Medford, Mass. on April 22, 2015, and began a sit-in that they said would continue until the administration commits to fossil fuel divestment. (Photo: David L. Ryan / The Boston Globe via Getty Images) […]
How Activists Won Divestment from Fossil Fuels in New York City
March 5th, 2018 Awake Goy How Activists Won Divestment from Fossil Fuels in New York City This campaign was years in the making, but Donald Trump’s election and the withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord spurred the local activism that led to this important victory. After five years of tireless organizing, the movement to divest NYC public worker pension funds […]
How General Electric Gambled on Fossil Fuel Power, and Lost
February 23rd, 2018 Awake Goy How General Electric Gambled on Fossil Fuel Power, and Lost February 22nd, 2018 Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand. — Via: Reuters: Rather than rising, GE Power’s profit fell 45 percent last year, forcing GE to slash its overall profit outlook […]
National Monuments Under Attack — Big Win for Fossil Fuel Industry
December 16th, 2017 Awake Goy December 16th, 2017 By Carolanne Wright Contributing writer for Wake Up World “The President Stole Your Land. In an illegal move, the president just reduced the size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments. This is the largest elimination of protected land in American history.” ~ Patagonia Inc. Now more than ever, we need to protect […]
Fracked Off. Fossil Fuel Fight Continues
November 17th, 2017 Awake Goy Above Photo: From nativedailynetwork.com Google is blocking our site. Please use the social media sharing buttons (upper left) to share this on your social media and help us break through. Fracked Gas. You might think it was laughing gas considering the way the political and business interests rub their hands and celebrate its use. We see […]
Fossil Fuel Allies Are Tearing Apart Ohio’s Embrace Of Clean Energy
October 31st, 2017 Awake Goy Above Photo: Flickr/ Steve Smith Google is blocking our site. Please use the social media sharing buttons (upper left) to share this on your social media and help us break through. With scare studies, policy drafts and political donations, industry groups turned Ohio lawmakers against policies they once overwhelmingly supported. This story was also published in […]
California Seeks Ban On Fossil Fuel Cars, Laying The Groundwork To Ban Human Driven Cars
October 1st, 2017 Awake Goy September 30, 2017 By Aaron Kesel California known as the sunny state is eyeing a ban on sales of fossil-fuel cars in hopes of reducing carbon emissions as they seed the deeper agenda to eventually ban humans from driving as we switch to an autonomous lifestyle. California Gov. Jerry Brown has reportedly “expressed an […]
Posted in World News, World Politics Tags: california, driven, fossil, groundwork, human, laying, seeks No Comments »China Plans To Ban Sales Of Fossil Fuel Cars Entirely
September 18th, 2017 Awake Goy Above Photo: From techcrunch.com China’s big electric vehicle push is about to get even bigger: The country is planning to end the sale of fossil fuel-powered vehicles entirely, with regulators working currently on a timetable of when the ban will ultimately take effect, according to Bloomberg. China is the world’s largest auto market, with 28.03 million vehicles […]
Fossil Fuel Subsidies Are A Staggering $5 Tn Per Year
August 13th, 2017 Awake Goy Above Photo: In this photo taken on November 19, 2015, smoke belches from a coal-fired power station near Datong, in China’s northern Shanxi province. Photograph: Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images A new study finds 6.5% of global GDP goes to subsidizing dirty fossil fuels Fossil fuels have two major problems that paint a dim picture for their […]
