Photograph by Steve Eberhardt. (APN) ATLANTA — Before world leaders began critical climate negotiations in Paris, France, on November 30, 2015, Atlantans joined more than half a million people worldwide who rallied to demand a stop to global warming. On Sunday, November 29, 2015, 550 people marched from a park in Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward neighborhood to the […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — Tuesday, November 20, 2012, at the Variety Playhouse, Bill McKibben, President and Co-Founder of 350.org, spoke to a sold-out audience of several hundred Metro Atlantans about the global social problem of climate change. 350.org is an international organization with staff members in the US, Brazil, Burundi, India, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, and Ukraine. According to […]
Read moreThis article first appeared on the Inter-Press Service website at: http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=56683 ATLANTA, Georgia, Jul 29, 2011 (IPS) – Utility companies across the U.S. have announced plans to shut down and retire several coal-fired power plants following a new rule published by the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) intended to reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide. The new rule, […]
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