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Call on Governments to End Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Traci Romine, June 9, 2012
Hundreds of governments and thousands of stakeholders will meet at the Rio+20 Conference in Brazil this month to chart a future for the health of the planet, our human family and economies worldwide. The question is whether that future will include continuing public fossil fuel subsidies, which could climb to a staggering US$775 billion to an estimated US$1 trillion...
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Oil Spill off Rio Sets Chevron at the Center of Scandal
Traci Romine, November 17, 2011
Chevron is at the center of a scandal over the oil spill in the offshore Campos Basin Frade field about 230 miles from the coast of northeast Rio de Janeiro. Originally the company said that the spill was natural seepage from the field. Well, no, it appears it was not. The scandal began to unravel on...
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It’s Time for Reform: Fossil Fuel Subsidies in Rich Nations are Staggering
Traci Romine, October 11, 2011
Finally a new report, released by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OCED), begins to quantify how much rich nations—and taxpayers—are supporting fossil-fuel production and consumption. The numbers are staggering. During each of the last five years, between US$ 45 billion and US$ 75 billion in budgetary support and tax expenditures have been provided...
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World Bank Executives: Stop Defending Dirty Energy for the Poor
Traci Romine, April 19, 2011
The World Bank Group, perhaps the best-known publicly-funded international development institution, is pitched in an important battle over the future of its energy lending. Unfortunately, if some Bank executives have their way, the new Energy Strategy will become a blueprint for straddling the world’s poorest nations and people with dangerous and polluting energy. That’s because...
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Join this Friday’s Rally at the World Bank: Support Clean Energy for the Poor
Traci Romine, April 14, 2011
We need your help this Friday to call on the World Bank Group to direct its energy lending to provide healthy, clean energy access to the world’s poor. Currently, 1.4 billion people mostly in rural Asia and Africa are without access to electricity. The World Bank says that alleviating this energy poverty is one of...
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Join the International Call: World Bank, Free Us from Fossil Fuels
Traci Romine, February 24, 2011
It’s time to shift international energy investments to support energy services that are clean, reliable, and sustainable, and honestly provide energy access for the poorest. You can help. The World Bank – an influential development bank that runs on taxpayer money – is currently updating its Energy Strategy that will guide its investments for the...
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We Can Win the Fight to Eliminate Dirty Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Traci Romine, February 10, 2011
We are in this fight to win it for ourselves, our pocket books, our planet, and our kids and grand kids. And this is a fight. Despite the trillion in profits big oil and gas companies are making on the backs of American consumers, they came out swinging against President Obama’s second call in his...
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Push Back Against the Climate Deniers and End Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Traci Romine, February 3, 2011
At the same time it appears that big oil and coal climate denial campaigns are successfully stifling climate action in Congress and the Obama Administration, a group of America’s top scientists stepped up to the plate on Tuesday and called on House and Senate leaders to “take a fresh look at climate change.” And none...
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