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Fossil Fuel Divestment
By Jennifer Krill
November 20, 2014
One avenue to encourage a more rapid transition from dirty fossil fuels to a clean energy economy is through socially responsible investment, or in this case, disinvestment. If we want fossil fuels to stop dominating the global economy and our political decision makers, then we need to stop buying into them.
So it was great news back in September that the Rockefeller Brothers Fund announced they would divest from fossil fuels.
Tagged with: fossil fuels, responsible investing, rockefeller brothers fund, divestment
Can’t anybody here play this game?
By Jennifer Krill
May 13, 2014
“Can’t anybody here play this game?” baseball manager Casey Stengel said about his 1962 New York Mets, renowned as the worst team of all time.
Stengel’s famous line comes to mind with the recent publication of a report by the Government Accountability Office, Congress’ investigative arm, showing that the federal Bureau of Land Management, the leading regulator of oil and gas drilling on federal land, wasn’t even inspecting more than 2,100 of 3,702 wells drilled between fiscal years 2009 and 2012 that the bureau, itself, had designated as high risks for water pollution or other environmental harm.
Tagged with: fracking, regulation, enforcement, blm, gao
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