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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">1. Over 1,200 US candidates for public office in the past election took a pledge not to accept knowingly any contribution over $200 from fossil fuel providers. The No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge
campaign was organized after the Democratic National Committee in August reversed its policy of not accepting fossil fuel money. <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/candidates-reject-fossil-fuel-cash-2616538962.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=0d35999380-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-0d35999380-85965093" id="LPlnk517296" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">https://www.ecowatch.com/candidates-reject-fossil-fuel-cash-2616538962.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=0d35999380-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-0d35999380-85965093</a></span></p>
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U.S. Officials and Candidates Have Rejected Fossil Fuel Cash</a></div>
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With record-breaking hurricanes, furious wildfires and an ominous report from the United Nations that forecasts catastrophic climate change, it's more important than ever to vote for leaders who are defenders of the environment.</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">The No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge website lists supporting organizations at the bottom of the page, and signers on a link. The site is funded by Oil Change.
<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://nofossilfuelmoney.org/politician-signup/" id="LPlnk40801" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">http://nofossilfuelmoney.org/politician-signup/</a></span></p>
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Taking the pledge means that you and your campaign will adopt a policy to not knowingly accept any contributions over $200 from the PACs or executives of fossil fuel companies — companies whose primary business is the extraction, processing, distribution, or
sale of oil, gas, or coal.</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">2. Noam Chomsky sees criminal insanity at work in our culture, with Donald Trump as chief lunatic. Climate is the focus of the lunacy.
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The great linguist and political critic remains hopeful that we can overcome global warming and other threats</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">3. Climate action got mixed results in the US midterm elections. The WA State initiative for the country’s firs carbon tax failed, as did Floridians backing a Green New Deal, but a new set
of climate activists were elected to the US house of representatives. <span class="MsoHyperlink">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">EcoWatch supplies their take on how the midterms went for the environment.
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Results from the U.S. midterm election are mostly in, and, when it comes to what they mean for the environment, they're a real mixed bag.</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">4. The WA Post reports on the ballot measures which supported—or, mostly failed to support—environmental issues, and surveys existing state policies on the energy trasnition.
<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2018/11/07/ballot-measures-taking-aim-climate-change-fall-short/?utm_term=.a67d05be0c07" id="LPlnk27659" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2018/11/07/ballot-measures-taking-aim-climate-change-fall-short/?utm_term=.a67d05be0c07</a></span></p>
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Brady Dennis Brady Dennis is a national reporter for The Washington Post, focusing on the environment and public health issues. He previously spent years covering the nation’s economy. Dennis ...</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">5. Massive spending on propaganda campaigns by fossil fuel corporations worked to defeat severa; green initiatives, including the WA state carbon tax proposal.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">6. We need to increase the rate at which we are decarbonizing our power supply. Some significant utilities in the US are shifting from seeing renewables as a threat to viewing them as opportunities.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">7. British now has greater production capacity energy through renewables than through fossil fuels. A third of the fossil fuel capacity has been retired in the last five years.
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