Environment and Climate Change

Westchester Community Foundation Supports Westchester Green Business Program in New York State

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12/19/2016

Westchester Green Business was awarded funding through The Cleaner, Greener Communities initiative (CGC), a statewide program, to incorporate sustainability goals and principles into local decision-making, and leading to a reduction of greenhouse...

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Arabella Advisors Report Finds Divestments from Fossil Fuels Top $5.2 Trillion

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12/13/2016

Investing heavyweights are moving their assets and funds out of fossil fuels at a record pace.

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Rockefeller's Judith Rodin Joins Conversation on Innovative Finance, New Investment Tools and Climate Change

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12/08/2016

For the first time since the Industrial Revolution, investment in renewable energy worldwide surpassed that of fossil fuels last year. That economic transformation leaves John Morton feeling optimistic about the worldwide response to climate change.

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Ms. Foundation President Writes in 'The Hill' About Protecting Water in Flint, Standing Rock

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12/08/2016

This week, Congress is poised to leave Washington, D.C. until the new year and has not yet approved funding to address the water crisis in Flint, Mich. - despite their promise to do so.

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Philanthropy Should Support States and Cities to Keep Advancing the Climate Movement

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12/07/2016

Vien Truong, National Director of Green For All, writes that it has never been more important than now to stand together to protect vulnerable communities and fight for equitable climate solutions that will create an inclusive green economy for all.

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Rockefeller Family Fund Calls ExxonMobil’s Conduct ‘Morally Reprehensible’

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11/29/2016

David Kaiser, a fifth-generation member of the Rockefeller family, and Lee Wasserman, director of the Rockefeller Family Fund, wrote an article in the New York Review of Books calling out ExxonMobil for “morally reprehensible conduct.”

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Rockefeller Continues to Fight Exxon Mobil on Climate Change

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11/22/2016

Exxon Mobile, which has been accused of scheming to pay surrogates to deny the threat of climate change, is trying to turn the tables by calling its opponents the real conspirators.

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State’s Delay on Final Sea-Level Rise Projections Chided

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11/11/2016

Sea-level rise projections meant to help state agencies and planners develop resilient structures in the future are delayed and will likely not be in place until the end of March, despite a January 2016 deadline.

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funds Scientists Probing Underground Depths Of Earth’s Carbon Cycle

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11/10/2016

Understanding how carbon dissolves in water at the molecular level under extreme conditions is critical to understanding the Earth’s deep carbon cycle–a process that ultimately influences global climate change.