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2017 C.E. March 17
Berkeley becomes first city to divest from U.S.-Mexico border wall companies
The Bay Area city won't do business with government contractors that work on Donald Trump's pet project.
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2017 C.E. March 15
Private land gift drives vast expansion of Chile’s national parks
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet and American conservationist Kristine Tompkins on Wednesday pledged to grow Chile's national park lands by roughly 11 million acres, an area more than four times the size of Yellowstone National Park.
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2017 C.E. March 15
Philippines unanimously votes to ratify Paris Agreement
The Philippines Senate has voted unanimously to ratify the Paris Agreement on climate change, four months earlier than previously expected.
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2017 C.E. March 15
Northern Ireland reaches 1 GW of renewables
According to NIE, which owns the power transmission and distribution network, the 1 GW milestone was reached back in December 2016, with renewables now generating over 25 per cent of Northern Ireland's total electricity consumption.
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2017 C.E. March 14
San Francisco moves to divest $1.2B from companies financing Dakota Access Pipeline
The board approved a resolution introduced by Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer urging City Treasurer Jose Cisneros to add the Dakota Access Pipeline to the list of screening factors he considers when making city investment decisions.
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2017 C.E. March 14
Police departments in the 7 cities of Virginia have all appointed LGBT liaisons
Police in Chesapeake, Suffolk, Norfolk, Hampton, Portsmouth and Virginia Beach had already created the position. Local law enforcement agencies are taking proactive steps to foster a relationship with the LGBT community and establish an ongoing dialogue to better serve the community.
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2017 C.E. March 13
Barcelona to ban old polluting cars in 2019
Barcelona will begin banning cars older than 20 years on weekdays in 2019 in a bid to curb the city's air pollution problems.
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2017 C.E. March 10
Maryland House votes to ban fracking by veto-proof margin
The majority, including a handful of Republicans, voted to ban the practice after hearing arguments that science shows that the risk of earthquakes, water contamination and health problems increases in fracked areas.
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2017 C.E. March 10
Chile to build massive 450 MW solar thermal power plant
This week, the Chilean government gave the green light to development of SolarReserve's 450 megawatt (MW) Tamarugal concentrated solar power project.
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2017 C.E. March 10
A majority of Americas now oppose discriminatory transgender bathroom bills
Majorities of Americans support legal protections for lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender people, opposing laws that force transgender people to use bathrooms according to the gender on their birth certificate and that allow business owners to refuse to service to LGBT people based on religious beliefs.
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2017 C.E. May 25
Taiwan court rules same sex marriage is legal, a first in Asia
In a first for Asia, Taiwan's Constitutional Court ruled in favor of same-sex marriage on Wednesday, punctuating a yearslong campaign by advocates for gay rights.
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2017 C.E. May 25
Tennessee legislature passes free community college tuition program
Tennessee's new plan to allow older adults without a college degree or certificate to attend community college free of charge will serve as a model as more states consider similar policies.
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2017 C.E. May 24
The Supreme Court strikes a blow against gerrymanders
On Monday, the Supreme Court agreed with a lower court that North Carolina legislators had improperly taken race into account when they redrew the lines of two congressional districts
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2017 C.E. May 24
World’s largest floating solar PV plant connected to grid in China
Chinese PV manufacturer announced that a 40MW aquaculture project had been grid connected in the flooded coal-mining region of Huainan, China.
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2017 C.E. May 23
LEGO Group hits 100% renewable-energy target ahead of schedule
The total output from the investments by the LEGO Group in renewables now exceeds the energy consumed at all LEGO factories, stores, and offices globally.
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2017 C.E. May 21
$890m E.U. package to help 79 developing nations combat climate change
The European Union (EU) will support 79 developing nations in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP) with a €8 million ($891m) to implement a global deal to combat climate change.
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2017 C.E. May 21
California grid sets record, with 67% of power from renewables
Overall, renewables accounted for 42 percent of the California grid's power on Saturday, not counting the large hydropower plants.
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2017 C.E. May 21
China, India on course to surpass Paris Agreement climate pledges
Slowing coal use in China and India has put the two most populous countries on a trajectory to beat their carbon emissions goals under the Paris Agreement, making up for rollbacks in U.S. climate action under the Trump administration
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2017 C.E. May 21
Japan becomes first country in the world to elect a transgender man to a public office
Tomoya Hosoda has taken part in various campaigns to raise the profile of LGBTQ in his country.
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2017 C.E. May 17
Egypt to invest billions in renewable energy plan
Egypt has committed to increase its share of renewables in the country's power mix to 20 per cent by 2022 and 37 per cent by 2035.