Posted on 12/01/2015 3:02:13 AM PST by markomalley
President Obama is enlisting conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch in his fight to combat climate change, with companies News Corporation and 21st Century Fox signing onto a White House pledge to cut emissions and support the president's push for a global climate deal in Paris.
Tuesday's announcement by the White House nearly doubles the number of businesses to sign the climate pledge since July, making News Corp. and Fox, of which Murdoch is the co-chairman, the latest to do so.
The 73 companies that signed the American Business Act on Climate Pledge have operations in all 50 states and represent $4.2 trillion in annual revenue, the White House said Tuesday.
It said the additional businesses — which also includes the likes of Honda, Amazon, MGM Resorts and coal mining giant Rio Tinto — make for a total of 154 companies joining the pledge to fight climate change since the summer. In doing so, the businesses also pledge to support Obama's goal of securing an international deal to cut global emissions with the United Nations this month in Paris.
The president traveled to Paris on Sunday to kick off two weeks of negotiations in the City of Light to reach a global emissions reduction agreement by Dec. 11.
"By signing the American Business Act on Climate pledge, these companies are voicing support for a strong Paris outcome. The pledge recognizes those countries that have already put forward climate targets, and voices support for a strong outcome in the Paris climate negotiations," the White House said.
The pledge would support any deal agreed to in Paris by "announcing significant pledges to reduce their emissions, increase low-carbon investments, deploy more clean energy, and take other actions to build more sustainable businesses and tackle climate change."
Tuesday's pledges include ambitious, company-specific goals, including: cutting emissions by as much as 50 percent; cutting water use by as much as 80 percent; reaching a zero landfill waste goal; buying 100 percent renewable energy for their facilities; and pursuing a goal of zero net deforestation.
‘It’s also highly unethical.’
Pray tell, which *news* network might be one that owns any ethics HIGH or NONE? These are few and far between. If Fox wishes to commit suicide many assistants can be found in very short order. They have a reputation to protect. Months can go by before their network is seen - this from a family that once had Fox on 24 hours a day. Kicking the habit was not easy, but not impossible.
How the mighty have fallen.
Global warming is sun made.
Sooo over them. Several years now. THey really don’t matter.
Easier to do than have Valerie Jarrett coming after you.
Fox is no longer programed in on my TV. I have Newsmax TV and I’m a lot happier.
Fox has tipped over.
My gosh, they’re as bad as Republican elites.
Fox will wane terribly as it gives up the base.
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I quit them a quite a few years ago. For a while, they had me fooled, but now I know what they really are.
If you want to reduce CO2 emissions I’d start with Shep Smith and Bill O’Reilly.
Give the obama train enough room and allowances to do whatever he wants to do... and there is no telling what he will do in this last year. A year is a LONG time in obama years. I wish Trump would hone in on obams and make a ruckus so congress and the media would have something to, perhaps, also go after the traitor in chief. If Trump would go after obams, his numbers would go up.. and that speaks to the media and the parties.
To not have impeached the traitor, is the mistake of the decade. Send Nixon home for nothing and leave this guy in who has done more than anyone ever imagined. I go way back... and nothing like this has been so obvious done and so obviously allowed, before in history.
Maybe to the younger generations, this doesn’t seem to be so wrong and can be accepted. To us older folks, this is treason, plain and simple. To have no one in government stopping it or bringing it to justice.. that is the crime .. in congress. They were sent there to be our representatives... not to help obama commit harry caray.
The anger just keeps building out here ....
And in so doing, lose 95% of its audience. Brilliant strategy...
So Fox pays the jizrah.
Anything that hobbles the US economy is welcome news in the Obama White House.
Thar’s gold in them thar hills. Dollars trump politics, as always.
Yes, they know there are beaucoup money-making opportunities in this scam. Algore has lead the way.
See....here’s the connection, to all of this....
Climate Change is written into the TPA/TPP agreement.
TPP, with the included Climate Change agreement, is a gravy train payoff to all of the PTB, Politicos, lobbyists, etc.
It’s a big club, but YOU ain’t in it.
This is why Faux/MSM are up in arms against Trump....because Trump is the ONLY candidate who has warned us about this dreadful agreement, since DAY ONE.
Surprise, surprise./s
Thanks for the ping.
Murdoch was married in 2000[29] and has three children, Anne (born 2003), Walter (born 2006), and Emerson (born 2008), with his American wife Kathryn Hufschmid Murdoch. Kathryn works for the Clinton Climate Initiative, a charitable foundation set up by the former U.S. president, Bill Clinton in 2006.[
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