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.
Murdoch is conservative? Since when?
Fox News this AM are mocking zer0’s climate change BS.
Fox casting another vote for OANN.
Oh blech. He’s over there smiling for the camera like a sorority sister and in a city, the scene, a week after a massacre
The others sneer at him for his inappropriateness
Fox will wane terribly as it gives up the base. Liberals won’t tune in
The kids around here used to watch. It’s over
F*** Fox.
Obama is supposed to leave in about a year. Why would these idiots commit financial resources to this fairy tail now? This is worrisome, do they know something we don’t?
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a ball of fire that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
Appropriate misspelling - “fairy tail”?
Dumbasses....ARROGANT DUMBASSES.
Time for Trump Inc. to invest heavily in OAN.
Lol...coffee hasn’t kicked in yet but strangely appropriate!
>> Dumbasses....ARROGANT DUMBASSES.
Yup
No thanks. I'd rather OAN remain independent not be owned by a politician.
Fox is signing on for public relations. What they actually do is open to question.
I think Fox is trying to save its FCC license. I think Old Rupert has a lot of skeletons in his closet.
Hey there,just thought I’d remind you that Trump is not a politician.His numbers are way too high for that.
Ergo the “Inc.”
We watch OAN every morning and their model needs to change slightly. They use far too many “pool” reports from all over the world on some really goofy topics just to fill time. It appears it is a financial issue but it lets too much of the world press narratives go unchallenged.
As for the opinion portions, they are on target, but FOX’s original template was something we had never seen before so anything right of ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN was a welcome relief. Then the internet exploded with content and real unfiltered news and opinion was ours and that exposed the FOX template as nothing more than another corporation fashioning its news to fit its agenda, and it was not fair and balanced as we have found.
As I still see Trump more as a citizen businessman than I ever will as a politician, that distinction is a major factor for my comment. Go to this link to see my analysis of why the entire establishment has the long knives out.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3366222/posts?page=142#142
It’s also highly unethical.
News organizations should not take sides in issues they can be expected to cover. Particularly controversial politicized issues. It undermines their integrity and create the appearance of a conflict of interest.
When the growing majority of Americans are now skeptics, they see this as a PR move?
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