'Twitter Storm' Calls for End to $1 Trillion in Dirty Fuel Subsidies

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Tue, 2012-06-19

<div class='node-body'><p>An online &#39;twitter storm&#39; initated by environmental groups and designed to coincide with the Rio+20 Earth Summit in Brazil this week went viral Monday with nearly a million people signing a petition calling for the end of public subsidies to the fossil fuel industry that total more than a trillion dollars a year.</p></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-news-hp-image">
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