Companies responsible for the majority of fossil fuel products that have been manufactured, marketed, and sold since the industrial revolution and have contributed the lion’s share of cumulative global emissions of industrial CO2 and methane, have been ordered to respond to a legal petition that triggered the first-ever national human rights investigation concerning climate change.

Prime Minister's decision wipes out plans to construct 70 large new coal power plants, in favour of gas, and renewables, such as wind and solar.

They want the President to use his executive authority to direct the Secretary of the Interior to significantly increase royalty rates to account for the social cost of carbon pollution from coal production on public land.

Coal export expansions in the United States would release more carbon pollution than any other new US fossil fuel project, according to the most report from Greenpeace.

The news comes two years after Greenpeace launched its global Unfriend Coal Campaign (2, 3), enlisting 700,000 online activists (4) to call on Facebook to power its data centers with clean energy instead of coal (5). As a result of the announcement the campaign ends today.