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Climate Disasters Hit Homeowners Through Insurance Bills, and States Want Big Oil to Pay

After surviving a California wildfire, one family saw premiums quadruple โ€” as states consider laws to force fossil fuel companies to pay for the soaring costs of climate catastrophes they helped create.
After surviving a California wildfire, one family saw premiums quadruple โ€” as states consider laws to force fossil fuel companies to pay for the soaring costs of climate catastrophes they helped create.
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uk/Kemi Badenoch Accepted ยฃ7,500 Retreat from Chair of Climate Denial Group
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Series: Defending Democracy from Dirty Money
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy

The Tory leader spent a week at the home of a major party donor.

The Tory leader spent a week at the home of a major party donor.
The SNPโ€™s Oil Executive Holyrood Candidate
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The party has put forward a senior Equinor figure to stand in Shetland.

The party has put forward a senior Equinor figure to stand in Shetland.
Series: Defending Democracy from Dirty Money
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
As Russia Bombs Ukraineโ€™s Power Plants, Gulf Coast LNG Companies Win Big
ByDelaney Nolan
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Record LNG exports to Europe pushing up prices for U.S. consumers even more than forecast.

Record LNG exports to Europe pushing up prices for U.S. consumers even more than forecast.
A utility worker in a hard hat, left, stands beside a transformer destroyed by a Russian drone near Odessa, Ukraine.
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Mark Carneyโ€™s Pipeline MOU With Danielle Smith Has Been A Disaster
ByMitch Anderson
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First Nations are furious, environmentalists feel betrayed, oil companies are demanding more, and the clock is ticking.

First Nations are furious, environmentalists feel betrayed, oil companies are demanding more, and the clock is ticking.
Series: Mark Carneyโ€™s Climate Betrayal
Series: Carney's Climate Betrayal
Telegraph Bidder Daily Mail Cashing in from Oil Industry Events
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The Mailโ€™s events business in the Middle East provides a quarter of its revenue. A previous Telegraph bid was rejected over petrostate influence fears.

The Mailโ€™s events business in the Middle East provides a quarter of its revenue. A previous Telegraph bid was rejected over petrostate influence fears.
Series: Defending Democracy from Dirty Money
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
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Canada's Oil Industry Is Trying to Cash in on Iran War
ByMitch Anderson
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Canadian politicians and pundits are leveraging Trumpโ€™s war with Iran to expand fossil fuel infrastructure.
Canadian politicians and pundits are leveraging Trumpโ€™s war with Iran to expand fossil fuel infrastructure.
An ExxonMobil gas station in Hiawassee, Georgia, with a blue house in the background.
Breaking: UK Court Paves Way for Alleged Exxon Hacker-for-Hireโ€™s Extradition to U.S.
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Israeli private eye Amit Forlit denied appeal in decision that could lead to his facing a maximum of 45 years in prison if found guilty.
Israeli private eye Amit Forlit denied appeal in decision that could lead to his facing a maximum of 45 years in prison if found guilty.
Big Oil Knew It Was Wrecking Louisianaโ€™s Coast, Records Show
ByEmily Sanders
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Now, parish lawsuits, including one in front of the Supreme Court, could make oil giants pay to restore the stateโ€™s vanishing marshes.
Now, parish lawsuits, including one in front of the Supreme Court, could make oil giants pay to restore the stateโ€™s vanishing marshes.
Mosaic Companyโ€™s Faustina Ammonia Plant and CF Industries' Donaldsonville Complex's port in the 5th District of St. James with smoke rising from burning sugarcane fields
us/Civil Rights Case Probes Racism Behind Cancer Alley Pollution
BySharon Kelly
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Federal lawsuit claiming local officials illegally pushed polluting industries into Black communities reaches new stage.
Federal lawsuit claiming local officials illegally pushed polluting industries into Black communities reaches new stage.
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Data Centers Are Poised to Engulf a Pennsylvania Town
Q&A: Tech Billionairesโ€™ AI Space Empire Fantasies Are โ€˜An Insidious Form of Climate Denialโ€™
Science journalist Adam Becker speaks with DeSmog about how Silicon Valley tech billionaires have invented new forms of greenwashing and climate denial in their quest for ever-more fantastic technology.
AI vs. Net Zero: The UKโ€™s Next Climate Battle
Opponents of climate action are taking advantage of the AI boom to attack the governmentโ€™s clean energy goals.
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Right-wing political group Americans for Prosperity, backed by oil and gas billionaire Charles Koch, sees data centers as part of a larger pro-fossil fuel agenda.

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