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Former Bank of England governor Mark Carney's initiative to grow the voluntary carbon market has been described as “a dangerous distraction” from the urgent need for major polluters to slash carbon...
Campaigners have accused the UK government of hypocrisy after ministers met with fossil fuel producers almost 150 times as they prepared to “build back greener” during the COVID-19 pandemic. Newly...
By Julia Conley, Common Dreams. Originally published on Common Dreams under CC BY-SA 3.0 US. With Democrats anxious about the probability that President-elect Joe Biden will be forced to grapple w...
In unusual remarks made during a corporate earnings call today, Friday, November 6, Continental Resources founder and executive chairman Harold Hamm* referred to counting “all legal votes” — a phra...
The chair of a Welsh pro-Brexit group with three Conservative MPs on its advisory board is behind a “news and media” organisation promoting climate science denial, DeSmog can reveal. Matthew MacKi...
By Olivia Rosane, EcoWatch. Reposted with permission from EcoWatch. The U.S. has officially left the Paris climate agreement. However, the permanence of its departure hangs on the still-uncertain...
Politicians responsible for drafting laws criminalizing pipeline protests in Louisiana, West Virginia, and Minnesota did so after receiving significant funding from the fossil fuel industry, accord...
On September 28, President Donald Trump signed a presidential permit to ship Alberta’s tar sands oil via a proposed 1,600-mile private rail line across the U.S.-Canada border into Alaska. The per...
“To all the people of Pennsylvania, hear this warning,” President Trump said at a campaign rally last week in Erie, Pennsylvania. “If Biden’s elected, he will wipe out your energy industry.” “Only...
A draft climate change bill designed to put Ireland on a path to net zero emissions has been criticised by leading climate experts as “weak” and full of “get-out clauses”. The new bill was promise...

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Former Bank of England governor Mark Carney's initiative to grow the voluntary carbon market has been described as “a dangerous distraction” from the urgent need for major polluters to slash carbon...
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Campaigners have accused the UK government of hypocrisy after ministers met with fossil fuel producers almost 150 times as they prepared to “build back greener” during the COVID-19 pandemic. Newly...
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By Julia Conley, Common Dreams. Originally published on Common Dreams under CC BY-SA 3.0 US. With Democrats anxious about the probability that President-elect Joe Biden will be forced to grapple w...
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In unusual remarks made during a corporate earnings call today, Friday, November 6, Continental Resources founder and executive chairman Harold Hamm* referred to counting “all legal votes” — a phra...
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The chair of a Welsh pro-Brexit group with three Conservative MPs on its advisory board is behind a “news and media” organisation promoting climate science denial, DeSmog can reveal. Matthew MacKi...
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By Olivia Rosane, EcoWatch. Reposted with permission from EcoWatch. The U.S. has officially left the Paris climate agreement. However, the permanence of its departure hangs on the still-uncertain...
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Politicians responsible for drafting laws criminalizing pipeline protests in Louisiana, West Virginia, and Minnesota did so after receiving significant funding from the fossil fuel industry, accord...
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On September 28, President Donald Trump signed a presidential permit to ship Alberta’s tar sands oil via a proposed 1,600-mile private rail line across the U.S.-Canada border into Alaska. The per...
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“To all the people of Pennsylvania, hear this warning,” President Trump said at a campaign rally last week in Erie, Pennsylvania. “If Biden’s elected, he will wipe out your energy industry.” “Only...
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A draft climate change bill designed to put Ireland on a path to net zero emissions has been criticised by leading climate experts as “weak” and full of “get-out clauses”. The new bill was promise...