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Nick Cunningham

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Nick Cunningham is an independent journalist covering the oil and gas industry, climate change and international politics. He has been featured in Oilprice.com, The Fuse, YaleE360 and NACLA.

us/Oil Industry Inflates Job Impact From Biden’s New Pause on Drilling on Federal Lands
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On Wednesday, President Biden signed an executive order directing his Department of Interior to hit pause on entering new leases for oil and gas drilling on federal lands, the latest in a string of...
us/Two Major Pacific Northwest Fossil Fuel Projects Dealt Massive Setbacks In One Day
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Two enormous fossil fuel projects in the Pacific Northwest suffered devastating setbacks on Tuesday, severely dimming their prospects of ever moving forward. On President Donald Trump’s last full...
Keystone XL Pipeline Canceled. Here’s What It Means for the Future Fight Against Fossil Fuels
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The contested pipeline's cancelation cements a legacy of climate activism, but many other pipelines in the works may prove more important for industry.

The contested pipeline's cancelation cements a legacy of climate activism, but many other pipelines in the works may prove more important for industry.
Total Quits Fossil Fuel Lobby Group the American Petroleum Institute Over Climate Change
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French oil giant Total announced on Friday that it would not renew its membership to the American Petroleum Institute (API), a stunning blow to the oil industry’s most powerful business lobby. Tota...
Oil Industry’s Public Climate Denial Campaign Dates Back to at Least 1980, Nearly a Decade Earlier Than Previously Thought
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The American Petroleum Institute (API), the leading oil and gas industry trade group, publicly pushed misleading information on climate change as early as 1980 – much earlier than previously though...
us/Washington State Considers Climate Impact of Major Petrochemical Plant With 'Pattern of Influence Peddling'
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In 2014, a company named Northwest Innovation Works (NWIW) proposed building a multi-billion-dollar petrochemical project in Kalama, Washington, a port town roughly 40 miles north of Portland, Oreg...
us/When Can Pipelines Take Private Land? Jordan Cove LNG Project a Test for Eminent Domain
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In 2005, Deb Evans and her husband Ron Schaaf bought a piece of property in Klamath County, Oregon, where they hoped to build a house and selectively harvest timber on the land. They saw it as a lo...
us/Canada’s Trans Mountain Pipeline Inches Forward, But Opposition Intensifies
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Late one night this past April, four people on off-road vehicles drove into a small, Indigenous village near the town of Blue River in British Columbia, Canada. It was dark and the vehicles drove t...
us/Global Push for LNG Creates 'Gas Bubble' That Could Bust
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Earlier this year, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway pulled out of a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal in Saguenay, Quebec. The project developer cited the “current Canadian po...
us/With Prospects Souring for Oregon Gas Terminal, an Obscure Group Raises Pressure for State Approval
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On May 24, a full-page ad appeared in The Oregonian, Oregon’s largest newspaper. The “open letter,” addressed to Gov. Kate Brown, asked her to support Jordan Cove LNG, a controversial coastal lique...

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