The Bush administration has consistently thwarted efforts by the World Bank to include global warming in its calculations, according to documents made public through a watchdog. On one occasion, the White House’s pointman at the bank, the now disgraced Paul Wolfowitz, personally intervened to remove the words “climate change” from the title of a bank progress report and ordered changes to the text of the report to shift the focus away from global warming.
For years, United, American, and other airlines have led massive lobbying efforts against regulations to prevent climate change.
The EU and many member states have set limits for how much manure farmers are allowed to apply in their fields, but crucial oversight is lacking.
Robert Wilkie was speaking at a conference co-hosted by the group behind the radical Project 2025 agenda.
Scope of corporate influence underscores concerns the technology will be used to prolong demand for planet-heating natural gas.
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