Texas’ largest electric utility last night tentatively approved a record $45 billion takeover bid by two private equity firms in a deal hailed by environmentalists as a major turning point in the battle against global warming. The prospective owners of the TXU Corp. have told environmental groups that they would cancel eight of 11 coal plants proposed by the company and also back national legislation for mandatory reduction in carbon dioxide emissions.
Campaigners have referred the Epoch Times to the UK advertising regulator for “stoking the climate culture war” on social media.
Hardline groups planning June protests accused the EU of “deliberately exterminating its own farmers” at the MCC Brussels event.
The far right is set to piggyback on agricultural discontent to capture votes in June.
A Q&A with DeSmog reporter Justin Nobel about his revelatory new book, Petroleum-238.
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