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us/Regulators Discuss LNG-by-Rail Safety Concerns โ€” After Approving New Rule To Allow Transporting LNG by Rail
By Justin Mikulka
on
New regulations were announced by the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) in July 2020 allowing the transportation of liquefied natural gas (LNG) byย rail. That same mont...
uk/Shell, BP, and Easyjet: The Big Polluters Designing the Rules for Voluntary Carbon Offsets
By Phoebe Cooke
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Many of the worldโ€™s most polluting companies are being handed a โ€œget out of jail freeโ€ card by being invited to shape a scaled-up offsetting market, campaignersย claim. The Taskforce on Scaling Vol...
us/Cheaper Solar Power Means Low-income Families Can Also Benefit โ€” With the Right Kind of Help
By Guest
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Byย Galen Barboseย Eric Oโ€™Shaughnessy,ย and Ryan Wiserย ofย Lawrence Berkeley Nationalย Laboratory Until recently, rooftop solar panels were a clean energy technology that only wealthy Americans could a...
us/Two Major Pacific Northwest Fossil Fuel Projects Dealt Massive Setbacks In One Day
By Nick Cunningham
on
Two enormous fossil fuel projects in the Pacific Northwest suffered devastating setbacks on Tuesday, severely dimming their prospects of ever movingย forward. On President Donald Trumpโ€™s last full...
Keystone XL Pipeline Canceled. Hereโ€™s What It Means for the Future Fight Against Fossil Fuels
By Nick Cunningham
on
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.
uk/Government Urged to Review Coal Mine Approval in Light of New Climate Targets
By Caitlin Tilley
on
Lawyers acting on behalf of environmental campaigners have written to Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick arguing a proposed new coal mine in Cumbria would blow a hole in the UKโ€™s recently announced S...
us/Will Amy Coney Barrett, Whose Father Was a Shell Attorney for Decades, Recuse from Climate Suit?
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By Karen Savage, The Climate Docket. Originally published on The Climate Docket. With oral arguments set for next week before the U.S. Supreme Court in a climate liability lawsuit against the coun...
Total Quits Fossil Fuel Lobby Group the American Petroleum Institute Over Climate Change
By Nick Cunningham
on
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 industryโ€™s most powerful business lobby. Tota...
Oil Industryโ€™s Public Climate Denial Campaign Dates Back to at Least 1980, Nearly a Decade Earlier Than Previously Thought
By Nick Cunningham
on
The American Petroleum Institute (API), the leading oil and gas industry trade group, publicly pushed misleading information on climate change as early as 1980 โ€“ much earlier than previously though...
uk/Focus on Carbon Capture and Storage a 'Dangerous Distraction'
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By Paul Brown for Climate Newsย Network One of the key technologies that governments hope will help save the planet from dangerous heating, carbon capture and storage, will not work as planned and ...

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us/Regulators Discuss LNG-by-Rail Safety Concerns โ€” After Approving New Rule To Allow Transporting LNG by Rail
ByJustin Mikulka
on

New regulations were announced by the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) in July 2020 allowing the transportation of liquefied natural gas (LNG) byย rail. That same mont...
Series: Oil By Rail: Following the Bomb Trains
Series: Oil Bomb Trains
uk/Shell, BP, and Easyjet: The Big Polluters Designing the Rules for Voluntary Carbon Offsets
ByPhoebe Cooke
on

Many of the worldโ€™s most polluting companies are being handed a โ€œget out of jail freeโ€ card by being invited to shape a scaled-up offsetting market, campaignersย claim. The Taskforce on Scaling Vol...
us/Cheaper Solar Power Means Low-income Families Can Also Benefit โ€” With the Right Kind of Help
ByGuest
on

Byย Galen Barboseย Eric Oโ€™Shaughnessy,ย and Ryan Wiserย ofย Lawrence Berkeley Nationalย Laboratory Until recently, rooftop solar panels were a clean energy technology that only wealthy Americans could a...
us/Two Major Pacific Northwest Fossil Fuel Projects Dealt Massive Setbacks In One Day
ByNick Cunningham
on

Two enormous fossil fuel projects in the Pacific Northwest suffered devastating setbacks on Tuesday, severely dimming their prospects of ever movingย forward. On President Donald Trumpโ€™s last full...
Keystone XL Pipeline Canceled. Hereโ€™s What It Means for the Future Fight Against Fossil Fuels
ByNick Cunningham
on

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.
uk/Government Urged to Review Coal Mine Approval in Light of New Climate Targets
ByCaitlin Tilley
on

Lawyers acting on behalf of environmental campaigners have written to Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick arguing a proposed new coal mine in Cumbria would blow a hole in the UKโ€™s recently announced S...
us/Will Amy Coney Barrett, Whose Father Was a Shell Attorney for Decades, Recuse from Climate Suit?
ByGuest
on

By Karen Savage, The Climate Docket. Originally published on The Climate Docket. With oral arguments set for next week before the U.S. Supreme Court in a climate liability lawsuit against the coun...
Total Quits Fossil Fuel Lobby Group the American Petroleum Institute Over Climate Change
ByNick Cunningham
on

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 industryโ€™s most powerful business lobby. Tota...
Oil Industryโ€™s Public Climate Denial Campaign Dates Back to at Least 1980, Nearly a Decade Earlier Than Previously Thought
ByNick Cunningham
on

The American Petroleum Institute (API), the leading oil and gas industry trade group, publicly pushed misleading information on climate change as early as 1980 โ€“ much earlier than previously though...
uk/Focus on Carbon Capture and Storage a 'Dangerous Distraction'
ByGuest
on

By Paul Brown for Climate Newsย Network One of the key technologies that governments hope will help save the planet from dangerous heating, carbon capture and storage, will not work as planned and ...