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us/$3 Billion 'Bailout' for Oil Producers Dropped From Economic Stimulus Package
By Dana Drugmand
on
Bucking President Trump’s directive for buying oil to fill up the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), Senate Democrats last week nixed what they say was a $3 billion bailout for oil producers from t...
us/As Coronavirus Worsened, Trump Admin Pushed Offshore Drilling and Gas Exports
By Steve Horn
on
With major cities and states issuing stay-at-home orders as coronavirus cases have swept throughout the United States, the Trump Administration opened the floodgates for more offshore drilling and ...
us/Coal Industry Group Asks Federal Lawmakers to Cut Funding for Black Lung Program, Citing COVID-19
By Sharon Kelly
on
The National Mining Association (NMA) on Wednesday called on President Donald Trump and federal lawmakers to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic by cutting a tax used to support coal miners affected b...
us/In Senate Hearing, Economic Experts Warn Climate Crisis Could Spur Financial Crash Like 2008
By Dana Drugmand
on
Could the climate crisis precipitate a financial crash akin to or even greater than the one in 2008? With markets currently in turmoil due to the coronavirus pandemic, experts testified Thursday th...
us/Delayed Senate Energy Bill Promotes LNG Exports, 'Clean Coal' and Geoengineering
By Steve Horn
on
The huge bipartisan energy bill currently stalled in the Senate would fast-track exports of fracked gas, offer over a billion dollars in subsidies to “clean coal” efforts and make available hundred...
uk/UK Government-Owned Investor Using Hundreds of Millions of Aid Money to Finance Fossil Fuels Abroad
By Alex Varley-Winter
on
Have you heard of the bank that taxpayers bankroll? Its purpose is “to do good, without losing money”, and it could be permitted to receive up to £12 billion a year in public funding. But it is al...
uk/FairFuel UK: Industry-funded Campaign Group Seeks to Pressure Treasury into Fuel Duty U-turn
By Rich Collett-White
on
Rumours began swirling in February that the upcoming budget could bring the UK’s 10-year freeze on fuel duty to an end. Since then, an industry-funded pressure group has been furiously campaigning ...
us/Oregon Republicans Flee Climate Legislation for the Second Time in Less Than 1 Year
By Guest
on
By Olivia Rosane, EcoWatch. Reposted with permission from EcoWatch. Oregon's Republican Congresspeople have once again scuppered attempts to pass a climate change bill, by running away. In June o...
uk/Court Case Aims to Provoke ‘Radical Shift’ in Energy Policy After Landmark Heathrow Ruling
By Phoebe Cooke
on
Activists are preparing to take the Government to court over its “out of tune” planning policy in a challenge inspired by the watershed Heathrow ruling. Three claimants - Guardian journalist Georg...
us/New Documents Show How Trump Interior Official Pushed Climate Misinformation into Federal Reports
By Sharon Kelly
on
A major New York Times investigative report, published March 2, revealed efforts by Indur M. Goklany, a Department of Interior employee with ties to the Heartland Institute and other fossil-funded ...

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us/$3 Billion 'Bailout' for Oil Producers Dropped From Economic Stimulus Package
ByDana Drugmand
on
Bucking President Trump’s directive for buying oil to fill up the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), Senate Democrats last week nixed what they say was a $3 billion bailout for oil producers from t...
us/As Coronavirus Worsened, Trump Admin Pushed Offshore Drilling and Gas Exports
BySteve Horn
on
With major cities and states issuing stay-at-home orders as coronavirus cases have swept throughout the United States, the Trump Administration opened the floodgates for more offshore drilling and ...
us/Coal Industry Group Asks Federal Lawmakers to Cut Funding for Black Lung Program, Citing COVID-19
BySharon Kelly
on
The National Mining Association (NMA) on Wednesday called on President Donald Trump and federal lawmakers to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic by cutting a tax used to support coal miners affected b...
us/In Senate Hearing, Economic Experts Warn Climate Crisis Could Spur Financial Crash Like 2008
ByDana Drugmand
on
Could the climate crisis precipitate a financial crash akin to or even greater than the one in 2008? With markets currently in turmoil due to the coronavirus pandemic, experts testified Thursday th...
us/Delayed Senate Energy Bill Promotes LNG Exports, 'Clean Coal' and Geoengineering
BySteve Horn
on
The huge bipartisan energy bill currently stalled in the Senate would fast-track exports of fracked gas, offer over a billion dollars in subsidies to “clean coal” efforts and make available hundred...
uk/UK Government-Owned Investor Using Hundreds of Millions of Aid Money to Finance Fossil Fuels Abroad
ByAlex Varley-Winter
on
Have you heard of the bank that taxpayers bankroll? Its purpose is “to do good, without losing money”, and it could be permitted to receive up to £12 billion a year in public funding. But it is al...
uk/FairFuel UK: Industry-funded Campaign Group Seeks to Pressure Treasury into Fuel Duty U-turn
ByRich Collett-White
on
Rumours began swirling in February that the upcoming budget could bring the UK’s 10-year freeze on fuel duty to an end. Since then, an industry-funded pressure group has been furiously campaigning ...
us/Oregon Republicans Flee Climate Legislation for the Second Time in Less Than 1 Year
ByGuest
on
By Olivia Rosane, EcoWatch. Reposted with permission from EcoWatch. Oregon's Republican Congresspeople have once again scuppered attempts to pass a climate change bill, by running away. In June o...
uk/Court Case Aims to Provoke ‘Radical Shift’ in Energy Policy After Landmark Heathrow Ruling
ByPhoebe Cooke
on
Activists are preparing to take the Government to court over its “out of tune” planning policy in a challenge inspired by the watershed Heathrow ruling. Three claimants - Guardian journalist Georg...
us/New Documents Show How Trump Interior Official Pushed Climate Misinformation into Federal Reports
BySharon Kelly
on
A major New York Times investigative report, published March 2, revealed efforts by Indur M. Goklany, a Department of Interior employee with ties to the Heartland Institute and other fossil-funded ...