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A French court this week issued what climate campaigners are calling a “historic decision” in the fight to hold national governments accountable for insufficient action to address the climate crisi...
London’s City Hall is facing questions over its decision to hire a private intelligence firm known for monitoring environmental activists on behalf of fossil fuel companies without competitors bein...
Campaigners are demanding the Government reject greenwash by excluding all major polluters from sponsorship of next year’s pivotal UN climate talks. The UK has this week announced its first four...
By Edward R. Carr, The Conversation. Reposted from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. The day Joe Biden becomes president, he can start taking actions that can help slow climate c...
Glaring climate inequalities between the Commonwealth’s richest and poorest countries pose a “direct threat to African lives”, a new report has found. Data analysed by the Kenyan-based climate and...
The election results are a stark reminder of just how divided the country remains on many issues. However, in the days since the results were announced November 7, two senators from both parties ar...
Former Bank of England governor Mark Carney's initiative to grow the voluntary carbon market has been described as “a dangerous distraction” from the urgent need for major polluters to slash carbon...
Campaigners have accused the UK government of hypocrisy after ministers met with fossil fuel producers almost 150 times as they prepared to “build back greener” during the COVID-19 pandemic. Newly...
By Julia Conley, Common Dreams. Originally published on Common Dreams under CC BY-SA 3.0 US. With Democrats anxious about the probability that President-elect Joe Biden will be forced to grapple w...
In unusual remarks made during a corporate earnings call today, Friday, November 6, Continental Resources founder and executive chairman Harold Hamm* referred to counting “all legal votes” — a phra...

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onNov 20, 2020 @ 13:55 PST

A French court this week issued what climate campaigners are calling a “historic decision” in the fight to hold national governments accountable for insufficient action to address the climate crisi...
onNov 19, 2020 @ 09:12 PST

London’s City Hall is facing questions over its decision to hire a private intelligence firm known for monitoring environmental activists on behalf of fossil fuel companies without competitors bein...
onNov 19, 2020 @ 04:37 PST

Campaigners are demanding the Government reject greenwash by excluding all major polluters from sponsorship of next year’s pivotal UN climate talks. The UK has this week announced its first four...
onNov 13, 2020 @ 08:35 PST

By Edward R. Carr, The Conversation. Reposted from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. The day Joe Biden becomes president, he can start taking actions that can help slow climate c...
onNov 13, 2020 @ 02:44 PST

Glaring climate inequalities between the Commonwealth’s richest and poorest countries pose a “direct threat to African lives”, a new report has found. Data analysed by the Kenyan-based climate and...
onNov 12, 2020 @ 12:21 PST

The election results are a stark reminder of just how divided the country remains on many issues. However, in the days since the results were announced November 7, two senators from both parties ar...
onNov 12, 2020 @ 10:55 PST

Former Bank of England governor Mark Carney's initiative to grow the voluntary carbon market has been described as “a dangerous distraction” from the urgent need for major polluters to slash carbon...
onNov 10, 2020 @ 03:47 PST

Campaigners have accused the UK government of hypocrisy after ministers met with fossil fuel producers almost 150 times as they prepared to “build back greener” during the COVID-19 pandemic. Newly...
onNov 9, 2020 @ 14:00 PST

By Julia Conley, Common Dreams. Originally published on Common Dreams under CC BY-SA 3.0 US. With Democrats anxious about the probability that President-elect Joe Biden will be forced to grapple w...
onNov 6, 2020 @ 21:08 PST

In unusual remarks made during a corporate earnings call today, Friday, November 6, Continental Resources founder and executive chairman Harold Hamm* referred to counting “all legal votes” — a phra...