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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...
The chair of a Welsh pro-Brexit group with three Conservative MPs on its advisory board is behind a “news and media” organisation promoting climate science denial, DeSmog can reveal. Matthew MacKi...
By Olivia Rosane, EcoWatch. Reposted with permission from EcoWatch. The U.S. has officially left the Paris climate agreement. However, the permanence of its departure hangs on the still-uncertain...
Politicians responsible for drafting laws criminalizing pipeline protests in Louisiana, West Virginia, and Minnesota did so after receiving significant funding from the fossil fuel industry, accord...
On September 28, President Donald Trump signed a presidential permit to ship Alberta’s tar sands oil via a proposed 1,600-mile private rail line across the U.S.-Canada border into Alaska. The per...
“To all the people of Pennsylvania, hear this warning,” President Trump said at a campaign rally last week in Erie, Pennsylvania. “If Biden’s elected, he will wipe out your energy industry.” “Only...
A draft climate change bill designed to put Ireland on a path to net zero emissions has been criticised by leading climate experts as “weak” and full of “get-out clauses”. The new bill was promise...
By Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams. Originally published on Common Dreams under CC BY-SA 3.0 US. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler is under fire for a Thursday speech lay...
As blistering wildfires and a monstrous hurricane fueled by rising temperatures ravage the U.S., Senate Democrats this week released their action plan for combating the climate crisis and building ...
Pennsylvania, traditionally a battleground state in electoral politics, is currently embroiled in a battle over the state potentially joining a regional program to curb carbon pollution from the po...

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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...
onNov 6, 2020 @ 08:01 PST

The chair of a Welsh pro-Brexit group with three Conservative MPs on its advisory board is behind a “news and media” organisation promoting climate science denial, DeSmog can reveal. Matthew MacKi...
onNov 4, 2020 @ 10:19 PST

By Olivia Rosane, EcoWatch. Reposted with permission from EcoWatch. The U.S. has officially left the Paris climate agreement. However, the permanence of its departure hangs on the still-uncertain...
onOct 31, 2020 @ 03:00 PDT

Politicians responsible for drafting laws criminalizing pipeline protests in Louisiana, West Virginia, and Minnesota did so after receiving significant funding from the fossil fuel industry, accord...
onOct 30, 2020 @ 12:27 PDT

On September 28, President Donald Trump signed a presidential permit to ship Alberta’s tar sands oil via a proposed 1,600-mile private rail line across the U.S.-Canada border into Alaska. The per...
onOct 26, 2020 @ 14:36 PDT

“To all the people of Pennsylvania, hear this warning,” President Trump said at a campaign rally last week in Erie, Pennsylvania. “If Biden’s elected, he will wipe out your energy industry.” “Only...
onOct 20, 2020 @ 10:42 PDT

A draft climate change bill designed to put Ireland on a path to net zero emissions has been criticised by leading climate experts as “weak” and full of “get-out clauses”. The new bill was promise...
onSep 4, 2020 @ 17:39 PDT

By Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams. Originally published on Common Dreams under CC BY-SA 3.0 US. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler is under fire for a Thursday speech lay...
onAug 28, 2020 @ 12:14 PDT

As blistering wildfires and a monstrous hurricane fueled by rising temperatures ravage the U.S., Senate Democrats this week released their action plan for combating the climate crisis and building ...
onAug 25, 2020 @ 14:28 PDT

Pennsylvania, traditionally a battleground state in electoral politics, is currently embroiled in a battle over the state potentially joining a regional program to curb carbon pollution from the po...