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Climate Deniers Boost Pro-Trump Efforts to Cast Doubt on US Election
By Sharon Kelly
on
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...
uk/Pro-Brexit Tory MPs Linked to Opaque Group Spreading Climate Misinformation on Facebook
By Mat Hope
on
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...
US Now Officially Out of the Paris Climate Agreement
By Guest
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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...
State Backers of Anti-Protest Bills Received Campaign Funding from Oil and Gas Industry, Report Finds
By Sharon Kelly
on
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...
us/Trump Approved Shipping Tar Sands by Rail to Alaska. The Project's Owners Are Banking on a Melting Arctic
By Steve Horn
on
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...
us/Trump Pledges to 'Save Your Fracking' and Biden Says No Ban — But Most Pennsylvania Voters Oppose Fracking
By Sharon Kelly
on
“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...
uk/Ireland Climate Bill Slammed as 'Full of Loopholes'
By John Gibbons
on
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...
us/Trump EPA Chief Lays Out Vision for Agency Critics Warn Would Create 'Apocalyptic, Devastated Planet'
By Guest
on
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...
us/Climate Accountability Largely Missing from Senate Democrats’ New Climate Report
By Dana Drugmand
on
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 ...
us/Climate Deniers on Front Line of Battle Over Pennsylvania Joining Cap-and-Trade Program to Slash Carbon Pollution
By Dana Drugmand
on
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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Climate Deniers Boost Pro-Trump Efforts to Cast Doubt on US Election
BySharon Kelly
on

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...
uk/Pro-Brexit Tory MPs Linked to Opaque Group Spreading Climate Misinformation on Facebook
ByMat Hope
on

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...
US Now Officially Out of the Paris Climate Agreement
ByGuest
on

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...
State Backers of Anti-Protest Bills Received Campaign Funding from Oil and Gas Industry, Report Finds
BySharon Kelly
on

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...
us/Trump Approved Shipping Tar Sands by Rail to Alaska. The Project's Owners Are Banking on a Melting Arctic
BySteve Horn
on

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...
us/Trump Pledges to 'Save Your Fracking' and Biden Says No Ban — But Most Pennsylvania Voters Oppose Fracking
BySharon Kelly
on

“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...
uk/Ireland Climate Bill Slammed as 'Full of Loopholes'
ByJohn Gibbons
on

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...
us/Trump EPA Chief Lays Out Vision for Agency Critics Warn Would Create 'Apocalyptic, Devastated Planet'
ByGuest
on

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...
us/Climate Accountability Largely Missing from Senate Democrats’ New Climate Report
ByDana Drugmand
on

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 ...
Series: Tracking the Lawsuits Fighting for Climate Accountability
Series: Climate Change Lawsuits
us/Climate Deniers on Front Line of Battle Over Pennsylvania Joining Cap-and-Trade Program to Slash Carbon Pollution
ByDana Drugmand
on

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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