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Oil and Gas Firms Reward Politicians When They Vote Against the Environment, Finds New Study
By Dana Drugmand
onFeb 24, 2020 @ 15:00 PST
It is no secret that many members of Congress particularly on the Republican side are in the pockets of their fossil fuel funders. The strategy of these special interests is to keep loyal lawmakers...
uk/Focus Shifts to Scottish Environmental Protection Agency’s Big Oil Interests as Flaring Continues at Shell-Exxon Plant
By Guest
onFeb 17, 2020 @ 01:35 PST
By George Kerevan for Bella Caledonia The beginning of February 2020 saw a repeat of intense flaring at the Shell-Exxon petrochemical complex at Mossmorran, near Cowdenbeath in Fife, lighting up t...
uk/Alok Sharma: The Minister with Nine Months to Prepare UK for Global Climate Talks
By Zak Derler
onFeb 13, 2020 @ 10:21 PST
Alok Sharma has today been appointed President of COP26, the UN climate negotiations taking place in Glasgow later this year, following Claire O’Neill’s removal from the post last month. Sharma,...
us/Advocates Call on EPA to Expand Air Pollution Monitoring of Refineries After 10 Found Emitting High Benzene Levels
By Julie Dermansky
onFeb 8, 2020 @ 03:00 PST
Available for the first time, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) air monitoring data from over 100 U.S. oil refineries shows that 10 facilities have exceeded federal limits for cancer-causing be...
us/Newly Revealed Emails Highlight Coziness and Favors Between Local Officials, Jordan Cove LNG Backers
By Sharon Kelly
onFeb 6, 2020 @ 03:00 PST
Emails exchanged between an Oregon county commissioner and Pembina, the parent company of the proposed $10 billion fossil fuel export terminal Jordan Cove, raise ethics issues and may create openin...
‘Uninsurable and Unhedgeable’: Central Banks Warn of Financial Crisis from Climate Change
By Nick Cunningham
onJan 31, 2020 @ 11:45 PST
A future climate disaster, or “green swan” event, could bring down the global financial system, according to a new report from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), an international financi...
uk/How Climate Change is (Sort of) Affecting Ireland's Election
By John Gibbons
onJan 31, 2020 @ 08:07 PST
Last May, Ireland was among the first countries in the world to declare a climate and biodiversity emergency. In September, over 20,000 students took to the streets of Dublin demanding urgent clima...
us/'Like Handing Out Blankets Affected With Smallpox': US Called to End Oil Exports to Thwart Climate Crisis
By Guest
onJan 28, 2020 @ 14:56 PST
By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams. Originally published on Common Dreams under CC BY-SA 3.0 US. A new report released Tuesday by Oil Change International and Greenpeace USA found that reinstating the...
us/New Emails Show Trump Admin Exploited Wildfires to Help Logging Industry
By Guest
onJan 27, 2020 @ 12:36 PST
This is a guest post by ClimateDenierRoundup. Earlier this month we discussed how during Australia’s devastating fires, conservatives tried to claim that it was green party forest management polic...
uk/Scientists Say Paris Agreement Climate Goals May Now Be Unattainable
By Guest
onJan 23, 2020 @ 07:34 PST
By Alex Kirby for Climate News Network The fevered arguments about how the world can reach the Paris climate goals on cutting the greenhouse gases which are driving global heating may be a waste o...

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Oil and Gas Firms Reward Politicians When They Vote Against the Environment, Finds New Study
ByDana Drugmand
onFeb 24, 2020 @ 15:00 PST

It is no secret that many members of Congress particularly on the Republican side are in the pockets of their fossil fuel funders. The strategy of these special interests is to keep loyal lawmakers...
uk/Focus Shifts to Scottish Environmental Protection Agency’s Big Oil Interests as Flaring Continues at Shell-Exxon Plant
ByGuest
onFeb 17, 2020 @ 01:35 PST

By George Kerevan for Bella Caledonia The beginning of February 2020 saw a repeat of intense flaring at the Shell-Exxon petrochemical complex at Mossmorran, near Cowdenbeath in Fife, lighting up t...
uk/Alok Sharma: The Minister with Nine Months to Prepare UK for Global Climate Talks
ByZak Derler
onFeb 13, 2020 @ 10:21 PST

Alok Sharma has today been appointed President of COP26, the UN climate negotiations taking place in Glasgow later this year, following Claire O’Neill’s removal from the post last month. Sharma,...
Series: COP26 Coverage
Series: COP26 Coverage
us/Advocates Call on EPA to Expand Air Pollution Monitoring of Refineries After 10 Found Emitting High Benzene Levels
ByJulie Dermansky
onFeb 8, 2020 @ 03:00 PST

Available for the first time, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) air monitoring data from over 100 U.S. oil refineries shows that 10 facilities have exceeded federal limits for cancer-causing be...
us/Newly Revealed Emails Highlight Coziness and Favors Between Local Officials, Jordan Cove LNG Backers
BySharon Kelly
onFeb 6, 2020 @ 03:00 PST

Emails exchanged between an Oregon county commissioner and Pembina, the parent company of the proposed $10 billion fossil fuel export terminal Jordan Cove, raise ethics issues and may create openin...
‘Uninsurable and Unhedgeable’: Central Banks Warn of Financial Crisis from Climate Change
ByNick Cunningham
onJan 31, 2020 @ 11:45 PST

A future climate disaster, or “green swan” event, could bring down the global financial system, according to a new report from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), an international financi...
uk/How Climate Change is (Sort of) Affecting Ireland's Election
ByJohn Gibbons
onJan 31, 2020 @ 08:07 PST

Last May, Ireland was among the first countries in the world to declare a climate and biodiversity emergency. In September, over 20,000 students took to the streets of Dublin demanding urgent clima...
us/'Like Handing Out Blankets Affected With Smallpox': US Called to End Oil Exports to Thwart Climate Crisis
ByGuest
onJan 28, 2020 @ 14:56 PST

By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams. Originally published on Common Dreams under CC BY-SA 3.0 US. A new report released Tuesday by Oil Change International and Greenpeace USA found that reinstating the...
us/New Emails Show Trump Admin Exploited Wildfires to Help Logging Industry
ByGuest
onJan 27, 2020 @ 12:36 PST

This is a guest post by ClimateDenierRoundup. Earlier this month we discussed how during Australia’s devastating fires, conservatives tried to claim that it was green party forest management polic...
uk/Scientists Say Paris Agreement Climate Goals May Now Be Unattainable
ByGuest
onJan 23, 2020 @ 07:34 PST

By Alex Kirby for Climate News Network The fevered arguments about how the world can reach the Paris climate goals on cutting the greenhouse gases which are driving global heating may be a waste o...

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