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uk/Oil And Gas Workers Continue to be Excluded From 'Just Transition', Report Shows
By Chris Silver
onOct 22, 2020 @ 07:56 PDT
The majority of offshore workers in the North Sea would consider leaving the sector, a new report has found. Poor job security was cited as the most pressing reason to quit the industry, after t...
us/Retirement Fund for Many California Firefighters Battling Wildfires Puts Money in Coal
By Sharon Kelly
onSep 27, 2020 @ 07:58 PDT
This week, the Creek Fire in California officially became the largest single wildfire in the state’s history — and the blaze remained just 32 percent contained. Already this year, more than 3.6 mil...
Latest Youth Climate Lawsuit Filed Against 33 European Countries Over Human Rights
By Dana Drugmand
onSep 3, 2020 @ 16:23 PDT
Six young people from Portugal have filed an unprecedented climate change lawsuit against almost all of Europe, targeting 33 European nations for failing to take adequate action on the climate cris...
uk/Indigenous Campaigners Vow to 'Fight to the End' After Court Throws Out Amazon Oil Spill Case
By Phoebe Cooke
onSep 3, 2020 @ 02:21 PDT
Indigenous campaigners have vowed to “fight until the end” after a lawsuit to suspend Ecuador’s oil operations was thrown out of court. An estimated 27,000 people were left without safe water, fis...
us/As Climate-Fueled Wildfires Worsen, Communities Wrestle With Paying the Costs
By Guest
onAug 31, 2020 @ 14:36 PDT
By Karen Savage, Climate Docket. Originally published on Climate Docket. Pennie Opal Plant spent much of last weekend anxiously scanning the horizon for smoke from California’s growing wildfires, ...
us/Pollution Scientist Calls Plastic Pellet Spill in the Mississippi River 'a Nurdle Apocalypse'
By Julie Dermansky
onAug 28, 2020 @ 11:05 PDT
Three weeks after a shipping container full of tiny plastic pellets fell into the Mississippi River near New Orleans, cleanup hired by the vessel that lost its cargo stopped shortly after it starte...
uk/Workers Should be Focus of Post-COVID Climate Policy 'Reset', Unions Say
By Phoebe Cooke
onAug 20, 2020 @ 22:01 PDT
Trade unions are calling for the government to put regional voices at the heart of its climate strategy - or risk catastrophic consequences. Meeting the UK’s 2050 net-zero target requires a “reset...
us/The Risk of Preterm Birth Rises Near Gas Flaring, Reflecting Deep-rooted Environmental Injustices in Rural America
By Guest
onAug 20, 2020 @ 15:35 PDT
By Jill Johnston, University of Southern California and Lara Cushing, University of California, Los Angeles Through the southern reaches of Texas, communities are scattered across a flat landscape...
us/Big Oil Knew Climate Change Could Be ‘Catastrophic.’ Study Shows Heat Could Become Deadlier Than Infectious Diseases
By Dana Drugmand
onAug 4, 2020 @ 12:52 PDT
More than a half century ago, the oil industry's top lobbyist warned his peers of the potentially “catastrophic consequences” of burning fossil fuels, consequences that are already starting to unfo...
us/Racism and Discrimination in the Oil and Gas Industry
By Justin Mikulka
onAug 2, 2020 @ 07:58 PDT
With the recent focus on systemic racism in America, the oil and gas industry is depicting itself as leading on the issue of diversity in the workforce. However, its public relations efforts and sl...

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uk/Oil And Gas Workers Continue to be Excluded From 'Just Transition', Report Shows
ByChris Silver
onOct 22, 2020 @ 07:56 PDT

The majority of offshore workers in the North Sea would consider leaving the sector, a new report has found. Poor job security was cited as the most pressing reason to quit the industry, after t...
us/Retirement Fund for Many California Firefighters Battling Wildfires Puts Money in Coal
BySharon Kelly
onSep 27, 2020 @ 07:58 PDT

This week, the Creek Fire in California officially became the largest single wildfire in the state’s history — and the blaze remained just 32 percent contained. Already this year, more than 3.6 mil...
Latest Youth Climate Lawsuit Filed Against 33 European Countries Over Human Rights
ByDana Drugmand
onSep 3, 2020 @ 16:23 PDT

Six young people from Portugal have filed an unprecedented climate change lawsuit against almost all of Europe, targeting 33 European nations for failing to take adequate action on the climate cris...
Series: Tracking the Lawsuits Fighting for Climate Accountability
Series: Climate Change Lawsuits
uk/Indigenous Campaigners Vow to 'Fight to the End' After Court Throws Out Amazon Oil Spill Case
ByPhoebe Cooke
onSep 3, 2020 @ 02:21 PDT

Indigenous campaigners have vowed to “fight until the end” after a lawsuit to suspend Ecuador’s oil operations was thrown out of court. An estimated 27,000 people were left without safe water, fis...
us/As Climate-Fueled Wildfires Worsen, Communities Wrestle With Paying the Costs
ByGuest
onAug 31, 2020 @ 14:36 PDT

By Karen Savage, Climate Docket. Originally published on Climate Docket. Pennie Opal Plant spent much of last weekend anxiously scanning the horizon for smoke from California’s growing wildfires, ...
us/Pollution Scientist Calls Plastic Pellet Spill in the Mississippi River 'a Nurdle Apocalypse'
ByJulie Dermansky
onAug 28, 2020 @ 11:05 PDT

Three weeks after a shipping container full of tiny plastic pellets fell into the Mississippi River near New Orleans, cleanup hired by the vessel that lost its cargo stopped shortly after it starte...
uk/Workers Should be Focus of Post-COVID Climate Policy 'Reset', Unions Say
ByPhoebe Cooke
onAug 20, 2020 @ 22:01 PDT

Trade unions are calling for the government to put regional voices at the heart of its climate strategy - or risk catastrophic consequences. Meeting the UK’s 2050 net-zero target requires a “reset...
us/The Risk of Preterm Birth Rises Near Gas Flaring, Reflecting Deep-rooted Environmental Injustices in Rural America
ByGuest
onAug 20, 2020 @ 15:35 PDT

By Jill Johnston, University of Southern California and Lara Cushing, University of California, Los Angeles Through the southern reaches of Texas, communities are scattered across a flat landscape...
us/Big Oil Knew Climate Change Could Be ‘Catastrophic.’ Study Shows Heat Could Become Deadlier Than Infectious Diseases
ByDana Drugmand
onAug 4, 2020 @ 12:52 PDT

More than a half century ago, the oil industry's top lobbyist warned his peers of the potentially “catastrophic consequences” of burning fossil fuels, consequences that are already starting to unfo...
us/Racism and Discrimination in the Oil and Gas Industry
ByJustin Mikulka
onAug 2, 2020 @ 07:58 PDT

With the recent focus on systemic racism in America, the oil and gas industry is depicting itself as leading on the issue of diversity in the workforce. However, its public relations efforts and sl...

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