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us/Sanders Says Senate Bill 'Nowhere Near' Enough as Dems, GOP Tank His Amendments
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The Vermont senator nevertheless supported final passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, calling it "a step forward" on climate and drug prices.
An older man with white hair and glasses sits in a suit on a stage holding a microphone and papers.
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us/Voters Agree: Fossil Fuel Funding in Climate Research Is a Massive Conflict of Interest
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Fossil fuel companies have been quietly leveraging their wealth to manipulate climate research.
Hundreds of leading academics are calling on universities to stop accepting research funding from fossil fuel companies. Credit: John Englart (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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First the Heatwaves, Now the Flooding. Look to South Asia For a Reminder of Why Climate Action is So Urgent
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The extreme weather events afflicting the subcontinent, made more likely by climate change, show the need to wind down oil, gas and coal use as soon as possible, argue Basav Sen and Tejal Mankad from the People vs. Fossil Fuels coalition.
Flooding in Bangladesh in 2019. Credit: UN Asia and the Pacific (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
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The UK Government’s Food Strategy Lacks Teeth
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We already know how to make good food the norm, and there's a willingness among the public to eat well. What we need is action, says Sustain’s Ruth Westcott.
The UK government's food strategy was published on Monday. Credit: Will Lovell (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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us/America Does Not Need More LNG Export Terminals
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An environmental engineer and long-time Gulf Coast resident warns that increasing liquified natural gas exports "sows environmental destruction, benefits our adversaries, and pads the pockets of executives to the detriment of the average consumer."
Venture Global Calcasieu Pass LNG export facility in Cameron.
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us/Appalachia Does Not Need More Fossil Fuel Greed
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For over a century, this region has powered the country’s growth with coal, gas, and oil. But its communities have not seen the prosperity and health the fossil fuel industry continues to promise them.
Activists protest the Mountain Valley Pipeline in Richmond, VA in December 2021.
us/Exxon Doubles Down on ‘Advanced Recycling’ Claims That Yield Few Results
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The petroleum company is under investigation for misleading the public while exacerbating the global plastic pollution crisis.
Plastic intermingled with seaweed on a beach.
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Twitter’s New Ad Policy Ignores a Subtler Form of Climate Disinformation
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The new policy won’t stop the most dangerous type of climate disinformation: fossil fuel industry greenwashing, argues Jamie Henn.
Credit: Solen Feyissa (CC BY-SA 2.0)
us/How the Oil and Gas Industry Is Trying to Hold US Public Schools Hostage
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Fossil fuel interest groups are telling New Mexicans: let us keep drilling or the state’s education system will collapse.
A gas flare in San Juan County in northwestern New Mexico
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Rising Authoritarianism and Worsening Climate Change Share a Fossil-fueled Secret
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There are clear connections between the fossil fuel industries and the politicians who are both stalling action on climate change and diminishing democracy – and it's a dangerous shift, argues an international studies professor in her new book.
Donald Trump shakes hands with Jair Bolsonaro with a Brazilian flag