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us/Why Shifting Regulatory Power to the States Won't Improve the Environment
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By Michael A. Livermore, University of Virginia President Trump and his appointees, particularly Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, have made federalism a theme of their e...
uk/UK Support for Fracking at Record Low – Government Survey
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The UK government has just released its latest round of data on public attitudes to energy and climate issues. Ruth Hayhurst from Drill or Drop takes a detailed look at the results. The latest fin...
us/The Exxon-Treasury Fight And The Roots Of Russiagate
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By David Halperin and Kert Davies, originally published at HuffPost. Putin and Exxon have aimed relentlessly at ending U.S. sanctions, but scandal and Congress have now tied Trump’s hands. When ...
uk/Citizens Paying for Fossil Fuel Subsidies With Taxes and Their Health – Report
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Campaigners have regularly pointed out the contrariness of governments giving the fossil fuel industry subsidies while also making efforts to cut carbon dioxide emissions. A new report suggests tha...
us/How Electric Vehicles Could Take a Bite out of the Oil Market
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By Amy Myers Jaffe and Lewis Fulton, University of California, Davis When will cars powered by gas-guzzling internal combustion engines become obsolete? Not as soon as it seems, even with the late...
uk/Critics Dismiss Government's Plan to Ban New Petrol and Diesel Cars As 'Too Little, Too Late'
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On the same day the government released the long-awaited latest draft of its air pollution plans, the environment secretary Michael Gove was busy publicising a new headline policy. Andy Rowell expl...
us/History Shows That Stacking Federal Science Advisory Committees Doesn't Work
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By Donald Boesch, University of Maryland Scientists are busy people, but every year thousands donate many hours of their time without payment to advise Congress and federal government agencies. Th...
us/Cleaning up Toxic Sites Shouldn't Clear out the Neighbors
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By Lindsey Dillon, University of California, Santa Cruz San Francisco has embarked on a project to transform its industrial southeast waterfront into a bike-friendly destination called the Blue Gr...
uk/Out of Work, North Sea Oil Workers Switching to Battery-Powered Jobs
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Redundant North Sea energy workers are offered free football tickets to build revolutionary new electricity storage systems, writes Terry Macalister at Climate News Network. Highly-skilled enginee...
uk/Fracking Progress Stalled as Protesters Step Up Action Against Shale Gas Company Cuadrilla in Lancashire
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By Laura Creighton, reporting from Lancashire Two lorries attempting to make their way in and out of shale gas company Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road fracking site have been stopped in their tracks ...