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100 Days Before The UN Climate Talks – Reasons To Be Cheerful. And Reasons Not To
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This article by Alice Bell, writer and researcher on science, technology and the environment, has been reposted from The Road to Paris. It’s less than 100 days before the big UN climate talks in Pa...
uk/Fracking Fast-Track Stacks Odds Against Planning Refusal
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New measures to compel local councils to speed up frackers' planning applications have a clear intention, writes The Ecologist editor, Oliver Tickell – to make it ever harder for planners to refuse...
us/Big Oil Can Survive Low Prices, The Climate Can’t
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This is a guest post by Lukas Ross from Friends of the Earth. Last week seemed like a bad time to be Big Oil. As the world’s biggest energy companies announced their quarterly results, billions in ...
How Shell Lobbied to Stop EU Renewable Energy Targets
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This has been cross-posted from Energydesk. A group of the EU’s largest energy companies – including oil and gas giants Shell and Norway’s Statoil – formed an alliance to lobby against a new EU ren...
us/Costa Rica Aims For Carbon Neutrality By 2021, But Plans $1.5 Billion Oil Refinery
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This is a guest post by Diego Arguedas Ortiz. Costa Rica’s plan to build a $1.5 billion oil refinery, a joint venture with China’s state-owned petroleum company China National Petroleum Corporation...
us/Richard Tol's Gremlins Continue to Undermine His Work
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This is a guest post by Brandon Shollenberger  Global warming is, if you'll forgive the pun, possibly the most heated topic of debate this century.  While most debate over it focuses on extreme ...
uk/What Happened to the ‘Greenest-Ever’ Conservative Party?
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In a year when the all-important UN climate change summit will take place in Paris and the UN’s sustainable development goals will be finalised, one would have thought the government of one of the ...
us/Former Dept. of Justice Official Says Exxon News Worsens Liability Picture
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This is a guest post by Dan Zegart, Senior Fellow at the Climate Investigations Center The former Department of Justice lawyer who led the watershed lawsuit against tobacco companies, says that the...
uk/Defra’s Un-Redacted Shale Gas Report Reveals Extent of Impacts on People Living Near Fracking Wells
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This article by Christine Ottery has been cross-posted from EnergyDesk. People that live near fracking sites could be affected by health problems and financial hardships – and fracking might not ev...
Series: Transparency Travesty: The Saga of the Redacted Fracking Report
Series: Fracking Redacted
us/Zero Carbon Emissions: The New Language Of Climate Change
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This is a guest post by David Suzuki.  If nothing else, the G7 countries’ recent agreement to end fossil fuel use for energy by 2100 signals a shift in the way we talk and think about global warmin...