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Labor Helps Obama Energy Secretary Push and Profit from 'Net Zero' Fossil Fuels

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 16 mins Progressive activists have called for a Green New Deal, a linking of the U.S. Unlike those calling for a Green New Deal, though, this alliance supports increased fracking for oil and gas, as well as other controversial technologies that critics say prop up fossil fuels.

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Oil Lobby’s Carbon Capture Solution Hasn’t Consulted Local Nation, Chief Says

DeSmogBlog

Chief Kelsey Jacko told an Edmonton crowd that the Pathways Alliance, a lobbying and marketing effort by Canada’s top oil sands producers, has neglected to consult his community on a massive carbon capture storage network project Pathways claims will be able to store 1,100 megatonnes of carbon dioxide. Robert Howarth and Mark Z.

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89 groups endorse the Healthy Environment for All (HEAL) Act

Front And Centered

ENDORSERS: 350 Eastside | 350 Everett | Alliance for Clean Jobs and Energy | Audubon Washington. BlueGreen Alliance | Centro Latino | Children’s Alliance | Casa Latina | Citizens for a Healthy Bay | Climate Solutions. Climate Reality Project – Snohomish County Chapter | Community Alliance for Global Justice.

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We need fresh thinking about the role of digital technologies in our food system

Business Green

Covid-19 has highlighted the shortcomings of our food supply chains, but technology can help, argues Green Alliance's Imogen Cripps. Through Green Alliance's Tech Task Force programme, we've already investigated the transformative potential of smart green tech in the energy efficiency, transport and construction sectors.

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Boris Johnson to pledge to 'build back greener'

Business Green

Prime Minister to reaffirm tree-planting plans as part of £5bn 'New Deal' style recovery package, but green campaigners fear 'false start' as key funding announcements still yet to be confirmed. Unfortunately, the PM seems to have got off to false start.

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'A climate-shaped hole at its heart': The green economy reacts to the Spring Statement

Business Green

BusinessGreen rounds up all the reaction from the green economy to the Chancellor Rishi Sunak's mini-budget. The Chancellor should also have committed to an ambitious nationwide energy efficiency programme to deliver warm homes, lower bills and thousands of green jobs - a retrofit revolution fit for the 21 Century.

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'Fifteen years of anaemic growth cannot be repeated': The green economy reacts to the government's Growth Plan

Business Green

The measures include plans to ditch or curtail green planning regulations that are sure to upset environmental campaigners and local communities alike. Taking action to get Britain's economy moving again by beginning construction on transport and green infrastructure projects shows immediate delivery. Planning reform is long overdue.