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Global Briefing: China suspends climate talks with US over Taiwan stand-off

Business Green

Ever since the Paris Agreement of 2015, bilateral negotiations between the world's largest economic superpowers have been critical to the UN climate talks. Global Methane Hub and Beyond Oil & Gas Alliance announce $1.5m The Global Methane Hub (GMH) this week announced it will fund $1.5m emissions reduction push.

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House Committee Poised for Potential Subpoena of PR Firm for Climate Disinformation

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But it has been instrumental in an array of oil industry campaigns meant to sow doubt about climate change , attack climate scientists, and play up the benefits of fossil fuels. . A screenshot from FTI Consulting’s 2015 presentation. A powerful Washington, D.C., But the truth is, we don’t know the half of it.”.

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Climate-Science Deniers, Right-Wing Think Tanks, and Fossil Fuel Shills Are Plotting Against the Clean Energy Transition

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He is a retired real-estate investor who has been involved in an impressive array of local energy fights over the past 15 years. When then-governor Andrew Cuomo arrived in the city in 2015 to announce his veto of the gas project, a crowd of 200 people burst into applause. One of those names is John Droz.

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Where Does All The Radioactive Fracking Waste Go?

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And since 1997 about one million barrels worth of oilfield waste has been brought to Lotus’s disposal site, situated off a dusty desert road located 19 miles west of Andrews, Texas (and just several miles from a massive solar array financed by Facebook and which provides energy to Shell’s fracking operations).

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Can a tiger change its stripes? Meet the pulp and paper giant bankrolling a huge Sumatran rainforest reserve

Business Green

The reserve is home to a vast array of rare and critically endangered animal species, including pangolins, sun bears, and - perhaps most famously - the Sumatran Tiger, of which there are less than 400 left in the wild. "We Over the years the company has further ramped up its environmental ambitions.