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Fossil Fuel Firms Use Permitting Loopholes to Fast-Track LNG Export Projects Near Black Communities

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When it evaporates, it’s methane. You can’t breathe methane. If it’s flooded, it could then pollute the surrounding wetlands, he added. The name comes from a shuttered papermill that sat across the street, polluting the Black community for 60 years. It will kill you.” But more than three-fourths of the U.S-produced

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The Uncertain Future of Gas Exports on Louisiana’s Vanishing Coastline

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But four hurricanes since 2005 and sea level rise — it really decimated this coastline.” He estimates that 70 metres of his property has been swallowed up by sea level rise since he moved there in 1998, with trees and wetlands washed away as the ocean advanced bit by bit with each passing year.

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How Climate-Friendly is Liz Truss’s Cabinet?

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In the message, addressed to the advisory council of the Southern Gas Corridor initiative, which brings gas into Europe from Asia, he said the “cleanest fossil fuel” had “served us well” but would “not serve the interests or wellbeing of our children or our grandchildren”.

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Climate Change: Where Are We Now?

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The UCSUSA points out that “Consequences of global warming include drought, sea level rise, flooding, extreme weather, and species loss. Which countries and sectors are the largest polluters? are now asking developing countries to abandon highly polluting technology.”