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How Big Oil Rigs the System to Keep Winning

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In 19 articles that became a widely read book, History of the Standard Oil Company , published in 1904, she exposed its unsavory practices. That didn’t come until the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring. Don’t Call It Methane, It’s ‘Natural’ Gas. Except that methane gas isn’t clean.

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Lost Decade: How Shell Downplayed Early Warnings Over Climate Change

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These included Shell-produced content such as the Time For Energy film, and a book called Energy published the same year. In 1962, Shell’s chief geologist, Houston-based Marion King Hubbert, produced a book-length report on energy for the U.S. based Center for International Environmental Law has reported.

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How Climate-Friendly is Liz Truss’s Cabinet?

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Previously an avowed free marketeer, having written the controversial “Britannia Unchained” book with Liz Truss and others, colleagues say he “underwent a conversion at BEIS, becoming convinced of the need for intervention and the potential for clean energy”, according to the Guardian.