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Duke Energy Lays Out Its Long-Term Clean Energy Pathways — and Price Tags

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The two most moderate scenarios include a “base case” that assumes no price is put on carbon pollution and a “carbon policy” case that assumes a price is implemented. ” Looking at the price tags. or abroad with operational protocols to manage this scale of dependence on short-term energy storage.”

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Campaigners Urge UK Government To 'Lock Out' Polluters From COP26

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MARCH 25, 2021

Read time: 4 mins Campaigners are calling for polluters to be denied access to this year’s pivotal COP26 summit and locked out of all future UN climate talks. . Tags: COP26 fossil fuels

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Pennsylvania Communities Grow Wary of Worsening Air Pollution as Petrochemical Industry Arrives

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Read time: 9 mins While the Ohio River Valley, long home to the coal and steel industries, is no stranger to air pollution, the region’s natural gas boom and burgeoning petrochemical industry threaten to erase the gains of recent decades. There is a certain degree of sick irony about that.”.

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Long Exposed to Polluted Air, Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Residents Are Now in a COVID-19 Hotspot

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 13, 2020

They shared concerns that African Americans are dying of COVID -19 at a disproportionate rate and that toxic air pollution they’re still exposed to is increasing their vulnerability to the virus. Tags: Louisiana cancer alley COVID-19 Denka air pollution RISE St.

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Climate Deniers Argue Carbon Pollution Is Beneficial, Again Take Aim at EPA's Endangerment Finding

DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2020

Read time: 11 mins Climate science deniers at think tanks with fossil fuel ties are doubling down on attempts to undermine the bases for regulating climate pollution, from attacking estimated carbon pollution costs used in regulatory analyses to urging the U.S.

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Texas Regulators Failing to Act on Pollution Complaints in Permian Oilfields, New Report Finds

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Read time: 10 mins Over the past five years, environmental advocates with the nonprofit Earthworks have made trips to 298 oil and gas wells, compressor stations, and processing plants across the Permian Basin in Texas, an oil patch which last year hit record-high methane pollution levels for the U.S.

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Anti-pollution Advocates Cheer as Army Corps Reviews Formosa Plastics Permit in Louisiana

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NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Read time: 6 mins Environmental and community groups in Louisiana are elated after what they see as two back-to-back wins in their fight to protect fenceline communities from additional petrochemical industry pollution. Tags: Formosa RISE St. This week, a key federal permit for a $9.4

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EPA Clean Air Panel Chair Dismisses His Oil Industry Ties, Slams Harvard Study on Air Pollution and COVID Risks

DeSmogBlog

MAY 18, 2020

Read time: 11 mins The head of a federal committee tasked with advising the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) on air quality science recently disparaged a new Harvard study examining the link between air pollution and coronavirus fatalities across the country.

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Pollution Scientist Calls Plastic Pellet Spill in the Mississippi River 'a Nurdle Apocalypse'

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 28, 2020

After visiting a couple locations along the river banks affected by the spill, Mark Benfield, an oceanographer and plastic pollution expert at Louisiana State University, estimated that nearly 750 million of these lentil-sized plastic pellets, also known as nurdles, could have been lost in the river.

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Louisiana Activists Charged with Felonies After Delivering Box of Formosa Plastic Pollution to Lobbyists

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 25, 2020

Read time: 6 mins Two Louisiana environmental activists, Anne Rolfes and Kate McIntosh, were taken in handcuffs and leg irons from a Baton Rouge police station to jail after they voluntarily surrendered themselves on felony charges after months' earlier delivering plastic pollution pulled from Texas waters to fossil fuel lobbyists' homes.

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Environmental Groups Oppose Shell Request to Increase Air Pollution Limits for Pennsylvania Plastics Factory

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Read time: 5 mins Citing design changes, Shell Chemical Appalachia has asked Pennsylvania’s state regulators to issue air permits that would allow the company’s massive plastics manufacturing plant under construction outside Pittsburgh to emit significantly more climate and other air pollution.

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New Film Dark Waters Shines Light on Chemical Pollution History in Ohio River Valley

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DECEMBER 13, 2019

While much of Dark Waters , as the title suggests, centers on contaminated water, the story of perfluorooctanoic acid ( PFOA ), the Teflon-linked chemical at the heart of the film, is also a story about air pollution.

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Advocates Call on EPA to Expand Air Pollution Monitoring of Refineries After 10 Found Emitting High Benzene Levels

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

General Russel Honoré, founder of Louisiana’s Green Army, a grassroots anti-pollution coalition, hailed the report as a great tool for communities that live near refineries to press for the monitoring of additional toxic chemicals. . Russel Honoré oil refineries Philadelphia Energy Solutions benzene air pollution clean air act

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Momentum Builds to Monitor Cancer Alley Air Pollution in Real Time After Exxon Refinery Fire in Louisiana

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

What unfolded, however, reinforced a growing community movement to require real-time independent air pollution monitoring at industrial facilities. Tags: cancer alley ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) Lt. Russel Honoré oil refinery Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ)

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Activists Find Evidence of Formosa Plant in Texas Still Releasing Plastic Pollution Despite $50 Million Settlement

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JANUARY 18, 2020

James Parish air and water pollution Tags: Formosa texas plastics St. The group of volunteers had assembled that day to check whether the plant was still discharging these raw materials of plastics manufacturing. .

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Fracking and Shale Drilling Caused Spike in Climate-Warming Methane Pollution, Says New Study

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 14, 2019

Read time: 8 mins Climate-changing pollution reached unprecedented levels in 2018. That pollution creates a greenhouse effect that is over 42 percent stronger than it was in 1990, the report added. That pollution creates a greenhouse effect that is over 42 percent stronger than it was in 1990, the report added.

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Environmental Justice Activists Arrested Amid Growing Concerns Over Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Pollution

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Read time: 9 mins Mounting concerns over pollution, public health, and the expansion of the petrochemical industry came to a head when two activists were detained in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on October 30, the last day of a two-week protest against environmental racism in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley. .

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Climate Deniers on Front Line of Battle Over Pennsylvania Joining Cap-and-Trade Program to Slash Carbon Pollution

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2020

Read time: 6 mins Pennsylvania, traditionally a battleground state in electoral politics, is currently embroiled in a battle over the state potentially joining a regional program to curb carbon pollution from the power sector.

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Op-ed: Battered by Hurricanes and Pollution, It Is Time for Louisiana to Imagine Life Beyond Oil

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OCTOBER 10, 2020

Tags: Louisiana cancer alley nurdles Formosa plastic production Read time: 6 mins This is a guest post by environmental communication professor and Louisiana native Ned Randolph. Living in Louisiana, reconciling the environmental harm caused by the state’s often celebrated oil and petrochemical sectors amounts to cognitive gaslighting. .

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Hurricane Delta Compounds Oil Pollution Left By Hurricane Laura in Louisiana’s Wetlands

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Tags: Hurricane Delta Read time: 7 mins Hurricane Delta made landfall in Creole. Louisiana, on October 9, 13 miles east of where Hurricane Laura struck 43 days before. It touched down in an. area packed with oil and gas wells, pipelines, and rigs.

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COP25: Polluting Companies Blamed for Slow Progress at UN Climate Talks

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Read time: 4 mins Big polluters are to blame for slow progress in the annual UN climate negotiations in Madrid, Spain, according to activists — with several companies sponsoring the talks in exchange for tax breaks. Tags: COP25 climate talks UN climate talks shell greenwashing Corporate Influence

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Routine Gas Flaring Is Wasteful, Polluting and Under-measured

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 18, 2020

Tags: flaring Bakken Shale Permian Basin Texas Railroad Commission Over the past 10 years, the U.S. shale oil and gas boom has made this country one of the world’s top five flaring nations , just behind Russia , Iran and Iraq. It’s a dubious distinction. Routine flaring gives the industry a black eye.

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‘Energy Policy Advocates’ and the Fossil Fuel Boosters Attacking Legal Efforts to Hold Climate Polluters Accountable

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 30, 2020

This defensive strategy involves vigorous public records requests, and in some cases legal action or intervention, to try proving a supposed conspiracy by those working to hold polluters accountable. Tags: ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) chris horner Energy Policy Advocates climate liability

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NAACP Report: Fossil Fuel Industry Uses Deception to Conceal Damage to BIPOC Communities

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2021

The report identifies 10 tactics that polluters, industry lobbyists, and politicians often deploy to deflect accountability for the impacts of fossil fuel production and pollution on the environment and human health. Tags: environmental racism racism environmental justice Misinformation fossil fuel companies

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Pandemic Lockdowns Caused 'Just a Tiny Blip' in Climate-Polluting Emissions, WMO Finds

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Tags: COVID-19 World Meteorological Organization methane emissions Robert Howarth Permian Basin But, according to a new report by the World Meteorological Organization ( WMO ) , this year's sudden drop off in travel — and transportation fuel consumption — didn't lead to sizable declines in planet-heating emissions.

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Yet Another Study Confirms: Electric Cars Reduce Climate Pollution

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 27, 2020

Tags: electric vehicles heat pumps clean cars bjorn lomborg jonathan lesser That's the clear, unequivocal finding of the first study that conducted a global examination of the current and future greenhouse gas emissions of electric vehicles ( EV s) and gas-powered cars.

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British Airways Nearly as Polluting as All Vans on UK Roads Combined, Data Shows

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2021

Tags: British Airways Lufthansa Air France Read time: 5 mins British Airways flights emitted almost as much carbon dioxide in 2019 as all the vans on UK roads, according to newly released data obtained by non-profit group Transport & Environment ( T&E ).

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Fossil Fuel Industry and Koch Network Fighting Pennsylvania's Move to Join Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Read time: 6 mins As Pennsylvania took a significant step this week towards joining a regional climate initiative to curb carbon pollution from power plants, newly revealed email records show how fossil fuel interests campaigned to oppose this initiative in a state that has the fifth most polluting electric power sector in the nation.

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Peers sought to build urban resilience platform

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Other issues arising include flood damage to buildings and other street infrastructure; sewer overflows polluting watercourses and water bodies and the declining quality of our lakes, rivers and reservoirs. It is against this background that Isle set up its Urban Resilience Technology Approval Group (UR TAG) in 2019. Technology pilots.

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Report: Global Climate Lawsuits Against Governments and Polluters on the Rise

DeSmogBlog

JULY 7, 2020

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In the Shadow of Shuttered Philadelphia Refinery, Neighbors Recall Those Lost to Decades of Pollution

DeSmogBlog

JULY 1, 2020

Tags: Philadelphia Energy Solutions George Floyd protests Black Lives Matter Speakers that day recalled less the fiery explosion that tore through the plant one year earlier and more the long-term harms caused by decades of fossil fuel production in the majority Black neighborhood.

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California Polluters May Soon Buy Carbon 'Offsets' From the Amazon — Is That Ethical?

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

On September 19, the California Air Resources Board endorsed the Tropical Forest Standard, which sets the groundwork for electric utilities, oil refineries and other California polluters to “offset” their greenhouse gas emissions by paying governments in tropical forest areas not to cut down trees.

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Baltimore, Rhode Island Argue They’re Suing Fossil Fuel Companies Over Climate Deception

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 10, 2020

Read time: 5 mins At a time when fossil fuel companies are using a public health crisis to demand financial and regulatory support , the governments of Baltimore and Rhode Island are calling out a “decades-long campaign of deception” by these companies in urging courts to advance lawsuits trying to hold polluters responsible for climate damages.

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Stanford Study Says Renewable Power Eliminates Argument for Using Carbon Capture with Fossil Fuels

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Carbon capture technology is premised on two possible approaches to reducing climate pollution: removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere anywhere in the world, an approach generally known as direct air capture, or removing it directly from the emissions source, such as the smoke stack of a fossil fuel power plant.

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2020 Was a Busy Year for Taking the Climate Fight to the Courts

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

All around the world, communities, organizations, and especially young people turned to the courts in 2020 in strategic attempts to hold governments and polluting companies accountable for exacerbating the unfolding climate emergency. Supreme Court fossil fuel companies

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BP Challenged On Adverts That 'Mislead Consumers' Over Polluting Portfolio

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Tags: bp Client Earth The challenge, filed today by legal campaign group ClientEarth, is the first time a complaint has been made about a fossil fuel company’s alleged greenwashing under international corporate rules.

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Big Oil Knew Climate Change Could Be ‘Catastrophic.’ Study Shows Heat Could Become Deadlier Than Infectious Diseases

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 4, 2020

Extreme heat is among the deadliest consequences of global warming, and a new study tallies just how deadly it could become if climate pollution continues unabated. Tags: extreme heat Climate Impact Lab infectious diseases Exxon Knew American Petroleum Institute

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Op-ed: US COVID-19 Bailouts Gave Bonuses to Fossil Fuel CEOs While Workers and Planet Suffered

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Raging wildfires and worsening storms are destroying homes, decimating communities, and polluting the air and water, all during a pandemic which disproportionately affects those living in polluted areas. Tags: oil bailout CARES Act Whiting Petroleum COVID-19 U.S. Even amid the pandemic, the U.S. Federal Reserve

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Failed Finances and 'the Demonization of Gas' Are Threatening the Future of US LNG

DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2020

The real issue for the LNG industry is an existential one: It's a fossil fuel in a rapidly warming world, and these polluting fuels are losing public favor fast. Tags: LNG exports natural gas prices social license COVID-19

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UN Human Rights Experts Condemn Expanding Petrochemical Industry in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley as 'Environmental Racism'

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 3, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) data shows has some of the country’s highest cancer risks from air pollution, constitutes “environmental racism” that “must end.”. Tags: cancer alley Human Rights environmental racism Formosa petrochemical development

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Fracked Gas Well Blowout in Louisiana Likely to Burn for the Next Month

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Tags: well blowout Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) Louisiana Department of Natural Resources fracked gas Fracking Air Pollution A state official said the fire will likely burn for the next month before the flames can be brought under control by drilling a relief well.

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Unplugged: How the Gas Industry Is Fighting Efforts to Electrify Buildings

DeSmogBlog

JULY 28, 2020

This alarm has since boiled over into a full-fledged opposition campaign to counter the rising tide of similar measures meant to restrict gas in favor of constructing all-electric buildings and cutting carbon pollution.

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COVID-19 Fears Intensified for New Mexico Family Living in Fracking Industry’s Shadow

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2020

They have wondered what effect the industrial pollution might have on them and their son and daughter — even more so now with the COVID -19 pandemic — but with no money to pick up and relocate, they have remained in their home. . Tags: COVID-19 New Mexico Permian Basin fracking industry fracking health impacts coronavirus

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NOVEMBER 9, 2021

An emerging class of personal air quality monitoring devices fills a need for people who care about pollution exposure in their immediate vicinity. The on-board hardware includes relatively simple MEMS semiconductor sensors, of a kind that have been developed principally for the detection of pollution from automobile exhausts.

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Duke Energy Lays Out Its Long-Term Clean Energy Pathways — and Price Tags

Campaigners Urge UK Government To 'Lock Out' Polluters From COP26

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Pennsylvania Communities Grow Wary of Worsening Air Pollution as Petrochemical Industry Arrives

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Long Exposed to Polluted Air, Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Residents Are Now in a COVID-19 Hotspot

Climate Deniers Argue Carbon Pollution Is Beneficial, Again Take Aim at EPA's Endangerment Finding

Texas Regulators Failing to Act on Pollution Complaints in Permian Oilfields, New Report Finds

Anti-pollution Advocates Cheer as Army Corps Reviews Formosa Plastics Permit in Louisiana

EPA Clean Air Panel Chair Dismisses His Oil Industry Ties, Slams Harvard Study on Air Pollution and COVID Risks

Pollution Scientist Calls Plastic Pellet Spill in the Mississippi River 'a Nurdle Apocalypse'

Louisiana Activists Charged with Felonies After Delivering Box of Formosa Plastic Pollution to Lobbyists

Environmental Groups Oppose Shell Request to Increase Air Pollution Limits for Pennsylvania Plastics Factory

New Film Dark Waters Shines Light on Chemical Pollution History in Ohio River Valley

Advocates Call on EPA to Expand Air Pollution Monitoring of Refineries After 10 Found Emitting High Benzene Levels

Momentum Builds to Monitor Cancer Alley Air Pollution in Real Time After Exxon Refinery Fire in Louisiana

Activists Find Evidence of Formosa Plant in Texas Still Releasing Plastic Pollution Despite $50 Million Settlement

Fracking and Shale Drilling Caused Spike in Climate-Warming Methane Pollution, Says New Study

Environmental Justice Activists Arrested Amid Growing Concerns Over Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Pollution

Climate Deniers on Front Line of Battle Over Pennsylvania Joining Cap-and-Trade Program to Slash Carbon Pollution

Op-ed: Battered by Hurricanes and Pollution, It Is Time for Louisiana to Imagine Life Beyond Oil

Hurricane Delta Compounds Oil Pollution Left By Hurricane Laura in Louisiana’s Wetlands

COP25: Polluting Companies Blamed for Slow Progress at UN Climate Talks

Routine Gas Flaring Is Wasteful, Polluting and Under-measured

‘Energy Policy Advocates’ and the Fossil Fuel Boosters Attacking Legal Efforts to Hold Climate Polluters Accountable

NAACP Report: Fossil Fuel Industry Uses Deception to Conceal Damage to BIPOC Communities

Pandemic Lockdowns Caused 'Just a Tiny Blip' in Climate-Polluting Emissions, WMO Finds

Yet Another Study Confirms: Electric Cars Reduce Climate Pollution

British Airways Nearly as Polluting as All Vans on UK Roads Combined, Data Shows

Fossil Fuel Industry and Koch Network Fighting Pennsylvania's Move to Join Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

Peers sought to build urban resilience platform

Report: Global Climate Lawsuits Against Governments and Polluters on the Rise

In the Shadow of Shuttered Philadelphia Refinery, Neighbors Recall Those Lost to Decades of Pollution

California Polluters May Soon Buy Carbon 'Offsets' From the Amazon — Is That Ethical?

Baltimore, Rhode Island Argue They’re Suing Fossil Fuel Companies Over Climate Deception

Stanford Study Says Renewable Power Eliminates Argument for Using Carbon Capture with Fossil Fuels

2020 Was a Busy Year for Taking the Climate Fight to the Courts

BP Challenged On Adverts That 'Mislead Consumers' Over Polluting Portfolio

Big Oil Knew Climate Change Could Be ‘Catastrophic.’ Study Shows Heat Could Become Deadlier Than Infectious Diseases

Op-ed: US COVID-19 Bailouts Gave Bonuses to Fossil Fuel CEOs While Workers and Planet Suffered

Failed Finances and 'the Demonization of Gas' Are Threatening the Future of US LNG

UN Human Rights Experts Condemn Expanding Petrochemical Industry in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley as 'Environmental Racism'

Fracked Gas Well Blowout in Louisiana Likely to Burn for the Next Month

Unplugged: How the Gas Industry Is Fighting Efforts to Electrify Buildings

COVID-19 Fears Intensified for New Mexico Family Living in Fracking Industry’s Shadow

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