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America’s Biggest Public Pension Fund Is Slow-Walking Corporate Climate Action, Report Charges
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Brexit Pushing Ireland Towards US Fracked Gas, Putting Climate Commitments at Risk
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Tory-Linked Climate Denial Group’s New Advisor Called Environmentalism ‘Satan’s Trick’
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Anglia Ruskin University Chairman and Tory Donor Jerome Booth Becomes Trustee of Climate Science...
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Congress Grills ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, Chevron and the American Petroleum Institute on Their Roles...
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