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Read time: 7 minsNorway’s sovereign wealth fund — a state-owned investment fund worth approximately a trillion dollars — recently announced it was divesting from oil...

Twitter’s New Ad Policy Ignores a Subtler Form of Climate Disinformation

There’s a simple rule when it comes to corporate climate commitments: when they come out on Earth Day, you know they’re often too good...

UK’s Polluting Foreign Investments Criticised as BP and Exxon Get Domestic Tax Benefits

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Big Oil Can’t Fight the ‘Irresistible’ Rise of Electric Vehicles — Report

Read time: 4 minsBy Paul Brown for the Climate News Network The days of oil as a fuel for cars, whether petrol or diesel, are numbered...

Fossil Fuel Industry Given Billions in EU Hydrogen Support, Report Finds

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A UK minister has been branded “ridiculous” for suggesting that oil could be extracted from a new North Sea development and then sit in...

Extinction Rebellion Blockade Central London Street to Kick Off Fortnight of Protests

Hundreds of climate activists are occupying a busy street in central London today in the first of two weeks of protest against the UK...

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This was meant to be the year of fracking’s big push in the UK. But the early months of 2018 have seen the industry...

Campaigners Claim ‘Historic Win’ as France Found Guilty of Climate Inaction

Read time: 4 minsThe French state has been found guilty of climate action in what campaigners have dubbed “the case of the century”.  Today the Paris...

Fossil Fuel-Backed Climate Deniers Rush to Promote Michael Moore Documentary ‘Planet of The Humans’

Read time: 10 minsClimate science deniers and long-time opponents of renewable energy, many with ties to oil and gas companies, have seized on Michael...

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