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By Aaron Cantu. This story originally appeared in Capitol and Main and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism...
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Last December, a cross-party council planning committee unanimously rejected what could very well be the last opencast coal application in the UK, proposed at...
EPA Warns of Mountain Valley Pipeline Impact on Streams, Says Project Should Not Receive...
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Texas Company Exposed by DeSmog for Radioactive Fracking Waste Practices Threatens Legal Action
On April 22, DeSmog published a year-long investigation by reporter Justin Nobel into the practices of the environmental services company Lotus LLC, which operates...
What the Exxon Tapes Reveal About the American Petroleum Institute’s Lobbying Tactics on Oil...
Senior ExxonMobil lobbyists were recently exposed by undercover reporting from UnEarthed, an investigative journalism project of Greenpeace, which captured footage of the employees explaining...
Environmental Justice Concerns Raised at a Hearing on Louisiana’s Bid For Authority to Permit...
“Our state is addicted to fossil fuels and, like many addicts, instead of seeking to break our addiction. We seek ways to become functional...
Fossil Fuel Industry Given Billions in EU Hydrogen Support, Report Finds
Over €8 billion is being invested in hydrogen and “renewable gas” projects in southern Europe using EU Covid-19 recovery funds, thanks to extensive lobbying...
Canada Funneled $23 Billion in Subsidies to Three Pipelines Since 2018
The Canadian government has handed over C$23 billion (US$18.5 billion) in subsidies to three major oil and gas pipeline projects in just the past...
Koch Industries Among Investors Set to Take Over UK Supermarket Morrisons
Supermarket chain Morrisons is set to be snapped up by a group of US investors that includes a subsidiary of fossil fuel giant Koch...
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