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Industry Knew About Gas Stoves’ Air Pollution Problems in Early 1970s
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Fossil Fuel Linked Donors Gift Half a Million to Conservative Party
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French NGOs Sue BNP Paribas, Europe’s Largest Financier of Fossil Fuel Expansion
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Vivian Krause to ‘Oil Mafia’ Supporters: ‘The Environmentalists Have Won’
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The Natural Gas Industry Sees Cow Manure Gas as the Key to a Net...
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