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Gulf Residents Arrested Telling Obama: More Drilling Equals More Floods

Gulf residents occupy BOEM office in New Orleans to protest fossil fuel leasing

Hundreds of Scientists Urge Obama to End Arctic Drilling for 'Foreseeable Future'

Nadia Prupis, staff writer

Hundreds of climate scientists are imploring President Barack Obama to block offshore drilling in Arctic waters, writing in an open letter published Wednesday that "No new oil and gas leasing or exploration should be allowed in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas in the foreseeable future." As average global temperatures rise month after month , putting...

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Banks Driving Climate Chaos with Hundreds of Billions in Extreme Energy Financing

Lauren McCauley, staff writer

A coal-fired power plant in Germany. (Photo: Guy Gorek/cc/flickr)

Turning their backs on climate science and the consensus of governments and...

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The Cost to You and Me of Proposed Offshore Drilling? $179.2 Billion

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

Representing "negligent disregard for the public safety," the Obama...

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California Back in Big Oil's Crosshairs as Feds Quietly OK Offshore Fracking

"Nature Won't Wait": Break Free 2016 Begins with UK Coal Mine Occupation

Obama's Offshore Drilling Proposal Based on Fossil Fuel Industry Research

To Secure Climate Legacy, say Groups, Obama Must End Offshore Drilling Leases

As Obama Sells Pollution at Superdome, Protesters Demand: 'No New Leases!'

'Incredible News' as Obama Pulls Plug on Offshore Drilling Plans

Climate Activist Who Chained Herself to Shell Vessel Argues Necessity Defense

Revealed: Big Oil's Backroom Lobby Blitz to Drill in Arctic...Again

Green Groups to Obama: Take Oceans Out of Offshore Drilling 'Crosshairs'

On Climate Questions, Only One Candidate Has All the Right Answers

Introducing 'Keep It in the Ground' Bill, Sanders Goes Big on Climate

Bye-Bye, Big Oil: Obama Administration Scraps Arctic Drilling Plans

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Friends of the Earth

House Votes to Silence Public Opposition to Oil and Gas Lease Sales

Center for Biological Diversity

Analysis: Burning Unleased Fossil Fuels in Gulf of Mexico Would Release 33 Billion Tons of Greenhouse Gas Pollution

350.org

Gulf Residents Occupy BOEM office in Louisiana To Demand That President Obama Cancel Upcoming Fossil Fuel Lease Sale

350.org

In the Wake of Devastating Flooding in Louisiana, Groups Urge Obama Administration to Cancel Upcoming Gulf Drilling Lease Sale

Friends of the Earth

Frontline Communities to Obama: No New Offshore Drilling

Greenpeace

Offshore Oil Leasing Program Final Comment Period Ends

Sierra Club

Repsol Oil Follows Shell’s Lead and Abandons Drilling Operations in the Chukchi Sea

Center for Biological Diversity

Obama Administration OKs Offshore Fracking in California

Sierra Club

Shell Oil Spills Over 88,000 Gallons of Crude Oil in the Gulf of Mexico

Earthjustice

Earthjustice Statement on Shell, ConocoPhillips Abandoning Leases for Oil Drilling in Arctic Ocean

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Donald Trump in the Bayou

David Turnbull

The American Petroleum Institute’s Desperate PR is Failing

Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright

Climate Change’s Iniquitous Transmission of Urgency: The Gulf South

Jason Schwartz

Don’t Look Now, But There Was Just a Mass Exodus of Oil Companies From the Arctic

Sue Sturgis

Another Gulf Oil Spill Adds Fuel to Movement Against New Offshore Drilling Leases

Janine Jackson

Looking Back on Deepwater With Journalism as Usual

Kelly Mitchell

Why It Matters if Candidates Like Hillary Clinton Take Fossil Fuel Money

Sue Sturgis

Offshore Drilling Fight Shifts from the Atlantic to the Gulf

Michael Brune

Hannah McKinnon

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