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Investors Controlling $2.5 Trillion Stand With Indigenous People Against Trump Plan to Drill 'Sacred' Arctic Refuge

Federal Probe Demanded After Trump's Billionaire Pal Carl Icahn Receives EPA Waiver Worth Tens of Millions

Julia Conley, staff writer

The owner of CVR Energy served as Trump's regulatory adviser and met with EPA administrator Scott Pruitt ahead of his nomination

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'Nothing More That Can Be Said,' Warns Famed Social Scientist, Humanity 'Doomed' by Capitalism and Fossil Fuels

Julia Conley, staff writer

"What legacies are we leaving for future generations?" asks the influential...

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'Incredible' News as Banking Giant HSBC Ditches New Coal, Tar Sands, and Offshore Arctic Drilling Projects

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

Climate groups applauded HSBC's announcement that it is moving away from fossil fuels. (Photo: ItzaFineDay/flickr/cc)

The development is "yet another signal to Donald Trump and the rest of the...

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Facing Fires and Floods, Colorado Communities Launch Landmark Suit Against Fossil Fuel Companies

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

'Underestimating the Opposition,' Trudeau Doubles Down on Kinder Morgan Pipeline Push

'Callously Indifferent' BP Argued Oil Spills Would Provide 'Welcome Boost' to Coastal Economy

Shell

Shell Knew, Too: New Docs Show Oil Giant's Scientists Secretly Warned About Climate Threat Decades Ago

Pipeline Backed by Pruitt's Oil Lobbyist Landlord Approved While EPA Chief Was Receiving Sweetheart Rent

In 'Victory for the People,' Judge Tosses Out Exxon's Attempt to Keep Climate Crisis Knowledge Hidden

'Punctured Like a Pin Cushion' From Oil and Gas Drilling, Scientists Warn of Growing Sinkhole Threat in Texas

'Climate Tutorials' Pit Planet Wreckers Against Major Cities in Historic Court Hearing

Fossil Fuel Execs Getting Very Annoyed With #KeepItIntheGround Movement

There You Have It: Emails Confirm Coal, Oil, and Gas Extraction Drove Shrinking of National Monuments

DAPL protest

Warnings Mount That Trump's Infrastructure Plan Will Make It Harder to Fight Pipelines

'A Big Scare Tactic': ExxonMobil Files 'Conspiracy' Counter Suits Against Climate Defenders

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Everything Is Not Awesome

Furious that Arctic-trashing Shell is using kid-friendly LEGO to clean up its image - reportedly selling 16 million Shell-branded toys worth $116 million - Greenpeace has begun a campaign aimed at pressuring LEGO to end the sketchy partnership. Protests at England's Legloland, and a darkly stunning new ad in which an idyllic Arctic, huskies and all, drowns in oil.

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Food & Water Watch

Mark Ruffalo and Fracking-Harmed Residents Demand Help from Gov. Wolf with New Health Impacts Campaign

Greenpeace

Kayaktivists Leaving Kinder Morgan Blockade in Seattle

Sierra Club

Gwich’in Nation Joined by Institutional Investors in Call to Defend Arctic Refuge from Drilling

Earthworks

Asian #BreakFreeFromPlastic Activists Begin Unprecedented Tour of Oil & Gas Impacted U.S. Communities

Earthjustice

Pipeline Construction Races Forward in the Atchafalaya Basin Ahead of Hearing

Sierra Club

Atlantic Coast Pipeline Opponents Rally Outside Bank of America Shareholder Meeting in Charlotte

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Harvey Wasserman

Trump Has Plenty of Accomplices in His Reckless Energy Policies

Andy Rowell

“We Are Going to Not Allow Kinder Morgan to Finish This Pipeline”

Norah Vawter

Pipeline Outrage Is a Human Issue, Not a Political Issue

Jason Mark

Will Courts Hold Oil Companies Accountable for Climate Change Disasters?

Hannah McKinnon

Ready, Set, Go!

Janet Cox

Xavier Becerra: Missing on Climate

Basav Sen

The State Department Drama Shows Just How Far Trump Will Go for Big Oil

Kristy Dahl

How Do Big Oil Companies Talk about Climate Science? Four Takeaways from a Day in Court

Andy Rowell

“I’m Taking This Action To Protect My Grandchildren’s Future”

Dana Drugmand

Time to Hold Petroleum Perpetrators Accountable for Climate Damage

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