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As Nation Transfixed by Impeachment, Trump Quietly Provides Offshore Drilling Industry 'Sweetheart Giveaway'

"Since day one, Secretary Bernhardt has operated as though Interior was his own personal lobby shop by doling out favors for his former clients with impunity," said Jayson O’Neill, deputy director of Western Values Project

Coal Knew Too: Explosive Report Shows Industry Was Aware of Climate Threat as Far Back as 1966

Eoin Higgins, staff writer

"There is evidence that the amount of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere is increasing rapidly as a result of the combustion of fossil fuels," coal researcher James R. Garvey wrote in 1966.

"It wasn't just big oil that knew about climate change decades ago."

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'Pure Propaganda': New York Times Condemned for Comparing Sanders Green New Deal to Trump Border Wall

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"Article misses a key 'expert' perspective: The climate scientists who are...

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Oil Companies Must Cut Production by 35% to Meet Paris Climate Accord Numbers by 2040: Report

Eoin Higgins, staff writer

$Flares burning off gas at Belridge Oil Field and hydraulic fracking site, the fourth largest oil field in California.$

"As oil and gas majors keep one foot a decarbonizing world and one foot in...

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House Democrats Hold Historic Hearing on How Big Oil Spent Decades Trying to 'Suppress the Truth' About the Climate Crisis

sign: the people vs. shell

After Shell CEO Claims 'We Have No Choice' But to Invest in Fossil Fuels, McKibben Says, 'We Have No Choice But to Try and Stop Them'

house on fire

'If a House Is on Fire, You Don't Add Fuel': 530 Groups Back Call to Rapidly Phase Out Fossil Fuels Worldwide

Activists Unfurl 'Exxon Knew, Make Them Pay' Banner Outside Meeting of Fossil Fuel CEOs Steps From UN Climate Summit

'Definition of Insane Greed': Investing Billions in New Projects, Fossil Fuel Corporations Undermining World's Climate Targets

nokxl protest

Indigenous and Green Groups Fighting Against Pipeline Urge 2020 Democrats to Take 'NoKXL Pledge'

'Egregious Handout' to Corporate Polluters as Trump EPA Moves to Accelerate Pipeline Approvals With Attack on Clean Water Act

#RejectRex Protest

'We Won't Be Intimidated,' Declare Campaigners After ExxonMobil Accused of Pressuring Witnesses in New York Climate Case

Shifting Subsidies to Renewable Energy Instead of Propping Up Fossil Fuel Giants Would Prompt 'Clean Energy Revolution', Study Shows

Roy Casey carries his dog Buddy

'Big Win' for Rhode Island in Court Battle to Make Polluters Pay for Consequences of Climate Crisis

Babies Born Near Oil and Gas Wells Are Up to 70% More Likely to Have Congenital Heart Defects, New Study Shows

One of the banners hung by the group Beyond Extreme Energy (BXE) during Saturday's protest.

Activists Demand Regulator Reject All New Energy Projects in Her Last Weeks on Job Because Planet Can't Wait

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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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Center for International Environmental Law

Investments in Oil and Gas Production Over the Next Five Years Will Lock-In More than 1.5°C of Global Warming

Corporate Accountability

Hundreds of Thousands of People, 200 Organizations to UNFCCC: Make Big Polluters Pay

Environment America

New Report: Offshore Drilling Brings Onshore Dangers to Coastal Communities and Ecosystems

350.org

350.org on New York City vs Big Oil hearing

350.org

350.org on Tomorrow’s New York City vs Big Oil Hearing

Center for Biological Diversity

Poll: Most Santa Barbara County Voters Oppose Plans to Restart Offshore Drilling

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Andy Rowell

Despite Warmest Decade on Record, We Still Act Like "Addicts Blowing Our Carbon Budget"

William Astore

American Exceptionalism Is Killing Planet Earth

Simon Whalley

The Choice Is Ours: Extinction or Rebellion?

Naomi Klein, Sivan Kartha

The Realism of Bernie Sanders' Climate Policy

Julie Hollar, Jim Naureckas

Sanders’ Plan to Fight Global Climate Disaster Too Ambitious, Says NYT

Andy Rowell

Planned Fossil Fuel Production Dangerously Out of Line With Climate Safety

Hoda Baraka

Mind the Gap: On the Glaring Hole Between Global Fossil Fuel Expansion and Paris Climate Goals

Andy Rowell

Major Victory as EIB Ends Fossil Fuel Financing by 2021

Eric Margolis

The Forgotten Plunder of Iraq

Naomi Oreskes

The Greatest Scam in History: How the Energy Companies Took Us All