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The Pessimist’s Guide to 2019, Fire, Floods, and Famine
This article discusses a Bloomberg artice titled “The Pessimist’s Guide to 2019, Fire, Floods, and Famine”. It provides a scary scenario that could happen. Let’s hope not.
It’s the end of 2019 and America’s bountiful harvest is in. But President Donald Trump is facing a crisis few contemplated the year […]
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BP’s outlook for fossil fuels could be undermined by slowing energy demand
This article discusses how BP’s outlook for fossil fuels could be undermined by slowing energy demand. Global energy demand will continue to increase as a result of human development in the world’s poorest countries, says oil and gas major BP in its latest outlook to 2040.
BP says in its
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Study: NASA Confirms Methane Spike Tied to Oil and Gas
This article discusses a new NASA study that solves a climate mystery (why didn’t the numbers add up?), confirming that methane spike is tied to O&G industry.
Over the past few years, natural gas has become the primary fuel that America uses to generate electricity, displacing the […]
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Green New Deal, meet Old Red Scare
This article discusses how climate deniers are now fighting against the Green New Deal – Green New Deal, meet Old Red Scare. Before you write off the Green New Deal as unrealistic or a Commie plot, think about whether or not it’s what we need.
This article also talks […]
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DeSmogBlog
Another set of articles from a great source of climate news.
Oil Spill Shuts TransCanada’s Keystone Pipeline in Same County Where ‘Paper-thin’ Pipe Found in 2012
Energy Transfer Pipeline Projects on Hold in Pennsylvania After String of Violations
Court Throws out Energy Transfer’s ‘Racketeering’ Claims Against Dakota Access Pipeline Opponents
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TVA defies Trump, votes to shut down two aging coal-fired power plants
This article discusses a recent decision by the TVA to shutter 2 old coal power plants.
The Tennessee Valley Authority board of directors voted to shut down two aging coal-fired power plants, defying a tweet from President Trump on Monday urging the agency to keep one of them open.
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Studies (multiple): Pesticides and poisons we live with that hurt us
The following articles discuss just how pervasive chemicals are in the environment and how it is affecting our health.
PA Scientists: The Toxic Chemicals Our Agency Won’t Regulate Are Definitely in Our Drinking Water. The study is here.
Roundup (glyphosate) ‘raises risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma by […]
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Trump’s trade war is hitting solar workers hard
This article discusses how Trump’s trade war is hitting solar workers hard.
While politicians are debating the merits of a massive job-creating effort known as the Green New Deal, jobs in solar power are getting harder to find.
The solar industry lost 8,000 jobs last year, a drop of 3.2 percent and […]
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Four more Dem governors join alliance to uphold Paris climate goals
This article discusses why four more Democratic governors join an alliance to uphold the Paris climate goals. ‘There’s no reason for us to wait.” Some states aren’t waiting around for Congress to pass a Green New Deal to tackle climate change.
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) plans to announce today that he’s joining […]
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Report: Environment in multiple crises
This article discusses a report that shows that the environment is in multiple crises.
Politicians and policymakers have failed to grasp the gravity of the environmental crisis facing the Earth, a report claims.
The think-tank IPPR says human impacts have reached a critical stage and threaten to destabilise society and […]
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