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Financial fallout from coronavirus could devastate the fracking and plastics industries
The Daily Climate discusses how the financial fallout from coronavirus could devastate the fracking and plastics industries. “The likelihood of them being able to meet financial targets after this is quite small,” says one financial analyst.
As the U.S. braces for the social and financial impact of the novel coronavirus […]
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The Future of Exxon and the Permian’s Flaring Crisis
DeSmogBlog discusses the future of Exxon and the Permian’s flaring crisis.
On March 5, there was a sense of drama and tension unlike in years past as ExxonMobil’s top executives gathered for their annual Investor Day presentation, a highly anticipated event where the oil major lays out its […]
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The Absurdity Of Trump’s Bid To Bail Out The Oil And Gas Industry
Huffington Post discusses the Absurdity Of Trump’s Bid To Bail Out The Oil And Gas Industry. As the Trump administration considers aid for companies hurt by the coronavirus pandemic, it’ll be difficult to defend including oil drillers and gas frackers.
The White House’s nascent effort to bail out oil and gas […]
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DeSmogBlog, March 8, 2020
This week’s articles include:
Is the U.S. Fracking Boom Based on Fraud?
Oil Execs, Anxious About Public Support, Claim Halting Fossil Fuel Production Would Be ‘Criminal’
New Documents Show How Trump Interior Official Pushed Climate Misinformation into Federal […]
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Two Podcasts About Big Oil Prove We Have More to Learn
Outside Online discusses 2 podcasts about Big oil. Boomtown and Drilled tackle climate change and oil and gas extraction from different angles.
What else is left to say about extractive energy? We know it’s extremely bad for the environment and for public health. We also know it’s gotten worse in new ways since the […]
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Clean Water Wanted: Contaminated Wells And The Legacy Of Fossil Fuel Extraction
Ohio Valley Resource discusses how water is contaminated by fossil fuel extraction.
Chet Blankenship died from kidney failure soon after his family started noticing odd colors and smells in their well water. After he died, they got their water tested, and learned that arsenic was among the contaminants that had seeped […]
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Study: How death and disaster followed the shale gas boom in Appalachia
EOS.org discusses a study that shows how death and disaster followed the shale gas boom in Appalachia. In the past decade, fracking has contributed to the deaths of more than a thousand people and the emission of more than a thousand tons of carbon dioxide in the Appalachian Basin.
Natural gas […]
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Oil and Gas May Be a Far Bigger Climate Threat Than We Knew
NY Times reports that oil and Gas May Be a Far Bigger Climate Threat Than We Knew.
Oil and gas production may be responsible for a far larger share of the soaring levels of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, in the earth’s atmosphere than previously thought, new research […]
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EarthJustice – 2/16/2020
This week’s articles include:
Major chemical company discontinues brain-damaging pesticide
The plans to open these national monuments to the bad guys
We’re suing to stop the coming plastics surge
She grew up in the Amazon, and now she’s fighting for its life
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