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DeSmog Blog
This week’s version discusses the following:
Energy Transfer, Banks Lost Billions by Ignoring Early Dakota Access Pipeline Concerns
COP24: Climate Science Denial, Disinformation and Fake News at the UN Climate Talks
‘Green is Great’: Coal, Oil, and Greenwash at the UN Climate Talks
Kochs Fund Study to Kill Electric Vehicle […]
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Imperial Beach, California, sues fossil-fuel companies over sea-level rise
This article discusses Imperial Beach, California, sueing fossil-fuel companies over sea-level rise. Mayor Serge Dedina wants the companies to pay the costs of moving schools and roads to higher ground.
Dedina wants the companies most responsible for global warming to help pay for these costs. So last year, Imperial Beach and two […]
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Why natural gas prices are rising but oil is crashing
This article discusses why natural gas prices are rising but oil is crashing.
Unfortunately, natural gas stockpiles have hit a 15-year low for this time of year, so it is safe to say the world is a little unprepared for the latest weather forecasts which predicted colder-than-expected temperatures, especially in […]
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Report: The Baseless Claim That Climate Scientists Are ‘Driven’ by Money
This article discusses how politicians and fake scientists are making baseless claims that climate scientists are ‘driven’ by money. Critics of a major United States climate report, including the president and conservative pundits, have dismissed its findings with several inaccurate claims.
The federal government’s most recent climate […]
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Another DeSmogBlog Entry
This link discusses:
‘Time is Running Out,’ American Petroleum Institute Chief Said in 1965 Speech on Climate Change
In Southwest Texas, the Fracking Industry Encroaches on Small Towns, Remote Wilderness, and Clear Skies
Pick Your Poison: The Fracking Industry’s Wastewater Injection Well Problem
US Donors Gave $177k to UK […]
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FERC nominee McNamee slams renewables, green groups in Feb. video
This article discusses how the Trump administration is stacking the deck against renewable energy, in favor or fossil fuels.
Bernard McNamee, President Trump’s nominee for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, sharply criticized renewable energy and environmental groups while calling for a “unified campaign” to support fossil fuels in a Feb. […]
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Pipeline wars: Frontline in the fight against climate change
This article discusses pipelines and their role in the fight against climate change. As new pipelines expand the flow of dirty fossil fuels globally, environmental activists are joining with social justice and indigenous rights movements to cut off climate change-inducing oil and gas at the source.
When climate activists took over […]
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Industrial Commission gives oil industry more flexibility on flaring
This article discusses how the North Dakota Industrial Commission voted to give the oil industry more flexibility to meet natural gas flaring regulations, emphasizing policies that encourage the industry to invest in gas capture.
Commissioners, led by Gov. Doug Burgum, changed the goals of the gas capture policy first […]
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How Extreme Weather Is Shrinking the Planet – Bill McKibben
This Bill McKibben authored article discusses how extreme weather is shrinking the planet. With wildfires, heat waves, and rising sea levels, large tracts of the earth are at risk of becoming uninhabitable. But the fossil-fuel industry continues its assault on the facts.
Thirty years ago, this magazine published “The End of Nature,” a […]
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Another DeSmogBlog Missive
This latest DeSmogBlog discusses:
Making Visible the Globe-warming Gases of the Permian Fracking Boom
The Christian Vacation Camp Where Kids Are Taught by Notorious Climate Science Deniers
A Witness to the Disappearing Wonder of Wild Orcas
What Terrible Injustices Are Hiding Behind American Energy Habits?
Koch Industries Lobbies Against Electric […]
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