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Joe Barton — always Big Oil’s man — from the archives

Did you hear that great groaning sound? It was us, the people of Texas, expressing our opinion about the news that Congressman Joe Barton was fixing to investigate somebody. “Joe Barton?” people are...

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GOP reeling from Barton’s “shakedown”

WASHINGTON– Rep. Joe Barton, R-Tex, has plunged the Republican Party into turmoil with his blurted apology to the CEO of BP for what he called President Obama’s “shakedown” of the oil giant, securing...

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Do wind farms really cause global warming?

If you get your news from Fox or a handful of other news outlets that are not, to be charitable, best known for their fact checking, you will be relieved to learn that wind farms do not add to climate...

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Canada, bowing to oil companies, fires ocean scientists

After massive layoffs at Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans, leading ocean scientists – and the environment itself – will suffer the consequences. Scientists believe this is a profit-driven...

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Sensitive corals found at Shell’s Arctic drilling site

Oil giant Shell will soon begin exploratory drilling in Arctic waters, including in the sensitive ecosystem of the Chukchi Sea. Environmental activists have criticized the company for putting sea life...

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Obama’s Alaska visit highlights climate already changed

As President Obama visits Arctic Alaska, the first president to do so, he is speaking about the many impacts that climate change is already causing there, from rising seas to melting permafrost...

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After Keystone XL: Why the Paris climate summit could be different

From the vantage point of a few days out, the Paris climate summit looks set for success – at least by the metrics we’ve learned to use for these types of meetings. The main target for COP21, which is...

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Unions to lobby for “energy democracy” at Paris climate talks

Everybody likes to talk about the weather but nobody can do a damn thing about it. Or can they? Severe weather events that have caused deaths and destruction are linked to climate change – like 2012’s...

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Town that beat Big Oil created model for beating Trump

WASHINGTON – In describing how the residents of Richmond, California, took control of their town back from the Chevron Corporation, Larry Cohen, the former president of the Communications Workers of...

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Joe Barton — always Big Oil’s man — from the archives

Did you hear that great groaning sound? It was us, the people of Texas, expressing our opinion about the news that Congressman Joe Barton was fixing to investigate somebody. “Joe Barton?” people are...

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GOP reeling from Barton’s “shakedown”

WASHINGTON– Rep. Joe Barton, R-Tex, has plunged the Republican Party into turmoil with his blurted apology to the CEO of BP for what he called President Obama’s “shakedown” of the oil giant, securing...

View Article

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Do wind farms really cause global warming?

If you get your news from Fox or a handful of other news outlets that are not, to be charitable, best known for their fact checking, you will be relieved to learn that wind farms do not add to climate...

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Canada, bowing to oil companies, fires ocean scientists

After massive layoffs at Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans, leading ocean scientists – and the environment itself – will suffer the consequences. Scientists believe this is a profit-driven...

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Sensitive corals found at Shell’s Arctic drilling site

Oil giant Shell will soon begin exploratory drilling in Arctic waters, including in the sensitive ecosystem of the Chukchi Sea. Environmental activists have criticized the company for putting sea life...

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Obama’s Alaska visit highlights climate already changed

As President Obama visits Arctic Alaska, the first president to do so, he is speaking about the many impacts that climate change is already causing there, from rising seas to melting permafrost...

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After Keystone XL: Why the Paris climate summit could be different

From the vantage point of a few days out, the Paris climate summit looks set for success – at least by the metrics we’ve learned to use for these types of meetings. The main target for COP21, which is...

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Unions to lobby for “energy democracy” at Paris climate talks

Everybody likes to talk about the weather but nobody can do a damn thing about it. Or can they? Severe weather events that have caused deaths and destruction are linked to climate change – like 2012’s...

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Joe Barton — always Big Oil’s man — from the archives

Did you hear that great groaning sound? It was us, the people of Texas, expressing our opinion about the news that Congressman Joe Barton was fixing to investigate somebody. “Joe Barton?” people are...

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GOP reeling from Barton’s “shakedown”

WASHINGTON– Rep. Joe Barton, R-Tex, has plunged the Republican Party into turmoil with his blurted apology to the CEO of BP for what he called President Obama’s “shakedown” of the oil giant, securing...

View Article

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Do wind farms really cause global warming?

If you get your news from Fox or a handful of other news outlets that are not, to be charitable, best known for their fact checking, you will be relieved to learn that wind farms do not add to climate...

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