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Read time: 7 minsThis story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story.  …

Read time: 4 minsIt may come as something of a surprise to regular readers of DeSmog that we are joining more than 250 other news outlets in a global collaboration called “Covering Climate Now,” led by The Nation and the Columbia Journalism Review. After…

Read time: 6 minsThis story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story.  …

Read time: 12 minsThere’s one big reason that analysts say America’s electrical power should soon run on clean energy sources like wind and solar rather than fossil fuels like coal and natural gas: your power bill.…

Read time: 8 minsA fracked natural gas well in northwest Louisiana has been burning for two weeks after suffering a blowout. A state official said the fire will likely burn for the next month before the flames can be brought under control by drilling a…

Read time: 4 minsToday, as Democratic presidential contenders arrive for a major debate this evening in Houston, 22 activists from Greenpeace sought to shut down what they called the country’s “largest fossil fuel thoroughfare,” the Houston Ship Channel,…

Read time: 6 minsDrivers of electric cars are being unfairly punished by punitive fees in several states, according to a newly published analysis by Consumer Reports. Legislators in 26 states have enacted or proposed special registration fees for electric…

Read time: 5 minsBy Dana Nuccitelli. Originally posted on Yale Climate Connections.…

Read time: 4 minsBy Olivia Rosane, EcoWatch. Reposted with permission from EcoWatch.…

Read time: 5 minsChinese giant Wanhua Chemical officially withdrew its plans to build a $1.25 billion plastics manufacturing complex in St. James, Louisiana, in the heart of the already industrialized Cancer Alley. The news bought relief to opponents of…

Read time: 10 minsCNN’s Wolf Blitzer kicked off a seven-hour long town hall on climate change with an unambiguous message of urgency on climate change.…

Read time: 4 minsSenator John Barrasso and the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) editorial board are once again attacking the federal electric vehicle tax credit, and are once again relying on easily debunked talking points born of the Koch network’s…

Read time: 5 minsJessica Corbett, Common Dreams. Originally published on Common Dreams under CC BY-SA 3.0 US.…

Read time: 9 minsFor the past 42 years, the Beaver County Conservation District in western Pennsylvania has hosted their Maple Syrup Festival, an annual all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast featuring syrup made from maple trees in a park in Beaver Falls.…

Read time: 6 minsSenator and Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has released an ambitious climate proposal, one which champions of the status quo were quick to criticize. One line of attack, coming from many different sources, focuses on…

Read time: 3 minsBy Julia Conley, Common Dreams. Originally published on Common Dreams under CC BY-SA 3.0 US.…

Read time: 4 minsBillionaire libertarian activist and oil industry tycoon David Koch died on Friday, leaving a toxic legacy that includes helping birth the climate denial movement, fighting against regulations that protect worker and public health, and —…

Read time: 7 minsSix years after the oil train derailment and explosion in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec — which claimed 47 lives and destroyed the downtown of this small lakeside town — The New York Times reviewed what progress has been made since the…

Read time: 4 minsBy Olivia Rosane, EcoWatch. Reposted with permission from EcoWatch.…

Read time: 5 minsBy Emma Frances Bloomfield, University of Nevada, Las Vegas…

Read time: 5 minsBy Jake Johnson, Common Dreams. Originally published on Common Dreams under CC BY-SA 3.0 US.…

Read time: 6 minsFour years after New York announced the state was banning hydraulic fracturing (fracking), Tioga Energy Partners, LLC has filed an application with the state to frack for natural gas, but there's a catch. The company is proposing to…

Read time: 10 minsBack in 1996, the president of the Charles Koch Foundation laid out a blueprint for the Koch network’s goals of social transformation — a three-tiered integrated strategy to roll back government regulations, promote free market…

Read time: 15 minsIn July 2015 workers at the Garden Creek I Gas Processing Plant, in Watford City, North Dakota, noticed a leak in a pipeline and reported a spill to the North Dakota Department of Health that remains officially listed as 10 gallons, the size…

Read time: 4 minsBy Tim Radford for Climate News Network…

Read time: 8 minsChristopher Leonard’s new book, Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America, begins, appropriately enough, with an FBI agent, who is investigating criminal activity by the company, standing in a field with…

Read time: 4 minsBy Paul Brown for the Climate News Network…

Read time: 8 minsClimate-changing pollution reached unprecedented levels in 2018. That's both judged against the last 60 years of modern measurements and against 800,000 years of data culled from ice cores, according to the U.S. government’s State of the…

Read time: 6 minsBy John Quiggin, The University of QueenslandThe announcement by Suncorp that it will no longer insure new thermal coal projects, along with a similar announcement by QBE Insurance a few months earlier, brings Australia into line with Europe…

Read time: 3 minsWith Donald Trump set to become the President of the United States, the international climate change political scenery has shifted.…