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Read time: 3 minsBy Julie Conley, originally published on Common Dreams…

Read time: 8 minsLiquefied natural gas (LNG) is getting a lot of attention these days, with U.S. producers making major investments in the infrastructure to produce and export LNG to China and the rest of the world for the next several decades.…

Read time: 9 minsWhile most of Louisiana was spared Barry’s wrath last week, Isle de Jean Charles, a quickly eroding strip of land among coastal wetlands in the Gulf of Mexico, was not. A storm surge swept over the island, about 80 miles southwest of New…

Read time: 11 minsDonald Raikes arrived at 2019’s DUG East conference, a major shale gas industry gathering in Pittsburgh, with a mixed set of messages for his fellow fossil energy officials.…

Read time: 4 minsOriginally published on Climate Liability News.…

Read time: 7 minsYesterday, I stopped writing another story for DeSmog to get ready for what could likely become this year’s first hurricane in the U.S. …

Read time: 6 minsWe’ve all heard the dodgy arguments: ‘the science is uncertain’, ‘climate change is natural, not down to humans’, ‘science has been hijacked by politics’… Now a new cache of documents sheds light on the origins of…

Read time: 6 minsAs the Trump administration scrambles to formalize its rollback of clean car standards, 24 governors are telling the President to pump the brakes on the proposed rule. The governors have signed a letter, as reported this morning in The New…

Read time: 2 minsVeteran broadcaster David Attenborough has expressed his disappointment at the rise of climate science denial in the US and Australia and called on voters to respond.…

Read time: 7 minsOn July 6, 2013, a train hauling crude oil from North Dakota's Bakken region derailed in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, resulting in fires and explosions that killed 47 people and wiped out a large part of the small Canadian town's center. At the…

Read time: 9 minsLast month, four residents from Louisiana neighborhoods impacted by air pollution traveled far from their Mississippi River parishes to Washington, D.C., and Tokyo, Japan, seeking help in their struggle for clean air.…

Read time: 8 minsPresident Donald Trump spoke to “America’s environmental leadership” in an address today, where he lived up to predictions and described the country’s air and water as clean (“crystal clean” even).…

Read time: 7 minsA recently published report has called into question the efficacy of land-based solutions being pushed by NGOs and major oil companies alike to mitigate climate change.…

Read time: 7 minsFrom a natural gas industry conference to a major metropolitan area, more signs are emerging that natural gas is in a losing economic battle with renewables and battery storage. And considering recent news that existing fossil fuel projects…

Read time: 10 minsNext Friday, July 12, the Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) refinery in south Philadelphia is slated to close its doors, marking the end of an era that began in 1866, one year after the Civil War ended, when 50,000 barrels of kerosene and…

Read time: 11 minsBy Rob Galbraith. Originally posted on Eyes on the Ties, the online news site of Public Accountability Initiative and LittleSis.…

Read time: 5 minsToday, UCSF Library launched a new Fossil Fuel Industry Documents Archive featuring over 1,000 internal documents from the fossil fuel industry illustrating strategies to cast doubt on climate science and delay policy action. The documents…

Read time: 6 minsOn Monday, the Wall Street Journal featured a profile of Scott Sheffield, CEO of Pioneer Natural Resources, whose company is known among investors for its emphasis on drawing oil and gas from the Permian basin in Texas using horizontal…

Read time: 3 minsBy Karen Savage, Climate Liability News. Originally posted on Climate Liability News.…

Read time: 5 minsBy Warren Mabee, Queen's University, Ontario…

Read time: 10 minsSteve Schlotterbeck, who led drilling company EQT as it expanded to become the nation’s largest producer of natural gas in 2017, arrived at a petrochemical industry conference in Pittsburgh Friday morning with a blunt message about shale…

Read time: 5 minsWhile still in office, Massachusetts’ former energy and environmental secretary Matthew Beaton, who recently left his post for the private sector, took part in discussions about a natural gas project involving his new employer, DeSmog…

Read time: 12 minsOriginally posted on Climate Investigations Center.…

Read time: 4 minsHouse Democrats in the Energy and Commerce Committee are actively investigating the oil industry’s role in shaping the Trump administration’s proposed rollback of greenhouse gas and fuel economy standards for cars and light…

Read time: 7 minsAs part of a growing trend of lawsuits over climate change impacts, cities and states across the U.S. are seeking damages from oil, gas, and coal companies whose products drive the crisis and which for years evidently engaged in disinformation…

Read time: 5 minsBy Olivia Rosane, EcoWatch. Reposted with permission from EcoWatch.…

Read time: 3 minsBy Jake Johnson, Common Dreams. Originally posted on Common Dreams, CC BY-SA 3.0…

Read time: 5 minsBy Neta C. Crawford, Boston University…

Read time: 5 minsA West Virginia Republican is gathering signatures from fellow members of Congress for a letter opposing any extension to the electric vehicle (EV) tax credit. Representative Alex Mooney is getting an assist in his efforts from FreedomWorks,…

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