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Read time: 4 minsBy Michael Bäcklund. This article originally appeared on Climate Home News.…

Read time: 5 minsIn this week’s Congressional hearing on the recent (and dire) UN Global Assessment of Biodiversity, conservation scientist Dr. Jacob Malcom did not mince words as he explained the report's startling findings that one million species are…

Read time: 5 minsIn a surprise move that threw a controversial fossil fuel project into a whirlwind, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) late last week revealed new evidence of toxins in the area of a proposed natural gas facility in…

Read time: 7 minsA lawsuit filed today in federal court in Louisiana challenges the state’s “critical infrastructure” law, used to press felony charges against fossil fuel pipeline construction opponents, as unconstitutional.…

Read time: 8 minsIn April, the Department of Justice informed Southern Company that it was under investigation “related to the Kemper County energy facility” in Mississippi, where Southern had spent $7.5 billion, including hundreds of millions in taxpayer…

Read time: 9 minsFor several years a mysterious fleet of tractor trailers loaded with natural gas cylinders has been crisscrossing U.S. roads, and in the dark early morning hours on Sunday, March 3, one drove off a highway near Cobleskill, New York, careened…

Read time: 8 minsUN shipping talks stalled last week as slow-moving players, including Saudi Arabia, Brazil and the US, obstructed attempts to decide how the sector should begin to decarbonise.…

Read time: 4 minsThis is a guest post from ClimateDenierRoundup.…

Read time: 5 minsBy Tara Lohan, The Revelator. Originally posted on The Revelator.…

Read time: 3 minsBy Olivia Rosane, EcoWatch. Reposted with permission from EcoWatch.…

Read time: 9 minsThe plastics industry plays a major — and growing — role in climate change, according to a report published today by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL).…

Read time: 3 minsAn uproar ensued last week within Democratic party circles with the news that Heather Zichal, a former fossil fuel company board member, is serving as an advisor on climate change to presidential hopeful and former Vice President Joe Biden.…

Read time: 6 minsToday President Donald Trump appeared at Louisiana's $10 billion Cameron Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) export facility to promote LNG exports and American “energy independence.”…

Read time: 7 minsWarren Buffett, CEO of investment holding company Berkshire Hathaway, is considered one of the top investors in history and can back up that track record with a personal wealth of around $90 billion. Buffett is known for advising investors to…

Read time: 4 minsA little-noticed Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announcement could have an outsized impact on the oil and gas pipeline industries — if the commission decides to snap shut loopholes that analysts say create financial incentives…

Read time: 8 minsWarning: This story contains images and video of dead dolphins some may find graphic.…

Read time: 6 minsOn Monday, Oregon state regulators dealt a blow to the proposed Jordan Cove Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project, refusing to issue a state water quality certificate required by the Army Corps of Engineers, citing unresolved concerns about…

Read time: 5 minsA coalition of free market advocacy groups, led by former Koch Industries lobbyist, urged Congress on Thursday not to extend the electric vehicle (EV) tax credit. In a letter rife with easily discredited and false statements, this coalition…

Read time: 6 minsThis is a guest post by Dave Anderson, Energy and Policy Institute. Originally posted on Energy and Policy Institute.…

Read time: 4 minsNewly uncovered air quality samplings by the State of Massachusetts showed elevated levels of carcinogens and other pollutants at Enbridge’s proposed natural gas compressor station in a densely populated site near Boston.…

Read time: 8 minsBy Tara Lohan, The Revelator. Originally posted on The Revelator.…

Read time: 5 minsEducating kids about climate change can help their parents learn too, a scientific study published today in the journal Nature Climate Change concludes — even when parents initially doubted that climate change was cause for concern.…

Read time: 7 minsAs the time left to avoid climate catastrophe counts down, the U.S. oil and gas industry is making a massive bet on exporting its products to the rest of the world for the next several decades — a sure recipe for blowing past the 1.5°C…

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

Read time: 19 minsMay 3, 2019 Editor's note: Wen Stephenson's impassioned plea to his former journalism colleagues ran as a cover story in the November 2, 2012 issue of the Boston Phoenix. After the alternative weekly folded in 2013, Stephenson's piece was…

Read time: 4 minsBernadette Demientieff is the Executive Director of the Gwich’in Steering Committee, a group pressuring BP to pledge not to drill the community's sacred lands.…

Read time: 9 minsCabot Oil and Gas is a shale drilling company that, according to state regulators, botched its shale gas extraction operations in an area around Carter Road in Dimock, Pennsylvania, about a decade ago.…

Read time: 4 minsDuke Energy, the nation’s largest investor-owned electric utility, claims to be a climate and environmental leader, but a closer look reveals a dirty energy portfolio and consistent efforts to preserve a fossil fuel-based future.  …

Read time: 4 minsMassachusetts’ Secretary for Energy and Environmental Affairs, Matthew Beaton, has accepted a position at a consulting firm working for oil and gas pipeline builder Enbridge on a controversial project for which Beaton’s Department of…

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