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Read time: 7 minsA new report by a British think tank estimates that since the 2015 Paris Agreement, the world’s five largest listed oil and gas companies spent more than $1 billion lobbying to prevent climate change regulations while also running public…

Read time: 6 minsA report published today names the banks that have played the biggest recent role in funding fossil fuel projects, finding that since 2016, immediately following the Paris Agreement's adoption, 33 global banks have poured $1.9 trillion into…

Read time: 7 minsWith millions of students taking to the streets and oil majors increasingly facing litigation, the fossil fuel industry is finally being held to account for its contribution to the climate crisis.…

Read time: 10 minsBy Kaitlin Sullivan, Climate Liability News. Crossposted from Climate Liability News.…

Read time: 6 minsBy Emily Gertz, The Revelator. Originally posted on The Revelator.…

Read time: 3 minsOriginally posted on Climate Investigations Center.…

Read time: 7 minsNorway’s sovereign wealth fund — a state-owned investment fund worth approximately a trillion dollars — recently announced it was divesting from oil and gas exploration companies around the world. Not surprisingly, many oil and gas…

Read time: 6 minsSomewhere in the order of 150,000 students went absent from classes in Australia on Friday afternoon for the global “School Strike 4 Climate” marches.…

Read time: 8 minsBy Dave Anderson, Energy and Policy Institute. Originally posted on Energy and Policy Institute.…

Read time: 4 minsThis is a guest post by Linda Schneider of the Heinrich Böll Foundation.…

Read time: 8 minsWith contributions from Ashley Braun and Mat Hope.…

Read time: 6 minsLast year, Canada exported a record amount of tar sands oil to the U.S., despite low oil prices leading to major losses once again for the struggling tar sands industry. That achievement required a big bump in hauling oil by rail, with…

Read time: 5 minsA private contractor employed by the state of Massachusetts to conduct a statewide safety review of its gas distribution companies hired gas industry executives for the project, documents obtained by DeSmog show. They include two former…

Read time: 4 minsWhen President Trump nominated long-time Koch network insider and renewable energy antagonist Daniel Simmons to lead the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), the administration's priorities…

Read time: 7 minsWhat does it take to become a legitimate spokesperson on climate change science and energy policy in the eyes of President Donald Trump and partisan conservative media like Fox News and Breitbart?…

Read time: 8 minsTwo years ago, the U.S. fracking industry was trying to recover from the crash in the price of oil. Shale companies were promoting the idea that fracking was viable even at low oil prices (despite losing money when oil prices were high). At…

Read time: 3 minsThere are at least 12 car companies currently selling an all-electric vehicle in the United States, and Toyota isn’t one of them. Despite admitting recently that the Tesla Model 3 alone is responsible for half of Toyota’s customer…

Read time: 5 minsRhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo, a Democrat, squashed a letter by her own state health agency, which raised serious concerns about a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in a densely populated Providence neighborhood. Documents…

Read time: 6 minsBy Kendra Chamberlain…

Read time: 5 minsBy Kevin Cowtan, University of York and Stephan Lewandowsky, University of Bristol…

Read time: 9 minsBy Karen Savage, Climate Liability News. Crossposted from Climate Liability News.…

Read time: 3 minsThis is a guest post by ClimateDenierRoundup.…

Read time: 10 minsBy Zeke Hausfather, Carbon Brief. Originally posted on Carbon Brief.…

Read time: 6 minsBy David Pomerantz. Originally posted on Energy and Policy Institute.…

Read time: 15 minsA new report traces the life cycle of plastic from the moment an oil and gas well is drilled to the time plastic trash breaks down in the environment, finding “distinct risks to human health” at every stage.…

Read time: 7 minsThe U.S. exported a record 3.6 million barrels per day of oil in February. This oil is the result of the American fracking boom — and as a report from Oil Change International recently noted — its continued growth is undermining global…

Read time: 2 minsBy now, it’s no secret that oil companies have been long aware of the risks of climate change from burning fossil fuels. Exxon had “no doubt” that carbon dioxide was a global threat by the late 1970s, and Shell wrote in 1988 that the…

Read time: 3 minsOriginally posted on the Climate Investigations Center.…

Read time: 7 minsIt’s hard for anyone to miss a “help wanted” sign like this: “13,000 Union Workers Needed for Atlantic Coast Pipeline Project.”…

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