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People gathered outside Minneapolis City Hall to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Biden’s Final Climate Test: Time for Bold Action on Fossil Fuels

What we need to see from the Biden Administration before Trump takes office.

Acting on climate emergency means stopping EU public money for fossil gas

If the EU Parliament is serious about the climate emergency, it must vote to reject the Projects of Common Interests (PCI).

Climate Denier Trump Takes us into “Unchartered Territory” with KXL

Later today, the Trump administration is expected to announce the approval of the highly controversial Keystone XL pipeline.

A California Climate Test?

All is not lost for the climate test. A climate test could be applied at all levels of government, including at the state level. One state where such a policy appears ripe for formulation is California.

President Obama just applied the Climate Test to Arctic drilling

A closer look at the withdrawal of Arctic waters from offshore drilling shows a critically important detail to how the White House made this decision: They used a climate test as one of the rationales for ending drilling in the Arctic.

From North Dakota to Kenya, people power fights fossil fuel infrastructure

People power stopped Keystone XL in its tracks. Now we're seeing human resistance to fossil fuel projects spreading rapidly around the globe.

The Dakota Access Pipeline will lock-in the emissions of 30 coal plants

The climate impact of the Dakota Access is significant and cannot be ignored.

White House releases a new Climate Test? Not quite, but getting closer.

The White House just released an important document today: the final version of guidance for considering climate impacts within the NEPA process. While this document is merely guidance and “not a rule or regulation,” the updated version marks some important shifts in aligning our energy policy with our climate goals.

The Democrats support a climate test. Now what?

Last Saturday, news broke that the Democratic National Platform Committee formally adopted a “Climate Test” into their draft platform that will be adopted this month. This is big news, but it's just the start of what we need.

US to “export more natural gas than it imports”

The oil industry is a market built on the old market fundamentals of supply and demand and the flux between the two will impact how much we pay for our oil or gas.