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Carbon Capture: Five Decades of False Hope, Hype, and Hot Air

Five decades on from the first CCS project, the technology remains riddled with problems, unproven at scale, and not fit for purpose. It is beyond time to focus on the real solutions to the climate crisis and injustice that the fossil fuel industry has wrought. Neither CO2-rich gas or LNG qualify.

Bad Data and Deception: The American Petroleum Institute Pivots on Methane

A detailed analysis by Oil Change International of the public statements and commitments by the American Petroleum Institute (API) around methane emissions and climate change has uncovered a decade of spurious data, deceptive messaging, and disingenuous public positioning by the big oil spin doctors.

Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation to the Supreme Court “would be a catastrophe for the climate”

This week sees President Trump’s highly controversial pick for the Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett, answering questions in front of the Senate Judicary committee as part of her nomination hearings for the top legal job.

White House Launches Inquiry into Pruitt’s Deal With Wife of Energy Lobbyist

There is a growing political scandal surrounding the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the climate denier, Scott “Polluting" Pruitt

Hey “Polluting Pruitt” – What Are you Trying to Hide?

Later today, Scott “Polluting Pruitt” could be confirmed as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, after a vote in the Senate. The fact that Pruitt, a man who has sued the EPA fourteen times, could be even considered for the job is a scandal. But it gets worse.

EPA’s Methane Rule is welcome, but NOT a license to grow gas production

Forecast gas production growth will bust the climate, even with no methane leakage.

Senate Beats Back Fossil Fuel Millions to Confirm Gina McCarthy for EPA

The 40 Senators voting against Gina McCarthy's nomination for EPA Administrator would have voted against anyone who would even consider measures that could affect the fossil fuel industry...thanks to $25 million in dirt energy money.

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