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Dirty Energy Money Fuels Fight Against Climate

Many people concerned about climate change may be focussed on the ongoing UN climate negotiations in Lima, but back home in the US it is business as usual for the oil and gas industry: they are secretly lobbying to delay action on climate and undermine America’s environmental protection laws.

Fracking Affects Babies and Adult Fertility and Fecundity

A new peer-reviewed scientific paper, published today in Reviews on Environmental Health, adds to the growing evidence of harm from fracking, especially to women and young children. But men also should be worried too.

Banks Face “Dire Scenario” Over Fracking Finance

For years, the oil industry and its powerful friends in Congress talked of a shale gas utopia where fracking would lead to energy independence in for US.

Bankers Warn of “Unburnable” Carbon As UN Talks Open

The Lima UN climate talks which open today were always the diplomatic aperitif before the main three course carbon-fest in Paris next year. However they open with a renewed sense of optimism that after 20 years of delay and political deadlock – often driven by the fossil fuel industry – a deal may well be in sight for Paris.

Big Oil’s Front Groups Exposed

It has often been called the heart of public relations: but the third party technique is simple – it is putting your words in someone else’s mouth.

Big Coal’s “Fake” Social Media Campaign

As more and more of us search for news and information online, PR companies and their clients are increasingly trying to manipulate what you read.

The Spirit of Saro-Wiwa Lives On

A new wave of anger, manifesting in large protests, is sweeping through Nigeria’s Ogoni region.

“I was spied on by BP”

I discovered recently that I was being spied on by BP.

Fact Checking on Keystone XL and Exports

The President was right on Keystone XL being an export pipeline. The Washington Post Fact Checker got it wrong.

Pro-KXL Senate Vote Fails

In the end the vote was agonisingly close, but Big Oil’s buddies in the Senate fell at the final hurdle in their attempt to approve the controversial Keystone XL pipeline.