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The House Energy and Power Subcommittee will be holding a major hearing on climate change today that was bought and paid for by the fossil fuel industry.

Yesterday the American Journal of Medicine published a new scientific study which found that the clean up workers from BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster are at risk of developing cancer, leukaemia and a host of other illnesses.

There is growing concern that toxic fracking chemicals have leaked out in the devastating Colorado floods, with hundreds of wells said to be underwater.

This Thursday marks a milestone in the Keystone XL pipeline debate: it is five years since the application for the pipeline was first lodged with the authorities.

Two U.S. initiatives to provide Africans with electricity seem likely to lead to large, climate-polluting projects rather than the locally sourced renewable energy rural Africa needs.

Mika Minio-Paluello, Anna Galkina and James Marriott are travelling in North America as part of a tour over September and October to promote The Oil Road – Journeys from the Caspian to the City of London. This is the second of a series of blogs on the journey.

Greenpeace has just released a new report, Dealing in Doubt, which examines the 25 climate denial campaign by the fossil fuel industry and others.

On his visit to Washington yesterday, Canada’s Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver said the dirty tar sands will be continued to be developed regardless of whether the highly controversial Keystone XL pipeline is approved or not.

The leading anti-Keystone critic, billionaire and former hedge-fund manager,Tom Steyer has launched a $1-million anti-KXL advertising campaign across the US