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The oil industry maybe dying, but it will still pollute us for decades after its death.

2020 is continuing to bring deeply worrying climate news from both the Arctic and also Antarctic.

A new study published last week confirms what we already knew about oil and gas in the Permian Basin. It's an unmitigated disaster.

A day after meeting big oil bosses at the White House last Friday, Donald Trump was at his usual chest-thumbing best defending an industry he loves: “I am a big believer in our great energy business, and we’re going to take care of our energy business,” he said at a press conference.

For years, the fossil fuel industry has argued that gas is clean. But we know the truth: Gas is not a bridge fuel, and is not compatible with a climate-safe future.

Donald Trump and Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, will awake this morning to the realization that they cannot simply roll-back President Obama’s environmental regulations, like you would the lid on an old sardine tin.

There are a staggering amount of old and new wells with the potential to release methane. At least 3.5 million wells have been drilled in the US, with a quarter of those still active. Many old and new ones are leaking the potent greenhouse gas.

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

One of the main arguments that the pro-frackers put forward about adopting the controversial technology is that it is a clean, secure fuel that can be used to bridge the gap between dirtier fossil fuels and cleaner renewable energy.

New scientific research has been published which torpedoes the idea that shale gas should be seen as a clean bridging fuel.