Trump on “Direct Collision Course” With G20 Over Climate
As the G20 talks commence, the new international "Climate Pariah" Donald Trump is going to come under intense pressure from the G20 to reconsider pulling out of the Paris Climate agreement.
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100% Renewable Energy Bill – A first foot forward
Today, Sens. Merkley (D-OR) and Sanders (I-VT) launched a bill that takes a huge step toward aligning government policy with what climate science tells us is necessary – a transition to a 100% carbon-free economy, as soon as possible.
Canada Takes First Step to Cut Fossil Fuel Handouts – Thanks to People Power
The clean energy picture got a little bit brighter in Canada last week, after the 2017 budget started chipping away at the $1.6 billion in federal subsidies to oil and gas companies each year.
Trump team botches celebration of years-old dirty Exxon plans
Trump’s botched celebration of Exxon comes while the President’s team works to dismantle environmental policies and institutions that were put in place to protect communities like those along the fence-lines of refineries and manufacturing plants in the Gulf Coast.
On his first diplomatic outing, climate-denying Rex Tillerson got trolled
In his first outing as Secretary of State, former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson may have been quiet, but the world’s climate leaders were not. Ahead of the G20 meeting of foreign ministers, hosted by Germany in Bonn, German government officials didn’t mince words: “You can’t fight climate change by putting up barbed wire,” said Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel, a not-so-thinly veiled swipe at Rex Tillerson and Donald Trump’s climate denial, and the Trump Administration’s racist immigration policies.
Rex Tillerson Denies Oil & Gas Subsidies Exist, While Company Profits From Them
Today Rex Tillerson, under oath, denied the existence of fossil fuel subsidies. In fact, according to our new analysis ExxonMobil likely gets as much as $1 billion in subsidies each year.
Rex Tillerson: Unprepared. Unqualified. Unacceptable.
Three words sum up Rex Tillerson’s performance yesterday in his confirmation hearing for Secretary of State: Unprepared. Unqualified. Unacceptable
Oil Subsidies Propping Up Profits & Polluting the Climate
Guess who’s responsible for about half of all the oil that will be produced in the United States? You! That's according to a new study, which shows that 45 percent of US oil production depends on government handouts to make it profitable. Yes, your money is sponsoring pollution and lining the pockets of oil companies.
Did Rick Perry help DAPL’s owners steal $6 Million from Texas taxpayers?
Did Rick Perry help Energy Transfer Partners - one of the owners of the Dakota Access Pipeline - cheat Texas taxpayers out of $6 million, or was he just asleep at the switch? Either way, can we really trust him to be in charge of nuclear security as Energy Secretary?