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“Dakota Access uses attack dogs against Natives in the name of oil”

The contrast could not have been greater. Over the weekend, speaking on the eve of the G20 summit in Hangzhou, history was made as President Obama and Chinese President, Xi Jinping, announced that the world’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases would formally ratify the Paris agreement on climate change.

Mass adoption of electric vehicles is “much sooner than most people realize”

The electric vehicle revolution is happening - and may account for 25 per cent of the global vehicle fleet by 2040.

Surprise: Climate denying lobby group releases report salivating over fossil fuels

Unless and until the U.S. Chamber of Commerce puts forth a serious alternative solution to the climate crisis, we humbly suggest you treat their report as seriously as the U.S. Chamber treats climate science itself.

“Red Flag” Over The Tar Sands’ “Elephant in the Room”

New concerns have been raised over the ecological impact of in-situ tar sands mining after research was published yesterday revealing that high pressure steaming can discharge pollutants into the environment

Another Side to the Story: A Look at Colorado’s Ballot Fight

Yesterday, news broke that the Colorado ballot initiatives on fracking failed. But that's only half the story – the other half is the multi-million dollar industry campaign meant to silence our people-powered movement.

“President Obama: More Drilling = More Floods”

As Louisiana recovers from the worst flooding in the US since Hurricane Sandy, you would have thought that the chaos and lives lost in the flooding would force an immediate rethink from the Obama Administration regarding energy policy and our continued use of fossil fuels.

The American Petroleum Institute’s Desperate PR is Failing

The American Petroleum Institute is desperate. They want to clutch onto the past while the world changes around them, and the public really isn’t buying it.

North Dakota Pipeline Protest Heads to Court

The growing protest against the highly controversial North Dakota Access pipeline will end up in court tomorrow in Washington DC, when the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s lawsuit against the US Army Corps of Engineers will be heard.

BP’s New Plans to Drill the Great Australian Bight Criticised

Despite growing international condemnation, oil giant BP seems intent on drilling in the highly sensitive Great Australian Bight off the country’s southern coast, which is home to one of the largest breeding populations of endangered southern right whales in the world.