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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.

New scientific report by researchers in the UK has concluded that climate change threatens global food security by spreading crop pests towards the Poles at around 3km every year.

This past Spring the Obama Administration took an important (and little reported) step towards more aggressively addressing climate change. They increased the social cost of carbon.

Experts are warning that due to the methane leakages rates from fracking, it could be worse for the climate than burning coal

The hype surrounding methane hydrates continues to gather apace.

Scientists have been warning for years that due to climate change the North Pole might soon be ice free in the summer, well, guess what, today there is a pond there.

Today, in the first major test of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan directive to end financing for overseas coal projects, the U.S. Export Import rejected the financing of U.S. exports to the 1200-megawatt Thai Binh Two coal-fired power plant in Vietnam.

The 40 Senators voting against Gina McCarthy's nomination for EPA Administrator would have voted against anyone who would even consider measures that could affect the fossil fuel industry...thanks to $25 million in dirt energy money.

Yesterday, the World Bank’s Executive Directors agreed to a new ‘Energy Sector Directions Paper’ which lays out the expected course for the Bank’s future energy lending. While there are some encouraging indications that the Bank will move away from coal financing, the increased emphasis on natural gas and large hydropower is likely to undermine the strategy’s stated objective of increasing energy access for the poor.