House Supporters of Keystone XL Took $56 Million From Fossil Fuel Industry
In todays House Keystone XL vote, those in support took in a combined $56 million from fossil fuel interests, $36 million from oil industry interests alone.
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“If you want to stand with Standing Rock, now is the time”
If anyone was in any doubt about whether Donald Trump would be a willing puppet of the fossil fuel industry once in office, yesterday he made his intentions clear. He intends to be Big Oil’s puppeteer in chief.
EU Sees KXL is an Export Pipeline
Officials from the European Commission see Keystone XL as an export pipeline from America to the EU.
Boom goes the oil industry, bust goes the climate
There was the tar sands boom and then the shale gas boom. Then there was the export boom and the tight oil boom. Now it seems there's the midstream boom.
Decades of denial have to end: we need radical climate leadership in 2020
The next decade will define our collective future. We better not waste it. We have no time to waste. For we have wasted too much time already.
Democratic Platform must back up words with actions
The DNC released the first public draft of the 2016 Democratic Party Platform, and there are many elements worth supporting. But there is also plenty of room for improvement.
Global outrage as oil executive named head of UN climate talks
There is universal condemnation today on the breaking news that the United Arab Emirates has appointed a veteran oil industry insider to preside over the upcoming UN climate talks that will happen later this year in Dubai. "By appointing an...
Catastrophic Sydney flooding becomes “new normal” as climate crisis intensifies
“Do not assume you will be safe tonight” warned the Australian authorities yesterday to thousands of residents of the country’s largest city, Sydney, which is yet again experiencing catastrophic flooding.
Report: Reinstating the Crude Oil Export Ban Could Cut Global Emissions as Much as 181 Million Tons
A new report finds restoring the crude oil export ban could lead to reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions of as much as 80 to 181 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent each year
From North Dakota to Kenya, people power fights fossil fuel infrastructure
People power stopped Keystone XL in its tracks. Now we're seeing human resistance to fossil fuel projects spreading rapidly around the globe.