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Fossil Fuels
Chemical Plant Boom Spurred by Fracking Will Bring Smog, Plastic Glut and Risks to Workers’ Health
On the heels of the shale gas rush, another wave of fossil fuel-based projects is coming.
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Viewing Trump’s Extreme Climate Denial From a Small Island Nation in Peril
The "Doomsday Clock" pushes closer to midnight as the Trump administration pushes its climate-denial agenda.
Scholarships Presented to Black Youth in North Carolina Recall Kochs’ Troubling History on Education and Race
Scholarships are part of a broader effort by Fueling US Forward to tout the "positives" of fossil fuels.
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What Trump Can and Can’t Do to Reverse President Obama’s Arctic Protections
Trump's climate-denying administration love fossil fuels, but they'll have to clear several legal hurdles to bring back Arctic drilling.
This Man Kick-Started the First Fossil Fuel-Funded Campaigns to Attack Climate Science
Palmer's views, and those of a Trump-led administration, are contradicted outright by every major scientific academy on the planet.
Trump Is Foolish to Ignore the Flourishing Renewable Energy Sector
Real job-growth is happening in renewable energy while Trump makes hollow promises about the fossil-fuel sector.
Seattle Moves Toward Divesting From Wells Fargo to Protest the Dakota Access Pipeline
The Seattle City Council Finance Committee voted unanimously to recommend divestment.
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Mexican President Is Adding Fuel to the Fire
President Pena Nieto asks: What would you have done? as unrest spreads over gas hikes.
Trump Greenlights Dakota Access and Keystone XL Pipelines
Environmentalists, indigenous activists vow to "resist with all of their power."
World Is “Backsliding” on Gasoline Subsidies, Study Finds
Taxes on gasoline effectively reduce CO2 emissions, yet they are lower now than they were 13 years ago, finds a new study.