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Triumph for Citizens in Florida as Hughes Oil Company Drops Fracking Project
But without a moratorium on fracking, Florida is still not safe from the fracking industry.
Twenty-First Century Energy Wars: Global Conflicts Are Fueled by the Desire for Oil
In a fossil-fuel world, control over oil and gas reserves is an essential component of national power.
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Report: A Carbon Tax That Would Create Jobs, Cut Emissions and Put Money in Your Pocket
Giving taxpayers $250 per month, reducing carbon emissions and boosting the economy. This is what the future could hold if the United States imposed a revenue-neutral carbon tax on …
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Breaking Climate Silence: One Step at a Time
The Great March for Climate Action is trekking from LA to DC. In one Northern New Mexico town, the marchers catalyzed change in both small and significant ways.
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After Crash Killing 47, Oil-by-Rail on Trial in Canada, Maine
A trial of activists opposed to oil trains in Auburn, Maine, raise essential issues in the use of this dangerous alternative to pipeline transport of fossil fuels.
Stealing Our Sympathy
There is a growing sense among the public that life on our planet is being threatened by our careless misuse of its resources.
To Repair the Environment, Rehabilitate the Body Politic
"Environmentalists aren't wrong to urge us to break with fossil fuels. The balance of nature has been tipped and there's no question we're weakening the system with our bad …
Let Them Eat Carbon: Like Big Tobacco, Big Energy Targets the Developing World for Future Profits
As concern over climate change begins to lower the demand for fossil fuels in the US and Europe, fossil fuel companies are accelerating their sales to developing nations, where …
South America: How “Anti-Extractivism” Misses the Forest for the Trees
A recent spate of high-profile campaigns against projects based on extracting raw materials has opened up an important new dynamic within the broad processes of change sweeping South America.
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Dead Babies and Utah’s Carbon Bomb
A sudden and extreme spike in neonatal mortality in Utah's rural Uinta Basin is most probably related to the toxic air pollution related to the fossil fuel drilling/fracking frenzy …