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    • Big Energy

    An analysis published last week revealed the incredible amount of gas development humanity has planned, despite the climate and financial risks.
    As temperatures continue to rise, transformational change is coming to how people live on Earth.
    Together, governments the world over are spending at least $1.8 trillion annually — 2% of global gross domestic product — on subsidies that drive the destruction of ecosystems and species extinction, and exacerbate the climate crisis.
    A report shines a light on the "Wall Street heavyweights" at private equity firms.
    Tests reveal bottled water contains nearly twice as many microplastic particles per liter as tap water.
    A federal judge late Thursday blocked the Biden administration's massive oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico.
    Global scientists continue to warn of the urgent need to keep fossil fuels in the ground.
    While the past year offered glimmers of hope that humankind might reverse its march toward global catastrophe, the Doomsday Clock was set at just 100 seconds to midnight.
    Earth on ‘Sad Trajectory Toward Sixth Mass Extinction’ Scientists Warn
    “Connecting the Dots: Plastic Pollution and the Planetary Emergency.”
    Evidence suggests plastic recycling efforts can have only a minor impact even under the best of circumstances.
    More than 130 civil society groups demanded that federal regulators shut down the Chicago Mercantile Exchange's water futures market.
    The ice shelf holding back one of Antarctica's most perilous glaciers is eroding from below due to higher ocean temperatures.
    Phyllis Taylor’s company is responsible for the longest-running oil spill in U.S. history. That’s been a disaster for the Gulf of Mexico — but a tax bonanza for Taylor.
    In 2018, the most recent year for which complete data is available, 15,178 children in the U.S. were diagnosed with cancer and 1,841 died
    Vandana Shiva explained how the economic plan known as the Great Reset is a 'project of extermination.'
    While rising gasoline prices have adversely affected millions of working people in the U.S., the world's biggest fossil fuel corporations have benefited immensely.
    Ava Robinson and Burgess Brown spoke to Pete Meyers, Ph.D., about how the production, use and recycling of plastics impact human health and the environment.
    Corporate perpetrators are exonerated and their interests preserved.
    Following the tobacco playbook, one would expect the industry to double down on disinformation as fact finders zero in on their sordid climate record.
    Bill Gates is just plain wrong when he says the only way to grow food is with synthetic fertilizers.
    The Interior Department is scheduled to auction off more than 80 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico today for oil and gas leasing — the largest U.S. lease sale ever.
    Levels of air pollution spiked in northern India last week forcing schools and businesses to close.
    This COP was as disappointing as any of the previous one.
    'This draft deal is not a plan to solve the climate crisis, it's an agreement that we’ll all cross our fingers and hope for the best.'
    Banks and other profit-driven companies 'cannot be trusted' to end their complicity in the human-caused climate emergency.
    'What corporations and big conservation groups call "Nature-based Solutions" is a dangerous distraction.'
    Rep. Katie Porter
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