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The fossil fuel giants need to reduce emissions and maintain their share price so they’re investing in wind. For a “relative small outlay” they are greening their portfolio and extending their monopoly control over a major alternative energy source.
At a meeting last year, industry leaders contradicted public claims that emissions of climate-warming methane are under control.
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A new oil and gas industry ad pushes back against growing calls to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable for the climate crisis — by making the bold statement that it would be criminal not to produce oil and gas.
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Cancer haunts this Louisiana town on the banks of the Mississippi River. Residents of Reserve, feeling neglected by politicians, are fighting back against the chemical plant has been emitting carcinogens for half a century. More about the Coalition Against Death Alley here.
In Latin America alone, the long and disastrous record of US-led interventions is enough to cause alarm about the possible outcomes of this crisis. Even if Maduro is levered out of power, the battle for Venezuela is just beginning.
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