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Health Care Sharing Ministries. Summer of Soul | Official Trailer. How Trump Supporters Took the U.S. Capitol. ExxonMobil’s Lobbying War on Climate Change Legislation. How Sperm Got All the Credit in the Fertilization Story.

Not only will a Native American for the first time oversee the government’s relationship to Indigenous Americans, but an avowed environmental activist will manage the nation’s natural resources.

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.

However severe the current crisis, and whatever the outcome in November, big changes are coming in how the U.S. economy functions, how this country is ruled and its role in the world.

Bernie Sanders' Remarks on Iran Following Suleimani Asassination. Vanishing Voters of Georgia. Why Drugs Are So Expensive. Google and Amazon Are Now in the Oil Business. Cadets Fired for Giving Nazi Salute.