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NASA's James Hansen Takes the Case Against Tar Sands to Britain
Hansen accused the Canadian government of "holding a club" over the U.K. and European nations to accept its "dirty" oil, while a new study confirmed that 97% of climate reports attribute climate change to human actions.
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How Big Oil and the GOP Subverted American Democracy
Morally twisted right-wing orthodoxy has taken the “conserve” out of conservatism, as GOP honchos' knee jerk slavishness to petroleum interests have infected America.
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New Shell Oil Laboratory at Oxford Meets Organized Resistance
A coalition of environmental protesters has targeted Shell for co-opting one of the world’s most prestigious universities and demanded an end to Big Oil's pollution of British education.
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Exposed: State Department Ignores Climate Facts of Keystone XL Pipeline
A new report shows the Keystone XL pipeline will contribute at least 181 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) each year, comparable to the tailpipe emissions from more than 37.7 million cars, or 51 coal-fired power plants.
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Big Oil In Bed With Lawmakers: How Industry Is Infiltrating Political Process
Before the U.S. oil industry’s hydraulic fracturing process made headlines and sparked protests, its executives were hard at work winning the hearts and minds of lawmakers.
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Go Fossil Free: The Campaign
We’re launching the next phase of our fossil fuel divestment campaign aimed at government, religious denominations, museums, foundations -- anyone investing in the destruction of the future, we’re asking them to sell those shares.
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Divest! A Campaign Heats Up to Dump Fossil Fuel Funding
Modeled on the successful effort to get colleges, pension funds, churches, cities and states to divest from apartheid South Africa, groups are now asking ethical investors to freeze new investments in fossil fuel companies.
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We Are the United States of Big Oil
The world's five biggest oil companies made over $60 billion in the first half of this year, and hundreds of millions of that goes right back into undermining clean energy investment.
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How Oil Companies Spend Their $375 Million In Daily Profits
The five biggest oil companies earned $375 million in profits per day last year – or more than a quarter of a million dollars per minute, more than 96 percent of American households make in a year. So just where, and on what, are they spending those billions?
