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  Upton / Koch Committee’s Witnesses for Big Oil

  Steve Kretzmann

  Feb09

  This is a cross post from Brad Johnson and Noreen Nelson at the Center for American Progress. The House Energy and Commerce Committee, now under Republican control, is holding a hearing right now to discuss blocking the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to reduce global warming pollution. Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), who has received $9,000 from…
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  Push Back Against the Climate Deniers and End Fossil Fuel Subsidies

  Traci Romine

  Feb03

  At the same time it appears that big oil and coal climate denial campaigns are successfully stifling climate action in Congress and the Obama Administration, a group of America’s top scientists stepped up to the plate on Tuesday and called on House and Senate leaders to “take a fresh look at climate change.” And none…
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  When Ignorance Costs More than Bliss

  Andy Rowell

  Nov04

  Since the election on Tuesday, the chasm between what action is needed on the ground and what our politicians believe just got a whole lot wider. We all know that it is the poorest people from third world countries who are most at risk from climate change. And yet half of the new Republicans –…
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  Two Small Bits Of Good News

  Andy Rowell

  Nov03

  It’s a bleak and bloody political landscape this morning in Washington for anyone interested in progressive politics on climate and energy. The Democrats lost badly. It was the biggest switch of seats since 1948, so, it was a big, big election victory for the Republicans and the new kids on the block, the Tea Party….
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  GOP Plans Attack on Climate

  Andy Rowell

  Nov02

  So the GOP enters Election Day confident it will take control of the House and even maybe take the Senate. Some pundits are saying the Democrats may have their worst mid-term election night for 60 years. All this means bad news for Obama’s environmental agenda and for climate science. The fallout has already started.

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  BP and Others Accused of “Climate Sabotage”

  Andy Rowell

  Oct25

  We know that the Koch brothers fund climate change deniers. But now a great new report by Climate Action Network Europe (CAN-E) has analysed new data to track where dirty money is going in American politics. They have found nearly 80% of campaign donations – some $240,000 – from some of Europe’s biggest polluters is…
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  Denial Nation

  Andy Rowell

  Oct18

  A new study by Yale University makes seriously depressing reading for those who have been trying to educate the American public about the dangers of climate change. The study finds that less than two thirds of American adults (63%) believe climate change is occurring, but many do not understand why. Only half understand that climate…
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• Koch brothers fund fight against California climate law

  Andy Rowell

  Sep17

  Earlier this year Greenpeace published an excellent report showing that the secretive and arch conservative billionaire Koch brothers were the main funders of leading right wing climate sceptic organisations. Since then it has emerged that Koch brothers are bank-rolling the ultra-conservative tea party in the US. Koch industries is also, of course, the #1 provider…
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• The Climate Koch-spiracy

  Andy Rowell

  Mar31

  Exxon has often been signalled out as the company doing the most to undermine the science of climate change. But this is no longer the case. There is a new secret climate sceptic funding machine and it is called Koch Industries, the oil and manufacturing giant that is the second largest privately-held company in America.

• Anti-Wind Study Linked to Climate Sceptics

  Andy Rowell

  Mar25

  Ask any oil executive where our future energy will come from and they will reply that the answer lies in “the mix”: arguing we need oil, gas, renewables and probably nuclear. The oil industry argues that its days as the predominant provider of energy are not yet over, despite climate change and peak oil. But…
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