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EPA Silences Its Own Scientists and Scrubs Climate Change From Its Website
Andy Rowell, October 23, 2017
Later today, three scientists from the Environmental Protection Agency were due to speak at a conference on climate change in Rhode Island. They have been banned by their boss, the leading climate denier, Scott Pruitt, from speaking.
Air Pollution Kills 9 Million; Costs $5 Trillion A Year
Andy Rowell, October 20, 2017
Pollution is the largest environmental cause of disease and death in the world today, responsible for an estimated 9 million premature deaths.
Community Responses to FERC’s Terrible Pipeline Approvals
Collin Rees, October 19, 2017
Last Friday, FERC continued it's rubber-stamping ways. Fortunately for pipeline fighters, fights against these two fracked gas pipelines is far from over. Here’s a selection of community voices responding to FERC’s terrible pipeline approvals of Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast’s certificates.
Trump stamps his mark on mid-Atlantic pipeline fights: time for McAuliffe & Cooper to take action
Lorne Stockman, October 17, 2017
FERC's approval of the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley pipelines lacks credibility. Trump's new FERC appointees pushed them through over rare dissent from Cheryl LaFleur. Governor's Cooper and McAuliffe need to take action.
Financing Climate Disaster: How Export Credit Agencies Are a Boon for Oil and Gas
Alex Doukas, October 16, 2017
The U.S. Export-Import Bank (USEXIM) is the third-largest supporter of fossil fuels among all G20 countries, according to a new report out today from Oil Change International, Friends of the Earth U.S., and WWF's European Policy Office.
U.S. export credit agency spends nearly $6 billion to finance fossil fuel projects abroad
Alex Doukas, October 16, 2017
The U.S. Export-Import Bank (USEXIM) is the third-largest supporter of fossil fuels among all G20 countries, according to a new report out today from Oil Change International, Friends of the Earth U.S., and WWF's European Policy Office.
From Ophelia to the Amazon: the Unthinkable Becomes Thinkable
Andy Rowell, October 16, 2017
Nearly every week now we have a new, previously unthinkable climate event
Oil Change International responds to FERC gas pipeline approvals
Lorne Stockman, October 13, 2017
FERC has ignored all the evidence and certified these destructive gas pipeline projects as ‘convenient and necessary’ – when in fact they are neither.
Paris Proposes Ban on All Internal Combustion Cars by 2030
Andy Rowell, October 12, 2017
Officials in Paris have announced they plan to banish all gasoline and diesel cars by 2030
Even after Paris, World Bank continues to fund climate chaos
Allison Lee, October 12, 2017
A new briefing shows that about one-quarter of multilateral development banks’ energy investments between fiscal years 2014 and 2016 flowed to fossil fuel infrastructure, directly at odds with efforts to fight climate change.