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  Oil money behind Keystone XL Senate bill breaks 20 million dollars

  David Turnbull, May 1, 2014
  Senators cosponsoring the pro-Keystone XL bill introduced today have received roughly 5 times more in oil industry cash than those who remained off the bill.

• Polluting Our Democracy and Our Environment: Dirty Fuels Money in Politics

  Steve Kretzmann, April 23, 2014
    Polluting Our Democracy and Our Environment: Dirty Fuels Money in Politics Oil Change International and Sierra Club April 2014 A new report by Oil Change International and the Sierra Club, Polluting Our Democracy and Our Environment: Dirty Fuels Money in Politics, demonstrates the enormous amount of campaign finance contributions pouring into Congress by the...
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• World Bank Group financed $1 billion in fossil fuel exploration projects in 2013

  Shakuntala Makhijani, April 9, 2014
  World Bank Group finance for fossil fuel exploration projects from FY2008 to 2013 was highest in 2013, at nearly $1 billion out of $2.7 billion total for fossil fuel projects.

• Lifting the Ban, Cooking the Climate

  David Turnbull, March 3, 2014
  Lifting the Ban, Cooking the Climate The Climate Impact of Lifting the Crude Oil Export Ban March 2014 The U.S. oil industry’s biggest players, including ExxonMobil and the American Petroleum Institute, are calling for an end to the U.S. ban on crude oil exports that has been in place for more than four decades since...
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• Frozen Future: Shell’s Ongoing Gamble in the US Arctic

  Lorne Stockman, February 26, 2014
  'Frozen Future' warns investors of the risks to shareholder value from Royal Dutch Shell’s Alaskan Arctic drilling program.
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  Kerry’s State Department Ignored Obama’s Climate Action Plan

  Steve Kretzmann, February 17, 2014
  In 2009, President Obama made a commitment to reduce U.S. greenhouse gases by 17 percent by 2020.  The Obama administration put this forward as the U.S. share of a global effort to limit climate change to no more than two degrees Celsius – the target scientists tell us may be safe.  Achieving this target, which...
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  RefineryReport.org

  Lorne Stockman, December 13, 2013
  The Refinery Report project will develop and publish data on North America’s refineries, beginning with the amount of crude oil refined from the world’s dirtiest and most destructive source of oil: the Canadian tar sands.
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  A Call for Reason in Warsaw: Finance Climate Action, not Fossil Fuel Subsidies

  Shakuntala Makhijani, November 20, 2013
  With just a few days left until the 19th Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) conference draws to a close, time is running out to reach a meaningful agreement on providing climate finance for developing countries – a key component of the negotiations. But as shown in...
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  Ship, Baby, Ship! The push for U.S. crude oil exports has started. Here’s why it’s a terrible idea

  Lorne Stockman, October 16, 2013
  Our latest report released today exposes U.S. oil producers that want to export crude oil despite the fact that they still only produce barely more than 50% of U.S. oil demand. 40 years on from the Arab oil embargo and America’s oil producers have only one thing on their minds; profits. Lifting crude export restrictions...
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• World Bank Group Increases Lending for Fossil Fuels and Large Hydro

  Elizabeth Bast, October 8, 2013
  The World Bank Group (WBG) increased financing for both fossil fuels and large hydropower significantly this past year, while financing for clean energy dropped. Overall, only 8 percent of the Bank’s energy financing last year was aimed specifically at the poor.