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  RELEASE: Fossil Fuel Expansion Has Reached the Sky’s Limit: Report

  David Turnbull, September 22, 2016
  The embedded carbon emissions from the oil, gas, and coal in currently operating fields and mines, if they run to the end of their projected lifetimes, will take us just beyond the Paris Agreement’s 2C warming limit, and even further from the goal of 1.5C, a new study has found.
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  The Sky’s Limit: Why the Paris Climate Goals Require a Managed Decline of Fossil Fuel Production

  Greg Muttitt, September 22, 2016
  A new study released by Oil Change International, in partnership with 14 organizations from around the world, scientifically grounds the growing movement to keep carbon in the ground by revealing the need to stop all new fossil fuel infrastructure and industry expansion.
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  A Bridge Too Far: How Appalachian Basin Gas Pipeline Expansion Will Undermine U.S. Climate Goals

  Lorne Stockman, July 22, 2016
  A new report out from Oil Change International, in partnership with 11 other local, regional, and national organizations, shows that current projections for U.S. natural gas production – fueled by a boom in the Appalachian Basin – will lock in enough carbon to bust through agreed climate goals.
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  Response to Obama Administration’s new fossil fuel royalty rule

  David Turnbull, June 30, 2016
  Today’s ruling is an important step, but the work continues to stop spending taxpayer dollars to prop up dirty industries. It’s time we stop funding fossils.
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  Shorting the Climate: Fossil Fuel Finance Report Card 2016

  Collin Rees, June 15, 2016
  In the past three years, the North American and European commercial and investment banking sector has engaged in fossil fuel financing practices that are deeply at odds with the global climate agreement reached at COP 21 last December.
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  Spreading “Seeds of Resistance” against Pipelines

  Collin Rees, June 14, 2016
  Seeds of resistance are spreading across the country, as landowners stand up for their land, their communities, and the climate.

• Release: 100,000+ urge President to end fossil fuel leasing from public lands and waters

  David Turnbull, March 30, 2016
  A petition calling for an end to fossil fuel leasing on public lands and waters has garnered more than 100,000 signatures on the White House’s “We the People” online platform, surpassing the threshold necessary to trigger an official response from the White House.
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  Ending Canada’s billions in fossil fuel subsidies

  Alex Doukas, March 18, 2016
  Just last year, Canada’s Liberal Party campaigned on a promise to start winding down subsidies to fossil fuel producers. Now that they’ve been elected on that platform, Justin Trudeau’s government faces its first real test on fossil fuel subsidies in the 2016 budget that will be released next week. You can call on the government to...
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• Oil Change International response to offshore drilling plan

  David Turnbull, March 15, 2016
  If the President is serious about his climate legacy, he needs to apply a climate test to all offshore drilling. When he does, he’ll see that offshore fossil fuels fail the climate test.
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  The not-so-hidden fracking money fueling the 2016 elections

  David Turnbull, February 9, 2016
  We’ve long known that the oil and gas industry was buying politicians. The latest expose from the New York Times confirms it once again, and this time it is frackers in the lead.