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  RELEASE: G20 Nations Sending Billions in Finance to Fossil Fuels

  David Turnbull, July 5, 2017
  Each year, G20 countries provide nearly four times more public finance to fossil fuels than to clean energy, according to a new report released today. In total, public fossil fuel financing from G20 countries averaged some $71.8 billion per year, for a total of $215.3 billion in sweetheart deals for oil, gas, and coal over the 2013-2015 timeframe covered by the report.
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  Oil Change International Responds to Trump’s ‘Energy Week’ Speech

  David Turnbull, June 29, 2017
  The 'energy dominance' tagline should be called out for what it is: another manifestation of the President’s misogynistic, hyper-masculine, abusive outlook on the world.
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  Trump’s energy week looks a lot like his health care bill. Disastrous.

  David Turnbull, June 27, 2017
  Trump's energy week and health care bill have a lot in common. Both would redistribute wealth up from ordinary Americans to the wealthiest. Both would make people sick. Both would cost lives.
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  Banking on Climate Change: Fossil Fuel Finance Report Card 2017

  Kelly Trout, June 21, 2017
  Big banks’ business as usual is killing the climate. From 2014 to 2016, big banks around the world poured $290 billion into extreme fossil fuel companies and failed to respect human rights.
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  Trump’s Interior budget: More drilling, more mining, more handouts

  Janet Redman, June 20, 2017
  The myth that opening up more public lands and waters for fossil fuel production will result in a windfall for America is dead wrong. The only windfall from this production is enjoyed by oil, gas, and coal executives.
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  Interior budget boosts fossil fuels, cuts renewables funding

  Janet Redman, June 20, 2017
  In a huge industry giveaway, Trump’s Department of Interior budget increases funding for oil, gas, and coal expansion by more than $34 million – and slashes renewable energy by at least $15 million.
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  RELEASE: Taxpayers on the hook for billions in subsidies for fossil fuels on public lands

  David Turnbull, May 24, 2017
  The U.S. government is providing extensive support for fossil fuel production on public lands and waters offshore, through a combination of direct subsidies, enforcement loopholes, lax royalty collection, stagnant lease rates, and other advantages to the industry, a new report released today finds.
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  Unequal Exchange: How Taxpayers Shoulder the Burden of Fossil Fuel Development on Federal Lands

  Janet Redman, May 24, 2017
  A new report examines the extensive support for fossil fuel production on public lands and waters, provided by the U.S. government to the fossil fuel industry through a combination of direct subsidies, enforcement loopholes, lax royalty collection, and stagnant lease rates.

• Telling it like it is: the numbers behind Justin Trudeau’s climate failure

  Adam Scott, April 17, 2017
  In a hard hitting opinion piece in the Guardian today, Bill McKibben doesn’t mince words when it comes to Canada’s Prime Minister. Everyone seems to love Justin Trudeau. Charismatic, young, and rhetorically committed to a suite of progressive issues – compared to his counterpart to the south, he has a lot going for him. But,...
  Continue reading 'Telling it like it is: the numbers behind Justin Trudeau’s climate failure'.
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  Release: Oil companies’ flawed energy forecasts risk billions in investor capital

  David Turnbull, March 13, 2017
  Oil companies including ExxonMobil, BP and Shell are risking billions of dollars of investor capital, by basing decisions on distorted claims about the future of energy, according to a new report.