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  The U.S. Oil and Gas Industry Is Drilling Us Towards Climate Disaster

  Kelly Trout, January 16, 2019
  A new study released today by Oil Change International and 17 partner organizations makes it clear that managing a rapid and equitable decline of U.S. fossil fuel production must be a core component of any comprehensive climate policy.
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  Report: U.S. Oil and Gas Expansion Threatens to Unleash Climate Pollution Equivalent to nearly 1,000 Coal Plants

  David Turnbull, January 16, 2019
  The U.S. oil and gas industry has the potential to unleash the largest burst of new carbon emissions in the world through 2050, new research released today has found.
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  Drilling Towards Disaster: Why U.S. Oil and Gas Expansion Is Incompatible with Climate Limits

  Kelly Trout, January 16, 2019
  At precisely the time in which the world must begin rapidly decarbonizing to avoid runaway climate disaster, the United States is moving further and faster than any other country to expand oil and gas extraction.

• Lessons Learned? Tar Sands Producers Move to Cut Production

  Adam Scott, November 2, 2018
  A remarkable thing just happened in Canada’s oil patch. Tar sands producers have actually started to cut oil production in the face of growing pipeline constraints. It’s a small but concrete demonstration of the link between new transportation infrastructure like pipelines and climate pollution. It’s also a hint at how the wider oil and gas...
  Continue reading 'Lessons Learned? Tar Sands Producers Move to Cut Production'.
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  GCAS wrap-up: Sparking a new conversation around “climate leadership”

  David Turnbull, October 3, 2018
  A new definition of climate leadership has emerged, and the public outcry is deafening, even if thus far world leaders represented at GCAS seemed to strain to avoid hearing it.
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  Oil Change International Responds to EBRD Release of Draft Energy Sector Strategy

  Collin Rees, September 26, 2018
  Yesterday, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) released a revised draft of its energy sector strategy. The draft of the new strategy is due to be finalized by the end of 2018, and will have bearing on billions of dollars in public finance for energy.
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  Letter: 65 Groups from 28 Countries Tell EBRD and EIB to Stop Financing Fossil Fuels

  Collin Rees, September 26, 2018
  As EBRD and EIB prepare for their respective energy sector strategy reviews, 65 civil society groups from 28 countries released an open letter being sent to top EBRD and EIB officials demanding that they stop financing oil, gas, and coal projects.
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  Oil Change International responds to court’s quashing of Trans Mountain’s approval

  Collin Rees, August 30, 2018
  "De facto halting this dangerous project keeps open the only credible path for Canada to live up to its obligation to fight climate change. Building new, long-lived pipelines in support of ever-growing oil production and export is wholly incompatible with the rapid transition away from fossil fuels required."
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  Oil Change International response to Trump administration attack on auto efficiency standards

  David Turnbull, August 2, 2018
  If we want to stave off the very worst impacts of our climate crisis, we need to move as quickly as possible away from fossil fuels. That means cutting both our collective demand for oil, gas, and coal as well as reducing the supply of fossil fuels that helps to drive that demand.
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  Nobel Peace Laureates Call on Governor Brown to Phase Out Fossil Fuel Production

  Hannah McKinnon, July 31, 2018
  The letter calls on Brown and the state "to become the first major fossil fuel producer to begin a managed and just transition off oil and gas production."