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  After a Decades-Long Battle, Congress Votes to Open ANWR to Oil Drilling

  Andy Rowell, December 21, 2017
  Yesterday, the decades-old struggle over what is America’s last wilderness area, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), was reopened when Congress voted to open the Refuge to oil drilling.
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  Bad News Piles Up for TransCanada Over Keystone XL Pipeline

  Andy Rowell, November 23, 2017
  As millions celebrate Thanksgiving, the bosses at TransCanada will not be in a cheerful, festive mood. They will be wondering what went wrong over the last week, after they seem to have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
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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.
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  Report: Trump’s “Energy Dominance” Plans Rely on Billions in Fossil Fuel Subsidies

  Janet Redman, October 3, 2017
  A new report out today reveals that U.S. taxpayers continue to foot the bill for more than $20 billion in fossil fuel subsidies each year. These subsidies amount to billions of dollars wasted to prop up an industry responsible for a climate crisis that has contributed to lives lost and hundreds of billions in damages this hurricane season alone.
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  Dirty Energy Dominance: Dependent on Denial – How the U.S. Fossil Fuel Industry Depends on Subsidies and Climate Denial

  Janet Redman, October 3, 2017
  A new report by Oil Change International reveals that U.S. taxpayers continue to foot the bill for more than $20 billion in fossil fuel subsidies each year. Every dollar spent subsidizing this industry takes us further away from achieving internationally agreed emissions goals, and maintaining a stable climate.

• Oil Change International Responds to Department of Energy Grid Study

  Janet Redman, August 23, 2017
  Janet Redman, U.S. Policy Director at Oil Change International, responds to the late night release of the Department of Energy's long-anticipated study of the U.S. electricity grid.
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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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  RELEASE: Oil Change International responds to Trump nominees to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

  Lorne Stockman, May 9, 2017
  In response, Lorne Stockman, Senior Research Analyst at Oil Change International released the following statement:
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  Oil Market Facts Expose Trump’s Empty Keystone Rhetoric

  Lorne Stockman, March 8, 2017
  A look at today's oil market exposes the hollow rhetoric surrounding the Keystone XL project. The project would exacerbate a supply glut at Cushing and is clearly not needed.
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  Trump team botches celebration of years-old dirty Exxon plans

  David Turnbull, March 7, 2017
  Trump’s botched celebration of Exxon comes while the President’s team works to dismantle environmental policies and institutions that were put in place to protect communities like those along the fence-lines of refineries and manufacturing plants in the Gulf Coast.