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Majority of voters want government to rein in Wall Street’s climate destruction: Poll
Apr 16, 2021 08:35Recent studies have shown that Wall Street is a primary driver of the climate emergency. The world's 60 largest banks have poured more than $3.8 trillion into the fossil fuel industry since the Paris agreement was signed in 2015.
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Several ways Chevron imperils climate, human rights, and racial justice
Apr 08, 2021 08:38According to an analysis by Richard Heede published by The Guardian in 2019, Chevron is responsible for more carbon emissions since 1965 than any other investor-owned fossil fuel company.
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60 largest banks have dumped $3.8 trillion into fossil fuels since 2015, report shows
Mar 31, 2021 16:01A detailed new report released recently by a coalition of environmental groups shows that the 60 largest banks in the world have poured more than $3.8 trillion into the fossil fuel industry since the Paris climate accord was adopted in 2015, providing key financing for destructive projects ranging from coal-fueled power plants in Indonesia to Enbridge's Line 3 tar sands pipeline.
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'Unfortunate, if not unexpected': Biden criticized for resuming public land drilling permits
Mar 19, 2021 07:47After having urged President Joe Biden to turn a temporary moratorium on new oil and gas leasing on federal lands and waters into a permanent ban on extracting climate-damaging fossil fuels from those areas, environmentalists criticized his administration's recent decision to not renew the Interior Department's policies limiting the provision of drilling permits.
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“First of its kind” complaint filed against Chevron for greenwashing campaigns
Mar 19, 2021 07:33Environmental groups filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) saying that oil giant Chevron’s ad campaigns and consumer reports mislead the public about the company’s environmental impact.
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Climate-driven extreme weather is imperiling wildlife conservation efforts in US
Mar 11, 2021 15:59Studies show that climate change is supercharging some weather and climate events and will lead to more severe and longer-lasting heat waves, stronger hurricanes, an increased wildfire risk and a longer wildfire season. American people can also expect more heavy rain events and severe droughts, not to mention other extreme events like February’s polar vortex.
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'No safe amount': Environmentalists sound alarm over Texas refineries' release of hundreds of thousands of pounds of pollutants during storm
Feb 26, 2021 09:24Texas oil refineries released hundreds of thousands of pounds of pollutants including benzene, carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulfide, and sulfur dioxide into the air as they scrambled to shut down during last week's deadly winter storm, Reuters reported recently.
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Second phase of the Revolution: Leap in production
Feb 22, 2021 10:31Natural resources and mines, as a very important part of national assets of a country, play the role of engines for leap in production and economic growth. These resources are capable of turning into funds and an optimal use of them can secure independence of a country, plenitude of products and buttress national revenues and per capita income.
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Fossil fuel pollution caused nearly 1 in 5 premature deaths in 2018, study finds
Feb 17, 2021 09:31Researchers at universities in the U.K. and at Harvard University estimated that, in 2018, 8.7 million people died prematurely due to pollution released by fossil fuels, or about 18 percent of total global deaths that year.
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Massive losses should be a warning to Big Oil that its bonanza is over
Feb 13, 2021 06:04The crushing decline of the oil industry during the COVID-19 pandemic may be unprecedented, but it is also a foreseeable outcome for fossil fuel producers in the years ahead. The race to create clean-burning biofuels and hydrogen to propel aircraft and seaborne tankers is gaining pace. At the same time, electric vehicles are accelerating into the mainstream.