"To accommodate the West Virginia senator, Democratic leadership agreed to legislation streamlining permits for the often-stalled Mountain Valley Pipeline and removing jurisdiction from a court that keeps ruling against the project."

West Virginians had that chance every election where they could've voted to look ahead and prepare themselves for a future without coal. Instead they doubled down on a dying industry. Why should they get handouts they themselves fought so _...Read More_

Such a powerful and angering story which highlights the lengths that the oil and gas industry goes to downplay climate science. It is absurd that they get a say in the matter. Bureaucracy at its worst.

Speeches used to have impact, but now for most leaders, they're mainly smoke screens covering lack of action. The last 2 years are an example of how we will deal with climate change, 1/3 will be proactive and do their best, 1/3 won't care, _...Read More_

For two generations, Democrats have danced around the fact that our states-rights-based Constitution is obsolete due to its failure to keep up with urbanization, which has partially disenfranchised most Americans. So now we routinely get _...Read More_

"As the climate crisis deepens, all eyes are on the fossil fuel industry. With pressure building, these profiteers of climate breakdown have shifted from denying science to peddling false solutions to delay action."

"As a UN expert panel highlights the need to cancel new fossil fuel projects, the world’s largest oil and gas companies are projected to spend over $930 billion on new developments - despite claims to support global climate targets."

>"The conversation about climate change mitigation needs to shift from simply reducing carbon emissions to ensuring that developing nations can take part in a diversified green economy."

"With the Russian invasion of Ukraine boosting energy costs and reducing availability, fossil fuel proponents push back."

"Oil companies promises mostly just talk most of the oil majors have increased fossil fuel production and expanded exploration while making only surface-level investments in clean energy. Greedy, shortsighted, selfish hypocrite oil _...Read More_

"Fossil fuel accountability, ending investment in deforestation and elevating the voices affected by climate breakdown are the key pillars of Global Witness’s vision for 2022"

"From the US to China, in Europe, India and Japan, fossil fuels are staging a comeback, clean energy stocks are taking a hammering, and the prospects for speeding the transition to renewable sources of power are looking grim."

"‘As scientists who study and communicate the realities of climate change, we are consistently faced with a major and needless challenge: overcoming advertising and PR efforts by fossil fuel companies.’"

"Carbon Brief looks at national responsibility for historical emissions of CO2 from 1850-2021, updating analysis published in 2019."