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"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For two generations, Democrats have danced around the fact that our states-rights-based Constitution is obsolete due to its failure to keep up with urbanization, which has partially disenfranchised most Americans.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."

"Exxon and other major fossil fuel polluters are currently facing lawsuits from seven other state attorneys general, and more than a dozen municipal governments, for carrying out another decades-long “campaign of deception,” over climate _...Read More_

"The funding has caused fears that the culture wars over climate denial in the US could be being imported to UK politics, and funded by billionaires with links to “big oil”.

"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."

"Just Stop Oil has demanded that the government agree to halt all new licences for fossil fuel projects in the UK. They have vowed to continue disrupting the UK’s oil infrastructure until the government agrees."

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

>"The oil and gas industry uses universities to influence environmental policy. Here’s how we fight back."

“Living near an oil well brings exposure to air pollution that is correlated with a higher risk of miscarriage, asthma, respiratory disease, and cancer.”