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• Report Urges Biden to Reverse Trump Environmental Rollbacks and Set US on 'Path to Cleaner, Healthier Future'

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  Published 3rd Jan 2021
• Biden to Take Aim at Trump's Midnight Regulations on Day One of New Administration. A transition spokesperson said the freeze will apply to regulations as well as guidance documents that "can have enormous consequences on the lives of the American people."

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  Published 3rd Jan 2021
• In 'Landmark' Moment, London Coroner Lists Air Pollution as a Cause of Young Girl's Death

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  Published 17th Dec 2020
• UN Warns New Wave of Locust Swarms Threatens Food Security of Millions in East Africa

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  Published 17th Dec 2020
• Groups Provide Biden With Draft Climate Emergency Order to Help Put Out 'Fire Fanned by Trump'

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  Published 17th Dec 2020
• Amazon Must Stop Flooding Our Oceans With Plastic Waste

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  Published 17th Dec 2020
• 'Can Anybody Still Deny That We Are Facing a Dramatic Emergency?' Asks UN Chief at Climate Summit | "If we don't change course," he warned, "we may be headed for a catastrophic temperature rise of more than 3 degrees this century."

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  Published 13th Dec 2020
• The Anthropocene Is... Heavy: Scientists Find Human-Made Objects Now Outweigh All Life on Earth."The science-fiction scenario of an engineered planet is already here."

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  Published 13th Dec 2020
• In Must-Watch Video, Greta Thunberg Warns Humanity 'Still Speeding in Wrong Direction' on Climate

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  Published 13th Dec 2020
• In 'Huge Victory for Polar Bears and Our Climate,' Court Rejects Trump Approval of Offshore Drilling Project in Arctic

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  Published 8th Dec 2020
• 'The Future We Are Looking At': Wall Street to Begin Betting on Water Scarcity | "If nothing else does it, this should make you passionate about climate change."

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  Published 7th Dec 2020
• 'We're in a Climate Emergency. Act Accordingly': Greta Thunberg Says Denmark's 30-Year Fossil Fuel Phase-Out Not Fast Enough

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  Published 7th Dec 2020
• Friends of the Earth vs. Shell: 'Historic Moment' as Climate Movement Takes on Big Oil at The Hague

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  Published 2nd Dec 2020
• Tests Reveal Toxic 'Forever Chemicals' in Aerial Pesticide Showered Over Millions of Acres in US

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  Published 2nd Dec 2020
• Indigenous and Progressive Activists and Lawmakers Plan Rally at DNC to Push Biden in Greener Direction.

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  Published 20th Nov 2020
• NOAA Research Shows Climate Crisis Primary Cause of 98% of Dead Florida Coral Reef

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  Published 19th Nov 2020
• 'Huge News': Nearly Four Dozen Faith Institutions Announce Divestment From Fossil Fuels

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  Published 19th Nov 2020
• Humans May Have Passed the 'Point of No Return' in Climate Crisis, Says Study—But That Doesn't Mean All Hope Is Lost

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  Published 13th Nov 2020
• 'This Is Nightmarish': Indigenous and Climate Leaders Outraged Over Minnesota Permits for Line 3 Pipeline

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  Published 13th Nov 2020
• 99% of Green New Deal Co-Sponsors Won Their Races This Cycle: Analysis

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  Published 10th Nov 2020
• Biden Urged to Be #ClimatePresident by Taking These 10 'Game-Changing' Steps in First 10 Days in Office

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  Published 9th Nov 2020
• Greta Thunberg Tells US Voters on Election Day Their Choice 'Will Affect Countless Generations to Come'

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  Published 4th Nov 2020
• 'Seismic Shift' in World's Approach to Land Use, Wildlife, and Climate Action Needed to Avoid New 'Era of Pandemics,' Study Says

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  Published 4th Nov 2020
• EPA Sued for 'Once Again Putting Corporate Interests Over Public Health or the Environment' by Reapproving Herbicide Atrazine

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  Published 1st Nov 2020
• GM and Ford Knew, Too: Reporting Reveals Auto Giants Recognized Looming Climate Crisis in 1960s—and Helped Bury Reality

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  Published 26th Oct 2020
• Study Shows U.S. Switch to 100% Renewable Energy Would Save Hundreds of Billions Each Year

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  Published 25th Oct 2020
• 'Frightening Milestone': Scientists Sound Alarm Over Record Amount of Open, Iceless Sea in the Arctic

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  Published 23rd Oct 2020
• Pressed on Climate Views and Ties to Shell Oil, Barrett Once Again Calls Established Climate Science 'Controversial'

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  Published 21st Oct 2020
• Investing $2 Trillion in US Clean Energy and Infrastructure Could Create Millions of 'Good Jobs,' Analysis Finds ""We don't have to choose between a strong economy or a healthy environment—we can have both," says an EPI data analyst."

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  Published 21st Oct 2020
• 'Sadistic and Depraved': Trump Rejects California Request for Federal Disaster Aid to Recover From Catastrophic Wildfires

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  Published 16th Oct 2020
• Greta Thunberg Rebukes Amy Coney Barrett Over Her Anti-Science 'Views on Climate Change' - "To be fair, I don't have any 'views on climate change' either. Just like I don't have any 'views' on gravity."

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  Published 16th Oct 2020
• 'We Don't Need a Climate Denier on the Supreme Court': Outrage as Barrett Says She Has No 'Firm Views' on Climate Crisis

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  Published 14th Oct 2020
• 'After All, It's Our Money': Global Climate Campaigners Call for Public Banks to Fund Just Recovery and Green Transition

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  Published 12th Oct 2020
• Australian Aboriginal Leaders Testify Mining Firm's Gag Clause Silencing Opposition to Destruction of Ancient Sacred Site

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  Published 12th Oct 2020
• Trump's USDA Sued Over Program Allowing 'Horrific' Mass Slaughter of Native Wildlife

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  Published 12th Oct 2020
• Scientists Warn 2020 on Pace to Become Hottest Year Ever as September Heat Smashes Previous Record

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  Published 8th Oct 2020
• Leaked Docs From Inside 'Omnicidal' ExxonMobil Reveal Plan to Increase Climate-Killing Emissions

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  Published 6th Oct 2020
• 'Very Bad News': Scientists Behind New Study Warn Warming Oceans 'Contributing to Climate Breakdown'

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  Published 29th Sep 2020
• 'Trying to Have It Both Ways': Investigation Reveals BP and Shell Still Back Anti-Climate Lobby Groups, Despite Pledges

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  Published 29th Sep 2020
• Planet Is Burning, But First Presidential Debate Set to Ignore Humanity's Most Pressing Issue: Climate

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  Published 23rd Sep 2020
• Massive 'Climate Clock' Urging Governments to #ActInTime Unveiled on Metronome in New York City

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  Published 21st Sep 2020
• To Block Trump's Gutting of Methane Regulation, Coalition of State and Local Governments Sues EPA

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  Published 15th Sep 2020
• "It'll Start Getting Cooler, You Just Watch": Trump Spits Climate Denialism Right in California's Face

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  Published 15th Sep 2020
• Sanders Delivers Message to Lawmakers Who Claim US Can't Afford Green New Deal: Climate Catastrophe Is 'Much More Expensive'

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  Published 14th Sep 2020
• With Wildfires Ravaging the West, Biden Slams Trump Denial and Calls Climate Crisis an 'Imminent, Existential Threat'

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  Published 13th Sep 2020
• 'Green New Deal or the Blood Red Apocalypse. Your Choice': Dems Urged to Embrace Bold Climate Action as West Burns

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  Published 11th Sep 2020
• With 'Irreparable Damage' Looming, 15 State AGs File Suit to Block Trump From Fossil Fuel Assault on Arctic Refuge

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  Published 10th Sep 2020
• 'This Is What a Climate Crisis Looks Like': Fires Have Now Burned Record 2 Million Acres in California This Year

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  Published 9th Sep 2020
• "Isn't Just Good Policy—It's Good Politics": 145 Groups Demand Biden Ban Fossil Fuel Execs and Lobbyists From Campaign and Cabinet

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  Published 1st Sep 2020
• "Is There No End to Big Oil's Evil?" Campaigners Condemn Industry Plan to Pour US Plastics Into Africa

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  Published 31st Aug 2020
• 'What's Radical Is Doing Nothing': Attacked as an Extremist, Sanders Condemns GOP for Ignoring Climate Crisis at Convention

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  Published 27th Aug 2020
• Proving 'A Different World Is Possible,' Exxon Dropped From Dow Jones After 92-Year Run

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  Published 26th Aug 2020
• 'What Stage of Capitalism Is This?' With over 100,000 people displaced by wildfires raging across California, Baupost Group collected more than $3 billion in July after betting on insurance claims against embattled utility company PG&E.

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  Published 25th Aug 2020
• Coalition Files Suit to Stop Trump's "Slapdash and Tragic Plan" to Drill in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

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  Published 25th Aug 2020
• Greenpeace Gives Democratic Platform C+ on Climate, Calling for 'Action at the Scale That Science and Justice Demand' | "We know the Republicans have no plan," says the advocacy group. "But that doesn't mean the Democrats can take their feet off the gas."

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  Published 20th Aug 2020
• 'Immoral, Criminal, Inexcusable': Climate Groups Furious as DNC Drops Support for Ending Fossil Fuel Handouts From Platform

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  Published 19th Aug 2020
• Following Outrage, Trump Pulls Nomination of "Unapologetic Racist' William Perry Pendley to Oversee Nation's Public Lands

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  Published 16th Aug 2020
• Trump EPA Plows Ahead With 'Mind-Bogglingly Stupid and Destructive' Rollback of Methane Emissions Rules

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  Published 14th Aug 2020
• 'Choose the People': Greenpeace Targets Vulnerable GOP Senators With Demand to Pass Urgently Needed Covid-19 Relief

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  Published 31st Jul 2020
• Coalition Sues to Block Trump's "Scorched-Earth Attack" on Bedrock Environmental Law

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  Published 30th Jul 2020
• Need Money for a Green New Deal? Get It From ICE

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  Published 26th Jul 2020
• 'Resounding' Win for Public Health and Climate as Judge Blocks Trump Attempt to Gut Methane Restrictions

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  Published 16th Jul 2020
• 'We Will Sue,' Vow Green Groups After Trump Guts Nation's Key Environmental Law

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  Published 16th Jul 2020
• In Blow to Trump and Win for Bears, Federal Appeals Court Upholds Endangered Species Protections for Yellowstone Grizzlies

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  Published 12th Jul 2020
• Watchdog Accuses Trump's NOAA of 'Choosing Extinction' for Critically Threatened Right Whales by Hiding Scientific Evidence

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  Published 12th Jul 2020
• In Blow to Trump and Win for Bears, Federal Appeals Court Upholds Endangered Species Protections for Yellowstone Grizzlies

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  Published 9th Jul 2020
• '24 Hours. 3 Dirty Pipelines Delayed': Supreme Court Rejects Trump Effort to Greenlight Keystone XL Construction

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  Published 8th Jul 2020
• 'The Poster Company for US Fracking Has Fallen' -- Chesapeake Energy Files for Bankruptcy: "Meanwhile the Trump administration continues to try and bail out this garbage fire industry with our tax dollars."

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  Published 30th Jun 2020
• 'Far-Right Ideology' of Trump Public Lands Nominee Why Senate Must Reject Him, Say Groups

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  Published 29th Jun 2020
• 'Warning Sign of Major Proportions': Number of Siberian Forest Fires Increase Fivefold in Week Since Record High Temperature

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  Published 28th Jun 2020
• DC Sues Fossil Fuel Giants for Decades of Spending Millions to 'Mislead Consumers and Discredit Climate Science in Pursuit of Profits': "Climate denial is not a victimless crime. Now, one by one states and local governments are stepping up to hold the perpetrators accountable."

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  Published 26th Jun 2020
• In Minnesota, Ellison Announces Climate Lawsuit Against Exxon, Koch, and API: “There are no more worthy targets of a climate fraud lawsuit than Exxon, Koch Industries, and API: the unholy trinity of climate denial."

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  Published 25th Jun 2020
• Judge Rules California Requirement of Cancer Warning Label for Glyphosate Violates Corporate 'Free Speech': WHO’s cancer research arm classified glyphosate—the active ingredient in weed-killers like Bayer's Roundup—as probably carcinogenic for humans.

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  Published 24th Jun 2020
• 'This Scares Me,' Says Bill McKibben as Arctic Hits 100.4°F—Hottest Temperature on Record

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  Published 23rd Jun 2020
• 'Shell Must Not Get Away With This': Niger Delta Still Waiting for Big Oil to Clean Up Devastating Pollution

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  Published 21st Jun 2020
• 'This Is Why We Continue to Fight': Indigenous Leaders Outraged as Trans Mountain Pipeline Spills 50,000 Gallons of Crude Oil

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  Published 18th Jun 2020
• To Support 'Urgently-Needed Clean and Just Energy Transition,' 450+ Groups Demand Federal Regulators Rebuff Attack on Community Solar

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  Published 16th Jun 2020
• Experts Say $17.5 Billion Writedown by BP Prove Oil Giant Knows 'Reserves of Oil and Gas Increasingly Worthless'

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  Published 16th Jun 2020
• Federal Court Urged to Hold 'Rogue' Trump EPA in Contempt for Blatant Defiance of Ban on Toxic Weed Killer: "EPA needs a lesson in separation of powers and we're asking the court to give it to them."

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  Published 12th Jun 2020
• 'Exceptionally Troubling' - Researchers Show Hack-for-Hire Operation Targeted Groups Fighting for Climate Action and Net Neutrality: "If the investigation demonstrates that Exxon is behind these attacks, it only shows how far the fossil fuel industry will go to silence critics," said 350.org

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  Published 11th Jun 2020
• Hmmm... its almost like permaculture is the only way...

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  Published 10th Jun 2020
• 62% Of Big Oil, Gas, And Mining Corporations Score Small Business Bailout Funds

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  Published 9th Jun 2020
• 'Quietly Putting Hundreds of Species at Risk,' Trump Opens 5,000 Square Miles of Atlantic Ocean to Commercial Fishing

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  Published 8th Jun 2020
• Global Meat Giants Fuel Major Future Risk of Creating Next Pandemic, Investor Group Warns - "Factory farming is both vulnerable to pandemics and guilty of creating them."

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  Published 4th Jun 2020
• 'The Planet Is at Stake': DNC Panel Pushes Biden to Back $16 Trillion Plan to Fight Climate Crisis

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  Published 4th Jun 2020
• With Nation Focused on Pandemic, Trump Interior Dept. to Greenlight Killing of Bear Cubs and Wolf Pups in Their Dens

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  Published 1st Jun 2020
• Trump-Connected Fossil Fuel Companies Permitted to Delay Payments of $56 Million in Pollution Fines During Pandemic

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  Published 28th May 2020
• Nearly 200 Groups in Canada Vow to Fight for Covid-19 Recovery That Puts Human and Ecological Health First

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  Published 26th May 2020
• Oil Companies Can Set Their Own Rates for Royalties From Drilling on Public Lands Thanks to Trump: "Oil and gas corporations already pay pennies compared to what they make in profits from plundering public lands - land that belongs to the American people - and now they'll pay even less."

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  Published 24th May 2020
• Trump's loyalty to the fossil fuel sector has been unremitting throughout his term, with Public Citizen reporting Wednesday that nearly two-thirds of high-level meetings at the Interior Dept are attended by oil, gas, and coal companies and lobbyists.

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  Published 22nd May 2020
• Climate Protesters Call Out 'Hot Air' of Financial Giant During BlackRock Annual Meeting: "The time for rhetoric and baby steps is long gone. BlackRock has to make substantial changes to its entire investment model in order to be the climate leader it claims to be."

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  Published 22nd May 2020
• EPA Chief Says Trump's Evisceration of Regulations "Make Things Better"—But Forgets to Add "For Polluters": "For Wheeler to claim these rollbacks were for the good of the nation is absurd and insulting," says environmental leader.

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  Published 22nd May 2020
• Naomi Klein and Arundhati Roy Help Launch Global Green New Deal Project With Worldwide Invitation. "The time to build the future we deserve is now, and international solidarity is the tool we need to begin its construction."

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  Published 21st May 2020
• After Dams Fail, Dow Admits Floodwaters in Midland, Michigan 'Commingling' With Toxic Chemical Storage Ponds

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  Published 21st May 2020
• 'Not Just Bad, It's Pathological': While Pushing Big Oil Bailouts, Trump Slaps Wind and Solar Industry With $50 Million in Old Rent Bills: "Robbing from a clean energy future to prop up the dirty energy past."

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  Published 19th May 2020
• Climate Campaigners Applaud Biden on Vow to Pull Plug on Keystone XL Permit: "We'll need just this kind of climate ambition to make way for a livable planet in the next four years."

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  Published 19th May 2020
• 'Shameful Does Not Even Begin to Describe' Trump EPA Decision on Chemical Known to Damage Children's Brains: "Yet another abdication of duty by those that are entrusted with protecting Americans from needless and preventable harm."

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  Published 17th May 2020
• Big Oil Taking $1.9 Billion in CARES Act Tax Breaks Aimed at Helping Small Businesses in 'Stealth Bailout': "In the name of 'small business,' we're shoveling out billions of dollars to big corporations and rich guys."

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  Published 17th May 2020
• 'Disaster Capitalism at Its Worst': Report Details Big Oil's Efforts to Cash In on Coronavirus | “Polluters fought hard for kickbacks in the first coronavirus stimulus package and they are undoubtedly up to it again."

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  Published 13th May 2020
• 'Not Today. Not Tomorrow. Not Ever': Indigenous Campaigners Protest As KXL Pipeline Construction Begins Amid Legal Challenges

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  Published 10th May 2020
• Slashing US Meat Consumption by Half Could Cut Diet-Related Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 35%: Study

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  Published 8th May 2020