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US taxpayers subsidising world’s biggest fossil fuel companies
The world’s biggest and most profitable fossil fuel companies are receiving huge and rising subsidies from US taxpayers, a practice slammed as absurd by a presidential candidate given the threat of…
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Murkowski tries to end 40-year-old crude oil export ban
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chair Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) introduced a bill to repeal the 40-year-old ban on exporting crude oil. The ban was a response to the…
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House continues extreme anti-environmental rampage
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House of Representatives passed Rep. Bill Shuster’s (R-Pa.) bill, H.R. 1732, that would undermine the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Water Rule by a vote of 261-1…
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Senate blocks discussion of Trade Authority
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell failed to get the 60 votes necessary to begin debate on the Hatch-Wyden trade promotion authority bill. If passed the bill would grant Pres…
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Seattle port commissioners vote to delay Shell: Ships still inbound
The Seattle Port Commission, responding to intense and conflicting pressure, opted for a contradictory solution Tuesday that would “delay” mooring of Shell’s Arctic drilling fleet at Terminal 5…
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Advocates for public health and environment chide Rep. Blumenauer for trade vote
Groups launch TV ad buy in Portland, Ore. and Washington, D.C. condemning Rep. Blumenauer’s trade vote WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today Food & Water Watch, Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace began…
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Fossil fuels from federal lands create one quarter of total U.S. carbon emissions, new report concludes
A newly released analysis by the Climate Accountability Institute concludes that fossil fuels extracted from federal lands release carbon equal to a quarter of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. The r…
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Obama administration approves Shells plan to drill in the Arctic
The Obama administration gave conditional approval today to Shell to start drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic Ocean this summer. Shell has been fighting for the right to drill in the Arctic for ye…
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Interior Department approves Shell’s Arctic oil exploration and drilling plan
After a process of about 2 years, and political wrangling dating back to at least 2008, the US Department of the Interior on Monday granted Shell “limited” permits to explore & drill s…
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Interior approves Shells dangerous drilling exploration plan
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of the Interior gave conditional approval of Shell’s revised Exploration Plan for oil and gas drilling in the Chukchi Sea, pending receipt of drilling permits fro…