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  • March 1, 2022

    How the fossil fuel industry tries to cash in on crises

    The current conflict has exposed the deeper crisis in our energy system: its reliance on fossil gas. It has also put on display the propaganda machine that is the fossil fuel industry and its enablers who peddle their own interests even while countless face the violence of war.

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  • Jan. 20, 2022

    Three ways President Biden can act on climate without Congress in 2022

    Entering his second year, Biden must draw on his full executive authority to curb the power of polluters and help protect people and planet. Here are three things he can do now.

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  • Aug. 31, 2021

    This Big Oil CEO asked youth climate activists to join the industry. We asked some activists for their reactions.

    After Chevron’s CEO implored young people to join the company in helping to create a better future, we checked with a few youth climate activists to get their reactions to greenwashing and youthwashing from the fossil fuel industry. Here’s what they said.

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  • Alexandria Robins / April 23, 2021

    Biden’s Leaders Summit on Climate must protect the world’s forests from Wall Street

    President Biden has big ambitions for protecting the climate. However, the US will be severely undermined in its move to become a climate leader if its own banks and investors are complicit in forest destruction

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  • April 15, 2021

    Biden can’t claim climate leadership while shipping fossil fuels abroad

    To show true climate leadership, Biden must act to ban fossil fuel exports and protect communities from associated environmental injustices.

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  • Alice Harrison / April 1, 2021

    Big Oil is paying the police for protection. Here’s why that’s a problem

    Protestors are calling on US President Biden to block a huge oil pipeline through their land, in the face of intimidation from police and politicians

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  • Feb. 5, 2021

    It’s time to end the power of climate-wrecking industries in the US

    In the lead up to COP26, the surge of climate action coming from the US could help mark 2021 as a historic turning point. But curbing climate breakdown will take a movement – not a moment.

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  • Naomi Hirst / Feb. 5, 2021

    One month on from the insurrection at the Capitol, our view on how to redeem social media

    The online repercussions of the US Capitol riots put the power and reach of Big Tech in the spotlight. We now need action to tackle the platforms' role in enabling political division and extremism

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  • Jan. 27, 2021

    An open letter to Elon Musk on his promises to donate millions for carbon capture tech

    Ultimately, Mr. Musk, if you are interested in advancing real climate solutions, we ask that you begin by looking internally into your corporate practices of alleged exploitation and extraction, rather than perpetuating false climate solutions.

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  • Jan. 15, 2021

    Amid Pro-Trump violence and white supremacy, accountability and justice must prevail

    In this fragile moment, when American democracy hangs in the balance, we must adamantly reject the systems of oppression that embolden perpetrators of violence and hate. The work for a just and equitable future continues.

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