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![An oil refinery billows smoke.]()
A new scorecard ranked companies on environmental racism. Guess who came in last?
ExxonMobil and other oil companies got negative scores for polluting nonwhite communities.
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As disasters mount, central banks gird against threat of climate change
From the Bank of England to the People’s Bank of China, officials of the world’s largest economies are gauging how climate change could rock the financial system.
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Report: Oil companies are burning off natural gas — and leaving regulators in the dark
A new analysis is the first to identify what could constitute widespread illegal flaring in Texas oil fields.
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![Posters call for the release of attorney Steven Donziger.]()
![Posters call for the release of attorney Steven Donziger.]()
This attorney took on Chevron. Then Chevron-linked judges and private prosecutors had him locked up.
Steven Donziger's legal saga has demonstrated deep-rooted conflicts of interest in the judicial system when it comes to climate justice.
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Has Fannie Mae’s $95 billion in green bonds made anything greener?
'We're looking at some measure of greenwashing in the largest program in the world.'
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![Oil rigs in culver city.]()
![Oil rigs in culver city.]()
Follow the money: US subsidizes oil and gas so investors never lose
Finally, we have the numbers and they're not pretty, detailing how it doesn't matter what price fuel is.
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![Collage: a photo of oil pumpjacks with Facebook emoji reactions on top]()
Big Oil spent $10 million on Facebook ads last year — to sell what, exactly?
A report found that the ads peaked when politicians were poised to act on climate.
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![Illustration: A cracked Venetian mask with the Chamber of Commerce design on it]()
![Illustration: A cracked Venetian mask with the Chamber of Commerce design on it]()
The Chamber of Commerce says it cares about people of color. The receipts say otherwise.
While protecting its donors from climate risk disclosures, the business lobby continues to imperil Black and brown communities it claims to care about.
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Bay Area regulators just delivered on a promise to help frontline communities breathe easier
The new rules “will save lives,” one doctor said. “It will make my patients immediately healthier.”
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How Tesla shows Obama’s green loan program was a success
Republicans claimed Solyndra and the government's green loan program was a failure. Ten years later, what did the loan program really cost?
