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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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![Smoke drifting away from a Shell Oil refinery]()
![Smoke drifting away from a Shell Oil refinery]()
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?
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Exxon lobbyists paid the 6 Democrats named in sting video nearly $333,000
A new analysis takes a wide look at the company’s influence in Arizona, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire and West Virginia.
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![Collage: A bag with planet Earth on it spilling hundred dollar bills]()
![Collage: A bag with planet Earth on it spilling hundred dollar bills]()
A $100 billion promise holds the Paris Agreement together. Now, it’s coming apart.
Rich countries are failing to put the money behind their promises.
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Report: Corporate giants have been lobbying against their own emissions targets
Almost every S&P 100 company plans to reduce its emissions. But only 40% have lobbied for science-based climate policy.
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![Illustration: farmland with a barn and silos, corn, and a coal factory in the distance]()
![Illustration: farmland with a barn and silos, corn, and a coal factory in the distance]()
The US is about to go all-in on paying farmers and foresters to trap carbon
The problem is, it’s unclear if “carbon offsets” even work.
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![Low angle view of an Exxon gas station sign]()
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How to sabotage climate legislation? An Exxon lobbyist explains.
Joe Manchin, "shadow groups," and one really bad job interview.
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![Residents protest the construction of a new auto-manufacturing facility in southeast Detroit.]()
![Residents protest the construction of a new auto-manufacturing facility in southeast Detroit.]()
Detroit’s first new assembly line in 30 years will compound pollution in Black neighborhoods
Residents are fighting back against the environmental racism.
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![An offshore oil rig against a brilliant sunset]()
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How bankruptcy lets oil and gas companies evade cleanup rules
"It's basically bankruptcy for profit."
