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Trump’s new tariffs could make America suck again for coal miners
Oil and gas execs aren’t too happy either.
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Exxon says climate lawsuits violate its right to free speech. Seriously.
Exxon is spinning a new narrative about who the real victim is.
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Climate change will have its Scopes Monkey Trial this week
A court pits Big Oil against California and decades of denial against climate science.
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Exxon is looking for ways to slash carbon emissions
While under fire publicly for climate change, the company has found a way to cool down chemical manufacturing.
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The ExxonMobil refinery that exploded in L.A. last year is up and running again
The plant whose explosion injured four workers, rained chemical ash, and registered on the Richter scale restarted its refinery this week.
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Critical List: More droughts and floods coming; Koch super PAC hits Obama on green energy
The earth’s water cycle is speeding up twice as fast as climate models predicted, which means more droughts and more floods. The Kochs’ super PAC spent $6.1 million — more money than it’s ever spent before on a single ad — on this ad criticizing the president’s green energy spending. Now Peru has a domestic […]
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Oil execs get monster raises after a ‘very strong’ 2011
How big was your raise last year? John Watson, the CEO of Chevron, got a 52 percent bump in his compensation. That’s a nice chunk of change for anyone, and in Watson’s case, it brought his total yearly take up to about $25 million. Which is nothing to complain about, unless Watson is comparing his […]
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Critical List: Emperor penguin population double previous estimates; a new fracking working group
A team using very high resolution satellite pictures counted twice as many emperor penguins in Antarctica than any previous study had. President Obama formed a new working group in Washington to coordinate federal oversight of fracking. Those earthquakes in Oklahoma and Arkansas could be caused not just by fracking wastewater disposal but by fracking itself.