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    The Many Reasons to Be Skeptical Over Rick Perry’s Grid Study

    The Many Reasons to Be Skeptical Over Rick Perry’s Grid Study

    By Lisa Hymas Energy Sec. Rick Perry has ordered his department to produce a study on whether the ongoing shift toward renewable energy is affecting the reliability of the electrical grid. A number of experts, clean-energy advocates and politicians on both sides of the aisle believe the study is intended to be biased in favor […]

    Fox News Host: Trump Called Me for Advice on Paris Agreement

    Fox News Host: Trump Called Me for Advice on Paris Agreement

    Kimberly Guilfoyle (Co-Host): I don’t think this is a deal that anybody should be crying about. Like we said, it’s non-binding, and the United States is already a clean energy, oil and gas leader. So, we can keep doing what we’re doing, we can keep reducing our emissions. Why would we in fact put ourselves […]

    World’s Biggest Companies to Trump: Stay in Paris Agreement

    World’s Biggest Companies to Trump: Stay in Paris Agreement

    By Lisa Hymas With President Donald Trump reportedly poised to pull out of the Paris climate agreement, right-wing media are encouraging the move by misleading about the accord. They’re claiming that it is a job killer and “anti-Western,” that it would lead to “economic devastation” and that it amounts to an “international regulatory scheme.” But […]

    EPA Reportedly Helped Paris Agreement Opponents Place Op-Eds in Newspapers

    EPA Reportedly Helped Paris Agreement Opponents Place Op-Eds in Newspapers

    By Kevin Kalhoefer & Lisa Hymas President Donald Trump has decided to exit the Paris climate agreement, according to Axios. The news site also reported that the Scott Pruitt-led U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been “quietly working” with opponents of the agreement to help them place op-eds in newspapers. Media Matters identified a number […]

    ‘Put Up or Shut Up’: North Carolina Meteorologist Calls Out Climate Deniers

    ‘Put Up or Shut Up’: North Carolina Meteorologist Calls Out Climate Deniers

    Frustrated by non-experts taking to the internet to dispute the science behind human-made climate change, North Carolina meteorologist Greg Fishel issued a challenge to climate deniers, urging them to “put up or shut up” and “submit your work the way real scientists do, and see where it takes you.” The News & Observer highlighted Fishel’s […]

    Will Anti-Fracking Websites Be Labeled ‘Fake News?’

    Will Anti-Fracking Websites Be Labeled ‘Fake News?’

    By Kevin Kalhoefer Conservative outlets are highlighting a pro-fracking group’s attempt to convince Google, which recently promised to alter its search algorithm to demote fake news, to also tweak it to purge or demote websites critical of fracking. On May 8, Texans for Natural Gas, an industry group funded by Texas energy companies, published an […]

    Climate Experts Blast New York Times in Open Letter

    Climate Experts Blast New York Times in Open Letter

    Dozens of climate experts are calling on The New York Times to reaffirm its dedication to the facts and issue a more comprehensive correction to columnist Bret Stephens’ error-laden debut column on climate change. On April 29, former Wall Street Journal columnist and longtime climate denier Bret Stephens published his first column, Climate of Complete […]