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Tom Goldtooth: ‘They Cannot Extinguish the Fire That Standing Rock Started’

Tom Goldtooth: ‘They Cannot Extinguish the Fire That Standing Rock Started’

By Andy Rowell Once again Big Oil has been forced to rely on brutal militarized force to bludgeon, bully, beat and intimidate peaceful water protectors fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline. https://facebook.com/EcoWatch/videos/1462944880385111/ But in the face of such violence and intimidation, the growing movement against new fossil fuels will not be intimidated, it will only grow. […]

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    Climate Change Purged From White House Website

    Climate Change Purged From White House Website

    By Andy Rowell As the Trump Administration Sunday descended into a farce of “alternative facts” to try and argue that there had been historic numbers at the new President’s inauguration, it is quite clear “alternative” and blatantly bogus facts, will be used on energy and climate too. Within minutes of the president being inaugurated on […]

    New Tar Sands Pipelines Are Incompatible With Paris Climate Goals

    New Tar Sands Pipelines Are Incompatible With Paris Climate Goals

    New research released Thursday reveals disturbing new evidence on how locking-into new long-lived tar sands production undermines global efforts to address the global climate crisis far beyond Canada’s borders. “Trudeau’s pipeline decisions will lead directly to suffering, displacement and even death for vulnerable people around the world due to impacts of a warming world,” said […]

    Exxon Ordered to Fork Over 40 Years of Climate Research

    Exxon Ordered to Fork Over 40 Years of Climate Research

    ExxonMobil was dealt a major blow on Wednesday after a Massachusetts judge ordered the company to hand in more than 40 years of climate research. On Wednesday, Suffolk Superior Court Judge Heidi E. Brieger denied the oil giant a protective order that would have blocked Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey’s subpoenas for Exxon’s internal research […]

    Tillerson Called Out for ‘Lying About Climate’ During Confirmation Hearing

    Tillerson Called Out for ‘Lying About Climate’ During Confirmation Hearing

    By Deirdre Fulton At his senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson dodged questions about ExxonMobil’s long history of denying climate science, lending credence to claims his tenure would be a disaster for the planet. [facebook https://www.facebook.com/EcoWatch/videos/1416870398325893/ expand=1] When pressed by Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) about the major charges unearthed […]

    Trudeau Touts Trump’s Support for Keystone XL

    Trudeau Touts Trump’s Support for Keystone XL

    By Steve Horn At a speech given to the Calgary Chamber of Commerce, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he intends to work with President-elect Donald Trump to approve the northern leg of TransCanada‘s Keystone XL pipeline. The speech comes as Trump revealed in a recent interview with Fox News that one of the first […]

    Trump Taps Exxon’s Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State, Confirms ‘Support of Big Oil and Putin’

    Trump Taps Exxon’s Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State, Confirms ‘Support of Big Oil and Putin’

    Following weeks of speculation, President-elect Donald Trump has officially nominated Rex Tillerson—the longtime leader of world’s largest fossil fuel company, ExxonMobil—to be secretary of state. On the president-elect’s favorite mode of communication, Trump tweeted that Tillerson is “one of the truly great business leaders of the world” and likes his “vast experience at dealing successfully […]

    Trump Picks ‘Puppet of the Fossil Fuel Industry’ to Head EPA

    Trump Picks ‘Puppet of the Fossil Fuel Industry’ to Head EPA

    Donald Trump has appointed Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The conservative Republican has close ties to the fossil fuel industry and has waged numerous legal wars against the EPA and President Obama’s environmental regulations, including the president’s signature Clean Power Plan. Pruitt, who was elected as Oklahoma’s […]