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In late July, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced at a trucking facility in Indiana that the Trump administration would be moving to rescind the “endangerment finding,” an agency declaration which provides the legal foundation for many major U.S. climate regulations. Zeldin was joined at the press conference by U.S. Energy Secretary and […]

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Most of the United States’ major climate regulations are underpinned by one important document: It’s called the endangerment finding, and it concludes that greenhouse gas emissions are a threat to human health and welfare. The Trump administration is trying to eliminate it. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced on July 29, that the EPA […]

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This article by Corporate Knights is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now. In the fight against climate disinformation, the messengers – not just the message – are increasingly coming under fire. An international campaign spearheaded by the Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA), called Break the Fossil Influence – Fossil-Free […]

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The far-right Patriots for Europe (PfE), currently the third-largest group in the European Parliament, achieved a major victory in July. The group will lead negotiations on the EU’s 2040 climate target – a powerful role that will allow it to draft the Parliament’s position on the EU’s climate policies. This appointment signals a turning point. […]

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Nigel Farage’s Reform UK paid almost £1.3 million to conservative publications during the 2024 general election campaign. The right-wing populist party, which frequently claims to be a victim of media bias, spent roughly 25 percent of its £5.5 million budget on adverts in the Daily Mail, The Sun, and the Daily Express. These adverts were “clearly […]

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Shell’s LNG Canada facility in Kitimat, B.C., shipped its first tanker of Asian-bound liquefied natural gas last month, signaling the beginning of a liquefied natural gas boom in Canada. The prospect of a surge in fossil fuel exports that could turn the country into the world’s fifth biggest LNG exporter is being cheered on by […]

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This week, Italy’s highest court ruled that a climate lawsuit brought by Greenpeace Italy and advocacy group ReCommon against Eni can move forward.  In the decision, released on Monday, the court rejected Italian oil and gas company Eni’s motions to dismiss the lawsuit on jurisdictional grounds, and ordered that the case be heard on its merits […]

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Does production equal prosperity? Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has been throwing around some very optimistic what-if numbers in her relentless lobbying efforts to build ever-more oil pipelines. “If we had the Energy East, if we had Keystone XL, if we had Northern Gateway, we would be producing two and half million barrels a day more […]

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This article was published in partnership with Unearthed and BBC The Environment Agency (EA) has dropped 10,000 water quality tests from its work to ensure the health of England’s rivers and lakes over the past three months, due to staff shortages at the regulator’s main lab.  The agency took a last-minute decision to pause or […]

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As Europe races toward a U.S. trade deal, lobbyists for America’s biggest natural gas exporters are pushing to carve a major loophole in the EU’s methane rules, using ongoing trade and tariff disputes in a campaign to weaken Europe’s climate standards. “It’s very clear that the industry and the State Department are putting a lot […]

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Officials in the Donald Trump administration discussed loaning the oil-rich province of Alberta hundreds of millions of dollars to help it become independent from Canada, a prominent separatist is claiming.  “I met the senior U.S. administrative officials just a couple steps away from the president himself,” recalled Dennis Modry, the former CEO of the Alberta […]

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Climate science deniers are flooding social media with false claims during extreme weather events, drowning out reliable information and putting lives at risk. A new report by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), which researches and campaigns against online hatred and disinformation, finds that anti-climate figures are increasingly spreading false information about wildfires and hurricanes […]

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