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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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