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Pruitt Emails Show Cozy Ties to Fossil Fuel Industry
By Steve Horn, Sharon Kelly and Graham Readfearn The Center for Media and Democracy ( CMD ) has published thousands of emails obtained from the office of former Oklahoma Attorney General, Scott Pruitt...
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Study Links Childhood Leukemia With Living Near Oil and Gas Development
By Mike Gaworecki With the rise of new technologies like fracking and horizontal drilling, oil and gas development in the U.S. has exploded over the last 15 years. As development expands, it's also...
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Trump's Top Energy Aid: Former Koch Lobbyist, Peddled Climate Denial for Decades
By Steve Horn Mike Catanzaro , President Trump's recently minted top energy aide , has officially begun his first week on the job at the White House. He was hired to move policy measures through...
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Communities Push Back on Koch Brother's 'Distasteful Effort' to Promote...
By Ben Jervey Religious leaders and environmental justice activists in Richmond, Virginia, are "pushing back" against the Koch -funded Fueling U.S. Forward campaign's efforts to target minority...
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Who's Killing the Electric Car?
By Ben Jervey As federal support for electric vehicles ( EV s) is expected to wither under the Trump administration, state-level policies will play the biggest political role in how quickly battery...
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3 Reasons Why Keystone XL Pipeline May Never Get Built
By James Wilt Almost a full decade since first applying for a presidential permit, TransCanada looks set to finally receive go-ahead in the U.S. for its massive $8-billion Keystone XL pipeline . But...
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6 Reasons Why Trump Will Never Stop the Renewable Energy Revolution
By Emma Gilchrist The solar industry was responsible for creating one out of every 50 new jobs in the U.S. last year and the country's fastest-growing occupation is wind turbine technician—so no...
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New York Times Defends Hiring Climate Science Denier
By Graham Readfearn The New York Times has been defending the paper's hiring of a climate science denier , fighting off its critics with what it claims is a standard fashioned from hardened...
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690,000 Contiguous Acres in Alaska May Soon Be Open to Fracking
By Steve Horn Hydraulic fracturing's horizontal drilling technique has enabled industry to tap otherwise difficult-to-access oil and gas in shale basins throughout the U.S. and increasingly throughout...
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Obama Approved 2 Pipelines to Mexico Amid Dakota Access Pipeline Protests
By Steve Horn On Sept. 9, the Obama administration revoked authorization for construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) on federally controlled lands and asked the pipeline's owners, led by...
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Everything You Need to Know About Viral Sensation Ken Bone and His...
By Steve Horn After Kenneth Bone asked a question about energy to presidential nominees Donald Trump and Secretary Hillary Clinton at the presidential town hall debate on Oct. 9, he quickly became a...
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Drone Footage Shows Dakota Access Pipeline Company Ignored Request to Halt...
By Steve Horn The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has confirmed to DeSmog that Energy Transfer Partners, the owner of the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline , has ignored the Obama administration's Sept. 9...
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Trump to Pick Exxon CEO for Secretary of State Despite Close Ties to Putin
By Steve Horn ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson—who has close personal and company ties to Russia and President Vladimir Putin—is President-elect Donald Trump's top pick to become the next secretary of...
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Trump's Pick for Energy Secretary Sits on Board of Dakota Access Pipeline...
By Steve Horn Former Texas Republican Gov. Rick Perry , a board member of Energy Transfer Partners—owner of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) —has been named U.S. Secretary of Energy by...
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Waterkeeper Alliance Calls on EPA to Cut Ties With Exxon
By Steve Horn Waterkeeper Alliance , represented by Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic, submitted a 54-page petition with 358 footnotes and 448 pages containing 43 exhibits to the U.S. Environmental...
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Leaked Audio: 'Election Night Changed Everything,' Dakota Access Pipeline 'Is...
By Steve Horn Shaun King, a writer for the New York Daily News, has uploaded what appears to be a recorded audio file of Energy Transfer Partners' Chief Operating Officer saying that "election night...
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11 Cities Showing What Bold Climate Action Looks Like
By Mike Gaworecki Eleven cities from around the world were celebrated recently in Mexico City at the C40 Cities Awards for their commitment to innovation in the fight against climate change . The...
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Eyeing Trump, Obama Bans Arctic Drilling
By Steve Horn President Obama announced Tuesday what amounts to a ban of offshore drilling in huge swaths of continental shelf in both the Alaskan Arctic Ocean and Atlantic Ocean, a decision which...
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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...
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12 Investigative News Stories of 2016 Exposing Corporate Greed
By Ashley Braun From fake news to phony Twitter support, 2016 was dominated by plenty of falsities surrounding climate change and energy development. DeSmog remains dedicated to uncovering this...
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