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Trump Pledges Allegiance to Big Oil
By Steve Horn On Jan. 24, President Donald Trump signed two executive orders calling for the approval of the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines , owned by Energy Transfer Partners and...
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Exxon, Russia Eye Oil and Gas in Disputed South China Sea
By Steve Horn President Donald Trump 's newly sworn-in Secretary of State, recently retired ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson , turned heads when he expressed support for an aggressive military stance...
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The Koch Brothers and Trump's EPA Beachhead Team
By Ben Jervey Earlier this week, staffers at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) received their first official email from the new administration . "Changes will likely come and when they...
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Trump Team Tied to Atlantic Coast Pipeline Now Being Pushed by White House
By Steve Horn and Itai Vardi On Jan. 25, President Donald Trump's team listed the Atlantic Coast pipeline among the White House's top priorities for infrastructure projects, an attempt to deliver on...
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Texas Pipeline Spills 600,000 Gallons of Oil One Week Before DAPL Is Approved
By Steve Horn On Jan. 30, 600,000 gallons (14,285 barrels) of oil spewed out of Enbridge's Seaway Pipeline in Blue Ridge, Texas, the second spill since the pipeline opened for business in mid-2016....
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Putin's Ties to the Keystone XL Pipeline
By Steve Horn and Itai Vardi Believe it or not, there's a key connection to Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, in the fight over North America's controversial Keystone XL pipeline . One of...
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These 4 Koch-Funded Congressmen Are Behind the Bill to Abolish the EPA
By Alex Kotch Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz turned heads when he introduced a bill on Feb. 3 to "completely abolish" the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ). "Today, the American people...
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Steel Made by Russian Company Tied to Putin Used in Keystone XL and Dakota...
By Steve Horn At his Feb. 16 press conference , President Trump discussed his executive orders calling for U.S. federal agencies to grant TransCanada and Energy Transfer Partners the permits needed to...
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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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Spectra Energy Got to Edit Its Air Pollution Permit for Atlantic Bridge Gas...
By Itai Vardi Massachusetts environmental officials allowed Spectra Energy to quietly review and edit a draft approval of an air pollution permit the state plans to grant the company for its Atlantic...
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Energy Transfer Partners in Hot Water Again Over Rover Pipeline Construction
By Steve Horn After taking heat last fall for destroying sacred sites of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe , the owner of the Dakota Access pipeline finds itself embattled anew over the preservation of...
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Buy Low, Sell High: Anadarko Execs Buy Up Depressed Stock After Deadly...
By Steve Horn Buy low, sell high. It's a maxim taught to stock traders from day one and one which Anadarko Petroleum's upper-level management seems to have taken to heart in the aftermath of the April...
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