climate change policy
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Exxon Lobbyists Reveal in Secret Recordings How They Manipulate Politicians and the Public
Two lobbyists for Exxon have been caught on tape admitting how the company manipulates politicians and the public. Among the damning admissions are that the company views its advocacy for a carbon tax as little more than “an advocacy tool” and that it once funded “shadow groups” to fight climate science.
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A Landmark Report Calls for Stopping New Fossil Fuel Development Next Year
While oil and gas companies ramp up the PR around their net zero commitments and try to convince us that fossil fuels can coexist with climate action, the science has long been clear that we need to quit dirty fuels pretty much immediately. One of the world’s biggest energy arbiters now says it agrees.
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Biden Pledges to Cut U.S. Carbon Emissions 50% by 2030
On Thursday morning, the Biden administration unveiled a pledge to slice the U.S.’s greenhouse gas emissions in half compared to 2005 levels by the end of the decade. It will accomplish this, it says, by investing in infrastructure, funding a green economic recovery from the covid-19 pandemic, taking on pollution, and bolstering American production of…
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Some Climate Tipping Points May Be Reversible, If We Act Fast
In the already-glum world of climate research, tipping points are one of the least rosy areas of study. The collapse of crucial systems in response to passing certain levels of planetary heating isn’t exactly uplifting stuff.