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ConocoPhillips Wants To Install Chilling Devices in the Arctic To Get More Oil
You may have heard: President Biden approved an enormous fossil fuel development in the Alaskan Arctic on Monday. The Willow Project,a planned $US8 ($11) billion oil and gas extraction endeavour by ConocoPhillips, is set to move forward in the state’s North Slope — despite fierce pushback from climate and other environmental stakeholders.
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How Oil & Gas Funding Distorts Energy Research
Journalists like me often seek out academics for comment and insight on stories related to the energy transition, since these professors have often done in-depth research into various fuel sources and their impacts. The hope is that these sources are relatively unbiased; their loyalty is to the data. But a study published Thursday in Nature…
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How the American Oil and Gas Industry Funds the Fulbright Program
When Carina Spiro first decided to apply to the Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Program in 2016 as a senior in college, a particular phrase caught her eye. “In the description of Malaysia, the program said applicants must have ‘a sense of adventure,’” she said. “I thought, that’s me, sign me up.”
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Exxon Kicked Out of Climate Group It Helped Form
Seems like Big Oil’s chickens may be coming home to roost. On Friday, the Climate Leadership Council, a bipartisan, industry-supported group that advocates for centrist climate solutions, announced that former founding member ExxonMobil had been kicked out. The move follows a Greenpeace exposé that caught an Exxon lobbyist on tape admitting that the company’s endorsement…