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The 1977 White House climate memo that should have changed the world

Years before the climate crisis was part of national discourse, this memo to the president predicted catastrophe

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US temperatures hit record levels as south-west bakes in heatwave

Phoenix reported 114F, Las Vegas soared to 109F and Denver hit 100F, while inland areas of California reached triple digits

Published: 8:34 AM

Warned of ‘massive’ climate-led extinction, a US energy firm funded crisis denial ads

Southern Company spent $62.1m over the years to deny the impact of fossil fuel combustion on climate crisis

Published: 8:00 AM

‘We were eating, drinking, breathing the oil’: the villagers who stood up to big oil – and won

The fossil fuel industry faces a reckoning in the Niger Delta after disasters made it one of the most polluted places on the planet

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They once worked for big oil’s enablers. Now they refuse to be complicit

Workers within industries that prop up fossil fuels said they could no longer ignore the climate crisis. So they quit

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Exxon must go to trial over alleged climate crimes, court rules

The ruling, and another crucial court decision this week, will force the company to face charges it lied about global heating

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‘We can’t eat a new road’: Guyanese voice fears over true cost of Exxon’s oil bonanza

Multibillion-dollar deal promising to lift country out of poverty may be false dawn with dire impact on climate, warn campaigners

Published: 7:04 AM

Exxon doubles down on ‘advanced recycling’ claims that yield few results

The petroleum company is under investigation for misleading the public while exacerbating the global plastic pollution crisis

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How the oil and gas industry is trying to hold US public schools hostage

Fossil fuel interest groups are telling New Mexicans: let us keep drilling or the state’s education system will collapse

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Why are gas prices so high? These obscure traders are partly to blame

‘Nobody with power is looking at what they’re doing,’ but they’re helping to drive searing gas prices despite increased oil production

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US gas prices are over $4 a gallon. These oil CEOs took home over $20m

Oil and gas CEOs received nearly $45m more in combined total compensation in 2021 compared to 2020 amid a steep rise in prices

Published: 6:15 AM

‘What we now know … they lied’: how big oil companies betrayed us all

In a powerful new three-part docuseries, the oil industry is put on trial as the extent of climate change awareness is revealed

Published: 2:03 AM

Fossil fuels v our future: young Montanans wage historic climate fight

Sixteen young people are suing the state of Montana in what will be the first youth-led climate case to make it to trial

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Putin’s war shows autocracies and fossil fuels go hand in hand. Here’s how to tackle both

Democracies are making more progress than autocracies when it comes to climate action. But divestment campaigns can put pressure on the most recalcitrant of political leaders

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IPCC: We can tackle climate change if big oil gets out of the way

Experts say criticism of oil and gas’s ‘climate-blocking activities’ cut from final draft, reflective of industry’s power and influence

Published: 11:29 AM

Climate action has been ‘a calamity’, says Senate Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse

Rhode Island Democrat talks to the Guardian about the president’s climate record and targeting oil industry’s ‘achilles heel’

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The man who could help big oil derail America’s climate fight

Phil Goldberg, a self-described ‘committed environmentalist’, has a powerful strategy to shield the largest oil companies in America

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A pro-fossil fuel Disney ride voiced by Ellen DeGeneres and Bill Nye? Yes, it existed

Buckle up for the story of Ellen’s Energy Adventure – a ride whose sympathetic stance toward oil and coal is newly relevant

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