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Meet the combustible cartoon character who wants to make kids feel sorry for fossil fuels

A new children’s book by a Chevron-backed clean energy venture paints a sympathetic portrait of coal, oil, and gas.

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Wildfire on ridgetop threatens a neighborhood. Suburban home with vehicles in driveway.

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Climate disasters hit homeowners through insurance bills, and states want Big Oil to pay

After surviving a California wildfire, one family saw premiums quadruple — as states consider laws to force fossil fuel companies to pay for the soaring costs of climate catastrophes they helped create.

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Big Oil knew it was wrecking Louisiana’s coast, records show

Parish lawsuits, including one in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, could make oil giants pay to restore the state’s vanishing marshes.

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How fossil fuel corporations are trying to sue their critics into silence

By Emily Sanders In 2018, Krystal Two Bulls received notice that she was being sued for criminal conspiracy. Two Bulls, who is Oglala Lakota and North Cheyenne, has been organizing for environmental justice for much of her life. She was raised on the North Cheyenne Indian Reservation of Lame Deer, Montana, part of a community […]

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Mapped: How the net zero backlash is tied to climate denial – and Brexit

“Go for gas with all the vigour of a national war effort…” That was the take from Steve Baker on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Baker, the leading light of the backbench Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), has seized on the war to push for the UK’s ban on fracking to be scrapped. Ukraine is just […]

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Rightwing lobby group ALEC driving laws to blacklist companies that boycott the oil industry

By Chris McGreal, the Guardian. This article by the Guardian is republished here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate crisis. The influential rightwing lobby group the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is driving a surge in new state laws to block boycotts […]

ORIGINAL REPORTING

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Meet the combustible cartoon character who wants to make kids feel sorry for fossil fuels

Climate disasters hit homeowners through insurance bills, and states want Big Oil to pay

Big Oil knew it was wrecking Louisiana’s coast, records show

How fossil fuel corporations are trying to sue their critics into silence

Mapped: How the net zero backlash is tied to climate denial – and Brexit

Rightwing lobby group ALEC driving laws to blacklist companies that boycott the oil industry

China goes electric, but can it get off coal?

Trump has created a climate opportunity

Wall Street is betting big on clean energy tech

New EPA proposal aims to strike down landmark climate "endangerment finding"

Wildfire burns historic Grand Canyon lodge as toxic gas leak complicates response

Trump administration redirects clean energy funds in defiance of Congress

As the weather warms, so can challenges for North Carolina's shellfish farmers

As property insurance crisis worsens, some lawmakers target Big Oil