As its employees face arrests abroad, Barrick Gold is pushing for mineral development policies at home
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B.C. quietly allowed an oil and gas giant to sidestep rules for more than 4,300 pipelines
B.C.’s energy regulator has the power to grant such exemptions — without notifying the public. Experts raise alarm about the process, saying the regulator is playing soft with fossil fuel companies
Medscape: Chewing Gum Contributes to Microplastic Ingestion
Chewing gum, whether natural or synthetic, may release microplastics that are directly ingested.
MicroplasticsFrom the climate community on Reddit: Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer. The damage at 3C will be so great that governments will be unable to provide financial bailouts and it will be impossible to adapt to many climate impacts.
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From the climate community on Reddit: I was an independent observer in the Greenpeace trial. What I saw was shocking | Steven Donziger
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From the environment community on Reddit: How Jordan Peterson Became a Global Anti-Net Zero Power Broker. The Canadian psychologist is leading a Trump administration-linked network opposed to eliminating greenhouse gas pollution by 2050.
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How Jordan Peterson Became a Global Anti-Net Zero Power Broker
This special investigation between Canada’s National Observer and DeSmog was produced in collaboration with the Institute for Sustainability, Education and Action and TRACE Foundation. “No more carbon apocalypse-mongering,” Jordan Peterson told an audience of thousands in February at a global conservative conference in London known as the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC). The crowd applauded loudly. The world is […]
Bill Gates Gives Up on Climate Change
Bill Gates is quietly ending his green energy policy and advocacy organization, laying off employees throughout the US and Europe.
Capitalism is Incompatible: Denial & Greenwashing
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Disturbing scene unfolds at government agency that provides public with life-saving services: 'Hostile corporate takeover'
Elon Musk's new Department of Government Efficiency may have set its sights on stripping down the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
BP to ditch renewables goals and return focus to fossil fuels : r/climate
The Trump Administration Rolled Back More Than 100 Environmental Rules. Here’s the Full List.
The Trump administration has dismantled nearly 100 policies focused on clean air, water, wildlife and toxic chemicals, and left more than a dozen rollbacks unfinished. Here’s how they add up.
NOAA scientists refuse to link warming weather to climate change
In a monthly reporting call on global climate, researchers from the US government’s climate and weather agency avoided mentioning rising levels of greenhouse gases
Trump energy chief says there are upsides to ecological collapse
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I Believed Climate Change Was a Lie. Here’s What Changed My Mind.
Climate change skepticism isn’t just ignorance—it’s a carefully orchestrated campaign that's more powerful than ever.
U.S. energy secretary Chris Wright backs coal and attacks ‘sinister’ climate targets at ARC conference. The Trump appointee and fossil fuel executive called the transition to renewable energy “lunacy” at an event packed with climate science deniers. : r/climate
Climate denial is a sinister movement that denies the science of climate change that has infiltrated deep within American politics and is still thriving today. The widespread oppression of science in America is a rarity in modern history — with the exceptions of Germany and Russia during the 1930s : r/climate
Trump, Musk move to oust EPA staff in the Great Lakes region, including dozens responsible for protecting drinking water for 30 million in U.S. and Canada
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The mad scramble to save critical climate data from Trump’s war on DEI
1.2K votes, 31 comments. 237K subscribers in the climate community. Truthful and accurate information about the world's climate, as well as related…
James Hansen’s New Paper and Presentation: Global Warming Has ACCELERATED
908 votes, 133 comments. 237K subscribers in the climate community. Truthful and accurate information about the world's climate, as well as related…
How Fracking Billionaires, Ben Shapiro, and PragerU Built a Climate Crisis–Denial Empire
PragerU and the Daily Wire, two of the internet’s biggest spreaders of climate crisis denial, got seed money from two ultra-religious fracking brothers from Texas.