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U.S. Paid $1 Billion To Paris Agreement Green Fund – All Other Nations Combined $0…

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The Paris Treaty was/is always about distribution of economic wealth; and the convenient use of “climate phrases” as branding instruments used to create political policy favorable to multinational corporate interests who control the shifting of economic wealth. Listen to the responses from participating EU corporate comptrollers discussing climate and the entire purpose of the Paris […]

Pruitt’s EPA Axes Half of Key Scientific Review Panel…

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Scott Pruitt’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has abruptly dismissed as many as half the members of a key scientific review board, and is seeking to replace them with representatives of the very industries the agency is tasked with policing. “Today, I was Trumped,” wrote Robert Richardson, an environmental economist at Michigan State University and former […]

BP Arctic Oil Well Still Leaking, Too Unstable to Shut Down…

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BP and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials spent the holiday weekend trying to repair a leaking oil well on Alaska’s North Slope. Officials said the well is too unstable to shut down because of frigid temps in the high Arctic, but have released the pressure on one of the main leaks. It appears that 1.5 […]

President Trump Signs an Energy Independence Executive Order (VIDEO)…

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First, today’s energy independence action calls for an immediate reevaluation of the so-called Clean Power Plan. (Applause.) Perhaps no single regulation threatens our miners, energy workers, and companies more than this crushing attack on American industry. Second, we are lifting the ban on federal leasing for coal production. Third, we are lifting job-killing restrictions on…

EPA Makes it Official, Sends $100M to Michigan for Flint Water Crisis…

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded a $100-million grant to the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality to fund drinking water infrastructure upgrades in Flint, funding that had been approved by Congress and former President Barack Obama late last year. Provided by the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act of 2016, the funds awarded…

Trump Adviser Is Betting Millions of Dollars That Trump Will Take His Advice…

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Carl Icahn, the high-stakes financier who has been using his position as a Trump adviser to push for a major rule-change affecting the ethanol industry, is now literally betting millions of dollars on financial markets that Trump will take his advice. As previously reported at The Intercept, Icahn has pushed to get the Environmental Protection […]

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