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Also: Congressional Dems expose depths of Big Oil deception, denial... Today's BradCast is perhaps better listened to than explained. But here's a quick summary and some links for more details. [Audio link to full program follows this summary.] We...
by TheBradBlog
on Thu May 02, 2024 at 06:47 PM PDT
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By David Helvarg The rightwing Heritage Foundation has written “Project 2025,” a plan for what it hopes will be a second Trump administration. The plan calls for rapidly expanding fossil fuel emissions and includes a chapter on opening up the...
by Blue Notes
on Mon Apr 22, 2024 at 01:57 PM PDT
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The Bureau of Land Management has announced new regulations for 245 million acres of public property. Important modernization includes conservation measures and increased bonds and royalties. BLM itself says this will concentrate exploitation, thus...
by RosyFinch
on Thu Apr 18, 2024 at 10:14 PM PDT
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Also: Trump's ridiculous 'immunity' rant Seven jurors now seated in his NY criminal trial House Repubs deliver impeachment articles to Senate Smartmatic, OAN settle 2020 defamation suit... Even Joe Biden is now making jokes about the plummeting value...
by TheBradBlog
on Tue Apr 16, 2024 at 07:20 PM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Sometimes it seems as if it just never sinks in. I mean, it shouldn’t be that complicated anymore. It’s hardly news that 2023 was...
by TomDispatch
on Tue Apr 16, 2024 at 07:55 AM PDT
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One good rule of thumb in investing, never trust an oil company CEO. Last month, Amin Nasser, the CEO of Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company Aramco, told the audience at CERAWeek in Houston that the global transition to clean energy “is visibly...
by Justin Mikulka
on Fri Apr 12, 2024 at 06:31 AM PDT
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Guest: Investigative journalist Helen Santoro Also: Could OH block Biden from 2024 ballot? Big media help Trump lie about his abortion position Biden unveils new student loan debt relief for 30 million Americans... The warnings came from safety...
by TheBradBlog
on Mon Apr 08, 2024 at 06:50 PM PDT
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When Arnaud de Borchgrave and Robert Moss introduced the word “disinformation” to readers of their 1980 roman à clef spy novel “The Spike”—deriving the term from the Russian dezinformatsiya, the title of a KGB black propaganda department—it didn’t make...
by Meteor Blades
on Sun Apr 07, 2024 at 08:00 AM PDT
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The Nation has picked up a hit piece that I originally read on DKos. This is the latest in a long campaign of misinformation and court filings designed to stop people from switching away from fossil fuel vehicles to electric vehicles. First, understand...
by CorpFlunky
on Mon Apr 01, 2024 at 10:19 AM PDT
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There was a bit a of news last week from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. That’s the 32-year-old process, backed by treaty, by which limits on carbon emissions are negotiated. To the government ministers and negotiators...
by Meteor Blades
on Sun Mar 31, 2024 at 08:00 AM PDT
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The spotlight is a weekly, categorized compilation of links and excerpts from environmentally related posts at Daily Kos. Any posts included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
by Meteor Blades
on Sun Mar 24, 2024 at 11:47 AM PDT
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by Janet Wilson, The Desert Sun This story was originally published by ProPublica . Oil giant Chevron has agreed to pay a record-setting $13 million to two California agencies for past oil ...
by ProPublica
on Sat Mar 23, 2024 at 01:59 PM PDT
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Republicans hated the Inflation Reduction Act and its climate-friendly provisions from the get-go. Not a single GOP senator or representative voted for it in 2022. Over the past few years, a number of congressional Republicans have given up outright...
by Meteor Blades
on Sun Mar 24, 2024 at 08:00 AM PDT
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There is a very large energy industry convention goin on right now — CERA Week. CERA is the old Cambridge Energy Research Associates that was bought by S&P Global. CERA Week is a big deal in this industry. And, surprise, two of the major things getting...
by tjlord
on Wed Mar 20, 2024 at 03:00 PM PDT
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Donald Trump’s recent public appearances have featured a mishmash of barely coherent ramblings , ...
by Walter Einenkel
on Fri Mar 15, 2024 at 04:00 PM PDT
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Since Donald Trump first declared in early December that he wants to be a dictator on “day one,” his extralegal to-do list has varied. He’s said he wants to “close the border” and recently added a desire to set loose all the criminals who stormed the...
by Mark Sumner
on Thu Mar 14, 2024 at 02:07 PM PDT
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At Sierra magazine, in a no-paywall article, veteran investigative reporter Rebecca Burns writes on Climate-Science Deniers, Right-Wing Think Tanks, and Fossil Fuel Shills Are Plotting Against the Clean Energy Transition. Two or three paragraphs cannot...
by Meteor Blades
on Sun Mar 17, 2024 at 08:00 AM PDT
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The spotlight is a weekly, categorized compilation of links and excerpts from environmentally related posts at Daily Kos. Any posts included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
by Meteor Blades
on Sun Mar 10, 2024 at 08:35 AM PDT
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The spotlight is a weekly, categorized compilation of links and excerpts from environmentally related posts at Daily Kos. Any posts included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
by Meteor Blades
on Sun Mar 03, 2024 at 08:00 AM PST
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Big Oil spent more money on lobbying in California in 2023 than any other year on record besides 2017. Big Oil spent $25,445,606 on lobbying in California in 2023 and $25,445,606 in 2017, according to the research team at Sunstone Strategies in their...
by Dan Bacher
on Mon Feb 26, 2024 at 01:30 PM PST
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