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08/02/24
Author: 
Cloe Logan
An LNG tanker. Photo by Lens Envy via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED)

Jan. 7, 2024

Recent energy figures from Europe further weaken Canada’s justification for developing LNG to export it abroad, says a new report.

 

02/02/24
Author: 
Daria Shapovalova
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain  - Norway Coast

Jan. 31,2024

Norway's district court in Oslo recently made a decision on fossil fuels that deserves the attention of every person concerned about climate change.

This ruling, which compels energy firms to account for the industry's entire carbon footprint, could change the way oil and gas licenses are awarded in Norway—and inspire similar legal challenges to fossil fuel production in other countries.

27/01/24
Author: 
Oliver Milman
A flare burns at Venture Global LNG in Cameron, Louisiana, in April 2022. Joe Biden’s administration has paused all pending LNG export permits until the impact of climate change can be included in approval criteria. Photograph: Martha Irvine/AP

Jan 26, 2024

Pause on pending export permits is hailed by environmental groups, and could imperil projects along Gulf of Mexico coast

Joe Biden’s administration has hit the brakes on the US’s surging exports of gas, effectively pausing a string of planned projects that have been decried by environmentalists as carbon “mega bombs” that risk pushing the world further towards climate breakdown.

25/01/24
Author: 
Lynda V. Mapes
An aerial view shows Puget Sound Energy’s Liquefied Natural Gas plant in Tacoma. (Joshua Bessex / joshua.bessex@gateline.com, 2018)

Jan. 24, 2024

Puget Sound Energy has canceled a controversial expansion of its liquefied natural gas plant in Tacoma.

The Puyallup Tribe of Indians and a coalition of community groups appealed permits for the project to the state Shoreline Hearings Board. The case had been scheduled for an April hearing, but rather than defend the project, PSE backed down.

24/01/24
Author: 
John Feffer
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán debated the situation in Hungary by European Parliament is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 / Flickr

Jan. 23, 2024

The End of Europe?

Trump allies plot to take over the European Union

It would be funny if it weren’t so potentially tragic — and consequential. No, I’m not thinking about Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign but a related development: the latest decisions from the European Union (EU) about Ukraine.

23/01/24
Author: 
Conor Smyth, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting.
fast food workers

Jan. 21, 2024

Reporting on California's Fast-food minimum wage raise comes with fear.

What’s scarier than a shark attack? An increase in the minimum wage.

At least that’s what many corporate media outlets seem to want you to believe, given the apocalyptic tone of much of the coverage of California’s recent decision to raise the minimum wage for fast-food workers to $20 an hour, starting this April, a bump from the current level of $16.

20/01/24
Author: 
Dharna Noor
Michael Mann is a climatologist at the University of Pennsylvania. Climate skeptics linked to the billionaire Charles Koch have campaigned against him. Photograph: Jessica Hromas/The Guardian

Jan. 17, 2024

Michael Mann alleges, in lawsuit first brought in 2012, that attacks on his work by climate denialists amount to defamation

A lawsuit first instituted over 10 years ago, brought by an esteemed climate scientist over alleged defamation by a rightwing blogger and an analyst, goes to trial this week.

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