Tag: united states
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World Petroleum Use Sets Record High, Asia Remains Largest Consumer
The world’s consumption of gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, heating oil and other petroleum products reached a record high of 88.9 million barrels per day …
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Survey Confirms Americans Want Climate Action
A national survey finds that many Americans (24 percent) would support an organization that engaged in non-violent civil disobedience against corporate or government activities that make global warming worse.
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Expect More Crippling Heatwaves By 2020
Even if governments abandon fossil fuels everywhere, immediately and invest only in green energy, there will be new record temperatures.
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Coal Ash Bill Would Prohibit EPA from Protecting Americans
There’s a move afoot in Congress to block the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from passing the first-ever national rule for power plants to properly dispose of coal ash—all 125 million tons of it produced every single year …
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Greenwashing Fracking’s Devastating Climate Impact
This methane has climate change impacts that, on a pound-for-pound basis, will be far more powerful over the next two decades than the carbon dioxide emissions that have been the focus of most climate change discussions.