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Guyana’s president and CARICOM chair� Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali �made headlines�last week as a result of a contentious television interview. The BBC series “ HARDTalk ” and journalist Stephen ...
by Denise Oliver Velez
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on Thu Apr 04, 2024 at 05:30 AM PDT
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Trump staring down barrel of both civil and criminal accountability in Empire State Also: Biden forgives another $6B in student loans U.S. calls for 'immediate, sustained ceasefire' in Gaza Scientists baffled by spike in record year of global...
by TheBradBlog
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on Thu Mar 21, 2024 at 07:25 PM PDT
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SACRAMENTO – After testimony from CalPERS’ beneficiaries and a large rally and press conference with unions, community and environmental groups outside CalPERS’ Downtown Sacramento headquarters on Monday, March 18, members of the CalPERS Board of...
by Dan Bacher
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on Thu Mar 21, 2024 at 04:16 PM PDT
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SACRAMENTO — In January 2024, the Campaign for a Safe and Healthy California (CSHC) released a report revealed that more than $11 million in ads were funded by Big Oil in 2023 in an attempt to undermine a new law (SB 1137) that helps protect California...
by Dan Bacher
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on Thu Mar 07, 2024 at 06:25 PM PST
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Scott Sheffield is one of the most financially successful shale oil and gas CEOs in America. And while he owes this personal wealth in part to producing a lot of oil, it also has helped that he knows how to “talk his book.” Like Exxon CEO Darren Wood,...
by Justin Mikulka
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on Thu Feb 15, 2024 at 07:10 AM PST
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“No one I knew in the organization thought this was possible; the pressure to deliver on Woods’ promise to the market permeated the organization.” In March of 2019, U.S. oil major Chevron announced it planned to make investments in its Permian oil...
by Justin Mikulka
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on Tue Feb 13, 2024 at 07:31 AM PST
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CA Resources Corporation Ploy To Buy Aera Energy Is Way To Avoid Plugging Idle Wells, Capture Carbon Los Angeles, CA— Oil companies and other big corporations base their operations on a model of privatizing the profits — and socializing the losses. That was definitely the case yesterday when the California Resources Corporation (CRC) announced the...
by Dan Bacher
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on Thu Feb 08, 2024 at 09:12 AM PST
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UAW endorses Biden as GDP, other indicators 'stun' experts Also: Navarro sentenced to prison Proud Boy gets 6 years A THIRD swing-state GOP Chair has now been ousted amid outrageous scandal... Today on The BradCast: Some very good news about Democrats....
by TheBradBlog
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on Thu Jan 25, 2024 at 07:12 PM PST
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and �...
by side pocket
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on Sun Jan 21, 2024 at 08:59 PM PST
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Washington, D.C – Occidental Petroleum announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire privately-held CrownRock Energy, one of the largest producers in the Permian Basin, for $12 billion, according to a press statement from Fossil Free...
by Dan Bacher
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on Mon Dec 11, 2023 at 11:41 AM PST
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Also: One step forward, two steps back in Gaza No steps forward in GOP House Speaker debacle... Global chaos continues today on The BradCast, in Gaza, in elections around the world, in the U.S. House and, of course, for our worsening climate crisis....
by TheBradBlog
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on Tue Oct 17, 2023 at 06:54 PM PDT
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A lawsuit filed September 15 in San Francisco Superior Court by Attorney General Rob Bonta accuses Exxon, Chevron, Shell, BP, ConocoPhillips, and the American Petroleum Institute of mounting a “disinformation campaign” beginning in the 1950s "to...
by ybruti
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on Mon Sep 18, 2023 at 11:36 AM PDT
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"Capitalism" is increasingly blamed for huge social and economic problems, but the real problem is criminal conspiracies by corporation executives....
by mcornelison
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on Sat Sep 16, 2023 at 01:00 PM PDT
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NEW YORK – On September 16, Governor Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta announced that California is suing Big Oil “for more than 50 years of deception, cover-up, and damage that have cost California taxpayers billions of dollars in health and...
by Dan Bacher
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on Sat Sep 16, 2023 at 11:03 AM PDT
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It’s been pretty hot lately. Scientists say July was the hottest month on record—likely by a “significant margin”—and may have been the most brutally steamy stretch in 120,000 years. And the reason is almost certainly—surprise, surprise!—human-caused...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
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on Tue Aug 01, 2023 at 02:00 PM PDT
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by BrianMcFadden
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on Fri Jul 14, 2023 at 06:58 AM PDT
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If you’re wondering why the US’ climate action is still so insufficient, it might be because compromised fossil fuel industry lobbyists have invaded almost every sector you can think of. Last week, environmental communications expert and former...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Mon Jul 10, 2023 at 06:23 AM PDT
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This week's Climate Monitor has some rather big numbers on climate disinfo advertising: "The highest-spending advertiser across the climate and energy sector continues to be fossil fuel giant Exxon Mobil, which has spent over $23.1 million since June...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Fri Jun 23, 2023 at 06:28 AM PDT
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When events are deemed entertainment worthy for news ratings, we are inundated with reminders of past similarities - presumably for context… * Trump first indicted former POTUS, avoiding distractions like, President Ulysses S. Grant was arrested for...
by The Reasonable Voice
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on Mon Jun 12, 2023 at 11:53 AM PDT
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As fossil fuel executives join the rest of us currently choking on the ash of old growth forests being consumed in the apocalyptic conflagrations directly linked to their actions, we must never forget: THEY KNEW. THEY KNEW in 1959, when famed physicist...
by Haricot Blue
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on Thu Jun 08, 2023 at 01:44 PM PDT
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