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UPDATE: Wednesday, Jul 5, 2023 · 7:02:51 PM +00:00 · Dem Velshi https://open.spotify.com/episode/2CazUip8bK5pAmRZjc53Ed Here is a link to the discussion. It doesn't appear to be able to be played here. I apologize. It's about 12 minutes in. Thank very...
by Dem
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on Tue Jul 04, 2023 at 10:44 AM PDT
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SoCalGas, which services the southern half of California, is owned by Sempra, a Gas & Oil company with major liquid natural gas reserves in Texas. For this reason, two things are happening: (1) SoCalGas bought expensive gas from Sempra’s Texas branch,...
by Kat Snyder
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on Sun Sep 24, 2023 at 03:17 PM PDT
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I recently went through one of those go-rounds on a Facebook web site run by a natural gas industry astroturf group spreading disinformation to block New York State’s efforts to get off fossil fuels. Part of this involves no future use of natural gas...
by xaxnar
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on Tue May 10, 2022 at 08:42 AM PDT
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Tuesday’s look at the issue of energy access abroad, in India and Africa, may make it seem like it’s a foreign issue, but unfortunately the industry is “wokewashing” in the US, too. It’s not universal, yet. For example, the goofballs at Heartland are...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Wed Feb 23, 2022 at 06:56 AM PST
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The fossil fuel industry has a problem. Their products are killing the planet — but that’s just business. No, their problem is governments at various levels in the U.S. are starting to ban use of natural gas in new construction. This threatens their...
by xaxnar
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on Thu Dec 30, 2021 at 12:57 PM PST
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[EDIT] The Progressives won! Calloo, Callay! And it was not even close. Amy Erica Smith, Kelli Winfrey, Brett Becker got 20%, 19%, 17% of the vote. The right-wingers got 12%, 10%, 10%, and the fourth Progressive, Scott Dryer, got 7%. Some details for...
by cminus
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on Mon Nov 01, 2021 at 09:10 AM PDT
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One of the new heroes of the critical race theory battles of 2021 is AL.com political columnist Kyle Whitmer, who followed in Marc Lamont Hill’s footsteps by asking a simple question of the right person. Whitmer asked Alabama state Rep. Chris Pringle,...
by Laura Clawson
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on Tue Jun 15, 2021 at 12:29 PM PDT
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SACRAMENTO – On November 9, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, Governor Gavin Newsom and two state agencies filed a protest challenging the proposed sale of seven oil and gas leases in Kern County by the Federal Bureau of Land...
by Dan Bacher
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on Wed Nov 11, 2020 at 02:14 PM PST
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From January 1 to March 31, 2020, the Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA), the largest and most powerful corporate lobby in California, spent $1,089,702 lobbying state officials, according to financial data filed with the California Secretary...
by Dan Bacher
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on Sun May 03, 2020 at 10:53 PM PDT
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I've got a few thoughts with this stupid, Astroturfed meme out of right-wing Bubbleworld saying that Wisconsin and other states need to end their stay-at-home orders. The theory seems to be that if that Safer at Home ends, the jobs will all come back,...
by Jake formerly of the LP
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on Sat Apr 18, 2020 at 12:15 PM PDT
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It would be hard to look online or TV and not see & hear about the angry protestors who want to OPEN AMERICA. Some of them are just too stupid to breathe and follow blindly some Faux talking point that has the Faux President written all over it but...
by veldaofbabylon
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on Fri Apr 17, 2020 at 12:43 PM PDT
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Deadly stupidity was on full display Friday in Minnesota, where MAGA-types held a rally outside the home of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. No social distancing. Very few masks. Plenty of reckless, perhaps even deadly behavior. All of it was on display today...
by Jen Hayden
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on Fri Apr 17, 2020 at 12:53 PM PDT
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by Jen Sorensen
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on Tue Mar 03, 2020 at 04:50 AM PST
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The Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA), the largest and most powerful corporate lobbying group in California, placed first in the annual lobbying “competition” in California in 2019 with $8.8 million spent on influencing legislators,...
by Dan Bacher
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on Thu Feb 06, 2020 at 05:23 PM PST
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Something I’ve just noticed today. I don’t normally watch a lot of television, but the impeachment hearings have me also checking out the local news programs. The impeachment hearings must be hitting home because I’m now seeing an ad on at least 3...
by xaxnar
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on Wed Nov 20, 2019 at 05:21 PM PST
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Last week, the New Orleans Lens reported that a group of pro-pipeline advocates who attended a public hearing last October were, in fact, paid actors. The hearing, to solicit public opinion on a proposed power plant, was stacked with a dozen or so...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Mon May 14, 2018 at 07:03 AM PDT
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Every time it snows and Al Gore is seen in public, deniers rejoice in pretending that Gore’s climate awareness campaign is somehow incompatible with cold weather. At last week’s elite meet-and-greet in Davos, snow in the Swiss Alps in January provided...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Mon Jan 29, 2018 at 07:05 AM PST
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Would you believe that big business and the GOP might collude together to help push the tax bill over the line by organizing a major astroturf campaign of “letters to the editor” designed to make it appear that average citizens think the GOP tax bill...
by dweb8231
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on Mon Dec 18, 2017 at 07:45 AM PST
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One of our goals with this roundup is to alert you to upcoming denier threats before they hit the mainstream. Occasionally, great reporting can further illuminate issues we noticed some time ago. With deniers in power, good journalists have been busy...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Wed Dec 06, 2017 at 07:34 AM PST
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On Friday, Benjamin Storrow of E&E reported that thanks to Trump’s weakened ethics rules, there are now at least 15 political appointees at EPA, DOI and DOE who work on issues they lobbied for industry on. A top ethics official for the George W....
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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