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OPEC Expects Oil to Draw $11 Trillion in Investment Through 2040
The fossil industry will need US$11 trillion in investment over the next 22 years to meet oil demand projected to grow by 7.3 million ... -
CoalElectricity GridEnergy PoliticsEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFinance & InvestmentFirst PeoplesPost-Carbon TransitionSub-National GovernmentsUnited States
New Owner Backs Out as 2,250-MW Navajo Coal Station Faces 2019 Closure Date
The biggest U.S. coal plant west of the Mississippi River and the mining company that supplies it, Peabody Energy, are facing renewed jeopardy after ... -
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Exploding Pipeline in Pennsylvania Ties Plastics Manufacturing to Fracked Natural Gas
A natural gas pipeline that exploded outside Pittsburgh earlier this month, just a week after it went into service, is part of a multi-billion-dollar ... -
Appeals Court Support for Illinois Nuclear Subsidy Could Buoy State Renewables Programs
A U.S. appeals court decision on an Illinois subsidy for nuclear power plants is the latest of several that could help state governments support ... -
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Major Mental Health Crisis Hits Puerto Rico as Year-Long Hurricane Recovery Lags
A year after Hurricane Maria killed nearly 3,000 people and destroyed much of the infrastructure on the island of Puerto Rico, the country is ... -
Drive to 1.5Failure Is Not An OptionHealth & SafetyHuman Rights & MigrationNuclearSevere Storms & FloodingSub-National GovernmentsUnited States
Poor and Rural North Carolinians Are Hardest Hit as Aerial Photos Show ‘Overwhelming’ Devastation
Aerial photos showed “overwhelming” devastation, an 1,870-megawatt nuclear plant had to be shut down, and poor and rural residents of the Carolinas were hit ... -
U.S. Science Teachers Stand Up for Climate Science
Responding to escalating pressures on American public school teachers to de-emphasize, and even eliminate, climate change education from their classrooms, the National Science Teachers ... -
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CARE Canada: Fighting Plastics Pollution No Substitute for G7 Action on Climate Impacts
G7 countries’ initiative to attack plastic pollution during this week’s environment and energy ministers’ meeting in Halifax is no substitute for faster action to ... -
Big Green Groups Plan Record Spending in U.S. Mid-Term Elections
Horrified by the ongoing actions of “the most anti-environmental president in history,” America’s most powerful environmental groups—the League of Conservation Voters (LCV), the Sierra ... -
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Cogeneration Would Save 3.97 Gigatons of Carbon by 2050
Cogeneration ranks #50 on Drawdown’s list of climate solutions, with the potential to eliminate 3.97 gigatons of carbon dioxide at a net cost of US$279.3 billion, while ...
