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Pope Francis hasn't been quiet about the urgency of combating climate change. Most recently, during a two-day conference in Vatican City, he took oil company executives to task and called for clean power as climate change...

The United Kingdom's government has come under fire from fracking opponents after releasing measures that could fast-track shale gas projects. Under these measures, explorers could drill test sites without first applying...

Financing for extreme fossil fuels like tar sands swelled in 2017 under Trump, according to a new report. Banking on Climate Change 2018 tracks 36 of the largest banks in the world to discover they poured $115 billion...

New York just sent a big message to the fossil fuel industry. The state is freezing all fossil fuel investments - and they are divesting almost $400 billion in pension funds from the industry, according to Grist. In a statement,...

One of the world's leading financial institutions just announced plans to stop financing oil and gas projects. Today at the One Planet Summit, the World Bank officially announced that it will quit financing upstream oil and...

210,000 gallons of crude oil seeped out of the TransCanada-owned Keystone 1 pipeline this week - mere days before Nebraska's Public Service Commission (PSC) is set to make a decision on whether or not to grant a permit for...

International fossil-fuel corporations BP and Shell are preparing for a world in which global temperatures will have risen by 5 degrees Celsius, all but assuring catastrophic climate change, while publicly portraying themselves...

From The GWPF Matt Ridley, The Times The liberalised energy markets introduced by Nigel Lawson in 1982, embraced by the Blair government and emulated across Europe, delivered both affordability and reliability...

U.S. evolves into coal, gas and oil global energy giant supplying world’s hungry energy markets David Middleton’s excellent WUWT article addressing the resurgence of the American coal industry as well as the growing...

Clean energy is increasingly providing work for people across the United States, contrary to what the president might think, and a new Sierra Club report reveals just how much of an impact on the economy it has made...

What if fossil fuels could be burned without pouring emissions into the air? Many people consider that idea to be wishful thinking, but chemical engineer Rodney Allam doesn't...

The G7 hammered one more nail in the fossil fuel industry's coffin. As many countries pursue clean energy technology and progress towards renewable energy, G7 leaders wrote in a joint declaration of their determination to...

The Top Ten solar companies don’t pay any dividends

Last year a working paper led by retired NASA scientist James Hansen incited controversy, and today the final version of the research is stirring debate once again...

Economists and molecular bioscientists from Australia teamed up to make drastic suggestions for how we can fight climate change. They published a model in Plos One that revealed the 2°C temperature limit will likely arrive...