Two environmental groups have filed a "motion to intervene" in the lawsuits against Denton, TX's citizen-led fracking ban. http://bit.ly/1AoIZ3x

Two environmental groups have filed a "motion to intervene" in the lawsuits against Denton, TX's citizen-led fracking ban. http://bit.ly/1AoIZ3x

A report published by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre found that 20.6 million people were displaced by extreme weather events in 2013, almost three times as many as those fleeing current conflicts.

Lily Cole: The Yawanawá people of the Amazon never got to open the toybox of consumer capitalism. Yet they endure floods, displacement and dispossession
theguardian.com|By Lily Cole
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Reagan's Secretary of State is calling on his fellow Republicans to quit denying climate science.

George Shultz, who served as President Ronald Reagan's Secretary of State from 1982 to 1989, is not only willing to buck the Republican Party's orthodoxy on global warming by acknowledging climate science, he's outright calling for action. And he's even willing to walk the talk.
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Poll: 83% of Americans say climate is changing, 60% say climate is changing due to man-made causes.

Eight out of 10 Americans now believe the climate is changing, according to a recent survey conducted by Munich Re America, the world's largest reinsurance firm.
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This conference puts the ‪#‎EPA‬ directly in the American Legislative Exchange Council's crosshairs.

"I don't know why some people are allowed in and others aren't." The American Legislative Exchange Council, the right-wing corporate lobbyist group, has its annual D.C. summit this week.
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A new report, issued the same day the latest round of global climate negotiations opened in Peru, highlights the fracking industry's slow expansion into nearly every continent: bit.ly/1FYLoEZ

A new report, issued the same day the latest round of global climate negotiations opened in Peru, highlights the fracking industry's slow expansion into nearly every continent: bit.ly/1FYLoEZ
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"Activists don't occupy a logging company's offices, or lie down in front of a coal train, or march in the streets of New York for money. They do it because they genuinely believe in standing up for their principles and what they believe is right for the human race and the planet."

In a newsletter to clients titled “Defending Your Company Against an Activist Attack,” Randal Simonetti from the consulting firm EFP Rotenberg, opines that in order to successfully combat an attack by an environmental group you must, “first consider the driving motive that supports the attacker's
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Major development in the Denton, Texas fracking ban lawsuits today filed against the city by the oil and gas industry. Read about it on DeSmogBlog!

Just days after attorneys representing Denton, Texas submitted their initial responses to two legal complaints filed against Denton — the first Texas city ever to ban hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) — environmental groups have filed an intervention petition. That is, a formal request to enter
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The oil and gas industry doesn't want you to sign up for Post Carbon Institute's briefing on the "big fracking lie."

See the report that the oil and gas industry **doesn't want you to find out about: http://bit.ly/drillingdeeper**

LEARN MORE on December 9th at 5:00 pm PST: http://bit.ly/shalebriefing

See the report that the oil and gas industry **doesn't want you to find out about: http://bit.ly/drillingdeeper**

LEARN MORE on December 9th at 5:00 pm PST: http://bit.ly/shalebriefing

"What we saw in 2014 is consistent with what we expect from a changing climate. Record-breaking heat combined with torrential rainfall and floods destroyed livelihoods and ruined lives."

This year is on track to be the hottest on record, with rising sea surface temperatures linked to the spread of extreme weather events around the globe, the United Nations climate agency reported Wednesday.
latimes.com|By Los Angeles Times
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It's been 35 years since the BLM reviewed the environmental impact of leasing public lands to coal companies.

Two environmental groups are suing the BLM to force a review of the program.
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By assuming from the word go that the company is right and that activists are only in it for the money, Simonetti sets up a path that ends in ruin for both his client and for the environmental advocates who want to see positive change.

In a newsletter to clients titled “Defending Your Company Against an Activist Attack,” Randal Simonetti from the consulting firm EFP Rotenberg, opines that in order to successfully combat an attack by an environmental group you must, “first consider the driving motive that supports the attacker's
desmogblog.com

Drought in U.S. and Brazil Linked to Hottest Year Ever: bloom.bg/1yg2jlm (Bloomberg News)

Drought in U.S. and Brazil Linked to Hottest Year Ever: bloom.bg/1yg2jlm (Bloomberg News)

"Those activities have caused conditions that are subversive of public order and constitute an obstruction of public rights of the community as a whole. Such conditions include, but are not limited to, noise, increased heavy truck traffic, liquid spills, vibrations and other offensive results of the hydraulic fracturing process that have affected the entire Denton Community. Those conditions, all of which are generated by hydraulic fracturing, constitute a public nuisance."

Attorneys representing Denton, Texas, the first city to ban hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) in state history, have issued rebuttals to the two lawsuits filed against Denton the day after the fracking ban was endorsed by voters on election day.
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Founding Father of Fracking Boom Is Crying the Blues: bit.ly/1vlsWyi via EcoWatch

Founding Father of Fracking Boom Is Crying the Blues: bit.ly/1vlsWyi via EcoWatch

As countries negotiate in Lima, Peru this week, long-time climate change skeptic Rupert Darwall seizes the moment to rehash tired critiques of past international efforts on climate.

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Get out while the gettin's good.

"A growing minority of investors and regulators are probing the possibility that untapped deposits of oil, gas and coal -- valued at trillions of dollars globally -- could become stranded assets as governments adopt stricter climate change policies."

A major threat to fossil fuel companies has suddenly moved from the fringe to center stage with a dramatic announcement by Germany’s biggest power company and an intriguing letter from the Bank of England.
bloomberg.com

World Resources Institute and The Guardian have built a really great interactive carbon emissions tracker.

As the UN climate talks open in Lima to agree on a draft text for a binding treaty in Paris in 2015, here is a timeline of world’s top 20 emitters of carbon dioxide since the dawn of industrialisation
theguardian.com|By Kiln.it
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The latest in our epic history series.

DeSmog UK tells the story of how the ideologically matched and politically inseparable Blundell and Dr Fred Singer became close and controversial allies, in our epic history series.
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"A West Antarctic ice sheet that is roughly the size of Texas is losing the amount of ice equivalent to Mount Everest every two years, representing a melt rate that has tripled over the last decade, according to new research to be published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters on Friday." - Think Progress/Climate Progress

bit.ly/1pTENI6

"A West Antarctic ice sheet that is roughly the size of Texas is losing the amount of ice equivalent to Mount Everest every two years, representing a melt rate that has tripled over the last decade, according to new research to be published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters on Friday." - Think Progress/Climate Progress

bit.ly/1pTENI6

Coal Giant Peabody Energy Denies Social Media Poverty Campaign Is Bogus: bit.ly/1HXIiTM

Coal Giant Peabody Energy Denies Social Media Poverty Campaign Is Bogus: bit.ly/1HXIiTM

Huge.

Where are the jobs in Canada?

Not in the economically troubled tar sands. Instead, clean energy is leading the way. 

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/12/02/green-energy-jobs-canada-oilsands_n_6252910.html

Where are the jobs in Canada?

Not in the economically troubled tar sands. Instead, clean energy is leading the way.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/…/green-energy-jobs-canada-oil…

A friendly reminder for delegates in Lima from Oil Change International.

Why are we still spending billions looking for coal, oil, and gas we can't afford to burn? Share this image to let government delegates know it's time to #StopFundingFossils!

Why are we still spending billions looking for coal, oil, and gas we can't afford to burn? Share this image to let government delegates know it's time to ‪#‎StopFundingFossils‬!

“It is a sign the project is in danger... Over 70 percent of Quebecers don’t want Energy East to be built.”

Alberta Premier Jim Prentice begins an Energy East lobby tour today in Quebec City to try to woo the premiers of Quebec and Ontario into supporting TransCanada's 1.1 million barrel-per-day oil pipeline proposal.
desmog.ca

Curious about Walmart's progress in meeting its 100% renewable commitment?

http://bit.ly/1CqlBr7

Walmart is one of the heaviest users of coal-fired electricity in the US, resulting in 8 million metric tons of carbon pollution produced every year by the mega chain’s operations.

http://bit.ly/12cxJuR

Walmart is one of the heaviest users of coal-fired electricity in the US, resulting in 8 million metric tons of carbon pollution produced every year by the mega chain’s operations.

http://bit.ly/12cxJuR

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“This indictment is momentous.”

Deadly coal mining disasters are nothing new to West Virginia, but a 2010 explosion is different in one important respect: A C.E.O., Donald L. Blankenship, is being charged over the 29 lives lost.
nytimes.com|By TRIP GABRIEL

Report finds 1,069 kilograms of oilsands toxins from tailings are released into the air each year. http://bit.ly/1w2TKJY

Report finds 1,069 kilograms of oilsands toxins from tailings are released into the air each year. http://bit.ly/1w2TKJY

Aikens pulls a tattered photocopy of a ten cent check from his wallet, emblazoned with the logo of a division of Chesapeake Energy. It's the royalty check for the gas produced on his 359 acre farm, after post-production expenses were deducted from the check.

If you're looking for the shale gas boom, northeastern Pennsylvania is the place to start.
The Marcellus is the largest and fastest growing shale gas play in the U.S. and more than half of its 50 most productive wells were drilled in Susquehanna...
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Environmental Resources Management (ERM Group), the consultancy selected by TransCanada to conduct the environmental review for Keystone XL's northern leg on behalf of the U.S. State Department, is no stranger to scandal.

Exhibit A: ERM once bribed a Chinese official to ram through major pieces of an industrial development project. ERM was tasked to push through the project in Hangzhou Bay, located near Shanghai.

Environmental Resources Management (ERM Group), the consultancy selected by TransCanada to conduct the environmental review for Keystone XL's northern leg on behalf of the U.S. State Department, is no stranger to scandal.
desmogblog.com

"According to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), the global average temperature over land and ocean from January to October was the hottest since records began in 1880."

Delegates are set to meet in Peru to try and agree a negotiating text for a new global climate deal to be signed at the end of 2015.
bbc.com

In addition to the industry wanting you to believe that they only want to lift the crude oil export ban because they care so much about the U.S. consumer, they also want you to believe this will have no impact on the environment.

Larry Summers, former secretary of the treasury and top economic advisor to President Barack Obama, has strongly advocated to lift the crude oil export ban. And he has a compelling, if not necessarily fact-based, argument.
desmogblog.com

The New York Times made these illustrations to show what it would look like if all of North Dakota's oil wells were above ground. It's insane.

Conceptual illustrations of oil well bores in North Dakota
nytimes.com|By Gregor Aisch

Diplomats are calling these negotiations “the best chance in a generation of striking a deal on global warming," according to The Guardian, with the US and China’s commitment to work together on carbon pollution bringing fresh momentum.

The pressure is on for leaders to move forward on climate change as delegates descend into Peru for the two-week UN climate conference in Lima today.
desmog.uk

Results from air samples taken in the Fayetteville Shale show notably elevated levels of formaldehyde, a suspected human carcinogen that can cause respiratory and reproductive problems as well as birth defects.

http://bit.ly/1xLNCBi

Results from air samples taken in the Fayetteville Shale show notably elevated levels of formaldehyde, a suspected human carcinogen that can cause respiratory and reproductive problems as well as birth defects.

http://bit.ly/1xLNCBi

Never judge a book by its cover...

The beautiful and talented Dana Bate is living the American dream - her second populist chick-lit novel is currently arriving in bookstores across Britain and the United States.
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Walmart is one of the heaviest users of coal-fired electricity in the US, resulting in 8 million metric tons of carbon pollution produced every year by the mega chain’s operations.

http://bit.ly/12cxJuR

Walmart is one of the heaviest users of coal-fired electricity in the US, resulting in 8 million metric tons of carbon pollution produced every year by the mega chain’s operations.

http://bit.ly/12cxJuR

Report cites human rights liabilities for the British government if fracking is to commence commercially across the UK

A hard hitting report commissioned by the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation was delivered this week to David Cameron and called on the government to investigate the impact of fracking on the rights of individuals.
desmogblog.com

"The implications for health effects are just enormous."

Results from air samples taken in the Fayetteville Shale show notably elevated levels of formaldehyde, a suspected human carcinogen that can cause respiratory and reproductive problems as well as birth defects — but citizens still have little faith U.S. regulators will step in to prevent further
desmogblog.com

Climate denial was imported from the United States to Britain by a free market idealist employed by the billionaire oil baron Charles Koch.

John Blundell was an idealist. A curious, unassuming and softly spoken conservative. When a sixteen-year-old school student living in a three-storey semi-detached house in the affluent suburbs of Congleton, Cheshire, his father handed him an Institut
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The release of the documents brought TransCanada under fire for using dirty public relations tricks to manipulate public opinion and divide communities.

Last week internal documents from Edelman , one of the world’s largest PR firms, were leaked to Greenpeace, exposing an aggressive strategy to target opponents of TransCanada’s Energy East pipeline .
desmog.ca