Fossil fuels
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Graham Readfearn: Religious leaders are taking on coal with polite letters and coal blockades and say they’re in it for the long haul in the name of climate change
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Scientists in the US have linked chemicals used to fracture shale rock with fertility and developmental problems
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People living near fracking operations should be monitored to assess the risk of chemicals to human health, say scientists
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Financial support for seismic surveys welcomed by oil industry but criticised by environmental campaigners
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Scores of lawsuits by sick workers uncover previously secret documents detailing campaign to undercut science and ‘protect member company interests’
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George Osborne says move shows commitment to jobs in the industry, but some experts say tax rates still much too high
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‘I’ve had enough years of reviewing budgets’ says US author and climate activist as he steps down from leadership role
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Martin Lukacs: Canada’s oil corporations have made a profitable mess of the country: it’s time to put them under public, democratic control
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Australia heads to major climate negotiations in the wake of high level defence of its coal industry
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Last month, Denton, a college town not far from Dallas, voted to ban hydraulic fracturing – thanks in no small part to a dedicated band of mainly female activists. How did they manage to beat big oil? Suzanne Goldenberg reports
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Possible presidential candidate draws distinction with Barack Obama, who has trumpeted boom in gas and oil exploration
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Encouraging oil and gas operators to find ways of reusing assets comes with its own challenges – economics being one of them, writes Maxine Perella
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Enquiry to assess chances of an economic crash if climate change rules render coal, oil and gas assets worthless
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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
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Germany utility firm to sell off most power generating units amid ‘dramatically altered global energy markets’
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With oil prices predicted to keep falling, the implications for consumers and the British economy are profound
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Historic innovations that have been adopted too hastily with grave unforeseen impacts provide cautionary examples for potential side effects of fracking, says report produced by government’s chief scientist Mark Walport
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EPA says crackdown on mercury could save 11,000 lives but court will consider whether implementation costs should have been weighed
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Britain is third highest contributor to air pollution that costs Europe up to £149bn a year, says EU agency report
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Downward trend in UK’s energy security and sustainability over past three years, notes World Energy Council report
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World Bank will only fund coal projects in cases of ‘extreme need’ due to the risk climate change poses to ending world poverty, says Jim Yong Kim
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Climate scientist Chris Rapley and his co-author of the acclaimed play 2071 explain why the 2015 Paris climate summit cannot be allowed to fail – for all our sakes
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Drilling of holes to monitor ground movement and water pollution slammed as an attempt to dupe public over shale gas safety
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International Maritime Organisation committee adopts measures to protect the environment in face of predicted polar shipping rush
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Iran’s drive for ‘independent’ development, in the face of international pressure over the nuclear programme, has degraded its air, water and land
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Renewables star Brazil is now backtracking towards fossil fuels. Why, when wind could provide vital jobs? Fabíola Ortiz investigates
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Ineos founder says fracking is vital to tackle high energy prices, and predicts it will turn villagers into millionaires
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Robert Kenner’s forthcoming documentary lifts the lid on the ‘professional deceivers’ manipulating US debate on climate change
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Operator of refinery at Grangemouth recently acquired 729 sq miles of fracking exploration licences in central Scotland
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Proposal would see decommissioned power plants and mines rehabilitated and replaced by solar farms and other renewable energy projects
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Coalition of Republicans and Democrats fell just one vote short of 60 needed for controversial bill to pass, despite GOP pledge to take up legislation in January
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Bill to approve controversial oil pipeline from Canada to Texan Gulf fails to win the 60 votes needed to pass
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Final waverer Senator Jay Rockefeller says he will vote no but vote is still likely to be indicator of trouble ahead for Obama
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Native Americans and ranchers in South Dakota are making common cause in their efforts to stop the project to transport oil from Canadian tar sands
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