With climate denier Scott Pruitt poised to take over the Environmental Protection Agency, the states are going to play an important role in determining whether America continues to take bold steps to both reduce carbon pollution and hold the fossil-fuel industry accountable–and the industry and its elected lackeys know it: Concerned about what he calls […]
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You Know the Drill
What will he say during the deposition? “My bad”? For all my skepticism about the effort by young climate activists in Oregon to have the federal courts effectively shut down the fossil-fuel industry, I have to admit this is a clever idea: Lawyers for teenagers claiming the US government failed to protect the environment from […]
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Thought Process
C’mon, John Kerry’s just doing his job. The outgoing Secretary of State knows that the man nominated to replace him, ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, isn’t qualified to cut the White House lawn, much less represent the Trump administration internationally. As a longtime climate hawk, Kerry also knows about ExxonMobil’s decades of deception on climate change, […]
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A Legal Strategy That May Have Run Out of Gas
Is the effort to hold ExxonMobil legally accountable for its reported chicanery on the risks of climate change effectively over already? It’s still unclear exactly why Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker gave up on his efforts to obtain documents from ExxonMobil that could have shed light on whether the fossil-fuel behemoth violated anti-fraud laws. […]
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Those Who Do Not Learn from History
Look how much has changed–and how much has not. It was fifteen years ago today that President George W. Bush, flanked by Vice President Dick Cheney, spoke in the Rose Garden and defied right-wing ideology by acknowledging that human-caused climate change was real. It was a frustrating speech in many respects, filled with the usual […]
