It has been one of the most tumultuous and significant weeks in the global political battle over the war in Ukraine. It began last Friday, with the cringe-worthy summit in Alaska between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, followed just three days later by seven of Europe’s most …
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President Donald Trump’s administration has officially put Americans on notice that it will be doing nothing to address climate change. Actually, worse than nothing, the Environmental Protection Agency also announced that it will soon be taking back everything it had done to date to address the biggest source of climate …
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When deciding to launch a bomb (or several dozen) at another nation, it is critical to consider that even though the target of your munitions may be thousands of miles away, the geopolitical and economic fallout could extend far beyond tit-for-tat airstrikes. Over the weekend, President Donald Trump authorized potentially …
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During his final weeks in the White House, President Joe Biden is expected to issue an executive order prohibiting new offshore oil and gas drilling, a move that would help protect areas of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans from President-elect Donald Trump‘s incoming administration. According to Bloomberg, people familiar with …
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On the morning of December 10, a rare thick white fog enveloped Washington, D.C., creating an ominous tenor for the day. As I disembarked from the metro at Union Station, I followed a group of young Capitol Hill staffers up the hill and into the gloom. Some broke off to …
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While the country is focused on President-elect Donald Trump’s most controversial cabinet picks, such as Kash Patel for FBI director or Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence, the fossil fuel industry is surely celebrating a pick that has mostly flown under the radar. Trump has chosen Lee Zeldin to …
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R ight around noon on Oct. 10, 2019, just outside Pecos, Texas, in the Permian oil patch, Jeff Springman bends down to the desert floor, grabs some dirt, tosses it in the air to see which way the wind is blowing. At this site there are a total of seven …
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Before he wrote the book Killers of the Flower Moon, author David Grann paid a visit to Oklahoma and the Osage Nation in 2012. He found himself in the local museumlooking at a big panoramic photo of the Osage tribe and some white settlers. But a panel was missing from …
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“We found love in a hopeless place,” Rihanna famously sang. And there’s nowhere quite as hopeless as the anthropocene — our current geological era, in which humans have begun to have an adverse impact on Earth’s climate. Fatalism about the future of our planet can certainly kill the mood, but, …
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Democratic lawmakers are condemning the Biden administration’s approval of ConocoPhillips’ massive Willow oil drilling project on Alaska’s North Slope. The decision represents a clear reversal of Biden’s 2020 campaign promise to end the approval of new oil and gas permits on federal lands and waters. In a joint statement released …
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