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June 08, 2023
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As Canada Burns, Docs Reveal Oil Giant Weighed In on Government Carbon Plan <[link removed]>
"Carbon capture and storage is a scam, and as these documents show, the call is coming from inside the house," said one campaigner. <[link removed]>
Jessica Corbett <[link removed]>
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Converging on White House, Progressives Tell Biden to Cancel Mountain Valley Pipeline <[link removed]>
The president "can stop MVP just like he stopped Keystone XL" and "can reclaim his climate legacy by stopping all new fossil fuel projects." <[link removed]>
Kenny Stancil <[link removed]>
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After UK Rejects Appeal, Press Freedom Groups Say Biden Must Drop Assange Extradition Push <[link removed]>
"If Biden lets this case proceed," said one advocate, "future administrations will surely use the precedent of the Assange prosecution... to go after journalists they don't like." <[link removed]>
Julia Conley <[link removed]>
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Snowden Warns Today's Surveillance Technology Makes 2013 Look Like 'Child's Play' <[link removed]>
"We trusted the government not to screw us," said Edward Snowden. "But they did. We trusted the tech companies not to take advantage of us. But they did. That is going to happen again, because that is the nature of power." <[link removed]>
Julia Conley <[link removed]>
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Big Oil Shill Tells Fox Viewers There Is 'No Health Risk' From Inhaling Toxic Smoke <[link removed]>
Fox News brought on a contributor with a history of downplaying the dangers of secondhand smoke and dismissing climate science to tell viewers that particulate matter is "innocuous." <[link removed]>
Jake Johnson <[link removed]>
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'Wake Up Call': Climate-Warming Emissions Reached Record This Decade <[link removed]>
"If we don't want to see the 1.5°C goal disappearing in our rearview mirror, the world must work much harder and urgently at bringing emissions down," one scientist behind the findings said. <[link removed]>
Olivia Rosane <[link removed]>
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The US Shouldn't Stand in the Way of an Ambitious Global Plastics Treaty <[link removed]>
The United States has so far backed country-specific over global plastic-reduction targets, but relying on national targets alone undermines the sincerity and cohesiveness of a global effort to reduce plastics and their associated emissions. <[link removed]>
Christine Keating <[link removed]>
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Through the Smoky Haze, Can We See Clearly Now the Climate Emergency? <[link removed]>
Today is our chance to understand what it really feels like every day on a fossil-fueled planet, for the billions of people unlucky enough to really bear the brunt. My eyes are stinging a bit from the smoke, but I've never seen more clearly. <[link removed]>
Bill Mckibben <[link removed]>
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Science, Corporate Secrets, and the Dangers of Deep Sea Mining <[link removed]>
There can be no commercial confidentiality in the global commons. <[link removed]>
Paul Johnston,David Santillo <[link removed]>
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