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Despite repeated warnings that new fossil fuel projects are incompatible with averting climate disaster, oil and gas corporations "are on a massive expansion course" to increase dirty energy production in the coming years, according to an analysis released Thursday at the United Nations COP2 
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PFAS are used by the oil and gas industry, but a lack of transparency and accountability makes it impossible to know how widespread contamination could be in Pennsylvania...
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Long-lasting chemicals with links to cancers and other ailments have been used in Colorado to frack oil and gas wells, a national health and environmental organization says in a new report.
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PSR’s new report, Fracking with “Forever Chemicals” in Colorado, documents the use of toxic, persistent PFAS chemicals in Colorado oil and gas wells. Trade secrets may obscure far wider use.
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Oil and gas companies are hurtling toward bankruptcy, raising fears that wells will be left leaking planet-warming pollutants, with cleanup costs left to taxpayers.
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The oil and gas industry has had a far worse impact on the climate than previously believed, according to a study indicating that human emissions of fossil methane have been underestimated by up to 40%.
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“This indicates that the fossil fuel sector has a much more polluting impact beyond being responsible for the overwhelming majority of carbon dioxide emissions. This is worrying and overall bad news,” said Dr Joeri Rogelj, a climate change lecturer at the Grantham Institute.
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Environmental groups in Ohio have filed a preliminary injunction to stop the leasing of public lands to the oil and gas industry.
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Pennsylvania children who grew up near oil and gas fracking sites have a higher risk for leukemia, a new study finds.
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Exclusive: Campaigners say funding may provide incentive to restart fracking if moratorium is lifted...
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A new report from Physicians for Social Responsibility found companies have used PFAS in Colorado wells. More dangerous versions could be concealed as trade secrets, the group says.
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Turns out that Deb Haaland, a Native American lawmaker determined to tackle climate change, scares Republicans bankrolled by the oil and gas industry.
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Evidence from our analysis suggests that, on average, districts experiencing unconventional drilling had lower per-pupil revenues, locally raised per-pupil...
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Fracking isn't paying off as was promised in Pennsylvania, but it can make people sick in ways no one ever dreamed possible.
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Energy group Ineos has applied to launch a legal challenge to the Scottish government's ban on onshore unconventional oil and gas development in Scotland, known as "fracking", arguing the ban was imposed unlawfully.
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