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Tell PM Trudeau to Stop Funding Fossil Fuels and Keep His Promise!

Enviromental Defense

A year ago, we celebrated a milestone victory : the Government of Canada finally released new rules ending fossil fuel subsidies. The federal government first promised to end these subsidies back in 2009. billion in financial support to fossil fuel and petrochemical companies.

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Lisa Baiton: Big Oil’s Climate Misinformation Maestro

Enviromental Defense

For decades the fossil fuel lobby has masterfully weakened, derailed, and outright blocked government climate policy. The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. The biggest barrier to climate action in Canada is the oil and gas lobby.

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Erie’s North East High School Team Places 8th In International NCF Envirothon Competition, Out Of 50 Teams!

PA Environment Daily

Technical expertise is provided by the following partners: Department of Agriculture, Department of Environmental Protection, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Game Commission, Fish and Boat Commission, Department of Education, and the U.S.D.A. Natural Resources Conservation Service.

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Ohio River Valley Institute: Pennsylvania Voters Overwhelmingly Support Stricter Regulations On Fracking, New Poll Finds

PA Environment Daily

Job-intensive infrastructure upgrades, efficiency improvements, and measures to repair fossil fuel damage, including repairing roads and bridges (99%), weatherizing homes to make them more energy efficient (96%), cleaning up old oil and gas wells (95%), and reclaiming abandoned mine lands (86%), enjoy broad support among Pennsylvania voters.

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Frack is Whack: Why Hydraulic Fracturing is Bad for People and the Planet

Vermont Law

While fracking has benefits such as increasing the availability of oil and natural gas which in turn leads to a decrease in energy. The use of fracking to extract fossil fuels is a very controversial process due to the overwhelming impacts it has in human and environmental. degradation. . malfunction.

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Release: Nearly all COP27 sponsors are either major polluters or enablers of fossil fuel industry

Corp Watch

USA: Coke Sued for Fraudulent Claims on Obesity-Promoting “VitaminWater” Center for Science in the Public Interest | January 15, 2009 Coke markets VitaminWater as a healthful alternative to soda by labeling its several flavors with such health buzz words as "defense," "rescue," "energy," and "endurance."

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Big Climate Win Down Under: Australian Court Blocks Coal Mine Citing Negative Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Law Columbia

Given the limitations of the global carbon budget, he suggested that only a limited number of fossil-fuel development projects can proceed and used a balancing test to determine which projects may have benefits justifying the costs. federal courts considering municipal suits against fossil fuel companies for climate-related damages.