Oil firms knew decades ago fossil fuels posed grave health risks, files reveal
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Audi abandons combustion engine development
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Carbon Capture Convolution - An exploration of a plan to keep a New Mexico coal plant running
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How corporate tyranny works - Chevron poisoned the Amazon, and then punished environmental lawyer Steven Donziger when he tried to get justice
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Volvo Cars to go fully electric by 2030 – it will phase out all car models with internal combustion engines, including hybrids
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US consumes more green energy than coal for first time since 1885
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Norway's supreme court has approved government plans for oil exploration in the Barents Sea, rejecting a lawsuit by environmental groups
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Climate Change Performance Index – Scandinavian countries power the European Union's climate action but coal-reliant eastern member states lag behind
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Denmark to end new oil and gas exploration in North Sea – decision is part of a plan to phase out fossil fuel extraction by 2050
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Norway's oil workers fear for future as rigs go remote – shift to operating oil rigs remotely from land, accelerated by lower crude prices, has rekindled concerns among unions
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The (modern) history of oil
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Strike by workers in the Norwegian oil sector could soon wipe out nearly one-quarter of the country's petroleum output
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Insurance giant Suncorp to end coverage and finance for oil and gas industry
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Gas companies are abandoning their wells, leaving them to leak methane forever
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Greenpeace occupies Swedish oil refinery over expansion plans – blockade culminated in six arrests after activists scaled harbour cranes at Brofjorden
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Norway plans to drill for oil in untouched Arctic areas – critics say plan for fields off Svalbard threatens ecosystem and relations with Russia
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BP data reveals newly-installed clean electricity generation matched coal for the first time in 2019
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Vatican urges Catholics to drop investments in fossil fuels, arms
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Millions of abandoned US oil wells are leaking methane, a climate menace
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Britain about to pass a significant landmark—two months of coal-free electricity generation—as renewables edge out fossil fuels
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Denmark should end all future oil and gas exploration in the North Sea – it hurts Denmark's ambition as a front-runner in the fight against climate change
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Coal industry will never recover after coronavirus pandemic, say experts
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2020 looks like the year US renewables first out-produce coal
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Climate change and coronavirus: Five charts about the biggest carbon crash
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Sweden closes last coal-fired power station two years ahead of schedule – country becomes third in Europe to exit coal, ahead of mass withdrawal from polluting fossil fuel
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Norway will slash its oil output from June to December of 2020 – the first time in eighteen years it has joined other major producers to shore up prices
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Oil plunges below $5 with traders fleeing expiring contract
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Nearly half of global coal plants will be unprofitable this year
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Probable Roman shipwrecks unearthed at a Serbian coal mine
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Norway may join oil output cuts for first time since 2002 – willingness to cut underscores how painful recent collapse in crude has been for all producers
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Overflowing oil tanks have traders eyeing rail cars for storage
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Coronavirus has temporarily reduced China’s CO2 emissions by a quarter
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Oil prices just fell 31% (and counting) with single biggest drop since Gulf War
How are we feeling about all this? There is going to be anxiety over the next few days (weeks..months....years?) so let's talk about it. 10yr Treasury Bonds are at their lowest ever, futures...
How are we feeling about all this? There is going to be anxiety over the next few days (weeks..months....years?) so let's talk about it.
10yr Treasury Bonds are at their lowest ever, futures market are down ~10%, and cryptocurrencies have lost billions.
How are you feeling?
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SSAB has teamed up with Vattenfall and LKAB to build a pilot plant for the world's first fossil fuel free steel-making process
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Greenpeace asks Norway's supreme court to rule on Arctic oil – a case that could block the petroleum industry's expansion plans
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This simple crib cost $28,885 to make—because it was made with zero fossil fuels
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Greenpeace loses Norway Arctic oil lawsuit appeal – Oslo appeals court approved Norway's plans for more oil exploration in the Arctic
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Norway made an outspoken right-wing lawmaker who once called wind turbines 'white monsters' its oil and energy minister
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Norway says its new giant oil field is actually good for the environment – critics call it climate hypocrisy
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US electricity generation from renewables surpassed coal in April
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Too much combustion, too little fire
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Norway's Equinor plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions from its domestic operations by 40% this decade and to near zero by 2050
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Common gas market for Finland, Estonia and Latvia launches following the completion of the Balticonnector pipeline last month
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Impacts: Climate change awareness project
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Oil is the new data
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Two of America’s biggest coal plants closed this month
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Never mind how many electric cars are sold there – Norway has to change tack and end prospecting for new oil reserves
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Climate campaigners are taking Norway's government back to court to oppose its plans to open the Arctic for oil drilling
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Denmark is giving permission for joint German-Russian underwater gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 to be laid through its territory
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Renewable electricity generation overtakes fossil fuel generation in UK for first time
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