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Murray Edwards: The Fossil Fuel Fanatic

Enviromental Defense

The fossil fuel industry has long been the main driver of climate change, but Big Oil’s CEOs and profiteers would like you to believe that it is a part of the solution. One of the people peddling this idea is the man behind Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNRL) – Murray Edwards, the Fossil Fuel Fanatic.

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Wildfires Are Getting Worse. Trump’s Science Cuts Could Threaten Our Response. 

Union of Concerned Scientists

Park Williams, Impact of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire across western US forests , which models forest fire area as a function of fuel dryness both with and without climate change. Between 1984 and 2015, climate change had nearly doubled burned area in forests in the western US.

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Trump EPA Announces Climate Regulation Rollback but Faces Legal Hurdles

Scientific American

” The repeals, he said, would save fossil fuel generation and advance President Donald Trumps "energy dominance" agenda. In 2015, the Obama administration set the first-ever limits on carbon pollution from power plants — only for the rule to be blocked by the Supreme Court. “That was the intended consequences.”

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What does ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ Mean in California?

Legal Planet

from restarting an offshore pipeline system that infamously ruptured and caused the massive Refugio oil spill in 2015. Amid the recent 100-degree heat in New England, solar panels and batteries helped keep AC running while reducing costly fossil-fuel generation, Canary Media reports.

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COP29: Hosts Azerbaijan do not think fossil fuels are a problem

A Greener Life

By Anders Lorenzen People are raising serious questions about the selection of Azerbaijan, a country rich in natural resources, to host this year’s round of UN climate talks COP29. At the COP21 summit in Paris in 2015, which led to the Paris Agreement, countries offered support for the 1.5

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Canada’s next big shift: Examples of what do and what to avoid

Enviromental Defense

Canada needs to phase out fossil fuels, but we can’t leave families and communities impacted by that transition to fend for themselves. The plan included green development criteria so that the town’s local natural resources were protected and that population health was prioritized. Six Nations of the Grand River.

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Explainer: Canada is experiencing its worst-ever wildfire season

A Greener Life

Michael Norton, an official with Canada’s Natural Resources Ministry, explained the current situation: “ The distribution of fires from coast to coast this year is unusual. Government officials have warned of increased wildfire risk in most of the country through August.