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BP scales back climate targets as profits more than double

BP now plans to increase its oil and gas production over the next seven years.

‘They’re ripping us off’: BP profits could pay energy bills of...

"Big fossil fuel firms making eyewatering profits is a slap in the face for the millions of citizens struggling to heat their homes."

BP exploited Mexican communities hoping to benefit from carbon credits: report

A report published this month in Bloomberg Green said oil and gas company BP has been buying carbon credits from Mexican villages below market value, raising questions about the carbon credit market’s viability as a tool for transitioning companies to green practices.

Big tobacco got caught in a lie by Congress. Now it’s...

Here's the question for the Big Oil 4: will you apologize, here today, for your company's decades of lying about climate change?

Sanders wants big oil CEOs to testify at Senate climate hearing

“These companies are producing a significant percentage of the carbon that we use, which is destroying our planet, and we want to know what they are doing to transform their companies away from fossil fuel.”

Arsonists ‘pledging to light a few less fires’: Analysis exposes failure...

“BP, Shell, and Total are still drilling us into a deeper climate emergency, and that has to stop before they can claim any credibility.”

‘Has BP just woken up to the #ClimateEmergency?’ Oil giant announces...

Climate activists say this latest effort, even if motivated by monetary loss for BP rather than concern for the environment, is a win.

Breaking: ‘I’ve shut down BP. Here’s why.’

BP are just motivated by their profits, regardless of the damage they’re doing. And their time has come to an end.

BP’s first global advertising campaign since Deepwater Horizon accused of being...

“This is a ghastly hypocrisy in the face of an existential threat to the planet."

BP defense lawyer named as Trump’s top DOJ environment attorney

If confirmed, Clark will lead litigation efforts for the federal government on all environmental issues and will be responsible for defending the EPA.

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US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none

Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.
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He’s Eligible for Up to $480,000 After Being Wrongly Imprisoned for 42 Years. The...

Elvis Brooks’ case was an egregious example of a wrongful conviction, civil rights attorneys said. But Louisiana’s attorney general maintains that Brooks and other exonerees are guilty — and therefore don’t qualify for any money from the state.
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Greg Abbott Blasted Corpus Christi for Its Water Crisis. A River Authority He Has...

The Nueces River Authority is working on a project that could expand the Corpus Christi region’s water supply. But the Texas governor has done little to address the agency’s financial problems, despite appointing every member of its board.
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A Gnarly Situation: High-Elevation Discovery Raises New Questions About Which California Trees Will Survive...

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