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A Year of Oversight & Accountability: Sierra Club FOIAs Have Uncovered Oil & Gas Handouts, Canceled Grants, Opposition to Whitewashing of History, & More

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Washington, DC — Today, the Sierra Club is highlighting the transparency generated by the organization’s Environmental Law Program in the first year of Donald Trump’s second term in office. Sierra Club lawyers launched a robust Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) accountability effort one year ago, at the start of the second … [continued]

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From Optimistic Models To Empty Pipelines: The Intellectual History Of Germany’s Hydrogen Backbone

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Germany’s hydrogen backbone now exists as steel in the ground and pressurized pipe, but the more important infrastructure was laid long before any trench was dug. That infrastructure was intellectual. A long sequence of studies, models, and policy-facing analyses created the impression that large scale hydrogen for energy use was … [continued]

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