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Bots Are Manipulating The Clean Energy Information You Seek Online

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A recent study published in Nature found that participants’ preferences in real-world elections swung by up to 15 percentage points after conversing with a chatbot. The researchers concluded that, as AI models become more sophisticated, they hold a sizable persuasive advantage for powerful actors behind our screens. Bots have a … [continued]

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Peak Oil Is Not Dead: Reviewing the IEA’s World Energy Outlook for 2025

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A month ago, media all over the internet went crazy repeating the following headline (or a similar one) over and over: “IEA scraps Peak Oil, says oil demand will continue growing until 2050.” All this oil-positive hype was a result of the IEA’s World Energy Outlook for 2025. This report … [continued]

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Hydrogen for Transportation Didn’t Fail Just Once in 2025. It Failed Everywhere.

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This year marked the point where hydrogen transportation stopped being a future tense conversation and became an accounting exercise. Across light duty vehicles, buses, trucks, trains, mining equipment, refueling infrastructure, and even aviation, withdrawals outpaced commitments. These were not isolated pilots failing at the margins. They were coordinated retreats spread … [continued]

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Sierra Club Notice of Intent to Sue Flags Agency Failures to Protect Arctic Polar Bears from Oil & Gas Activities

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Flawed Fish and Wildlife Service Opinion Underestimates Effects on Threatened Species WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Sierra Club, represented by its Environmental Law Program, and allied organizations represented by Trustees for Alaska filed a notice flagging ESA violations by the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife … [continued]

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