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The Clean Energy Front Is Expanding Nicely, Thank You — Renewables Beat Natural Gas In USA
At first glance, it seems the clean energy front isn’t going as well as we’d like. The Trump administration has used every tool in its power — and then some — to extinguish clean energy innovation and installations. Yet hope springs eternal, to the point that, in March, the US … [continued]
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Sierra Club Joins Hundreds of Orgs. Calling on Governments to End ISDS System
Joint Statement Highlights How These Secretive Tribunals Prop Up Intl. Fossil Fuel Industry. Washington, DC — Sierra Club has joined over 340 civil society organizations in signing an open statement calling on governments around the world to disengage from investor-state dispute settlements, or ISDS, a system that “threatens a just transition from … [continued]
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Tax Oil Companies’ Windfall Profits, Says European Civil Society
European NGOs call on Ursula von der Leyen to tax excess oil profits to support vulnerable households, industry and the clean energy transition. A group of 31 European NGOs, including Oxfam, WWF, CAN Europe and T&E, have called on the EU to tax excess oil profits to support Europeans in … [continued]
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