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Exxon Continued Paying Millions To Climate Deniers Under Tillerson

"The company, led by Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state, has supposedly shifted its stance on global warming. But the receipts suggest otherwise."

"Exxon Mobil Corp. promised nine years ago to stop donating to groups that spread misinformation about climate change. Yet between 2008 and 2015, the oil giant’s charitable arm gave over $6.5 million to groups that deny that burning fossil fuels is causing global warming, a new analysis shows.

Source: Huffington Post, 01/10/2017

"Cuba, United States Sign Oil Spill Deal Before Trump Inauguration"

"Cuba and the United States agreed on Monday to jointly prevent, contain and clean up oil and other toxic spills in the Gulf of Mexico, as they rush to conclude deals before President-elect Donald Trump takes office."

Source: Reuters, 01/10/2017

"Obama: Trump Cannot Undo All Climate Progress"

"President Obama, writing in the nation's leading science journal, declared that 'the trend toward clean energy is irreversible' regardless of the different policy choices likely to come from his successor."

Source: InsideClimate News, 01/10/2017

"Energy Executives, Secretive Nonprofit Raise Money To Back Pruitt"

"Energy companies and their executives have poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into political action committees run by or supporting President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt. And now Pruitt is getting extra help from a new nonprofit that doesn't have to disclose its donors."

Source: Politico, 01/09/2017

Obama Denies Permits For Seismic Testing To Search For Oil In Atlantic

"For the second time in less than a month, the Obama administration on Friday took an action that all but shuts the door on drilling in the Atlantic Ocean, denying six permits to companies seeking to use seismic cannons to search for oil under the ocean floor."

Source: Wash Post, 01/09/2017

"Greens Launch Six-Figure Campaign Against EPA Nominee"

"An environmental group is launching a new advertising campaign against the confirmation of President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)."

Source: The Hill, 01/06/2017

Obama Administration Moves To Protect Some Remote Areas Of Alaska

The Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management issued four plans for management of 6.5 million publicly owned acres of Alaska’s eastern interior.

Source: Wash Post, 01/06/2017

"Zinke Scares Greens By Backing Rule To Ease Land Transfers"

"President-elect Donald Trump once rejected the idea of selling public lands to states because he wanted 'to keep the lands great.'"

Source: Greenwire, 01/06/2017

"Court Delays Appeal Over Obama’s Fracking Rule"

A federal court on Wednesday delayed oral arguments in the Obama administration’s appeal to reinstate its hydraulic fracturing regulation for federal lands for two months."

Source: The Hill, 01/05/2017

"Oil Industry Fears Trump May Hit Them Up on Tax Reform"

"Industry officials worry tax reform could target energy companies".

Source: TIME, 01/05/2017

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