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Posted on: Jul 30, 2013, Source: The Guardian

Recent comments from Obama have given hope to environmental campaigners looking for signs that the president will not approve the controversial tar sands project.

Posted on: Jun 20, 2013, Source: The Guardian

The former vice-president says the tar sands pipeline is 'really a losing proposition' and demands climate plan promised at inauguration.

Posted on: Feb 17, 2013, Source: The Guardian

The event, billed as the largest climate protest in history, was a show of force as Obama nears decision on controversial Keystone XL pipeline.

Posted on: Jan 16, 2013, Source: The Guardian

Thanks to Sandy even a run-of-the-mill nor'easter will cause more breaches and the amount of coastal flooding will be widespread.

Posted on: Jan 14, 2013, Source: The Guardian

The National Climate Assessment was just released and provides the fullest picture of the real-time effects of climate change on US life, and the most likely consequences for the future.

Posted on: Jan 2, 2013, Source: The Guardian

Residents of Gardendale, a suburb near the hub of the west Texas oil industry, face having up to 300 wells in their backyards.

Posted on: Nov 15, 2012, Source: The Guardian

President acknowledges first term made only limited progress on the contentious issue that has lit up since hurricane Sandy.

Posted on: Nov 5, 2012, Source: The Guardian

Sandy finally made climate change an issue in the presidential elections -– after months with virtually no mention from Obama or Romney on the campaign trail.

Posted on: Jul 4, 2012, Source: The Guardian

Record-shattering heatwaves, wildfires and freak storms are a sampling of what is to come in 2012 and a window to the future.

Posted on: May 9, 2012, Source: The Guardian

Documents show for the first time that local anti-wind groups are co-ordinating and working with national fossil-fuel funded advocacy groups to wreck the wind industry.

Posted on: Feb 26, 2012, Source: The Guardian

The climate scientist is on a temporary leave of absence while there is an investigation over the leak of Heartland Institute documents.

Posted on: Feb 15, 2012, Source: The Guardian

Information published by DeSmogBlog reveals that the Heartland Institute keeps prominent skeptics on its payroll and relies on millions in funding from the carbon industry.

Posted on: Jan 12, 2012, Source: The Guardian

An independent research group that tracks the influence of money in politics has conducted an analysis of oil industry contributions to members of Congress supporting the pipeline.

Posted on: Oct 18, 2011, Source: The Guardian

Scientists are asking for their names to be removed after mentions of climate change and sea-level rise were taken out by Texas officials.

Posted on: Jul 29, 2011, Source: The Guardian

The Obama administration has been accused of hounding the scientist so it can open up the fragile region to drilling by Shell and other big oil companies.

Posted on: Jul 12, 2011, Source: The Guardian

Environmental engineers say pipeline operators TransCanada Corp have significantly underestimated the chances of a Keystone XL spill.

Posted on: Mar 3, 2011, Source: The Guardian

What are the dangers of pumping gritty, thick crude at high temperature and pressure through a pipeline with walls less than half an inch thick across vital sources of groundwater?

Posted on: Jan 25, 2011, Source: The Guardian

Browner's exit reinforces concerns Obama is preparing compromises on his once-ambitious green agenda to try to build working arrangement with Republicans.

Posted on: Jan 7, 2011, Source: The Guardian

Underwater bacteria had devoured nearly all the methane gas from BP's blown-out well by August, says a study in Science.

Posted on: May 27, 2010, Source: The Guardian

"This will be felt for generations to come," warns oceans expert.

Posted on: Jul 15, 2008, Source: The Guardian

Footage showing interrogation at detention camp released by Canadian teenager's lawyers.