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Vote Leave wants power to axe fuel VAT
2016-05-31 06:14:29| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Leading figures in the campaign for Britain to leave the European Union say they want to be able to scrap VAT on fuel to help the poorest households.
Fossil Fuel, Wildfire, and Fort McMurray
2016-05-30 11:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science Blogs: Four weeks after a wildfire began in the Canadian province of Alberta, thousands of structures in Fort McMurray have been destroyed, over 100,000 people have been evacuated, and 2200 square miles have gone up in smoke. The fire has also shut down commercial extraction of tar sands, a source of fossil fuel and the reason for Fort McMurrays prosperity. Greg Laden points out the perverse cause and effect of it all: tar sands contribute to global warming, global warming contributes to weather variation...
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Fossil fuel darling Ted Cruz demands the feds stop investigating Exxon
2016-05-27 21:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: He`s baaaack! Just a few weeks after Ted Cruz tucked his three-pronged tail between his legs and headed back to D.C., the Texas senator and one-time presidential hopeful has gone right back to advocating for his real constituents in Congress: Big Oil. The Guardian reports that Cruz, along with four other senators, has demanded that the Department of Justice cease any investigation into whether oil companies lied to the public about climate change. Exxon, which wasn`t specifically mentioned...
Cheap fuel lets US drivers hit the road
2016-05-27 20:59:45| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
American drivers take to US roads this holiday weekend enjoying the lowest fuel prices for a decade.
G7 leaders set 2025 deadline to phase out fossil fuel subsidies
2016-05-27 11:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Subsidies for oil, gas and coal should be history in under a decade, leaders from the Group of Seven (G7) nations declared in a statement on Friday after two days of talks in Japan. An estimated US$5.3 trillion a year is spent by governments worldwide supporting the fossil fuel sector, according to the International Monetary Fund. That runs against the spirit of the UNs new Paris Agreement on climate change, say environmental groups, which specifically calls for funds to be redirected towards...
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