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Chemical reaction Inside the corporate fight against the EU’s PFAS restriction

From Corporate Europe Observatory The EU proposal to restrict PFAS – or ‘forever chemicals’ – is at serious risk of being hijacked…

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Protecting biodiversity: rejecting carbon offsetting

From War on Want 16.10.2024 Biodiversity is the foundation of life – providing the food we eat, the air we…

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A new super reservoir approved in Oxfordshire

A new super reservoir approved in Oxfordshire From Ecosocialist Discussion I grew up in Abingdon near Oxford, spent over 20…

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Private jets on the road: Why we need to curb the SUV

This is an edited version of an article that first appeared in De Groene Amsterdammer. What drives someone to buy…

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Labour’s Plans to Capture Carbon Are Designed for Fossil Fuel Giants, Not the Climate

From Novara Media Labour’s Plans to Capture Carbon Are Designed for Fossil Fuel Giants, Not the Climate But saying so…

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Climate Emergency Camden on Ed Miliband subsidising Drax

From Ham and High By Tania Inowlocki, Climate Emergency Camden Is energy secretary Ed Miliband about to approve subsidies to…

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Drax, subsidies, greenwashing and dodgy accounting

Sean Thompson writes: On 8 August, police in North Yorkshire arrested 25 members of the environmental group Reclaim the Power…

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You flood it, you pay for it

From Bill McKibben You flood it, you pay for it. States are considering ‘climate superfund’ laws to hold Big Oil…

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Government debunked a 15-minute city conspiracy theory… then endorsed it

From Open Democracy Levelling up department’s own guidance contradicts comments by transport secretary Mark Harper at Tory conference Ruby Lott-Lavigna…

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Wales’s new speed limit, fake news and the ‘war on motorists’

Sean Thompson reports: In the UK, more than 80 people a day on average are killed or seriously injured on…