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Share this article WUHU, China—Air conditioners sped down the assembly line at an appliance factory here on a recent Saturday afternoon, as pop music blared over the din of fans and motors. The workers, mostly 20-somethings in crisp blue uniforms, were working quickly and on track to meet their daily target of 3,300 units. Stretching the length of a football field, the assembly line in Wuhu was retooled in 2016 to produce hundreds of thousands of climate-friendly air conditioners per year, fu...

2020s Worst Environmental Disasters, and How Climate Change Played a Role | The Weather Channel The Weather Channel 12/20/2020 Ron Brackett In a year of unprecedented disasters, much of the damage done to our planet in 2020 was self-inflicted. From devastating oil spills in sensitive areas to deadly wildfires that consumed record acreage to failing dams that flooded entire towns, the worst environmental disasters of the year showed the influence of humans. That influence is cl...

Print This is the Dec. 17, 2020, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. It’s been nearly five years since the chilly February morning when I shuffled into the back of a conference room at Salt Lake City’s convention center to watch the federal government auction off oil and gas drilling rights for up to 45,000 acres of public lands. There were nearly 100 protesters in t...

Alaska drilling project squashed by court decision was touted by oil-friendly former Trump official The official’s comments, alongside the court’s ruling, cast doubt on the integrity of the Trump administration’s approval process for oil and gas development in Alaska. This week, a federal court overturned the Trump administration’s approval for what would have been Alaska’s first drilling project in federal waters, citing faulty analyses of how the Arctic oil and gas facility would...

For deceiving the public to maintain profits. now, some bombshell new reporting suggests a possible parallel in the fossil fuel industry. since the mid 90s exxonmobil has spent millions of dollars to spread denial and doubt about manmade climate change. in 1997 then chairman lee raymond campaigned fiercely against the kyoto protocol telling a conference in beijing "the case for so-called global warming is far from air tight. theres a lot we really dont know about how climate will change in the 2...

Reports "exxon curtailed its carbon dioxide research. but even that in the early 90s researchers and engineers at exxon and a subsidiary were still incorporating climate projection models into their planning for arctic operations according to the q.l.a. times." in response two california congressmen have were not a letter to attorney general loretta lynch asking her to open the same kind of investigation into exxonmobil the government pursued against big tobacco. joining me, nila bannergi, senio...