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In late March, New Mexico’s largest newspaper ran a story about how 2020 set records for oil and gas production in the state: More fossil fuels were pumped out of the ground last year than ever before. The Albuquerque Journal story, published in a weekly stand-alone business section, quoted a pair of company owners and an industry spokesperson. The original story was rewritten and repackaged by other outlets both in and outside of New Mexico.  Join our email list to get the stories that mainstream news is overlooking.  The story proved popular with the industry. On the day it was publish...

The transition to a global energy system that runs on renewable energy rather than finite and dirty coal, oil, and gas is arguably the number-one topic in the media, sometimes eclipsing even the pandemic. Yet, for all the enthusiastic talk, it seems that we are nowhere near accomplishing the transition—and it may already be too late to do anything about climate change anyway, according to some climate scientists. “Embedded power structures and support for a dying industry”: these are the factors that are keeping oil and gas as the world’s main sources of energy, according to the chi...

Your Turn: Climate change is real but not new, writer says Kim Gau A headline in the St. Cloud Times from April 9, 2021, stated:  "CO2 levels highest in over 3M years."  In the same article a man — Colm Sweeney of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — also stated:  "Human activity is driving climate change."  Indeed, climate change is real.  It's been going on for millions of years. As far as it being caused by human activity, there are more than 31,000 scientists who would disagree with Mr. Sweeney's claim. Over 9,000 of them have their PhDs. The first name you'l...

Carbon dioxide levels are now higher than at any time in past 3.6-million years

Policymakers are under intensifying pressure to deliver on promises made as part of the Paris Agreement ahead of this year's COP26.