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Climate Files is an archival database of climate change documents based on more more than 20 years of research and data collection. Project of @climatewatchdog

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If you haven't been able to keep track of everything that's happened re: coal and energy policy and #inlegis, I don't blame you. Here is a thread:
Emily Hopkins is reporting for Mirror Indy@indyemapolis19 Apr 2019
Replying to @indyemapolis
In March, Rep. Ed Soliday, R-Valparaiso, invited hours of testimony on the idea of a “21st century energy task force,” a 15-member that would study Indiana’s energy policies (or lack thereof) for almost two years. #inlegis iga.in.gov/legislative/2019/…
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Hot Tip! #CoveringClimateNow for journalists and editors looking to cover the three decades of denial and deception that @billmckibben and @markhertsgaard detailed earlier, we released LAST WEEK a cache of archival documents on the Global Climate Coalition climateinvestigations.org/gl…
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Kyle M🍩ler@Kyle_Moler30 Apr 2019
Benevolent overlord @billmckibben discusses importance of media putting climate crisis in context by reminding public that #ExxonKnew. #CoveringClimateNow
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NEW documents show that journalists and specifically weathercasters were a key target of 1990s misinformation campaigns by Big Oil, electric utilities, coal mining, automobile corps. #CoveringClimateNow climatefiles.com/denial-grou… @markhertsgaard @SteveCollNY @wildweatherdan

1995 GCC and Accu-Weather Draft Report “Changing Weather? Facts and Fallacies about Climate Change”...

From the private collection of Nicky Sundt, a Washington-based climate change science, policy and communications expert, this 1995 pre-publication draft report and its corresponding attachments were...

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For Journalists and Editors at #CoveringClimateNow go to @ClimateFiles an archive of "Hard to Find Documents All in One Place" that includes the key archival material @SteveCollNY and @billmckibben were talking about this morning. Dozens of stories possible. Please contact us
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Meet the group leading the fossil fuel industry's attack on climate suits: the National Association of Manufacturers. climateliabilitynews.org/201…
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Collaborating with @RBrulle & @TimmonsRoberts' Climate Development Lab on "Countermovement Coalitions" report. CIC's @KertDavies follows up at "America’s Climate Change Future" panel @BrownUniversity Available here: climateinvestigations.org/th…
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New report by @Priceofoil shows the United States is ramping up oil and gas drilling faster than any other country, threatening to add 1,000 coal plants’ worth of planet-warming gases by the middle of the century. @AlexCKaufman tells the story here: huffingtonpost.com/entry/us-…
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Devastating read; shouldn't these industry organizations and their member companies be held accountable for the damage they have perpetuated on us and our children, all paid for with our monthly power bills: energyandpolicy.org/utilitie… via @EnergyandPolicy #utilitiesknew @drvox @EEI
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Utilities Knew: Report Shows Power Industry Studied Climate Change, Stuck With Coal climateliabilitynews.org/201… via @climatelawnews
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Exxon wasn't the only one who knew about climate change. #ExxonKnew #climatechange #climatedenial
Money Talks, Who's Talking?@BanksTalking14 Dec 2018
Of course more broadly, the National Petroleum Council has known for a while too... See this classic baby blue report from 1970.
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A newly released podcast, Drilled, “investigates the crime of the century — the creation of climate denial.” Read the primary source documents for yourself. climateinvestigations.org/dr…
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Philippines Human Rights Commission Investigates Climate Denial climateinvestigations.org/hu…
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ben hulac@benhulac10 Sep 2018
April of this year. #ExxonMobil #exxon – at Washington, DC
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ben hulac@benhulac10 Sep 2018
NEWS: Exxon Mobil is asking the US Supreme Court to intervene in its climate change case with the Massachusetts AG and reverse a state court. That ordered Exxon in April to turn over documents about its inquiry to the attorney general (@MassAGO). (H/T @apeterka) – at Washington, DC
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Newly discovered 1996 Shell report for the members of the International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association (IPIECA) during the 1996 Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP2). climatefiles.com/ipcc-unfccc…
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New report from @Public_Citizen shows that in Trump's 1st year in office the amount of penalties imposed on corporate violators by the EPA declined by 94%. Similar drop offs happened in DOJ, FCC, SEC and many others. citizen.org/sites/default/fi…
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Baltimore sues 26 fossil fuels companies over climate change buff.ly/2uZq7fQ Our Surging Seas in @insideclimate (and a Baltimore court case)
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Undeterred by NYC ruling, Baltimore sues Big Oil over climate change thinkprogress.org/baltimore-…
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350 dot org
@35020 Jul 2018
Big polluters should pay for the damage they've caused to the climate. Period. The movement to hold fossil fuel companies accountable in court is bigger than any 1 lawsuit or 1 city—and it's growing. Baltimore will be the next to take action: bsun.md/2LAcICf #ExxonKnew
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