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FILE PHOTO: A Southwest commercial aircraft flies near a cell phone tower as it approaches to land at John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, California U.S. January 18, 2022. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo
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U.S. jet fuel output rises to pre-COVID levels as demand soars

U.S. refiners pumped out jet fuel last week at the fastest pace since the pandemic, government data showed, as they look to keep...

Greenpeace activists, some dressed in business suits and wearing smoke stack hats, 'greenwash' BP's Calgary headquarters with large letters spelling out 'TAR SANDS' in Calgary, Thursday, April 15, 2010. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Canadian oil and gas industry making risky play over greenwashing law: experts

Experts in communications and greenwashing say Canada's oil and gas industry is making a risky play in so fully scrubbing environmental claims from...

Phoenix, Arizona, U.S., June 6, 2024. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File photo
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From construction to crude oil, how do U.S. industries deal with extreme heat?

Extreme heat has companies in the United States changing the way they work. One frequent response: work less. Here is how heat affects...

FILE PHOTO: A view shows the ExxonMobil oil refinery in Port-Jerome-sur-Seine, France, March 8, 2023. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol/File Photo
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Striking French workers block delivery trucks at ExxonMobil refinery

Striking workers blocked delivery trucks carrying oil products, including petrol, from leaving the ExxonMobil Chemical France's Port-Jerome-Gravenchon refinery in northern France on Friday.

The Ilijan liquified natural gas plant is visible along the coast of Ilijan, Batangas province, Philippines on Friday, Aug. 11, 2023. The Philippines is seeing one of the world's biggest buildouts of natural gas infrastructure. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
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Takeaways from AP’s report on Philippines governor’s interest in natural gas

An Associated Press investigation found that a major cheerleader for natural gas, Gov. Hermilando Mandanas of Batangas province, stood to benefit from the...

FILE PHOTO: People drive past a coal-fired power plant in Shanghai, China October 21, 2021. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo
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Major Chinese asset managers have no plans to phase out fossil fuel investments, Greenpeace says

Major Chinese asset managers have billions of dollars invested in fossil fuels with no plans for a phase out, a new Greenpeace report...

The sun sets over a liquefied natural gas power plant in Santa Clara, Batangas province, Philippines on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023. The Philippines is seeing one of the world's biggest buildouts of natural gas infrastructure. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
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Politician who pushed Philippines natural gas boom is behind firm that planned to profit

An influential politician in the Philippines, who has been a cheerleader for natural gas power, is behind a company that planned to make...

FILE PHOTO: The Bryan Mound Strategic Petroleum Reserve, an oil storage facility, is seen in this aerial photograph over Freeport, Texas, U.S., April 27, 2020.  REUTERS/Adrees Latif/File Photo
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Oil prices slip as rate hike worries come into focus

By Scott DiSavino (Reuters) -Crude prices eased about 1% on Friday on worries that global oil demand growth could be hit by a...

Environmental campaigner Sarah Finch, center, celebrates outside the Supreme Court in London, Thursday June 20, 2024 after justices ruled that emissions generated from burning fuel should be considered when granting planning permission for oil sites. The 3-2 ruling Thursday in London was a victory for fossil fuel opponents. (Callum Parke/PA via AP)
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Fossil fuel opponents score victory in a UK Supreme Court ruling on case near a London airport

Fossil fuel opponents won a major victory Thursday as the U.K. Supreme Court ruled that planners reviewing well-drilling permits must consider the greenhouse...

Antonio Espinoza, a supervisor with the Gras Lawn landscaping company, uses a gasoline-powered leaf blower to clean up around a housing development in Brick, N.J. on June 18, 2024. New Jersey is one of many states either considering or already having banned gasoline-powered leaf blowers on environmental and health grounds, but the landscaping industry says the battery-powered devices favored by environmentalists and some governments are costlier and less effective than the ones they currently use. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
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U.S. bans on gasoline-powered leaf blowers grow, as does blowback from landscaping industry

Restrictions on gas-powered leaf blowers face blowback from the landscaping industry and some property owners, who say that the battery-powered blowers favored by...

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