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          <title>Research Confirms ExxonMobil, Koch-funded Climate Denial Echo Chamber Polluted Mainstream Media</title>
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               climate change disinformation               </category>
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               ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM)               </category>
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               Justin Farrell               </category>
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               Koch Family Foundations               </category>
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               media coverage of climate change               </category>
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               Proceedings of the National Academies (PNAS)               </category>
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               Yale University               </category>
               

          
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          <title>VIDEO: Government, Industry Ignore Scientific Case For Improving Crude By Rail Safety, Let Bomb Trains Roll On</title>
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               Bakken crude               </category>
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               Bomb Trains               </category>
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               Center Top               </category>
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               crude-by-rail               </category>
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               DeSmogCAST               </category>
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               oil by rail               </category>
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               oil stabilization               </category>
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               volatility               </category>
               

          
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          <title>DeSmogCAST 4: TransCanada&amp;#8217;s PR Scandal, Gas Industry Revolving Door Report, and B.C.&amp;#8217;s Election</title>
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               DeSmogCAST               </category>
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               Edelman               </category>
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               Kinder Morgan               </category>
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               LNG lobbyists               </category>
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               pipelines               </category>
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               Right Second               </category>
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               TransCanada               </category>
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               TransMountain               </category>
               

          
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          <title>Edelman’s TransCanada Astroturf Documents Expose Oil Industry’s Broad Attack on Public Interest</title>
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               astroturf               </category>
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               Edelman               </category>
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               energy east               </category>
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               pipelines               </category>
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               Public Relations               </category>
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               Richard Berman               </category>
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               TransCanada               </category>
               

          
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          <title>DeSmogCAST 3: Historic US-China Climate Deal, Pipeline News and Scientists Standing Up to Harper</title>
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          <dc:creator>Brendan DeMelle</dc:creator>

          
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               desmog canada               </category>
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               desmog uk               </category>
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               DeSmogCAST               </category>
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               political attacks on scientists               </category>
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               Right Second               </category>
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               tar sands               </category>
               

          
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          <title>DeSmog UK Launches To Combat Climate Denial in Europe Ahead of Paris Climate Talks</title>
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          <dc:creator>Brendan DeMelle</dc:creator>

          
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               climate denial               </category>
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               cop 21               </category>
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               desmog canada               </category>
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               desmog uk               </category>
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               desmogblog               </category>
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               General               </category>
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               United Nations               </category>
               

          
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          <title>Years of Living Dangerously: Watch the First Episode Here</title>
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          <pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2014 22:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
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          <dc:creator>Brendan DeMelle</dc:creator>

          
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               Climate               </category>
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               climate change               </category>
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               Showtime               </category>
                              <category>
               Years of Living Dangerously               </category>
               

          
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          <title>Keystone XL Decision Delayed Again? Inspector General Pushes Report on ERM Scandals to January</title>
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          <pubDate>Fri, 23 Aug 2013 21:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
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          <dc:creator>Brendan DeMelle</dc:creator>

          
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               big tobacco               </category>
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               Caspian Sea               </category>
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               Delaware               </category>
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               ERM Group               </category>
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               Keystone XL               </category>
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               Office of Inspector General               </category>
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               Peru               </category>
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               President Obama               </category>
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               State Department               </category>
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               tar sands               </category>
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               TransCanada               </category>
               

          
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          <title>Deadly Quebec Oil Train Disaster and Athabasca River Spill On Same Day as Tar Sands Healing Walk</title>
          <link>https://thenarwhal.ca/deadly-quebec-oil-train-disaster-and-athabasca-river-spill-same-day-tar-sands-healing-walk/</link>
          <pubDate>Sat, 06 Jul 2013 22:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
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          <dc:creator>Brendan DeMelle</dc:creator>

          
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               Athabasca River               </category>
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               Bakken Shale               </category>
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               Lac Megantic               </category>
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               Natural Resources               </category>
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               Tar Sands Healing Walk               </category>
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               Tar Sands Spill               </category>
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               train derailment               </category>
               

          
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          <title>Alberta Govt Hires Bipartisan Team of Lobbyists to Woo Washington on Risky KXL Tar Sands Pipeline</title>
          <link>https://thenarwhal.ca/alberta-govt-hires-bipartisan-team-lobbyists-woo-washington-risky-kxl-tar-sands-pipeline/</link>
          <pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 09:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
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          <dc:creator>Brendan DeMelle</dc:creator>

          
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               alberta government               </category>
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               Keystone XL               </category>
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               oilsands               </category>
               

          
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          <title>Tar Sands Oil Companies 71 Percent Foreign-Owned &amp;#8211; Cue Ezra Levant&amp;#8217;s Outrage</title>
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          <pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 22:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
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          <dc:creator>Brendan DeMelle</dc:creator>

          
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               alberta tar sands               </category>
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               Canadian Natural Resources               </category>
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               Cenovus               </category>
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               Ethical Oil Institute               </category>
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               Ezra Levant               </category>
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               Natural Resources               </category>
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               oil sands               </category>
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               vivian krause               </category>
               

          
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