BUSINESS

Document trove details links between tobacco, oil industries

Benjamin Hulac, E&E News reporter

Published: Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Organizations worried about climate change have long drawn comparisons between the petroleum and tobacco industries, arguing that each has minimized public health damages of its products to operate unchecked. Oil companies bristle at the comparison. But overlap between both industries existed as early as the 1950s, new research details.

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CAMPAIGN 2020

Energy dollars fueling presidential contest

President Trump is getting big help in his reelection from top executives in the fossil fuel industry. Democrats are also collecting cash from energy and environmental interests.

By Timothy Cama and Kelsey Brugger in E&E Daily Friday, July 19, 2019

EMISSIONS

Temperatures are soaring today. So is CO2

Greenhouse gas emissions will spike today as temperatures along the East Coast approach triple digits and power plants are fired up to help Americans beat the heat.

By Benjamin Storrow in Climatewire Friday, July 19, 2019

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