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A good day for life on Earth

Lots of publications said yesterday was “A bad day for Big Oil.” It was! But there's a bigger takeaway.

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Emily Atkin
May 27, 2021
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If you regularly read The Washington Post, Bill McKibben’s wonderful climate newsletter at The New Yorker, or the top-notch politics newsletter Popular Information, you probably saw the news: yesterday was “A bad day for Big Oil.”

Not to knock on my friends—they’re absolutely right—but I think there’s a bigger takeaway. It wasn’t just a bad day for Big O…

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