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(Reuters) - The state of Montana and regional fossil fuel industry groups have sued Portland, Oregon, over its ban on building new bulk fossil fuel storage facilities, arguing the city’s prohibition is discriminatory and will cause costly fuel shortages. The lawsuit, filed in Portland federal court on Tuesday seeks to stop the city from enforcing policies the plaintiffs, including the Western

A historic deal has been struck at the UN's COP27 summit that will see rich nations pay poorer countries for the damage and economic losses caused by climate change.

It ends almost 30 years of waiting by nations facing huge climate impacts.

But developed nations left dissatisfied over progress on cutting fossil fuels.

"A clear commitment to phase-out all fossil fuels? Not

Nearly 40 million people worldwide work in jobs related to clean energy, according to a Sept. 8 report from the International Energy Agency. That number represents 56% of total energy sector employment, meaning that, for the first time ever, clean energy jobs outnumber those involved in producing, transporting, and burning fossil fuels.

The clean energy jobs includes those upstream,

There are problems with oil, gas and coal, but their benefits for people—and the planet—are beyond dispute. The environmental movement has advanced three arguments in recent years for giving up fossil fuels: (1) that we will soon run out of them anyway; (2) that alternative sources of energy will price them out of the marketplace; and (3) that we cannot afford the climate consequences of