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An oil baron is fighting renewable energy production by influencing fellow billionaire Donald Trump, a New York Times opinion piece warned Monday.

Fracking pioneer Harold Hamm earned a considerable fortune in fossil fuels and is not willing to watch renewable energy — produced by wind, solar, and hydropower — take a bite out of his profits, according to energy writer Russell Gold. Hamm's privately held company is the 13th-largest oil producer in the United States, raking in $2 billion in profits last year, the article said.

Hamm began his campaign against the "parasitic" wind industry in Oklahoma in 2016, about the same time he endorsed Trump's first presidential campaign. Since then, Hamm "has taken his fight against renewables national — and made a project out of influencing President Trump," the article says....

Investment in renewable energy last year amounted to a record 211 billion dollars, a rise of 32 percent over 2009 and 540 percent over 2004, a UN-backed report said on Thursday.

Kansas town rises green from tornado rubble

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney broke with Republican orthodoxy on Friday by saying he believes that humans are responsible, at least to some extent, for climate change.

ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Governments approved on Monday a U.N. report projecting that renewable energies such as solar, wind or hydropower could leap to supply almost 80 percent of the world's demand by 2050, with the right policies.

WASHINGTON — Google and the subsidiaries of two Japanese companies are investing $500 million in a wind farm being built in the northwestern US state of Oregon.