Saturday, April 20, 2024

Rise of the machines: Fracking execs plan profits by using automation to shrink workforce

The oil and gas industry appears primed to follow in the footsteps of the coal industry, where automation has been eating away jobs for decades.

Fossil fuel industry outspent environmentalists and renewables by 10:1 on climate lobbying, new study...

“Different corporations typically push for whatever positions are advantageous to their economic well-being.”

What’s hiking the heat up so high this summer?

Economic inequality helps generate such wide temperature differentials.
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Bill McKibben: Green New Deal is a chance to ‘remake not just a broken...

"...if we don’t get action really soon, if we let it stretch out, those are the decades that will finish the work of breaking the planet. It’s why the urgency of something like the Green New Deal is so crucial."

A Fitbit for Polar Bears Reveals Their Struggle to Survive

Scientists document that climate change is forcing the animals to exert more energy to find food.

Oil and gas industry rebukes fracking ban talk as UN shows just how much...

“The time to begin planning for a wind-down of gas production is, as with other fossil fuels, already upon us."

IOGCC Representatives Spout Climate Denial at ExxonMobil-Funded Meeting

IOGCC may be just as bad as ALEC, but has yet to come under fire for its relationship with Exxon.

Border Carbon Tax Could Cut Emissions

Major trading countries are urged to make a big contribution to the battle against climate change by introducing a carbon tax on imports.

The huge costs of Trump energy plans

If Trump is able to reverse state and local bans on fracking, he will in effect be giving oil and gas companies the right to pollute people's farms and drinking water.

North Dakota’s public bank was built for the people – now it’s financing police...

The nation’s only state bank was created to empower small farmers and local economies, but now it’s being used to silence indigenous people with militarized force. How did this happen?