Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Tag: big oil

Why more environmental justice organizations must join the call for a...

An open letter initiated by CODEPINK urges the world to take the arduous baby step of recognizing the deadly intersection of war and environmental destruction.

Big Oil pushes for tax breaks as Republicans seek corporate handouts

Big Oil has spent decades influencing U.S. tax policy, ensuring that it continues to receive billions in government handouts while avoiding taxes.

California’s bold move to hold Big Oil accountable for climate disasters

New bill aims to shift wildfire recovery costs from taxpayers to fossil fuel companies.

As extreme weather batters communities, New York climate activists show a...

December’s protests helped push the Climate Change Superfund Act over the finish line while garnering national attention.

Taxing Big Oil could boost UN loss and damage fund by...

Targeting the world’s seven largest publicly traded oil and gas companies—ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, TotalEnergies, BP, Equinor, and ENI—the tax would hold major polluters accountable for their contributions to the climate crisis.

Revealed: Big Oil told 70 years ago that fossil fuel emissions...

Compelling new evidence shows this pattern of behavior was already hardwired into the industry’s DNA by 1955 and persists today. 

The corporations undermining democracy: Big Tech, Big Oil, and private equity...

The report draws attention to how these corporations finance far-right political movements, violate labor laws, exacerbate the climate crisis, and influence media and technology to control narratives.

California files lawsuit against ExxonMobil for plastic recycling fraud

ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel and petrochemical companies are being accused of promoting recycling as a solution to plastic waste management despite internal knowledge that it is not a viable solution.

Democrats push groundbreaking bill to make Big Oil pay for climate...

The Polluters Pay Climate Fund Act would require major fossil fuel companies to pay into a damages fund, modeled after the Superfund, to help mitigate the harm caused by their contributions to global warming.

Vermont passed a bill making Big Oil pay. Now comes the...

Should the bill survive the legal challenges as expected, Vermont will be the first state in the nation to force Big Oil to pay for the climate disasters caused by its products.

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GOP Medicaid cuts would drop millions from coverage while boosting tax breaks for the...

New Republican plan could strip 8.6 million Americans of healthcare while permanently enriching the ultra-wealthy through revived 2017 tax breaks.

Federal judge halts Trump and Musk’s illegal plan to dismantle government

A California court blocks sweeping mass layoffs and agency overhauls ordered by Trump and Musk, ruling the president lacks the authority to reorganize the federal government without congressional approval.

Remember when bad guys were engaging, even charming outlaws shielded by media trickery? Not...

Why start a horrendous global tariff ambush without having any good escapes? The outcomes will only humiliate Trump.

Donald Trump’s feverish lust for green energy resources

It’s not about the climate, it’s about greed.

Seven dead in ICE custody in Trump’s first 100 days as detainee population swells

At least seven migrants have died in ICE custody since January, as the Trump administration expands detention and dismantles oversight across a system plagued by abuse, neglect, and inhumane conditions.