Tag: big oil
How Big Oil dodges Facebook’s new ad transparency rules
We’ve identified 12 ad campaigns in which energy, insurance and other industries masked their sponsorship of political messages on Facebook.
‘Major victory:’ Landowner’s legal challenge halts construction of Bayou Bridge Pipeline...
"We have been tased, pepper sprayed, put into choke holds, and beaten with batons to stop this illegal construction that ETP was carrying out despite not having an easement for the land."
ALEC Sets the table for gerrymandering, union busting, protecting fossil fuels,...
A breakdown of ALEC’s menu of policy proposals at the New Orleans conference.
Bureau of Land Management proposes fracking on 1.6 million acres of...
"...there's really no question that more fracking would be terrible for California."
What #ShellKnew and how it was used to stall international climate...
For almost two decades, Shell has pushed the same proposal to tackle climate change, which still hasn’t come to fruition.
Rise of the machines: Fracking execs plan profits by using automation...
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.
Oil companies and lobbyists say they’re ready to solve climate change....
But when one examines the fine print of the deal – and the financial benefits flowing to some of the people touting it – the effort looks much less utopian.
Why women from Asia are confronting US fracking: Oil extraction equals...
“If we are going to stop plastic we need to stop plastic where it starts.”
Derailed train spills 230,000 gallons of crude into flooded Iowa river
Rock Valley acted quickly to shut off water wells following the spill and plans to drain the wells and use rural water until the well water tests safe.
$83 billion West Virginia petrochemical deal with China on skids due...
The deal would be worth more than the total gross domestic product of West Virginia, which was $76.8 billion in 2017.
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Unions win settlement forcing Trump administration to rescind shutdown mass-firing policy
The agreement follows a court fight that began after roughly 4,200 federal employees received layoff notices during last fall's 43-day shutdown.
States settle antitrust suit over $111 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. merger
Critics say a force-majeure clause and a company-appointed editorial board leave the settlement's protections easy to escape.
The best comeuppance for the first anti-American administration – perpetual exposure as the seditious...
If Russia or China wanted a Manchurian candidate (a brainwashed stooge who betrays his own background and constituency), could they have surpassed the president harumphing in the White House?
Why didn’t Netanyahu’s cabinet preempt October 7 (since it knew about it in advance)?
New York Times reporting confirms Israeli leadership had advance intelligence before the October 7 attack, raising fresh questions about why it was not acted on.
Federal judge orders White House to restore access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico
The order lasts 14 days, and the outlets have until Monday to seek a preliminary injunction after some reporters were briefly turned away despite the ruling.