Tag: big oil
Ohio communities face ‘voter suppression’ in push to rein in oil...
Waterville shows what could be if these ballot initiatives are allowed a vote: a genuine face-off between the oil and gas industry and local communities.
90 companies helped cause the climate crisis – they should pay...
The companies responsible for the climate crisis should cover the costs of fighting wildfires and recovering from hurricanes.
Alaska’s small villages turn toward renewables – and don’t look back
Oil companies like to push the narrative that Alaskans want more oil development, but that’s not true.
Dirty energy giants censured for claiming natural gas is ‘cleanest’ fossil...
The constant claims that natural gas could be cleaner are helping to prevent areas of the world from making the switch to renewable sources of energy.
Montana eased regulations for Keystone XL after lobbying by TransCanada
By the year’s end, TransCanada expects to make a final decision on whether to proceed with Keystone XL.
Oil giants admit potential spill could have 30% chance of hitting...
The region is home to species that don’t exist anywhere else on earth.
Leaked documents show Jerry Brown giving big oil a seat in...
The California governor is selling himself as a climate advocate on the global stage, but behind the scenes, the fossil fuel industry appears to have his ear.
Federal research has been stoking oil, gas interest in Bears Ears...
“Bears Ears could very well become another Standing Rock in both desecration and resistance."
Is U.S. climate policy killing capitalism?
It’s the Koch Brothers and the rest of Big Oil, and Big Gas, and Big Coal.
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Nearly all plant-based meat alternatives Contain mycotoxins
The researchers found that 100 percent of the plant-based meat substitutes contained at least one of 19 different types of mycotoxins, often showing high "co-occurrence" (multiple toxins in a single product).
Supreme Court rulings and new Southern maps intensify battle over Black voting power before...
A series of redistricting fights in Alabama, Tennessee, and Virginia is reshaping the struggle over voting rights and congressional control as critics warn that recent Supreme Court decisions are accelerating the erosion of protections for Black voters.
The electric car is the only winner in the latest Iran war
The Hormuz Choke Point and the Twilight of Petroleum.
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.