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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.
DOJ must investigate Big Oil’s ‘ongoing enterprise,’ lawmakers say
Whitehouse and Raskin’s plea today is for the Justice Department to go further and launch its own actions to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable.
House Democrats urge DOJ to investigate Big Oil’s climate misinformation campaign
State and local governments have also taken legal action against the fossil fuel industry, seeking compensation for climate-related damages.
Oil companies contaminated a family farm. The courts and regulators let...
The oil and gas industry has reaped profits without ensuring there will be money to plug and clean up their wells.
Congressional investigation reveals new evidence of Big Oil’s decades-long campaign to...
Fossil fuel industry efforts to delay inquiries highlight its sense of impunity—and echo tactics used to obstruct climate action and deceive the public.
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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool
The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.
Alaska governor vetoes single-use polystyrene foam foodware ban
For now, polystyrene products will remain legal for use by commercial food vendors statewide.