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BP’s record profits draw criticism amid global climate crisis

Oil giant’s Q2 profits highlight the urgent need for a transition to sustainable energy.

Global oil demand to peak next year, BP predicts

The report focused on two main forecast scenarios—Current Trajectory and Net Zero—and predicted that oil consumption will peak at approximately 102 million barrels a day in 2025.

Oil companies use paid news media partnerships to protect ‘social license...

Content created by the in-house advertising studios of major media is coming under growing scrutiny.

Former BP scientist Steve Koonin claims climate journalists are spreading ‘hysteria’

Koonin argued that mainstream climate reporters shouldn’t be linking unprecedented wildfires and hurricanes to climate change.

Wait, what? BP CEO argues for more oil and gas spending...

“Climate crisis is a plague, Bernard Looney to the Hague.”

BP scales back climate targets as profits more than double

BP now plans to increase its oil and gas production over the next seven years.

‘They’re ripping us off’: BP profits could pay energy bills of...

"Big fossil fuel firms making eyewatering profits is a slap in the face for the millions of citizens struggling to heat their homes."

BP exploited Mexican communities hoping to benefit from carbon credits: report

A report published this month in Bloomberg Green said oil and gas company BP has been buying carbon credits from Mexican villages below market value, raising questions about the carbon credit market’s viability as a tool for transitioning companies to green practices.

Big tobacco got caught in a lie by Congress. Now it’s...

Here's the question for the Big Oil 4: will you apologize, here today, for your company's decades of lying about climate change?

Sanders wants big oil CEOs to testify at Senate climate hearing

“These companies are producing a significant percentage of the carbon that we use, which is destroying our planet, and we want to know what they are doing to transform their companies away from fossil fuel.”

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Corporate greed exposed: Kroger admits to price gouging on milk and eggs amid antitrust...

A top Kroger executive admits to inflating milk and egg prices above the rate of inflation

The ‘weavings’ of a wacko: The fakery of grinding Trump hokum into brilliance

“I never ramble, I only ‘weave,’”/ Thus doubling down ways to deceive.

Georgia school shooting sparks renewed debate over gun control and safety reforms

With the suspect now in custody, questions about gun safety, political will, and legislative inaction are dominating the conversation.

Israeli bombing of Syria sparks strong Iranian condemnation amid escalating tensions

Iran strongly condemns Israeli airstrikes that killed at least 16 people in Syria, warning of escalating regional tensions amid ongoing conflicts in Gaza and Syria.​

Steward Health Care CEO refuses Senate subpoena after profiting off hospitals drowning in $9...

The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), chaired by Sanders, is investigating Steward’s bankruptcy, which has left over 30 hospitals in crisis, saddled with $9 billion in debt.