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Tag: BP

Big Oil cashes in on Iran war as drivers face soaring...

While Americans confront the highest fuel prices in years after the U.S.-Israel war on Iran disrupted global oil markets, fossil fuel giants are reporting surging profits, expanding stock buybacks, and prioritizing shareholder payouts over increased production.

War-fueled oil profits deepen what critics call an obscene transfer of...

As TotalEnergies and BP post surging profits tied to oil price shocks from the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, critics warn that fossil fuel giants are once again converting geopolitical crisis into shareholder windfalls while households absorb the economic pain.

Family sues fossil fuel giants for wrongful death in first climate...

In a legal first, a Washington state woman has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against some of the world’s largest fossil fuel...

REVEALED: Now there’s proof that the fossil fuel industry uses cultural...

Campaigners have warned cultural institutions against accepting oil money, arguing that sponsorships are a key weapon in the public relations arsenal the industry deploys to thwart climate action.

$28 trillion in climate damage traced to 111 top polluters, study...

New research links fossil fuel giants to trillions in heat-driven economic losses, offering fresh momentum for climate liability lawsuits worldwide.

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.”

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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.