Thursday, March 19, 2026

Tag: fossil fuel

‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly...

More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.

Fossil fuels as a weapon of war:’ US-Israeli war on Iran...

This comes as Israel has struck oil depots in Tehran, blanketing the capital in smoke and toxic rain.

World to exceed 1.5°C heating threshold, extreme urgency for fossil fuel...

Current emissions trajectories mean the remaining "carbon budget" for a 50 percent chance of staying below 1.5°C will likely be depleted by 2030.

Have we reached peak fossil fuels? Wind & solar met all...

That statistic requires us to conclude that there was no growth in fossil fuels globally during that period. Ember anticipates that Q4 will show the same result.

Brazilian government grants license for exploratory oil drilling in Amazon basin

Despite environmental and Indigenous concerns, the Brazilian government cited that the potential for energy sovereignty.

Trump is pushing allies to buy US gas. It’s bad economics—and...

As Prime Minister Anthony Albanese meets U.S. President Donald Trump this week, he will face pressure to boost U.S. fortunes—complicated by the fact that Australia is itself a major LNG exporter.

North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality approves water permit for T15...

The project is a proposed 45-mile long natural gas transmission pipeline that would run from Eden, North Carolina to Roxboro, North Carolina, crossing through Person, Caswell, and Rockingham counties.

Trump says America’s oil industry is cleaner than other countries’. New...

Does Texas, the heart of America’s oil and gas industry, tell a different story?

Scores of climate experts condemn Trump climate report as ‘junk science’

“It reads like a list of common climate skeptic tropes—long ago rebutted by the scientific community—being rehashed by a group of disgruntled scientists.” 

Plastics endanger human, planetary health at ‘every stage of their lifecycle,’...

From fossil fuel extraction, production, use, recycling and disposal, the study concluded that plastics are a "grave, growing, and under-recognized danger" causing disease and death.

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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure

On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.

The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things

Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death. 

‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...

More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.

Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.

Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.

Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America—if we survive!

So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.