Tag: fossil fuel industry
Keystone XL Pipeline construction to forge ahead during coronavirus pandemic
"He may want voters to believe that boom times are just around the corner, but even before COVID-19, global investors and central bankers were warning that the smart money is moving out of fossil fuels."
Industry infighting as oil and gas seek government help
As the crisis sweeps over the fossil fuel industry, the desperate calls for government help are dividing erstwhile allies.
Make the fossil fuel industry pay the $2 billion bushfire recovery...
The apocalyptic scenes witnessed in Australia are entirely consistent with what climate scientists have been warning about for decades.
Breaking: Former Energy Secretary Rick Perry rejoins board of Dakota Access...
Perry joins a company with a troubled track record when it comes to the law.
Open letter to Senate from climate action groups demands an end...
Sending more fossil fuels to Europe and across the globe is not the answer a coalition of 200 national climate action groups...
New report shows Duke Energy’s clean energy claims don’t match its...
Duke “is using its political influence to add charges on customer bills that send the wrong price signal to its customers.”
5 responses to climate change deniers
You can see the consequences of extreme weather all around us. Wildfires. hurricanes. droughts.
Global Climate Coalition: Documents reveal how secretive fossil fuel lobby group...
The documents show how the GCC influenced international negotiations, manipulated the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) process, and undertook a disinformation campaign designed to cast doubt on mainstream climate science.
Watch what Bill McKibben calls ‘one of the best and most...
With the last five years the hottest since records began, Senator Bernie Sanders says that "What Trump and his friends in the fossil fuel industry are doing is criminal."
Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, August 14, 2018
DNC will take fossil fuel money after all, Income inequality in America vs. Europe, and more.
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Suicide is never painless—yet right-wing implosions bring positive changes
The dread now transcends democracy,/ But what survives kakistocracy?
Trump-backed PAC took $5 million from tobacco giant before FDA opened door to flavored...
A multimillion-dollar contribution from Reynolds American was disclosed days before tobacco executives met with President Trump and less than a week before federal regulators issued guidance that could expand flavored vape sales and benefit major cigarette manufacturers.
Alex Saab and the fragility of the solidarity movement
It’s difficult not to see the renewed imprisonment of Alex Saab as a disappointing capitulation to U.S. coercion after so many of us fought for his freedom, but we cannot forget the task at hand.
DHS warehouse jail plan signals historic expansion of immigration detention
Documents and reporting reveal a sweeping plan to convert warehouses and deploy military contracting to rapidly expand immigration jails across the United States.
Democrats hid their 2024 election autopsy. Its most glaring omission may be Gaza
After months of pressure from activists and party members, the Democratic National Committee released a previously withheld 192-page review of its 2024 defeat. The document sheds light on the party’s internal postmortem while raising new questions about transparency, accountability, and the complete absence of any discussion of Gaza.