Friday, October 16, 2026

Tag: fossil fuel lobbyists

Senators demand Trump admin reveal Marathon Petroleum, Koch influence on clean...

Senators demand information about a “covert lobbying campaign with oil industry groups to support Trump Administration efforts to weaken fuel economy standards and increase demand for oil consumption.”

Congressional energy and climate committees are loaded with ex-fossil fuel lobbyists

Ex-lobbyists-turned-congressional-staffers get bonuses from their old employers as a parting gift as they step through the reverse revolving door.

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The Zone of Interest at the Cannes Film Festival. Photo: Canal22 / CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

30 Months After Uproar Over Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar Speech, What Do His Pro-Israel Denouncers...

Ten signers of a 2024 open letter condemning the director’s Academy Awards speech told the author whether their views have changed since.
Clinton Street in Iowa City, Iowa. Photo: Billwhittaker / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Iowa hospital custodian deported to Sierra Leone before judge ruled on stay request, advocates...

Fatou Traore held a 2011 order barring removal to her home country. Co-workers, her congresswoman and three bishops had asked for her release.

America’s Broken Promises, Iran’s Resolve, and the dangerous Game over the Strait of Hormuz

Iran is telling Washington that the age of expecting automatic concessions in exchange for ambiguous promises is over.
Solar cells and wind turbines at the Technical University of Łódź. Photo: Zorro2212 / CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Clean energy finance passes fossil fuels for the first time, but little reaches low-income...

Oil Change International and Friends of the Earth U.S. report G20 and development bank clean energy finance averaged $52.7 billion a year from 2023 to 2025
A guillotine on display in Luxembourg. Photo: Christian Ries / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

If Trumpism descends to grisly entertainment, why not hangings, guillotines, hungry lions, even burning...

Ready, Aim, Fire! with the latest culture of death stunt politics.