Wednesday, June 17, 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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Despite media knocks, Maine’s Graham Platner qualifies as this year’s breakthrough Senate campaign star 

Who knew a year ago that a scintillating Maine campaign could be a national spark plug to a new progressive movement?

More than 770,000 children are no longer receiving SNAP benefits after Trump changes Federal...

Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show children are losing access.

The Trump administration aims to penalize disabled adults who live with their families

A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients.

The persistence of ‘Israel First’

Trump’s Middle East record reveals the short life of “America First.”

Trump’s wind blockade collapses after states force major court retreat

A federal appeals court dismissal leaves intact a ruling that found the Trump administration’s freeze on wind approvals unlawful, preserving state clean-energy investments as new data shows renewable power growing despite political and legal headwinds.