Friday, March 31, 2023

Tag: fossil fuel

Top US law schools accused of creating a student ‘pipeline’ into...

The LSCA is now calling out top-ranked law schools for their role in propping up the fossil fuel industry through what the report refers to as a “fossil fuel lawyer pipeline.”

Major gas utility is pouring money into reversing an Oregon city’s...

Climate advocates who see this strategy playing out in Eugene are concerned that NW Natural and its affiliates may spend enormous sums to convince the public to overturn the mandate. 

Wait, what? BP CEO argues for more oil and gas spending...

“Climate crisis is a plague, Bernard Looney to the Hague.”

Soaring energy prices triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could...

"Unaffordable costs of energy and other necessities will push vulnerable populations into energy poverty and even extreme poverty.”

Big Oil’s trade group allies outspent clean energy groups by a...

Most provide financial support to industry groups that are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on political activities, often to thwart polices designed to slow climate change.

BP scales back climate targets as profits more than double

BP now plans to increase its oil and gas production over the next seven years.

Fossil fuel groups ‘spent millions’ on social media ads spreading climate...

The cost of living crisis and a surge in fossil fuel prices “turbocharged an ecosystem of disinformation” around the summit, study finds.

Flush with record profits, Exxon sues to block EU windfall tax

Exxon has also been rewarding its top executives, boosting the annual salary of CEO Darren Woods from $1.70 million to $1.88 million for the coming year.

House Committee report shows how Big Oil has been gaslighting us...

The fossil fuel industry has done everything it can to gaslight the public into believing that we are all equally responsible for causing the climate crisis and that the industry was working hard to solve it.

Peak US oil production looms as the domestic shale boom ends

Finite resources are real constraints that no magical thinking or predicting by the industry can overcome. 

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California passes law to fine oil companies over price gouging

The new law prohibiting fuel price gouging will go into effect June 26.

Western monarch butterfly population reaches its highest number since 2000

“It is difficult to watch monarch butterflies and their extraordinary migration teeter on the edge of collapse, but there are signs of hope.”

WATCH: Sanders rips Schultz over ‘unforgivable’ efforts to crush worker organizing

"That union-busting campaign has been led by Howard Schultz."

Australia becomes first country to approve psychedelics as form of medicine

Australia is reclassifying them as “controlled substances” and making them available for use in managed medical settings.

Cop city coverage fails to question narratives of militarized police

The story of Tortuguita’s death is about protests against militarized policing being met with more militarized policing, which ultimately resulted in a fatal shooting.