Tag: fossil fuel
‘Clean energy is moving fast’: Investments in renewables will overtake fossil...
The global energy crisis that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as well as the growing affordability of renewables, has given rise to more sustainable alternatives.
Italy’s first climate lawsuit targets major oil company ENI
The plaintiffs are claiming past and potential future damages, saying Eni’s policies violate the Paris Agreement.
Hospitals are investing billions of dollars in fossil fuels, report reveals
Should hospitals decide not to join the fossil fuel divestment movement, they risk betraying their mission to serving their patients, new report said.
DOE approves LNG exports from Alaska project
The $38.7 billion infrastructure project, if it gets the necessary investments and all required permits, will be operational by 2030.
Projected collapse of crucial Antarctic current met with media silence
Science doesn’t guide U.S. corporate media, which were virtually silent on the landmark study.
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.
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Mississippi pension fund sues Apollo Global Management over downplayed Epstein ties
The fund manages retirement savings for hundreds of thousands of Mississippi teachers, police officers and other public workers, and a shareholder case like it can force a company to hand over internal records.
Watchdog reporting examines a pension officer’s fossil fuel trades and a fire truck monopoly
The Lever's latest investigations trace a California retirement chief's oil and gas stock trading and a spreading set of antitrust suits over who builds America's fire engines.
ProPublica journalists strike over AI policy, exposing labor fault lines inside investigative media
The NewsGuild says two years of bargaining stalled over job security and artificial intelligence, and the union has taken its case to federal labor regulators.
The Movement Against Big Tech’s Flock Cameras Transcends Partisanship—and It’s Winning
Much like the resistance to AI data centers, the opposition to Flock surveillance cameras has brought the left and the right together against billionaires who are trying to force America into becoming even more of a police state.
Russia escalates bombing campaign on Ukrainian cities amid missile defense shortages
Rescuers pulled a 93-year-old woman from a damaged Lviv apartment block as Kyiv pressed allies to speed delivery of anti-ballistic interceptors.