Tag: fossil fuel
2021 trends that could drive the energy transition further next year
2021 highlighted ways that renewable energy appears to offer more stable and affordable electricity than burning fossil fuels.
California is the world’s number one importer of Amazonian oil, report...
Tracking oil exports in the Amazon identified that the majority of Amazonian oil comes from Ecuador and ends up in the hands of large California-based corporations.
Goldman Sachs announces commitment to set 2030 emissions reduction targets
The commitment is to reduce the physical emissions intensity of its portfolios, and has yet to rule out support for companies expanding oil, gas and coal.
Just two countries mention need to cut fossil fuel production at...
Of the two exceptions, Denmark and South Africa, the first did not mention Denmark’s role as the largest oil producer in the European Union, while South Africa’s stall was sponsored by the country’s top coal companies.
Greenpeace activists who blocked Houston Ship Channel in 2019 sign agreement...
The Pretrial Intervention Agreement was part of a "negotiation to expedite the dismissal of charges in lieu of a trial."
Kick fossil fuel interests out of climate policy process, campaigners urge
A broad coalition of 138 green groups submitted an open letter calling for decision-makers to address the “elephant in the room holding back global climate ambition: the fossil fuel industry and its lobbying.”
The hidden side of fossil fuel investments: Private equity
Failing to hold private equity firms accountable exacerbates existing inequities.
Congress Grills ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, Chevron and the American Petroleum Institute...
DeSmog has collected short clips from some of Thursday’s most illuminating moments.
The divestment movement’s big month
The pressure and devolving social license have even started to influence business leaders’ decisions.
Campaign to shut down New England’s last coal plant is doing...
New Hampshire's No Coal No Gas campaign deployed kayaktivists and a garden blockade as part of its latest day of mass action aimed at closing Merrimack Station.
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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.
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.
Del Monte Bankruptcy to destroy 420,000 Peach Trees in California
A steady decline in demand for canned products as consumers shift toward fresh produce and several other factors led to this collapse.