Tag: fossil fuel
Wealthy donors and fossil fuel interests pump millions into Super PACs...
Koch Industries leads corporate contributions.
Courts to decide fate of climate lawsuits brought against fossil fuel...
“Fossil fuel companies knew 40 years ago that their products would lead to stronger storms, rising seas, larger wildfires, and other climate disasters."
Youth activists call on California state teachers retirement system to end...
"CalSTRS is playing roulette with our pensions and our children's future by holding onto these doomed assets."
‘Uninsurable and unhedgeable’: Central Banks warn of financial crisis from climate...
The public is increasingly aware of the industry’s obfuscation.
Fossil fuel interests applaud Trump admin’s weakening of major environmental law
“The Trump administration would allow powerful industries, like oil and gas extractors, to run roughshod over community interests."
ALEC Influence in Ohio Greases Skids for Anti-Protest Bill
The bill, the "Critical Infrastructure Protection Act," being pushed by ALEC around the country makes it a felony for protestors to trespass on energy company property, such as pipelines, refineries, and power plants.
Los Angeles school board commits to renewable energy after months of...
"This 100% Clean Energy school district commitment demonstrates what can happen when students, parents, teachers and school district leaders work to move the needle on climate."
Thousands of activists stage protests at three German coal mines to...
"We want to show with our protest today that this mine needs to be shut down permanently."
The greatest scam in history: How the energy companies took us...
Think of it as the climate-change scam that beat science, big time.
Native American leaders: Keystone spill highlights the need to oppose Dakota...
“The era of fossil fuels must end."
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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things
Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...
More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.
Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.
Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America—if we survive!
So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.