Tag: fossil fuel
Coal plants get a pass to pollute our waterways
"These dangerous attacks on the environment and our public health cannot be allowed to stand."
Study shows pension funds’ refusal to divest from fossil fuels cost...
"As long as PERA's money remains invested in the fossil fuel industry, that investment supports an industry that has willfully denied its role in climate change, accelerating today's climate crisis in favor of profits."
Trump’s reckless push to drill in the Arctic is meeting fierce...
The Arctic Refuge is one of the U.S.’s last wild places, and the coastal plain is its biological heart.
How things got so fracking bad in Ohio
Ohio’s natural gas production has swelled more than 2,200 percent in just seven years. But some residents are reporting polluted air and water as a result.
ExxonMobil is still bankrolling climate science deniers
The world’s largest oil company says climate change is real, yet continues to finance climate denier groups.
Fossil fuel ad campaigns emphasize ‘positives’ after climate science denial PR...
This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story.
First major U.S. insurance company to stop insuring and investing in...
It seems like every day there is a new story of a pipeline spilling crude oil or an oil refinery exploding. How...
Climate activists set sights on ending fossil fuel exports in Pacific...
When federal regulators came to Southern Oregon in June for hearings on a massive gas export project, they were greeted by a...
Britain just went nearly three weeks without coal, a new record
"2018 was our greenest year to date, and so far, 2019 looks like it has the potential to beat it."
It’s time to stop calling natural gas a ‘bridge fuel’ to...
“We simply have no more time to debate what’s already been settled. We must move swiftly to a fully renewable energy economy and leave all fossil fuels, including gas, behind."
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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.