Tag: fossil fuel
How Indigenous peoples won a landmark victory protecting the Amazon from...
The Waorani people of Ecuador won a historic lawsuit to save their homes – and the planet – from destruction.
Climate denying Trump administration rebrands fossil fuels as ‘freedom gas’
“After two years spent unraveling the policies of his predecessors, Mr. Trump and his political appointees are launching a new assault.”
Fossil fuel subsidies mean using public money ‘to destroy the world:’...
"We need to tax pollution, not people, and to end subsidies for fossil fuels."
Trump administration downplays danger of air pollution in new regulatory rollbacks
"Now, to benefit coal interests, the U.S. EPA wants to simply ignore the health impacts that occur below their self-imposed limit."
Energy regulators may reconsider rules critics say fueled America’s oil and...
“The mismatch suggests an infrastructure overbuild is underway in the short term, and we expect consolidation of many of these projects before they’re built.”
Open letter to Senate from climate action groups demands an end...
Sending more fossil fuels to Europe and across the globe is not the answer a coalition of 200 national climate action groups...
With renewables so competitive, big plans for oil and gas investments...
Plenty of money is still lining up to take on those risks, but the rapidly changing economics of renewables and battery storage mean those investments increasingly run the risk of becoming stranded assets.
Why now is the time to connect the pipeline fights
By moving to a network of local campaigns, it’s possible to support both the Green New Deal and keep carbon in the ground.
Trump administration to open a million acres of public holdings in...
"Trump's plan would unleash a fracking frenzy that puts California's people and wildlife in harm's way."
Global Climate Coalition: Documents reveal how secretive fossil fuel lobby group...
The documents show how the GCC influenced international negotiations, manipulated the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) process, and undertook a disinformation campaign designed to cast doubt on mainstream climate science.
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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.