Tag: fossil fuel
Should climate activists target fossil fuel subsidies?
It’s hard to imagine Sanders and Musk actually agreeing on much, but the message from Sanders got me wondering about another area of wild government overspending: fossil fuel subsidies.
Survivors of deadly LA wildfires demand accountability for Big Oil’s role...
Victims, scientists, and legal experts unite to hold fossil fuel companies criminally responsible.
Students clash with UW Board of Regents over divestment and transparency...
Student activists demand divestment and transparency from the University of Wisconsin, facing police crackdowns and administrative pushback.
North Carolina town files historic climate deception lawsuit against Duke Energy
Carrboro’s lawsuit against Duke Energy alleges decades of misinformation, greenwashing, and obstruction of climate progress, demanding accountability for millions in damages.
Lessons on building independent progressive power in a city
An interview about the policy impact and political lessons of Richmond Progressive Alliance-led municipal reform efforts in a majority-minority city of 115,000.
Maine becomes ninth state to sue Big Oil for climate deception
The state will take fossil fuel companies including Chevron, BP and ExxonMobil to court for climate lies and damages.
Taxing Big Oil could boost UN loss and damage fund by...
Targeting the world’s seven largest publicly traded oil and gas companies—ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, TotalEnergies, BP, Equinor, and ENI—the tax would hold major polluters accountable for their contributions to the climate crisis.
Is your bank financing the climate crisis? And what can you...
“Almost everyone has a bank account—and so almost everyone can be part of the solution.”
Revealed: Big Oil told 70 years ago that fossil fuel emissions...
Compelling new evidence shows this pattern of behavior was already hardwired into the industry’s DNA by 1955 and persists today.
EU accused of inviting fossil fuel executives to COP28 under false...
More fossil fuel lobbyists were granted access to the Dubai summit than any previous year.