Tag: fossil fuel
Researchers say, if we phase out fossil fuel, we can combat...
“The climate system is not stopping you [hitting the target], global society is stopping you.”
600+ environmental groups urge Congress to phase out fossil fuels
"This means a halt to all new fossil fuel development now, and it means a rejection of dangerous false solutions like market-based emissions trading programs."
Fracked shale oil wells drying up faster than predicted, Wall Street...
“Other countries, namely China, are frantically investing in renewables. For us to crow about our oil wealth, and not focus on renewables, is for us to miss the opportunity to be leaders in the world as it’s going to be.”
Supreme Court rules in favor of climate change, rejects ExxonMobil’s appeal...
Yesterday's ruling by the Supreme Court "clears the way for our office to investigate Exxon's conduct toward consumers and investors."
Sens. Warren and Markey call on Columbia Gas to repair damaged...
"Columbia Gas and NiSource must provide reassurance that all of the municipalities’ requests will be met, in order to have a chance of rebuilding trust while rebuilding infrastructure."
Energy Transfer uses workaround to open mariner east 2 pipeline amid...
“We expected the state regulators and the governor to step in and assure the safety of Pennsylvanians. They have not.”
Senators demand Trump admin reveal Marathon Petroleum, Koch influence on clean...
Senators demand information about a “covert lobbying campaign with oil industry groups to support Trump Administration efforts to weaken fuel economy standards and increase demand for oil consumption.”
Louisiana offers fossil fuel exporter ‘single largest’ local tax giveaway in...
The move comes as a group of investors and insurers have called on the U.S. and all other G20 nations to end fossil fuel subsidies entirely by 2020, citing the risk that climate change poses to the global economy.
Unprecedented new map unveils illegal mining destroying Amazon
"The scope of illegal mining in the Amazon, especially in indigenous territories and protected natural areas, has grown exponentially in recent years, with the rise in the price of gold."
Calling promotion betrayal of planet, groups denounce Schumer for giving ‘fossil...
At a time when people throughout the U.S. and around the world are rallying behind bold solutions to the climate crisis and urgently warning...
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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.
U.N. Expert Francesca Albanese Slams U.S. “Complicity” as Trump Meets Netanyahu Despite ICC Warrant
We speak to Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, about Israel’s continued impunity from international law.
ProPublica journalists strike over AI policy, exposing labor fault lines inside investigative media
The NewsGuild says two years of bargaining stalled over job security and artificial intelligence, and the union has taken its case to federal labor regulators.
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.
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.