Tag: fossil fuel
‘Major victory:’ Landowner’s legal challenge halts construction of Bayou Bridge Pipeline...
"We have been tased, pepper sprayed, put into choke holds, and beaten with batons to stop this illegal construction that ETP was carrying out despite not having an easement for the land."
We can no longer afford a fossil fuel economy
The costs of not acting are high. The benefits of investing in a clean energy economy would be widespread. We need to keep building the movement.
UK councils invest billions in fracking, including companies tied to Donald...
Without that gift from the GOP and Trump, EOG would have lost approximately $700 million between those two years.
Trump administration admits 1,400+ more people will die each year following...
Trump recently announced a massive rollback of Obama-era environmental regulations on coal-fired power plants and carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to climate change.
5 Virginia officials involved in regulating Dominion Energy are invested in...
According to financial disclosures, four of them directly own stock in the company, while the wife of a fifth official works for Dominion.
A Koch-fueled attack on electric buses picks up speed
Despite these efforts by Koch affiliates and oil industry consultants, the electrification of bus transit is firmly underway.
How One West Virginia Supreme Court justice gave natural gas a...
Justice Beth Walker voted to reopen an already decided case around the time her husband owned stock in a variety of energy companies. And that’s not even why she’s been impeached.
Another set back for TransCanada: Keystone XL pipeline in Nebraska to...
Since the pipeline will now follow an alternative route and not its original route, Morris wrote the government "cannot escape their responsibility."
ALEC Sets the table for gerrymandering, union busting, protecting fossil fuels,...
A breakdown of ALEC’s menu of policy proposals at the New Orleans conference.
DNC takes donations from fossil fuel industry contrary to original resolution...
This is “an absolute failure by the DNC.”
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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.