Thursday, March 19, 2026

Tag: fossil fuel

In ‘historic win,’ court rules against UK’s Rosebank Oilfield over climate...

The judgment said the carbon emissions that would be created by the burning of oil and gas at the largest untapped oilfield in the UK had not been taken into consideration.

California’s bold move to hold Big Oil accountable for climate disasters

New bill aims to shift wildfire recovery costs from taxpayers to fossil fuel companies.

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.”

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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. 

Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...

The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.

‘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.
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Speeding up the ‘kill chain’: Pentagon bombs thousands of targets in Iran using Palantir...

The system, known as Project Maven, relies on technology by Palantir and also incorporates the AI model Claude built by Anthropic. Israel has used similar AI targeting programs in Iran, as well as in Gaza and Lebanon.