Tag: fossil fuel
Trump’s energy pick weaponizes global poverty to block climate action
Chris Wright has taken a different tack on climate—less outrageous, but no less dangerous.
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.
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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.