Tag: fossil fuel
Dems say Big Oil execs failing to come clean on Trump’s...
Nearly four months later, the lawmakers are still awaiting satisfactory answers.
How Summer of Heat on Wall Street is using disruption to...
This is the main focus of the Summer of Heat on Wall Street, a sustained campaign of nonviolent civil disobedience against financiers like Citigroup.
UN’s omission of fossil fuels in ‘Pact for the Future’ sparks...
Recent negotiations have stripped these references, sparking widespread concern among environmental advocates and global leaders.
Oklahoma’s oil industry touts a voluntary fund to clean up oil...
The money that has been refunded to these companies in recent years could have restored an estimated 1,500 orphan well sites.
European energy giants conceal nearly half of their biodiversity damage
New research reveals how major energy companies in Europe are hiding the ecological destruction caused by their operations, with nearly 50 percent of adverse impacts going unreported in official sustainability documents.
Moms and kids demand end to fossil fuel funding at Citigroup...
Activists demand Citigroup cease funding fossil fuel projects amid rising global temperatures and climate displacement.
Biden’s Arctic drilling protections: Indigenous and environmental groups urge further action
Indigenous groups and climate advocates welcome Biden’s proposal to protect the Western Arctic from oil and gas drilling, urging further action for long-term preservation.
Governments resume debate on International Seabed Authority’s practice of seabed mining
The debate on the protection of the deep sea reaches the final agenda after being blocked by pro-mining countries last year.
Marathon Oil to pay record settlement for pollution in violation of...
It is the largest penalty for Clean Air Act violations at stationary sources, including power plants, factories and refineries, the EPA said.
Elders arrested protesting Citibank’s billions in fossil fuel financing amid record...
Dozens of senior climate activists, including 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben, arrested in New York City while highlighting Citibank’s leading role in financing fossil fuel projects amid worsening climate crisis.
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Trump seizes control of DC police, threatens military deployment despite record-low crime
President Donald Trump invokes the Home Rule Act to take over Washington, D.C.’s police department and deploy the National Guard, citing a “crime emergency” that officials say does not exist. Critics call the move an unlawful power grab with authoritarian overtones.
Cults, cults, everywhere—raring to bash majority rule, pluralism, justice, science and rationality. Isn’t that...
Thanks to its own greed, egotism, buffoonery, incompetence, and ruthlessness, the MAGA cult is already splitting apart, squandering its overweening power.
Community organizer slams ‘fascist ICE agents’ after arrest of US citizen documenting raids
ICE has faced widespread backlash over the arrest of community advocates swept up while documenting raids across the country, many of them U.S. citizens.
The FDA let substandard factories ship these medications to the US
ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013.
Israel accused of assassinating five Gaza journalists in targeted airstrike
Al Jazeera calls deadly strike on press tent “blatant and premeditated attack on press freedom” as press freedom groups warn of pattern of killings and smear campaigns against reporters in Gaza.