Tag: fossil fuel
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.
Global consensus: Majority support quick fossil fuel phaseout, even in top...
A new UNDP poll reveals overwhelming global support for a rapid transition to clean energy and stronger climate action, including in major fossil fuel-producing countries.
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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.
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.
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.
Searching for solace in a nuclearized world
The nightmare of Fukushima 15 years later.
Big Oil profits surge as Democrats push windfall tax tied to Iran war
Lawmakers and advocacy groups propose taxing fossil fuel windfalls as war-driven price spikes hit American households and deepen inequality.