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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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.