Saturday, October 31, 2026

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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Rape as a Tool of Empire: Cornell, Palestine, and the Silence of Western Feminists

“In both cases, their perpetrators and assailants can leave the crime scene unscathed, with their hands clean.”
Voters stand at voting stations in a polling place.

In a Country That Needs Heroes, Here Are a Few Standouts This Election Season

“Right now, the United States is unhappy enough to need a lot of heroes.”
The U.S. Capitol building with its dome in Washington.

515 donors gave $4.2 billion to 2026 super PACs, Public Citizen finds

Elon Musk alone gave $445 million, about 10% of the total, according to the group's analysis of FEC data through late October.
The entrance of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building in Washington.

McMahon plans $43,279 in office furniture as Education Dept shrinks

Senators Baldwin and Murray asked the Education secretary to cancel the purchase. The department says her current furniture does not fit its new office space.
Sign outside the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington, D.C.

Largest U.S. corporations paid 10.4% federal tax in 2025, ITEP finds

The study of 706 companies counted 114 that paid no current federal income tax and $198 billion in subsidies from rates below 21%