Tag: fossil fuels
Divest, decarbonize and disassociate — inside the bold new push to...
As pandemic restrictions fade, students are finding innovative ways to end higher ed's many ties to the fossil fuel industry.
Oil company gave $200K to group accusing pipeline opponents of taking...
Alberta-based Indian Resource Council quietly received funding from CNRL, corporate documents reveal.
US Supreme Court’s blow to Big Oil ‘should open the floodgates...
"The high court's decision is a major victory for communities across the country that are fighting to hold Big Oil accountable and make them pay for the climate damages they knowingly caused," said one advocate.
Germany to shut down its last remaining nuclear reactors
Germany’s decision comes as it is trying to phase out coal, which still generates a third of its electricity, by 2038 at the latest
Lost decade: how Shell downplayed early warnings over climate change
Newly discovered documents from the 1970s and early ’80s show that Shell knew more about the “greenhouse effect” than it let on in public.
Analysis shows major US oil companies raked in $290 billion in...
"With $290 billion in profits, Big Oil made enough money in 2022 to end world hunger, pay off U.S. medical debt, and build 10 Disney Worlds, but instead used their record profits to shower $163 billion on shareholders."
Northwest climate activists fight a new front in the movement to...
Climate groups and Indigenous nations are working to add the GTN Xpress pipeline expansion to a long list of defeated fossil fuel transportation projects in the Northwest.
Lawsuit targets Shell’s board of directors over energy transition plans
Shell admits in internal documents it has “no immediate plans to move to a net-zero emissions portfolio.”
54% of new electric-generating capacity in U.S. will be solar in...
Texas will be home to the highest amount of new solar capacity at 7.7 gigawatts, followed by California at 4.2 gigawatts.
Outrage as Biden Administration recommends major Alaska oil project
"The project is “drastically out of step with the Biden administration’s goals to slash climate pollution and transition to clean energy,” but that “it’s not too late for him to step up and pull the plug on this carbon bomb."