Tag: fossil fuels
‘Cancel this project’: Price tag of Trans Mountain expansion nearly doubles
One campaigner called on Canada's government to instead "put all of our energy and political will into a just transition that leaves fossil fuels in the ground and supports people, communities, and workers."
Total’s East African crude oil pipeline ‘struggling’ to find financiers, say...
Total’s “incredibly risky” crude oil pipeline may still lack the financial backing it requires, campaigners have claimed, as the controversial project moved...
Individuals are not to blame for the climate crisis
Generation Z has grown up in the shadow of the climate crisis. Global leaders promised they would act. But despite grave warnings...
New reports allege Texas oil and gas regulator’s lax enforcement
When a Canadian company started drilling for oil and gas near Jim and Sue Franklin’s ranch in a small Permian Basin town...
House progressives, climate coalition demand end to ‘fossil fuel handouts’
Opposition to Build Back Better Act provisions that would benefit polluters comes amid reporting that Senate Democrats plan to delay a vote on the package until 2022.
Fossil fueled foreign policy: Why COP26 flopped
Western observers want to blame India for the failure of the U.N. climate talks. Not so fast.
If you think vaccine mandate pushback is bad…
At some point, governments will start using more sticks than carrots to break our deadly dependence on fossil fuels. How will humanity respond?
‘Shame on you’: Indigenous campaigners demand JPMorgan end fossil fuel finance
The major American bank is helping fund the Coastal Gaslink pipeline, which threatens First Nation lands in Canada.
Governments are sending oil executives to COP26 despite climate pledges. Here’s...
A DeSmog analysis found that the delegations from multiple countries are heavily drawn from their oil ministries and even large oil companies. Shell and other publicly traded oil giants are also attending the climate proceedings under the cover of trade groups.
Ditching fossil fuels will have immediate health benefits for millions –...
The same fossil fuels producing the greenhouse gases warming the Earth’s atmosphere also form large quantities of air pollutants.
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As GOP megabill’s SNAP cuts take effect, millions lose food aid and states face...
New tracking finds SNAP enrollment has fallen by more than 4.5 million people since July 2025, and analysts warn states could soon owe roughly $9 billion a year.
42-year study traces how ‘forever chemicals’ climb the Great Lakes food web into people
A synthesis of more than four decades of data maps how PFAS move up the region's aquatic food web and into the fish people eat.
GOP tucks $10 billion for voting restrictions into party-line Pentagon funding bill
The measure advanced on a near party-line vote just before lawmakers left Washington for a lengthy summer recess.
Israel and the United States are merging their military. Here’s why.
"From aid to partnership," the U.S. and Israel are set to become even more united in genocide.
Kept in the dark: How Louisiana weakened community air monitoring as industry pushed back
That stretch of roughly 85 miles, widely known as "Cancer Alley," is home to dozens of refineries and chemical plants and to many predominantly Black communities.