Tag: fossil fuels
Clean energy produces billions in health benefits, study finds
"This research shows that renewables pay for themselves through health benefits alone."
How to counter Trump’s disastrous attack on our public lands
Fossil fuel leasing on public lands is worsening the climate crisis. But there's hope.
Explosions in three states highlight dangers of aging fossil fuel infrastructure
On August 1, for the third time in as many years, Enbridge's Texas Eastern Transmission gas pipeline exploded. This tragic incident in central Kentucky...
New Koch-funded fossil exhibit at the Smithsonian is curiously quiet on...
After five years and $39 million, the Smithsonian's completely renovated Hall of Fossils is open again — complete with T. rex and...
Database reveals how much pollution Big Oil’s top execs are responsible...
“The rich have profited for so long from a fossil fuel economy that they’re obviously going to be the ones to try and block change."
New library of fossil fuel industry documents provide key ingredient against...
On every front, academics, journalists and policymakers compare the fossil fuel industry to the tobacco industry. The two industries share the same...
Current investigation of ExxonMobil could spur broader climate action
The Supreme Court has cleared the way for a state-led investigation into ExxonMobil’s climate change deception.
Former shale gas CEO says fracking revolution has been ‘a disaster’...
Steve Schlotterbeck, who led drilling company EQT as it expanded to become the nation’s largest producer of natural gas in 2017, arrived at a petrochemical industry conference...
Bureau of Land Mg’t gives Big Oil permits to drill Chaco...
This ancestral Indigenous land is now a checkerboard of state, federal, private, and Indigenous land.
As natural gas infrastructure decisions loom, Massachusetts Gov. Baker invests in...
“Since the governor is weighing in on major projects designed to boost the gas industries in the state, it is not at all appropriate for him to invest personally in the same sector that he may develop, with tax dollars."
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Pentagon seeks $200 billion for Iran war as costs surge and Congress pushes back
Lawmakers question the scale, legality, and strategy of a massive funding request as troop deployments expand and the conflict shows signs of escalation.
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.
Scale raises the ceiling, but fiscal foundations determine whether autocracy or democracy prevails
The implication is stark: democracy is not only a constitutional or ideological arrangement; it is fundamentally a fiscal one.
State Department purge left US exposed as Iran war sent energy prices soaring
Internal layoffs removed the very officials who would have modeled oil supply disruptions, coordinated with Gulf energy partners, and prepared for retaliatory strikes as war with Iran drove gas and crude prices sharply higher.
The Paris Prelude: Why the US and China are moving toward a Cold Peace
Nuanced engagement is an improvement over chaotic confrontation.