Tag: fossil fuels

“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."

On every front, academics, journalists and policymakers compare the fossil fuel industry to the tobacco industry. The two industries share the same...

The Supreme Court has cleared the way for a state-led investigation into ExxonMobil’s climate change deception.

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...

This ancestral Indigenous land is now a checkerboard of state, federal, private, and Indigenous land.

“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."

“This isn’t a matter of doing more paperwork, it’s a matter of enforcing restraint to preserve our ability to keep making progress for the climate.”

Other environmental organizations warn that continued funding for carbon capture not only offers false hope that coal can be “clean,” but it also undermines progress toward more realistic goals.

We need strong firewalls separating Big Oil and other polluters from climate policy making.

"This is a wake-up call for the nation. Using industry’s own data, our report proves that coal plants are trashing groundwater nearly everywhere they operate."