Tag: fossil fuels

With the last five years the hottest since records began, Senator Bernie Sanders says that "What Trump and his friends in the fossil fuel industry are doing is criminal."

With the latest ruling in Oregon, it appears the legal basis has been laid for what the oil industry considers a catastrophe.

"These oil and gas companies knew for decades that their products would harm communities like ours."

Over the last few years, ExxonMobil has come under fire numerous times for lobbying in the UK against electric vehicles, funding Congress and corporate lobby groups to deny climate change, and knowingly misleading the public about the reality of the issue.

Justice Department reopens the Emmett Tiller investigation, Trump's global chaos tour, Ireland passes bill to fully divest from fossil fuel by end of 2018, and more.

In January, the UK government announced plans to phase out coal generation by 2025.

The rise is “substantially larger” than was previously thought.

“The environment is the clear loser, with calamitous consequences for all Americans."

The plan is part of France’s commitment to the Paris climate agreement, and their larger plan of weaning the French economy from fossil fuels.

“It is hard to overstate the significance of this historic announcement by the World Bank.”