Tag: fossil fuels
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."
Young climate activists at Davos want fossil fuel execs to ‘cease...
“I just think it sends a message of where we’re headed right now, if we’re putting the heads of fossil fuel companies to lead climate negotiations.”
Exxon scientists accurately predicted climate damage while company pushed misinformation
"Airtight evidence that Exxon Mobil accurately predicted global warming years before, then turned around and attacked the science underlying it."
Despite climate warnings, coal use reaching record highs in 2022: IEA
“Government policies will be key to ensuring a secure and sustainable path forward.”
Russia’s Ukraine war and energy crisis have scared the world into...
By 2025, only about two years from now, renewable energy will surpass coal as a power source globally.
Pipeline company wants to quietly expand gas shipments in the Pacific...
TC Energy’s upgrade of its GTN XPress pipeline would result in a huge increase in methane gas volumes to the region. But it would undermine climate laws already on the books.
Puerto Rican cities sue fossil fuel companies in major class-action, climate...
Municipalities aim to hold industry liable for damages from catastrophic 2017 hurricanes.
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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things
Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...
More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.
Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.
Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America—if we survive!
So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.