Tag: fossil fuels

As pandemic restrictions fade, students are finding innovative ways to end higher ed's many ties to the fossil fuel industry.

Alberta-based Indian Resource Council quietly received funding from CNRL, corporate documents reveal.

"The high court's decision is a major victory for communities across the country that are fighting to hold Big Oil accountable and make them pay for the climate damages they knowingly caused," said one advocate.

Germany’s decision comes as it is trying to phase out coal, which still generates a third of its electricity, by 2038 at the latest

Newly discovered documents from the 1970s and early ’80s show that Shell knew more about the “greenhouse effect” than it let on in public.

"With $290 billion in profits, Big Oil made enough money in 2022 to end world hunger, pay off U.S. medical debt, and build 10 Disney Worlds, but instead used their record profits to shower $163 billion on shareholders."

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.

Shell admits in internal documents it has “no immediate plans to move to a net-zero emissions portfolio.”

Texas will be home to the highest amount of new solar capacity at 7.7 gigawatts, followed by California at 4.2 gigawatts.

"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."