Tag: fossil fuels
California assemblyman kills fossil fuel divestment bill
The bill would have required the state’s two enormous public pension funds to divest from fossil fuels, but it was squashed by a Democrat who has taken money from oil and gas companies.
Canada steps up surveillance of Indigenous peoples to push fossil fuel...
An international human rights body condemned Canada’s treatment of Indigenous communities opposing two major oil and gas pipelines.
America’s biggest public pension fund is slow-walking corporate climate action, report...
CalPERS says it needs to hold onto billions in fossil fuel shares in order to push polluters in the right direction – but a new report details a pattern of voting against climate proposals.
Biden admin announces steps to boost U.S. solar projects
“Investing in American-made clean energy will boost U.S. manufacturing, lower costs for families, create millions of good paying jobs, and position the United States as a global leader on the cutting edge of clean energy innovation,”
G7 countries to end overseas funding for fossil fuel development
“We are united in the view that climate and environment security are absolutely synonymous with energy and national security."
Canada’s big banks are secretly supporting Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion
"Once again, we see that Canadian banks are leading the world in financing climate-destructive, Indigenous rights-violating projects," said one campaigner.
‘No time for half-measures’: Greenpeace rebukes EU’s partial ban on Russian...
The new embargo exempts pipeline imports at the behest of Hungary's far-right leader Viktor Orbán.
Map shows over 17 million people in US threatened by toxic...
"Living in close proximity to oil and gas development is a threat to public health."
Oil giant consultant resigns, citing operations beyond ‘limits of our planetary...
"I can no longer work for a company that ignores all the alarms and dismisses the risks of climate change and ecological collapse."
Other casualties of Putin’s war in Ukraine: Russia’s climate goals and science
Environmental concerns are at risk of being laid aside during wartime.