Tag: fossil fuels

"Russia’s war against Ukraine is a war paid for by climate-heating fossil fuels and the European parliament just voted to boost billions of funding to fossil gas from Russia."

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.

An international human rights body condemned Canada’s treatment of Indigenous communities opposing two major oil and gas pipelines.

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.

“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,”

“We are united in the view that climate and environment security are absolutely synonymous with energy and national security."

"Once again, we see that Canadian banks are leading the world in financing climate-destructive, Indigenous rights-violating projects," said one campaigner.

The new embargo exempts pipeline imports at the behest of Hungary's far-right leader Viktor Orbán.

"Living in close proximity to oil and gas development is a threat to public health."

"I can no longer work for a company that ignores all the alarms and dismisses the risks of climate change and ecological collapse."