Tag: fossil fuels
The great pivot: why Dem green energy IRA will steamroll fossil...
A new world is dawning, one in which humanity dodges the huge hail of bullets of the climate emergency.
Sanders announces amendment to strip all fossil fuel handouts from Manchin...
The Vermont senator will also introduce an amendment to strengthen the reconciliation bill's drug price reforms.
EU votes to label gas and nuclear power investments as ‘green’
"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."
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.
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Nearly all plant-based meat alternatives Contain mycotoxins
The researchers found that 100 percent of the plant-based meat substitutes contained at least one of 19 different types of mycotoxins, often showing high "co-occurrence" (multiple toxins in a single product).
Supreme Court rulings and new Southern maps intensify battle over Black voting power before...
A series of redistricting fights in Alabama, Tennessee, and Virginia is reshaping the struggle over voting rights and congressional control as critics warn that recent Supreme Court decisions are accelerating the erosion of protections for Black voters.
The electric car is the only winner in the latest Iran war
The Hormuz Choke Point and the Twilight of Petroleum.
The US-China tech race, resource wars, and the cost of militarization
Over the past decade, a steady and well-funded campaign has convinced the general public that China is the greatest threat to the safety and security of the American people.
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?