Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Tag: fossil fuels

Wealthiest 10% responsible for nearly 50% of greenhouse gas emissions, study...

“[I]t appears that climate policies over the past decades have often targeted low-income and low-emitter groups disproportionately, while leaving high emitters relatively unaffected.”

Exxon could have helped stop climate change 30 years ago, ‘proprietary’...

Instead the company’s Canadian arm developed a communications plan to make climate solutions like carbon taxes look economically reckless.

Internal documents show Big Oil PR messages still ‘mislead’ public on...

Despite claims of transitioning to cleaner energy, internal emails and documents obtained by a congressional investigation show oil companies trying to protect their fossil fuel investments through public narratives that conflict with private communications.

Climate change: endless words, where’s the action?

There is virtually no time left, many believe we are already too late to do much to arrest climate change and the...

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.

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The first trillionaire – no big deal?

Multi-billionaires are bad enough; a trillionaire is a magnitude worse
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers personnel at the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant, which serves Jackson, Mississippi. Photo: Sabrina Dalton, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Appeals court rules the constitution guarantees no right to clean water

A dissenting judge compared the Jackson, Mississippi water crisis to Flint's
A satellite view of Tehran, Iran. Photo: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Trump says he is in ‘deciding mode’ on destroying Iran

The Pentagon's own death count is undercounting US troops killed in the seven-month war, the Washington Post has reported.
A military pharmacy. Photo: U.S. Air Force / Airman Trevor Calvert

Secret Pfizer and Lilly contracts favor drugmakers over patients, records show

The deals let companies raise prices overseas while carving blockbuster obesity drugs out of required discounts.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers during an enforcement operation in Los Angeles, June 12, 2025. Photo: DHSgov (public domain)

ICE agent shoots delivery driver in Austin as officials question who will investigate

The Department of Homeland Security says it is leading the inquiry, with its Homeland Security Investigations unit in charge, a role the FBI has historically held, CBS News reported.