Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Tag: gas

Biden urged not to fight court ruling against massive oil and...

The Biden administration on Tuesday faced pressure from environmentalists to adhere to a judge's decision blocking a massive oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico, site of the Deepwater Horizon spill.

EU scientists and politicians clash over gas and nuclear as ‘sustainable’...

Scientific experts have reiterated what they have been saying since the beginning: gas and nuclear have no place in the taxonomy.

Protests at the pump

The first major protest of the post-Communist era in Eastern Europe was not about corruption. It wasn’t about disappointments with democracy.

Living closer to oil and gas drilling linked to higher risk...

Fracking aside, it’s proximity that matters.

UK’s tax breaks for oil and gas ‘unlawful’ and harm climate...

The judicial review was brought against two defendants, the Oil and Gas Authority and the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

Campaign to shut down New England’s last coal plant is doing...

New Hampshire's No Coal No Gas campaign deployed kayaktivists and a garden blockade as part of its latest day of mass action aimed at closing Merrimack Station.

Bankers eager to continue funding oil and gas

Comments from a recent energy industry conference reveal major financiers of fossil fuels view environmental and social investing concerns as a trend to “inoculate” against.

How a powerful US lobby group helps big oil to block...

“I think it’s fair to say that API and its prominent member companies have a broadly shared goal, which is to keep the social license of the oil and gas industry operating, and therefore enabling them to continue to extract oil and gas for as long as possible, as profitably as possible.”

We don’t need another oil pipeline

Will the fight over a northern Minnesota pipeline project have global repercussions?

Fracking 101: What you should know

Modern fracking emerged so quickly, faster than its impacts were understood.

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Canada OKs ‘massive’ $20 billion loan for Trans-Mountain Pipeline

Critics say support for TMX means struggling Canadians end up paying the price as global fossil fuel companies “reap the rewards.”

America’s nuclear gamble: The dangerous push to resume atmospheric testing

Experts warn of catastrophic fallout as calls grow to restart nuclear weapons tests abandoned since 1963.

‘Battle Hymn’ of the Republic(an) Gangsters

Instead, prize what’s left of decent statecraft,/ Not greedy connivers in love with graft.

Tesla paid zero federal income tax in 2024 while GOP pushes more corporate tax...

Musk’s trillion-dollar company paid nothing in federal taxes while working Americans foot the bill.

Musk reinstates DOGE staffer who resigned over racist posts after Trump administration defends him

Musk and Trump officials dismiss racist posts as trivial while attacking journalists who exposed them.