Tag: oil companies
California passes law to fine oil companies over price gouging
The new law prohibiting fuel price gouging will go into effect June 26.
The pandemic and oil
With oil prices down and wealthy countries bungling COVID-19, the pandemic has exposed the weaknesses that wealth papers over.
Here’s how shareholders are pressuring oil companies to act on climate...
Rather than withdraw investments from companies that profit from extracting fossil fuels, investors seek to leverage their financial stakes to influence companies like Shell, BP, and ExxonMobil to take action on climate change.
GOP tax law bails out fracking companies buried in debt
“You all just got a lot richer.”
‘We’re talking very big bucks:’ New bill could put oil companies...
Should Canadians be able to sue oil companies for that?
California regulators allow oil companies to continue injecting wastewater into more...
According to the environmental advocacy group Clean Water Action, the announcement appears to be in violation of DOGGR’s own compliance schedule, which requires all injection well operators that have not obtained an aquifer exemption from the EPA to cease injection by February 15, 2017.
Oilfield Prayer Day in Oklahoma
Perhaps it would be more prudent for Gov. Mary Fallin and the Republican-dominated legislature to stop praying to the oil industry and start passing laws to make their state’s oil billionaires pay their fair share of taxes.
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Biden is the latest president to tout the Vietnam War as proud history
Efforts to portray the U.S. government’s military actions as well-meaning and virtuous are incessant. The pretenses that falsify the past are foreshadowing excuses for future warfare.
House GOP unveils budget with trillions in cuts to medicaid, food benefits, and more
The Republican proposal would cut federal discretionary spending by nearly $5 trillion over the next decade.
Socialism fear-mongering is bananas
It's how societies grow their economies, become more prosperous, and ensure a better life for their people.
‘Damning’ probe finds 80% of top carbon Offset schemes are ‘likely junk or worthless’
"We cannot afford to waste any more time on false solutions."
Biden administration launches the American Climate Corps
According to the White House, in its first year, the American Climate Corps will put more than 20,000 young people on career pathways in the fields of clean energy, conservation and climate resilience.