Tag: oil drilling
Ticking time bombs: California oil spill spurs new calls to ban...
“It’s time to shut them down.”
‘Twisting words’: UK oil industry and business department using Climate Change...
Oil & Gas UK and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy have been taking the CCC’s advice “out of context” when discussing new North Sea projects, say campaigners.
Exxon’s oil drilling gamble off Guyana Coast could turn country from...
Exxon has said that it’s committed to helping meet Paris climate goals, but at the same time, it is turning a country that was a non-oil producer into a massive oil producer.
Oil drilling in the ‘land of water’: ExxonMobil hunts for more...
ExxonMobil says a 9 billion barrel oilfield off the low-lying South American nation’s coast could soon outpace Permian production.
Urban oil wells linked to asthma and other health problems in...
In some cases, the impact on residents’ lungs is worse than living beside a highway or being exposed to secondhand smoke every day.
Federal court ends Trump effort to open 128 million acres of...
“As the Biden administration considers its next steps, it should build on these foundations, end fossil fuel leasing on public lands and waters, and embrace a clean energy future.”
Oil industry inflates job impact from Biden’s new pause on drilling...
“I welcome an end to federal fossil fuel leasing and the necessary transitions to more sustainable economies for the Navajo Nation.”
‘Incredibly reckless’: Trump moves to expand fossil fuel drilling in Alaska’s...
"Opening more of the Arctic to drilling and fracking is incredibly reckless."
As coronavirus worsened, Trump admin pushed offshore drilling and gas exports
“Unfortunately, we now have to add to this burden that we cannot rely on some of our government officials entrusted to protect our public lands and interests.”
West Texas fracking boom sputters as Apache Corp. admits firm lost...
The losses are “a preview of the impacts of the inevitable decline of the oil and gas industry on a broad scale.”
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