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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.”

Here’s how big oil wants the Supreme Court to help delay...

This industry push is a concerted effort to squash climate liability lawsuits.

The pandemic and oil

With oil prices down and wealthy countries bungling COVID-19, the pandemic has exposed the weaknesses that wealth papers over.

Hoboken, New Jersey sues oil industry for climate impacts from its...

“We want to be compensated for the costs of climate damages both past, present and future.”

The end of oil? Pandemic adds to fossil fuel glut, but...

“The pandemic has taken essentially every weakness that already existed in the oil industry and then made each of them much, much worse..."

Trump’s Christmas gift to big oil: Killing hopes of electric car...

While AEA is calling the defeat of the EV tax credit extension a “holiday reprieve for taxpayers,” the move is perhaps more accurately described as a holiday gift to the oil industry.

Oil industry ponders getting ‘dragged into low-carbon future’ while claiming it...

As the DeSmog series Fracking for Plastics notes, Saetre is not alone in his ambition to either burn all the oil and gas or turn it into plastics.

Portland, Oregon wins court battle to ban new oil infrastructure

With the latest ruling in Oregon, it appears the legal basis has been laid for what the oil industry considers a catastrophe.

Oil industry plans to keep workers safe—by firing them and having...

Industry isn’t safe and worker safety still isn’t a priority.

Infographic: How the oil industry is pushing plastic

The fracking boom is flooding the world with Ziploc bags, ketchup packets, and single-use spoons.

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Critics challenge Trump administration’s shifting case for war on Iran

Critics challenge Trump administration’s shifting case for war on Iran

Homer nails uncivilized, all-devouring MAGA Trump brutality – and strategic aikido to return fire

As Polyphemus falls to the aikido of seeming weaklings, Trump underestimates top experts, battling Democrats, anti-oligarchy citizens and committed activists promoting prosperity for the many, even (yikes!) sharing the wealth.

They’re almost here

But where am I?

Trump’s Iran strikes send oil prices surging as markets rebound

Brent crude hits a 52-week high after U.S.–Israel attacks and Strait of Hormuz fears, while the S&P 500 stages a late recovery.

New infographic shows how only 10 companies control every brand we know

Regardless of what the companies claim, the Big 10 do have the power and resources to address hunger and poverty within their supply chains.