Tag: oil industry
How U.S. crude oil exports are hastening the demise of the...
Not only is the U.S. shale oil industry failing financially and facing debts it likely can’t repay, but calls are growing for the new Biden administration to reinstate the crude oil export ban.
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.
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States settle antitrust suit over $111 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. merger
Critics say a force-majeure clause and a company-appointed editorial board leave the settlement's protections easy to escape.
Unions win settlement forcing Trump administration to rescind shutdown mass-firing policy
The agreement follows a court fight that began after roughly 4,200 federal employees received layoff notices during last fall's 43-day shutdown.
The best comeuppance for the first anti-American administration – perpetual exposure as the seditious...
If Russia or China wanted a Manchurian candidate (a brainwashed stooge who betrays his own background and constituency), could they have surpassed the president harumphing in the White House?
Federal judge orders White House to restore access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico
The order lasts 14 days, and the outlets have until Monday to seek a preliminary injunction after some reporters were briefly turned away despite the ruling.
Why didn’t Netanyahu’s cabinet preempt October 7 (since it knew about it in advance)?
New York Times reporting confirms Israeli leadership had advance intelligence before the October 7 attack, raising fresh questions about why it was not acted on.