Monday, February 16, 2026

Tag: Oil

Top US oil lobby API targets landmark EU climate law, policy...

The declaration coincides with U.S. fossil fuel companies’ use of Trump’s trade tensions and international discord to undermine EU climate laws.

How Venezuela grew poor with more oil than Saudi Arabia

Donald Trump has been clear about framing oil as a central part of Washington’s interests in Venezuela, but whether the country’s vast reserves can translate into real prosperity is unclear.

Elements behind Trump’s war on Venezuela are fourfold  

The question for the Congress, the people of the United States and the world now becomes: will this violation of all tenets of U.S. and international law finally lead to the removal of this madman from the White House?

Oil profits and donor interests emerge as US seizes control in...

Economists and lawmakers point to massive oil rents and well-positioned investors following the abduction of Venezuela’s president.

Amid Trump’s proposed pipeline safety rollbacks, senator questions regulators’ industry ties

Industry connections among Transportation Department regulators showed how they are seeking to loosen oil and gas pipeline safety regulations and Sen. Maria Cantwell is demanding answers.

Venezuela isn’t the global threat, Trump and Rubio are

Will the U.S. government push forward with regime change in Venezuela?

Toxic wastewater from oil fields keeps pouring out of the ground....

Wastewater injection had been happening in Oklahoma for 80 years, but something was driving the growing number of purges. But what is the cause?

Trump says America’s oil industry is cleaner than other countries’. New...

Does Texas, the heart of America’s oil and gas industry, tell a different story?

America may have invaded Iraq for its oil, but solar power...

The vogue for solar is sweeping other areas of Iraq, too, such as Kurdistan, where the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is also increasingly committed to solar.

Greenpeace remains determined to fight the corporate silencing of dissent

From its earliest history, Greenpeace has fought back against attacks from polluting interests and it continues to this day.

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Trump administration revokes EPA endangerment finding, unraveling foundation of US climate rules

Rollback targets legal basis for greenhouse gas limits as environmental and public health groups prepare lawsuits.

Suffocating an island: What the US blockade is doing to Cuba

The American people need to know what the U.S. is doing to Cuba.

MAGA outgrows isolationism

Does America first mean America alone?

Epstein file search logs in Bondi binder raise surveillance concerns during House hearing

Photograph from Judiciary Committee session prompts accusations that DOJ tracked lawmakers reviewing Epstein records.

Do special election results spell doom for Republicans in 2026?

And with the 2026 midterm elections less than nine months away, analysts are already scrambling for indications of the likely outcome.