Tag: Oil
Labor helps Obama energy secretary push and profit from ‘Net Zero’...
"An energy policy that doubles down on fossil fuel use is not the right path. We need an ambitious, job-centric plan that is grounded in emissions reductions.”
As oil price plummets, call to nationalize industry rises
Nationalization as a way to wind down the sector, tackle the climate crisis and create a just economic transition.
The beginning of the end for oil?
No matter how this pandemic finally plays out, the post-Covid-19 world is bound to have a very different look from the pre-pandemic one and energy use is likely to be among the areas most affected by the transformations underway.
10 things we’ve learned a decade after the Deepwater Horizon disaster
Are we any closer to preventing a similar—or worse—catastrophe?
Oil, gas, petrochemical financial woes predate pandemic — and will continue...
“The crash that we’re seeing in the oil and gas and petrochemicals industry is a recent intensification of what has been a very long-term trend.”
Scientists have found oil from the Deepwater Horizon blowout in fishes’...
As oil and gas production moves into ever-deeper waters, the goal should be to respond faster, more effectively and with a better understanding of what’s happening in real time.
Oil refineries face shutdowns as demand collapses
In other words, facing a mounting glut and no ability to lower output further, some refineries may simply need to shut down entirely.
Oil execs, anxious about public support, claim halting fossil fuel production...
“As a legal matter this claim is laughable so it’s better thought of as a PR stunt.”
Mexico is letting an oil company destroy protected mangroves for an...
Satellite images posted on Quartz show the cleared land to accommodate the construction.
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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States scramble to feed 42 million as Trump blocks SNAP during shutdown
With 42 million people set to lose $8 billion in food assistance on November 1 because the Trump administration refuses to release existing federal funds, governors of both parties are declaring emergencies, shifting state reserves, and suing the federal government to prevent mass hunger.
UN rights chief says Trump’s boat strikes are illegal as death toll reaches 61
UN human rights officials, independent experts, and rights groups say U.S. airstrikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific violate international human rights law, amount to extrajudicial killings, and may constitute a crime against humanity.
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Terms of surrender: The conspiracy to obstruct justice in Palestine
Normalization of the Israeli regime and its crimes must end. Genocide must be a red line. And Palestine must be free.
Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina sparks outrage as millions of Americans face food...
Critics accuse the Trump administration of unlawfully withholding SNAP benefits during the shutdown while approving a $40 billion bailout tied to Argentina’s far-right president Javier Milei.