Tag: Oil

While the full health impacts of the fire weren’t immediately known, a storm-driven chlorine gas release in a vulnerable community is the type of worst-case scenario that scientists and engineers like myself have warned the petrochemical industry about for decades.

The communities surrounding these terminals are constantly at risk of being inundated with a stew of oil and toxic materials."

Environmental, economic and political forces have converged, threatening to finally upend fossil fuel dominance.

"Like so much of what Trump is pursuing now, this is a targeted strike against environmental justice and racial justice."

Marathon “worked with powerful oil-industry groups and a conservative policy network financed by the billionaire industrialist Charles G. Koch to run a stealth campaign to roll back car emissions standards.”

"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.”

Nationalization as a way to wind down the sector, tackle the climate crisis and create a just economic transition.

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.

Are we any closer to preventing a similar—or worse—catastrophe?

“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.”