Tag: Oil
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.
$28 trillion in climate damage traced to 111 top polluters, study...
New research links fossil fuel giants to trillions in heat-driven economic losses, offering fresh momentum for climate liability lawsuits worldwide.
Keystone XL oil spill shuts down pipeline and halts flow of...
An estimated 3,500 barrels of oil (147,000 gallons) spilled into an agricultural field in a rural area, about 60 miles southwest of Fargo.
Big Oil pushes for tax breaks as Republicans seek corporate handouts
Big Oil has spent decades influencing U.S. tax policy, ensuring that it continues to receive billions in government handouts while avoiding taxes.
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EPA finalizes repeal of power plant carbon standards as environmental groups sue
The sector accounts for nearly one-quarter of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, and the agency separately proposed ending its authority to regulate them.
Democratic attorneys general say Education Department is hiding 1,300 documents on its layoffs
A privilege log lists nearly 1,300 records the agency says are too sensitive to hand over.
7,000 Chicago hotel workers vote to authorize strike
A union survey found a third of members cannot cover rent or mortgage payments, and the last hotel strike in the city, in 2018, lasted about a month.
Vance-led task force moves to strip 760,000 people of ACA coverage
Advocates say the crackdown follows 8 million coverage losses already tied to Trump-era health cuts.
Federal judge blocks deportation of man shot by ICE during Austin delivery run
DHS and the man's attorney give conflicting accounts of the medical care he has received since.