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Big Oil cashes in on Iran war as drivers face soaring...
While Americans confront the highest fuel prices in years after the U.S.-Israel war on Iran disrupted global oil markets, fossil fuel giants are reporting surging profits, expanding stock buybacks, and prioritizing shareholder payouts over increased production.
Trump’s Iran war drives more than $100 billion to fossil fuel...
Analysis finds oil and gas price spikes linked to the conflict have shifted massive wealth from households and businesses to major energy companies while lawmakers propose taxing windfall profits.
Family sues fossil fuel giants for wrongful death in first climate...
In a legal first, a Washington state woman has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against some of the world’s largest fossil fuel...
REVEALED: Now there’s proof that the fossil fuel industry uses cultural...
Campaigners have warned cultural institutions against accepting oil money, arguing that sponsorships are a key weapon in the public relations arsenal the industry deploys to thwart climate action.
$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.
Plastic waste cleanup alliance found producing 1,000 times more plastic than...
Investigation reveals Alliance to End Plastic Waste members produced 1,000 times more plastic than they cleaned up, raising serious concerns about industry greenwashing.
Revealed: Shell Oil nonprofit donated to anti-climate groups behind Project 2025
Shell USA Company Foundation sent $544,010 between 2013 and 2022 to organizations that broadly share an agenda, including severely limiting the Environmental Protection Agency.
Revealed: Three-quarters of prestigious green advertising awards go to agencies working...
The majority of Ad Net Zero’s accolade-winners also represent major polluters.
A judge has rejected Shell’s latest attempt to dismiss a Connecticut...
The ruling, coming about a year after the federal district court in Connecticut denied Shell’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit, means that a trial in the case could start sometime in 2024.
Nearly 14,000 Nigerian farmers and fishers sue Shell for destroying their...
Individuals and institutions from two communities have filed claims against Shell, calling on the company to clean up the devastating pollution and compensate them for its effects.
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Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.
Chris Hedges and Albert Raboteau on ‘American Prophets’ importance in an age of radical...
Watch the two thinkers talk about Raboteau’s book, which discusses the work of religious figures such as Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton and Martin Luther King, Jr.
How the psychology of oppression perpetuates harm to animals and the environment
To achieve justice for all species and the environment, we must create a more relational world.
“The People’s Historian”: Dave Zirin’s New Book Explores “Remarkable” Life of Howard Zinn
We speak to Dave Zirin, author and sports editor at The Nation , about his new book, The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn , chronicling the life and activism of the legendary historian Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States .
Cats are fueling a global eco-crisis, pushing birds and other species to extinction
Free-roaming cats are an invasive species and one of the most significant sources of human-caused bird mortality.