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The finances of the oil and gas industry are so dismal that the major banks that have funded the money-losing fracking boom are now exploring taking the unusual step of taking over the oil companie...
At a time when fossil fuel companies are using a public health crisis to demand financial and regulatory support, the governments of Baltimore and Rhode Islandย are calling out a โ€œdecades-long campa...
After Congress declined to allocate $3 billionย ofย the recent economic stimulus package to fillย the governmentโ€™s emergency stockpile of oil, the Trump administration has takenย its own steps to provi...
Just over a month ago, I was invited to speak on a panel about climate change, taking place at Newcastle Universityโ€™s student union. The event was being hosted by Tortoise Media, a journalism start...
Penny Aucoin and her husband Carl Dee Georgeย have worried about living near oil and gas producing sites inย New Mexico's Permian Basin since the sites began springing up near their home six years ag...
There are only two things that have made any real difference in protecting the public from the dangers of oil trains:ย activism that has stopped new infrastructure, and low oil prices. While activis...
Last Friday, the Iowa Utilities Board issued an order that would allow the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL) to double the amount of oil that flows through the stateย from 550,000 barrels a day to 1.1 m...
At the same time a price war is raging in the global oil markets, a regional price war is playing out in the shale fields of Texas. The Texas oil warย is between the major oil companies ExxonMobilย a...
Thousands of Americans are dying, millions have filed for unemployment, and frontline health care workers are risking their lives as the coronavirus pandemic sweeps across the U.S. In the midst of ...
The $2 trillion stimulus bill that the U.S. Congress rushed to pass in order to respond to millions of job losses provided a once-in-a-generation opportunity for corporate lobbying. The oil and gas...

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The finances of the oil and gas industry are so dismal that the major banks that have funded the money-losing fracking boom are now exploring taking the unusual step of taking over the oil companie...
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At a time when fossil fuel companies are using a public health crisis to demand financial and regulatory support, the governments of Baltimore and Rhode Islandย are calling out a โ€œdecades-long campa...
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After Congress declined to allocate $3 billionย ofย the recent economic stimulus package to fillย the governmentโ€™s emergency stockpile of oil, the Trump administration has takenย its own steps to provi...
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Just over a month ago, I was invited to speak on a panel about climate change, taking place at Newcastle Universityโ€™s student union. The event was being hosted by Tortoise Media, a journalism start...
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Penny Aucoin and her husband Carl Dee Georgeย have worried about living near oil and gas producing sites inย New Mexico's Permian Basin since the sites began springing up near their home six years ag...
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There are only two things that have made any real difference in protecting the public from the dangers of oil trains:ย activism that has stopped new infrastructure, and low oil prices. While activis...
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Last Friday, the Iowa Utilities Board issued an order that would allow the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL) to double the amount of oil that flows through the stateย from 550,000 barrels a day to 1.1 m...
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At the same time a price war is raging in the global oil markets, a regional price war is playing out in the shale fields of Texas. The Texas oil warย is between the major oil companies ExxonMobilย a...
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Thousands of Americans are dying, millions have filed for unemployment, and frontline health care workers are risking their lives as the coronavirus pandemic sweeps across the U.S. In the midst of ...
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The $2 trillion stimulus bill that the U.S. Congress rushed to pass in order to respond to millions of job losses provided a once-in-a-generation opportunity for corporate lobbying. The oil and gas...