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us/Oil Industry and Allies Look to Pump Brakes on Democrats’ Plans to Move Transportation Off Petroleum
By Dana Drugmand
on
This week Congressional Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives put forward policies, including passing a $1.5 trillion infrastructure bill on July 1, aimed at cleaning up the number one sou...
uk/County Durham Coal Mine Extension Deemed ‘Environmentally Unacceptable’
By Phoebe Cooke
on
Activists are celebrating an “incredible” victory after a bid to extend a coal mine in County Durham was finally scrapped. Plans to dig up an additional 90,000 tonnes of coal from the site of the ...
uk/African Energy Experts Dismiss UK Climate Science Denial Group's 'Misleading' Report
By Zak Derler and Maina Waruru
on
Climate and energy experts from sub-Saharan Africa have dismissed a new report that argues fossil fuels are the solution to energy poverty in the region. The report, titled Heart of Darkness: Wh...
Hand painted posters and murals of sunflowers and skulls remembering community members lost to pollution line a chainlink fence outside the PES Refinery.
In the Shadow of Shuttered Philadelphia Refinery, Neighbors Recall Those Lost to Decades of Pollution
By Sharon Kelly
on
The nation's oldest and largest gasoline refinery was closed following an explosion and fireball which rocked the majority Black neighborhood of South Philadelphia.
The nation's oldest and largest gasoline refinery was closed following an explosion and fireball which rocked the majority Black neighborhood of South Philadelphia.
us/New NAFTA Trade Deal Deepens Oil and Gas Dependency During Climate Crisis
By Martha Pskowski
on
The coronavirus pandemic and record-low oil prices dealt a blow to the fossil fuel industry this year. But the new trade deal between the United States, Mexico, and Canada, known as the USMCA, will...
DC Is the Latest to Sue Exxon and Big Oil for Climate Disinformation Campaigns
By Dana Drugmand
on
Washington, D.C. is suing the four largest investor-owned oil and gas companies — BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, and Shell — for allegedly misleading consumers about climate change, including historicall...
us/Exposed: West Virginia and Other States Relying on ‘House of Cards’ to Pay for Coal Mine Cleanup
By Mark Olalde
on
For more than a century-and-a-half, the forests, streams, and hollows of the Appalachian Mountains have been scraped and gashed to unearth their heart of rich black coal. These lumps of hydrocarbon...
us/Fossil Fuel Companies and Their Supporters Ask Supreme Court to Intervene in Climate Lawsuits
By Dana Drugmand
on
California communities last month got an important procedural win in their efforts to get fossil fuel companies to pay for climate-related impacts. On May 26, a federal appeals court ruled that the...
uk/Comment: It's Unacceptable that Gas Firms are Helping Pick Which Projects the EU Approves
By Guest
on
By Dominic Kavakeb, Senior Communications Adviser at Global Witness There has been much talk in recent weeks of a green recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and the opportunity to rebuild our econo...
us/Transportation Fairness Alliance Revealed: Behind the Oil Industry's Latest Attack on Electric Cars
By Dana Drugmand
on
Earlier this spring, while much of the nation’s attention focused on the coronavirus crisis, the U.S. oil and gas industry quietly launched a new coalition using messaging that invokes “transportat...

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us/Oil Industry and Allies Look to Pump Brakes on Democrats’ Plans to Move Transportation Off Petroleum
ByDana Drugmand
on

This week Congressional Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives put forward policies, including passing a $1.5 trillion infrastructure bill on July 1, aimed at cleaning up the number one sou...
Series: Koch vs Clean
Series: Koch vs Clean
uk/County Durham Coal Mine Extension Deemed ‘Environmentally Unacceptable’
ByPhoebe Cooke
on

Activists are celebrating an “incredible” victory after a bid to extend a coal mine in County Durham was finally scrapped. Plans to dig up an additional 90,000 tonnes of coal from the site of the ...
uk/African Energy Experts Dismiss UK Climate Science Denial Group's 'Misleading' Report
ByZak Derler and Maina Waruru
on

Climate and energy experts from sub-Saharan Africa have dismissed a new report that argues fossil fuels are the solution to energy poverty in the region. The report, titled Heart of Darkness: Wh...
In the Shadow of Shuttered Philadelphia Refinery, Neighbors Recall Those Lost to Decades of Pollution
BySharon Kelly
on

The nation's oldest and largest gasoline refinery was closed following an explosion and fireball which rocked the majority Black neighborhood of South Philadelphia.

The nation's oldest and largest gasoline refinery was closed following an explosion and fireball which rocked the majority Black neighborhood of South Philadelphia.
Hand painted posters and murals of sunflowers and skulls remembering community members lost to pollution line a chainlink fence outside the PES Refinery.
us/New NAFTA Trade Deal Deepens Oil and Gas Dependency During Climate Crisis
ByMartha Pskowski
on

The coronavirus pandemic and record-low oil prices dealt a blow to the fossil fuel industry this year. But the new trade deal between the United States, Mexico, and Canada, known as the USMCA, will...
DC Is the Latest to Sue Exxon and Big Oil for Climate Disinformation Campaigns
ByDana Drugmand
on

Washington, D.C. is suing the four largest investor-owned oil and gas companies — BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, and Shell — for allegedly misleading consumers about climate change, including historicall...
Series: Tracking the Lawsuits Fighting for Climate Accountability
Series: Climate Change Lawsuits
us/Exposed: West Virginia and Other States Relying on ‘House of Cards’ to Pay for Coal Mine Cleanup
ByMark Olalde
on

For more than a century-and-a-half, the forests, streams, and hollows of the Appalachian Mountains have been scraped and gashed to unearth their heart of rich black coal. These lumps of hydrocarbon...
us/Fossil Fuel Companies and Their Supporters Ask Supreme Court to Intervene in Climate Lawsuits
ByDana Drugmand
on

California communities last month got an important procedural win in their efforts to get fossil fuel companies to pay for climate-related impacts. On May 26, a federal appeals court ruled that the...
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uk/Comment: It's Unacceptable that Gas Firms are Helping Pick Which Projects the EU Approves
ByGuest
on

By Dominic Kavakeb, Senior Communications Adviser at Global Witness There has been much talk in recent weeks of a green recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and the opportunity to rebuild our econo...
us/Transportation Fairness Alliance Revealed: Behind the Oil Industry's Latest Attack on Electric Cars
ByDana Drugmand
on

Earlier this spring, while much of the nation’s attention focused on the coronavirus crisis, the U.S. oil and gas industry quietly launched a new coalition using messaging that invokes “transportat...