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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...
us/With Prospects Souring for Oregon Gas Terminal, an Obscure Group Raises Pressure for State Approval
By Nick Cunningham
on
On May 24, a full-page ad appeared in The Oregonian, Oregon’s largest newspaper. The “open letter,” addressed to Gov. Kate Brown, asked her to support Jordan Cove LNG, a controversial coastal lique...
us/For Decades, the Oil and Gas Industry Got Taxpayer Help from the Fracking Production Tax Credit
By Dana Drugmand
on
Before the U.S. fracking boom took off, shale drillers had access for over two decades to a particular tax incentive that experts say played a key role in setting the stage for the so-called shale ...
uk/BP Downgrades Value of Own Assets by Billions With Eye on Post-COVID Low-Carbon Future
By Guest
on
By Kieran Cooke for Climate News Network This week, BP, one of the so-called super oil majors, said it was writing down or reducing the value of its assets by between US$13 billion (£10.35 billion...
us/Carbon Capture Will Require Large Public Subsidies to Support Coal and Gas Power
By Justin Mikulka
on
In April, the Center for Global Energy Policy (CGEP) at Columbia University released a report concluding that, without major new subsidies from the American public, technologies for capturing heat-...
Shell's Falcon Pipeline Dogged by Issues with Drilling and Permit Uncertainty During Pandemic
By Sharon Kelly
on
A DeSmog investigation found that the pipeline's construction has been plagued by drilling and permitting problems.
A DeSmog investigation found that the pipeline's construction has been plagued by drilling and permitting problems.

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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...
Opinion
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...
us/With Prospects Souring for Oregon Gas Terminal, an Obscure Group Raises Pressure for State Approval
ByNick Cunningham
on

On May 24, a full-page ad appeared in The Oregonian, Oregon’s largest newspaper. The “open letter,” addressed to Gov. Kate Brown, asked her to support Jordan Cove LNG, a controversial coastal lique...
us/For Decades, the Oil and Gas Industry Got Taxpayer Help from the Fracking Production Tax Credit
ByDana Drugmand
on

Before the U.S. fracking boom took off, shale drillers had access for over two decades to a particular tax incentive that experts say played a key role in setting the stage for the so-called shale ...
uk/BP Downgrades Value of Own Assets by Billions With Eye on Post-COVID Low-Carbon Future
ByGuest
on

By Kieran Cooke for Climate News Network This week, BP, one of the so-called super oil majors, said it was writing down or reducing the value of its assets by between US$13 billion (£10.35 billion...
us/Carbon Capture Will Require Large Public Subsidies to Support Coal and Gas Power
ByJustin Mikulka
on

In April, the Center for Global Energy Policy (CGEP) at Columbia University released a report concluding that, without major new subsidies from the American public, technologies for capturing heat-...
Shell's Falcon Pipeline Dogged by Issues with Drilling and Permit Uncertainty During Pandemic
BySharon Kelly
on

A DeSmog investigation found that the pipeline's construction has been plagued by drilling and permitting problems.

A DeSmog investigation found that the pipeline's construction has been plagued by drilling and permitting problems.