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us/Baltimore, Rhode Island Argue They’re Suing Fossil Fuel Companies Over Climate Deception
By Dana Drugmand
on
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 Island are calling out a “decades-long campa...
us/Trump Admin Bypasses Congress, Offers Backup Storage to Boost Troubled Oil Industry
By Dana Drugmand
on
After Congress declined to allocate $3 billion of the recent economic stimulus package to fill the government’s emergency stockpile of oil, the Trump administration has taken its own steps to provi...
uk/Tortoise Media’s ‘Uncomfortable’ Relationship With BP
By Sophie Yeo
on
Just over a month ago, I was invited to speak on a panel about climate change, taking place at Newcastle University’s student union. The event was being hosted by Tortoise Media, a journalism start...
us/COVID-19 Fears Intensified for New Mexico Family Living in Fracking Industry’s Shadow
By Julie Dermansky
on
Penny Aucoin and her husband Carl Dee George have worried about living near oil and gas producing sites in New Mexico's Permian Basin since the sites began springing up near their home six years ag...
us/Oil-by-Rail Volumes Decreasing While Risks Remain
By Justin Mikulka
on
There are only two things that have made any real difference in protecting the public from the dangers of oil trains: activism that has stopped new infrastructure, and low oil prices. While activis...
us/Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, Some Pipeline Projects Push Forward While Others Falter Nationwide
By Sharon Kelly
on
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 state from 550,000 barrels a day to 1.1 m...
us/The Oil War in the Permian May Not Have Any Winners
By Justin Mikulka
on
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 war is between the major oil companies ExxonMobil a...
Under Cover of Pandemic, Fossil Fuel Interests Unleash Lobbying Frenzy
By Dana Drugmand
on
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 ...
us/Industry Infighting as Oil and Gas Seek Government Help
By Nick Cunningham
on
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...
us/Chamber of Commerce’s Energy Members Silent After Group Opposed Using Wartime Law to Produce Medical Supplies
By Guest
on
By Dave Anderson, Energy and Policy Institute. Originally posted on Energy and Policy Institute. Major electric utilities and fossil fuel producers that are members of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce...

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us/Baltimore, Rhode Island Argue They’re Suing Fossil Fuel Companies Over Climate Deception
ByDana Drugmand
on

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 Island are calling out a “decades-long campa...
us/Trump Admin Bypasses Congress, Offers Backup Storage to Boost Troubled Oil Industry
ByDana Drugmand
on

After Congress declined to allocate $3 billion of the recent economic stimulus package to fill the government’s emergency stockpile of oil, the Trump administration has taken its own steps to provi...
uk/Tortoise Media’s ‘Uncomfortable’ Relationship With BP
BySophie Yeo
on

Just over a month ago, I was invited to speak on a panel about climate change, taking place at Newcastle University’s student union. The event was being hosted by Tortoise Media, a journalism start...
us/COVID-19 Fears Intensified for New Mexico Family Living in Fracking Industry’s Shadow
ByJulie Dermansky
on

Penny Aucoin and her husband Carl Dee George have worried about living near oil and gas producing sites in New Mexico's Permian Basin since the sites began springing up near their home six years ag...
Series: Permian Problems: Fracking Industry's Promised Land Turns Sour
Series: Fracking the Permian
us/Oil-by-Rail Volumes Decreasing While Risks Remain
ByJustin Mikulka
on

There are only two things that have made any real difference in protecting the public from the dangers of oil trains: activism that has stopped new infrastructure, and low oil prices. While activis...
Series: Oil By Rail: Following the Bomb Trains
Series: Oil Bomb Trains
us/Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, Some Pipeline Projects Push Forward While Others Falter Nationwide
BySharon Kelly
on

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 state from 550,000 barrels a day to 1.1 m...
Series: Permian Problems: Fracking Industry's Promised Land Turns Sour
Series: Fracking the Permian
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us/The Oil War in the Permian May Not Have Any Winners
ByJustin Mikulka
on

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 war is between the major oil companies ExxonMobil a...
Under Cover of Pandemic, Fossil Fuel Interests Unleash Lobbying Frenzy
ByDana Drugmand
on

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 ...
us/Industry Infighting as Oil and Gas Seek Government Help
ByNick Cunningham
on

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...
us/Chamber of Commerce’s Energy Members Silent After Group Opposed Using Wartime Law to Produce Medical Supplies
ByGuest
on

By Dave Anderson, Energy and Policy Institute. Originally posted on Energy and Policy Institute. Major electric utilities and fossil fuel producers that are members of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce...