Can states be trusted to tackle the nation’s orphaned oil and gas well problem with federal funds?

Oxford University fellow Professor Peter Edwards has been appointed to the Global Warming Policy Foundation’s board of trustees.

The oil and gas industry is looking to capitalize off an increasingly-popular socially responsible investing wave that emphasizes the environment.

The overall failure to divest appears to undermine a surge of climate commitments made by local authorities in recent years.

Banks and investors have given up on the U.S. fracking industry, which is bad news for current investors who waited too long to get out.

A year-long investigation finds a major West Texas disposal site with a patchy record is also importing radioactive oilfield waste from abroad.

However impressive Oxford’s environmental credentials may be, it cannot achieve climate justice while retaining its close links with fossil fuel companies, argues Brigitte Wear from the Oxford Climate Justice Campaign.

A major new catalogue of fossil fuel company adverts based on research by DeSmog shows the gap between their public image and the reality of their operations.

The total cost of decommissioning offshore oil wells around the world is expected to be over $100 billion by 2030.

The institution is already under intense pressure from campaigners over its existing relationships with oil companies.