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Oil Companies Alignment with Net Zero
2024-03-25 (or before) in Carbon Tracker InitiativeTagged under: Exxon | BP | Oil Industry
US energy industry methane emissions are triple what government thinks, study finds
2024-03-13 in ABC NewsA new study calculates that U.S. oil and natural gas wells, pipelines and compressors are spewing three times the amount of the potent heat-trapping gas methane as the government thinks
Tagged under: Oil Industry | USA | Methane
CAP AND WAIT. CLIMATE FOES GET THEIR DELAYS IN WA | by Mary Liz Thomson | Mar, 2024 | Medium
2024-03-11 in MediumDo climate programs like Washington’s cap and investment law automatically raise the price of gas? No, but mainstream media usually frames the story that way. Why do we have to accept this logic? We shouldn’t, it’s not even true. But this thinking is on track to take down Washington State’s newest carbon tax. After ten years of wrangling the Climate Commitment Act (CCA) was passed as a market-based program to reduce carbon pollution and achieve the greenhouse gas limits agreed to in state law. The program held it’s first auction last spring in 2023.
Right on cue after the industry had to pay ...
Tagged under: Oil Industry | Fossil Fuels | Net Zero | Legislation | Regulation | Washington State
Top Fossil Fuel Ad Ban Critic Runs Group That Got $450K from Oil Company
2024-03-11 by in DeSmogThe Indian Resource Council has received large contributions from Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., disclosures reviewed by DeSmog reveal.
Tagged under: Lobbying | Oil Industry | Canada | Fossil Fuels
Oil industry has sought to block state backing for green tech since 1960s
2024-03-08 in The GuardianResearch shows industry lobbying against support for solar panels and electric cars while enjoying subsidies itself
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Lobbying | Oil Industry
‘Explosive growth’ in petrochemical production poses risks to human health
2024-03-06 in The GuardianNew report warns of deadly health risks from fossil fuel pollution, including alarming rise in neurodevelopmental issues
Tagged under: Fossil Fuels | Oil Industry | Pollution | Health
Jeremy Hunt’s net zero target claims criticised by climate advisers
2024-01-07 in The GuardianClimate Change Committee tells chancellor issuing new oil and gas licenses is ‘inconsistent’ with government’s temperature goals
Tagged under: Legislation | UK Politics | UK | Oil Industry | Fossil Fuels | Net Zero
The Oil and Gas Industry in Net Zero Transitions – Analysis - IEA
2023-11-23 (or before) in IEA ÐÊInternational Energy AgencyThe Oil and Gas Industry in Net Zero Transitions - Analysis and key findings. A report by the International Energy Agency.
Tagged under: Oil Industry | Net Zero
How to Defeat the Fossil Goliath?
2023-06-11 (or before) by in Films for ActionThe KEY question, I'm asked by students when I guest lecture about the #ClimateCrisis is 'but what can we do?' So I recently rewrote my materials to try & tackle that question head on. Feel free...
Tagged under: Oil Industry | Activism
Time to pay the piper: Fossil fuel companies’ reparations for climate damages
2023-05-25 (or before) in Cell PressThe calls for climate reparations are rapidly growing in the scientific literature, among climate movements, and in the policy debate. This article proposes morally based reparations for oil, gas, and coal producers, presents a methodological approach for their implementation, and quantifies reparations for the top twenty-one fossil fuel companies.
Tagged under: Oil Industry
Big Oil Helped Shape Stanford’s Latest Climate-Research Focus
2023-05-07 (or before) in Archive Today - web archiveTagged under: Oil Industry
Oilsands waste is collected in sprawling toxic ponds. To clean them up, oil companies plan to pour water on them
2023-04-15 (or before) by in Breaking News - Headlines & Top Stories | The StarThe oil industry’s strategy to deal with a trillion litres of toxic goop is centred on a process even the Alberta Energy Regulator calls unproven. One top scientist describes the claim that water capping will return land to a natural state an an “impossible fantasy.”
Tagged under: Pollution | Oil Industry | Canada
Big Oil v the World 1 - Denial
2023-04-09 (or before) in YouTubeThe story of what the fossil fuel industry knew about climate change more than four decades ago. Scientists who worked for the biggest oil company in the wor...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Oil Industry | Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Disinformation and Misinformation
Oil excavation in Africa’s Kavango region must be stopped to meet world climate promises | The Independent
2021-05-15 (or before) in The IndependentThe climate column: Oil play in the Kavango region of Namibia and Botswana will affect climate targets, endanger indigenous communities and could be disastrous for conservation
Tagged under: Oil Industry | Conservation | Africa | Climate Change | Wildlife | Namibia
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Tagged under: Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Oil Industry | Climate Change | Disinformation and Misinformation
Teck Resources pulling application for Frontier oil sands mine - The Globe and Mail
2020-02-23 in The Globe and Mail: Canadian, World, Politics and Business News & AnalysisThe Teck mine had already passed a lengthy regulatory review and Ottawa was expected to decide this week whether to approve the project
Tagged under: Oil Industry | Canada | Climate Change | Economics | Finance
Government Agency Warns Global Oil Industry Is on the Brink of a Meltdown
2020-02-04 in VICEWe are not running out of oil, but it's becoming uneconomical to exploit it—another reason we need to move to renewables as quickly as possible.
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Economics | Oil Industry | Fossil Fuels | Carbon Bubble | Climate Change
Oil companies aren’t making big investments in a low-carbon future yet | GreenBiz
2020-01-10 (or before) in GreenbizBut some companies are showing an interest in it.
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Oil Industry
Big oil asks government to protect its Texas facilities from climate change - CBS News
2020-01-05 (or before) in CBS NewsTexas Gulf Coast project would shield petroleum industry, which is blamed for contributing to global warming and now wants safeguards against the consequences
Tagged under: Global Warming | Lobbying | Oil Industry | Texas | Climate Change
Big Oil on Trial: Where the Climate Lawsuits Currently Stand
2019-12-09 (or before) in Greentech Media | Clean Tech & Renewable Energy NewsTagged under: Oil Industry | Litigation
Opinion: Green energy will gut more than the oil market
2019-11-20 (or before) in Detroit NewsTagged under: Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Oil Industry | Renewable Energy | Climate Change | Disinformation and Misinformation
Fossil fuel big five 'spent €251m lobbying EU' since 2010
2019-10-24 by Sandra Laville in The GuardianReport comes amid calls for set up of firewall to protect politics from industry influence
Tagged under: BP | Lobbying | European Union | Oil Industry | Shell | Exxon | Chevron | Fossil Fuels
Rise of renewables may see off oil firms decades earlier than they think
2019-10-14 by Jillian Ambrose in The GuardianPace of progress raises hope that fossil fuel companies could lose their domination
Tagged under: Solar Energy | Oil Industry | Renewable Energy | Climate Change | Wind Power | Fossil Fuels
Big Oil spent big and won big in Washington and Colorado
2018-11-08 (or before) in ThinkProgressTagged under: Lobbying | US Politics | Oil Industry | Colorado State | Washington State
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