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Op-Ed: The New Landscape for Fighting Fossil Fuel Infrastructure 

Op-Ed: The New Landscape for Fighting Fossil Fuel Infrastructure 

By Audrey Leonard, Staff Attorney, Columbia Riverkeeper For more than 20 years, Columbia Riverkeeper has fought dirty fossil fuel infrastructure — and won. Together with firefighters, fishers, foresters, farmers, health professionals, educators, union leaders, and tribes, we stopped more than a dozen proposed fossil fuel facilities, ranging from coal exports to LNG terminals.  Because of […]

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    Biden Threatens Windfall Tax for Fossil Fuel ‘War Profiteers’

    Biden Threatens Windfall Tax for Fossil Fuel ‘War Profiteers’

    President Joe Biden threatened major oil companies with a windfall tax after they announced massive profits following a surge in energy prices prompted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.  ExxonMobil, for example, announced October 28 that it had earned $19.7 billion in profits during the third quarter of 2022. That’s more than the fossil fuel company […]

    World’s Biggest Asset Manager BlackRock Tells UK It Won’t Stop Investing in Fossil Fuels

    World’s Biggest Asset Manager BlackRock Tells UK It Won’t Stop Investing in Fossil Fuels

    American multinational investment company BlackRock has told the Environmental Audit Select Committee of the UK Parliament’s House of Commons that it won’t stop investing in gas, oil and coal, reported Reuters. Stopping investments in fossil fuels and transitioning to low-carbon and renewable energy sources is necessary to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that are the […]

    Jane Fonda Establishes a Climate PAC

    Jane Fonda Establishes a Climate PAC

    Climate activist and actress Jane Fonda has announced a new political action committee (PAC) aimed at getting Big Oil’s political allies out of office. Fonda is no stranger to political action, and in recent years, she’s been arrested five times for protesting climate issues. Now, she wants to fight the fossil fuel industry’s financial hold […]

    Exxon CEO Accused of Lying About Climate Science to Congressional Panel

    Exxon CEO Accused of Lying About Climate Science to Congressional Panel

    By Chris McGreal This story originally appeared in the Guardian and is part of “”Climate Crimes,”” a special series by the Guardian and Covering Climate Now focused on investigating how the fossil fuel industry contributed to the climate crisis and lied to the American public. The chief executive of ExxonMobil, Darren Woods, was accused of […]