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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Around 30 students and community members of Harvard and MIT disrupted an ExxonMobil geoscience recruitment event hosted at MIT for both MIT and Harvard students.
It is well documented that major oil and gas companies have known about the dangers of the climate crisis since the late 1970s, yet chose to double-down on their existing business models and fund climate denial. Now, new internal documents subpoenaed as part of a House Committee on Oversight and Reform investigation reveal how the […]
Despite growing awareness of the climate crisis, fossil fuel subsidies actually rose significantly in 2021–increasing by almost half.
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 […]
Greenwashing accusations leveled against four major oil companies that claim they are actively transitioning to clean energy are valid, according to a comprehensive new study. The study, published in the journal PLOS One, found that the actions of BP, ExxonMobil, Chevron and Shell didn’t match their promises. Researchers examined data from 2009 to 2020 for […]
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 […]
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