This is an excerpt from Dick Russell’s and my new book, Horsemen of the Apocalypse, an eye opening exposé of the people and corporations most responsible for today’s climate crisis and their roles in President Trump’s new administration. Not long ago, the legendary economist Amory Lovins showed me two photos, taken 10 years apart, of […]
Attorneys representing 21 youth plaintiffs in Juliana v. United States served request for production of documents to the U.S. government and the American Petroleum Institute (API), asking both defendants to turn over the “Wayne Tracker” emails, as part of discovery in the climate case. As ExxonMobil explained Tuesday, the email address pseudonym “was put in […]
Rex Tillerson used an email address registered under the name “Wayne Tracker” to discuss climate policies while CEO of ExxonMobil, according to a letter sent by the New York attorney general’s office to a New York Supreme Court justice Monday. OMG! White House Plagiarizes Statement From Exxon Touting Plans for Expanded Fossil Fuel Projects https://t.co/ScgWFNA7xY […]
By Nadia Prupis Oil giant Shell also knew of the dangers of climate change decades ago, while it continued to lobby against climate legislation and push for fossil fuel development, a joint investigation by The Guardian and the Dutch newspaper The Correspondent revealed Tuesday. Shell created a confidential report in 1986 which found that the […]
By Alex Kotch Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz turned heads when he introduced a bill on Feb. 3 to “completely abolish” the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). https://facebook.com/EcoWatch/videos/1460041177342148/ “Today, the American people are drowning in rules and regulations promulgated by unelected bureaucrats,” Gaetz told fellow GOP lawmakers in an email reported by the Huffington Post […]
It’s staggering to recall that one of Donald Trump’s main appeals to many of his voters was a pledge to “drain the swamp” and rid Washington of corruption. In only two weeks he has, instead, begun stocking the swamp with new and poisonous creatures, making it yet more deadly, much as sugar planters did in […]
Today’s decision by the Republican-led U.S. Senate to overturn a rule designed to stop oil companies striking corrupt deals with foreign governments is a grave threat to U.S. national security and an astonishing gift to big oil. The news comes just two days after Rex Tillerson, a longstanding opponent of the law while CEO of […]
By Steve Horn President Donald Trump‘s newly sworn-in Secretary of State, recently retired ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, turned heads when he expressed support for an aggressive military stance against China’s actions in the disputed South China Sea during his Senate committee hearing and in response to questions from Democratic Party Committee members. Tillerson’s views on […]
In a world’s first, the Irish Parliament voted 90 to 53 on Thursday in favor of a groundbreaking bill that would fully divest public money from coal, oil and gas. Fossil Free Europe has hailed it as a “first-of-its-kind fossil fuel divestment legislation.” https://twitter.com/trocaire/status/824622886187134977 The Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill, which was supported by almost all […]
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