It is clearly in the best interest of maintaining a livable climate that major energy companies shift away from fossil fuels and towards renewable sources, but a groundbreaking lawsuit argues it is in the best interest of these companies as well. Environmental law non-profit ClientEarth filed a lawsuit today against Shell’s 11-member Board of Directors, […]
Major fossil fuel company Shell has announced its new CEO, and he is the current head of its renewable energy department. Wael Sawan, current head of the company’s integrated gas and renewables division, will take over for out-going CEO Ben van Beurden on January 1, 2023. “It’s been a privilege to work alongside Ben and […]
Amidst concerns about high energy prices following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the UK government has approved a North Sea gas field that it had previously rejected in October over concerns that it would contribute to the climate crisis. The Jackdaw gas field is located to the east of Aberdeen in Scotland and has the potential […]
A teenage girl in California who shut down a toxic oil-drilling site; a Nigerian lawyer who got long-overdue justice for communities devastated by two Shell pipeline spills; two Indigenous Ecuadorians who protected their ancestral lands from gold mining. These are just some of the inspiring winners of this year’s so-called “Green Nobel Prize.” The Goldman […]
The world is currently in a climate crisis. India and Pakistan are sweltering through a record-breaking heat wave, reservoirs in the Western U.S. are straining under a historic drought, and the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report warns that we must reach net-zero emissions by mid-century in order to avoid the worst impacts of […]
Climate activists celebrated last December when fossil-fuel giant Shell said it would pull out of the Cambo oilfield project in the UK. Now, it looks as if those celebrations might have been premature. Shell is reportedly reconsidering its decision now that the “economic, political and regulatory environment” has changed following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and […]
ClientEarth is not only a nonprofit environmental law organization — it has also been a shareholder in the Shell oil company since 2016. Now, ClientEarth is suing Shell’s 13 directors and holding them personally and legally responsible for failing to devise a strategy to prepare the company for net zero emissions, which it says is […]
Climate campaigners are celebrating a “death blow” to a controversial UK oil exploration project after Shell announced it would no longer participate. The fossil-fuel giant was set to explore the Cambo oilfield to the west of Shetland, but pulled out Thursday night, The Press and Journal reported. “This really should be the deathblow for Cambo,” […]
Activists have made a last-minute bid to stop Royal Dutch Shell from exploring for oil and gas in whale breeding grounds off the coast of South Africa. The fossil-fuel giant had planned to search for oil and gas reserves by setting off underwater explosions along a stretch of South Africa known as the Wild Coast, […]
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