The city of South Portland, Maine has won an important victory in a three-year legal battle to stop a pipeline company from offloading tar sands crude oil on its waterfront, after a judge ruled Friday that the city’s ordinance against the activity was constitutional, The Portland Press Herald reported. Portland Pipe Line Corp. had wanted […]
By Jason Mark Can any one group of actors be held responsible for the damages caused by global climate change? That was the central question argued in federal court on Thursday as attorneys representing San Francisco and Oakland tried to beat back efforts by ExxonMobil, BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Royal Dutch Shell to have a […]
A vast majority of Royal Dutch Shell shareholders voted down a proposal calling on the company to set specific targets for lowering its carbon dioxide emissions on Tuesday, putting their faith in the company’s internal plans to fight climate change. Only five percent of shareholders at Shell’s annual meeting in The Hague voted for the […]
King County, which covers the Seattle metropolitan area, followed the lead of 10 other cities and counties in the U.S. when it filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the world’s five largest oil companies for damages incurred by climate change, a county press release announced. “The science is undisputable: climate change is impacting our region today, […]
Royal Dutch Shell has known about the links between fossil fuel use and climate change for decades, according to newly-released internal company documents. The documents, unveiled by Dutch newspaper De Correspondent on Thursday, show that the oil giant’s researchers flagged that climate change could have major implications for the fossil fuel industry as far back […]
Friends of the Earth Netherlands announced Wednesday that it will take Shell to court if it does not act on demands to stop its destruction of the climate. “Shell is among the ten biggest climate polluters worldwide,” said Donald Pols, director of Friends of the Earth Netherlands. “It has known for over 30 years that […]
When the shareholders of Royal Dutch Shell convene for their annual meeting this May, there will be a surprising item on the agenda. A group of climate activists from the group Follow This, which urges people to buy shares in Shell in order to push the company towards renewable energy, will present a resolution urging […]
This was a big week for the suit brought by San Francisco and Oakland against the five largest investor-owned fossil fuel companies for the costs associated with adapting to climate change. First, the five companies in question—Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, BP and Royal Dutch Shell—filed a motion Tuesday to dismiss the case, arguing that the U.S. […]
By Andy Rowell First came BP, which went from British Petroleum to Beyond Petroleum. Then Denmark’s Dong Energy changed its name to Orsted, to mark its departure from oil and gas. Then earlier this year Shell announced it was morphing from an oil company into an integrated energy company. And now, the Norwegian company Statoil […]
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