Oil Industry Wages Major Lobbying Campaign to Kill Proposed Methane Fee

The oil industry has launched an all-out pressure campaign to kill an attempt by Congressional Democrats to tax methane – an extremely powerful greenhouse...

Climate Science Denial Group to Give Evidence to Parliament on Net Zero Transition

The UK’s main climate science denial group has been invited to give evidence to a parliamentary inquiry into the country’s energy transition and the...

Former Top Gear Host Quits Motoring Lobby Group Over Electric Vehicle ‘Urban Myths’

Former Top Gear host Quentin Willson has acrimoniously quit a motoring lobby group currently working with a group of MPs to stop the government’s...

The ‘Big Lie’ of Blue Hydrogen Starts With Ignoring Basic Economics

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UK Ministers Met 1-on-1 with Fossil Fuel and Biomass Producers Nine Times More Than...

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‘Twisting Words’: UK Oil Industry and Business Department Using Climate Change Committee to Justify...

The UK’s Business Department and the country’s leading oil and gas industry body have both been accused of citing the Climate Change Committee “out...

Coastal Tribes in Louisiana Are in Desperate Need After Ida Wallops Their Communities

“I am in desperate need of a camper trailer,” Traditional Chief Shirell Parfait-Dardar of the Grand Caillou/Dulac Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribe, told me outside of her...

Tory Peer Nicky Morgan Joins ‘Fossil Bank’ Santander After Calling for Greener Financial System

A Tory peer and ex-minister who called on the UK’s financial sector to cut its carbon emissions has joined a bank that has invested...

‘Majority of Fossil Fuels Must Stay in Ground to Meet 1.5C Goal’

By Daniel Welsby, James Price, and Steve Pye, The Conversation. Reposted from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.Global mean surface temperatures reached 1.2C above the pre-industrial average in 2020, and...

Indigenous Resistance Instrumental in Stopping High-Profile Fossil Fuel Projects, Says Report

The efforts of Indigenous peoples in North America have helped block or delay a long list of major fossil fuel projects over the past...

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