The ‘Big Con’ Revealed: Report Details Fossil Fuel Industry’s Deceptive ‘Net Zero’ Strategy
By Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams. Originally published on Common Dreams under CC BY–SA 3.0 US.
A new report published Wednesday, June 9, by a trio of progressive advocacy groups lifts the veil...
Shale Oil Fraud Case Reveals Executives Ignore Their Own Engineers and Mislead Investors
In April, a judge ruled that a lawsuit filed by former investors in the shale oil company Alta Mesa could proceed. Their case alleges...
Exxon is Telling Investors its Permian Fracking Projects are ‘World Class’. The Data Says...
ExxonMobil’s production numbers in the Permian basin in West Texas and New Mexico appear to have deteriorated in 2019, according to new analysis, calling...
Oil Drilling in the ‘Land of Water’: ExxonMobil Hunts for More Fossil Fuels in...
About 100 miles off the coast of Guyana, along the northern edge of South America, the drillship Stena Carron spent Saturday, June 5 drilling...
Hundreds Arrested at Line 3 ‘Treaty People Gathering.’ Water Protectors Vow To Continue Until...
Nearly 200 people were arrested on Monday while protesting the Line 3 pipeline, a long-distance tar sands pipeline that runs across Indigenous land and...
Election of Union Leader Who Called for COP26 to be Ditched ‘Not Ideal’, Say...
Green campaigners have expressed concern about the GMB union’s newly elected leader, who has called for Glasgow to ditch the upcoming COP26 climate summit...
Cleaning Up Methane Pollution From Permian Super Emitters is ‘Low Hanging Fruit’ for the...
Only a handful of super emitters are responsible for an enormous amount of the methane pollution in the Permian basin, according to a new...
How Third-Party Auditors Make Oil Industry Fraud Possible
Major accounting firm KPMG is under fire from investors who filed a class action lawsuit against the firm for overstating the asset values of...
The feasibility of transformation pathways for achieving the Paris Climate Agreement
What drives the feasibility of climate scenarios commonly reviewed by organizations like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)? And can they actually be...
The IEA’s New Net Zero ‘Roadmap’ is Dangerously Reliant on Destructive Bioenergy
The International Energy Agency’s new “Net Zero by 2050” report has won plaudits for its bold recommendations on how the world can limit warming...













