Tag: big oil

This new coalition appears poised to counter policies designed to accelerate the transition away from petroleum-powered transportation.

“The PPP was supposed to help small businesses keep their doors open and their employees on payroll through the pandemic.”

“The decision puts in limbo thousands of infrastructure projects nationwide that rely on [Nationwide Permit] 12 for the construction, maintenance, or repair of utility lines and poses particularly acute problems for the oil and gas industry.”

Nearly 200 CEOs signed a letter admitting businesses have behaved badly but offering zero promises to do better.

“Through the 2000s and 2010s, ExxonMobil used proxies, employed other indirect means, and itself continued to make statements that cast doubt on the role of fossil fuels in causing climate change.”

The loophole dates back to a 1995 law that urged companies to drill in the Gulf of Mexico by offering oil companies a break from paying royalties on the oil produced.

The environmental justice movement that is surging globally is intentionally intersectional, showing how global warming is connected to issues such as race,...

“The rich have profited for so long from a fossil fuel economy that they’re obviously going to be the ones to try and block change."

“These documents are another stain on the fossil fuel industry's track-record as a disingenuous rogue agent in climate science and politics.”

“It’s not just Exxon. This is industry-wide knowledge of the fact that the fossil fuel industry’s products were going to cause climate change, and that was going to have damaging side effects for the world.”