Tag: fossil fuel
Supreme Court rejects lawsuit aimed to block climate change suits against...
The Republican effort fell short in stopping Democratic-led states from using their own state courts to sue the fossil fuel industry.
Just 36 companies drove half the world’s climate-altering emissions in 2023:...
Released today by the Carbon Majors project, the list is dominated by coal, cement, and oil producers.
The fossil fuel industry wants to keep new buildings dependent on...
26 U.S. states have passed laws designed to prevent towns, cities, and other local governments from crafting new “natural gas bans” or enforcing those laws.
Greenpeace faces $300 million lawsuit that puts the longtime environmental nonprofit...
The trial began Monday in North Dakota, and, if successful, the lawsuit could bankrupt the nonprofit.
Environmental groups sue Trump over offshore drilling expansion threatening coastal waters
Conservationists challenge Trump’s executive orders to revoke ocean protections, warning of devastating impacts on marine ecosystems, coastal economies, and the fight against climate change.
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright backs coal and attacks ‘sinister’ climate...
“There is no climate crisis.”
Trump’s energy pick weaponizes global poverty to block climate action
Chris Wright has taken a different tack on climate—less outrageous, but no less dangerous.
In ‘historic win,’ court rules against UK’s Rosebank Oilfield over climate...
The judgment said the carbon emissions that would be created by the burning of oil and gas at the largest untapped oilfield in the UK had not been taken into consideration.
California’s bold move to hold Big Oil accountable for climate disasters
New bill aims to shift wildfire recovery costs from taxpayers to fossil fuel companies.
Should climate activists target fossil fuel subsidies?
It’s hard to imagine Sanders and Musk actually agreeing on much, but the message from Sanders got me wondering about another area of wild government overspending: fossil fuel subsidies.
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Leaked messages show US officials celebrating Yemen airstrike that killed civilians
Newly revealed Signal messages expose top Trump administration officials boasting about deadly strikes on civilian areas, sparking accusations of war crimes.
The dark and sinister ideology driving Elon Musk’s actions
The stakes are higher than they’ve ever been, and their power as elected officials sworn to uphold the Constitution is far greater than an unelected billionaire’s artificial power as Donald Trump’s hatchet man.
ICE agents accused of ‘kidnappings’ after snatching Tufts PhD student and farmworker organizer
Arrests of international student and labor organizer spark accusations of political repression and unconstitutional ICE tactics.
White House orders Social Security shutdowns and service cuts as Trump nominee faces Senate...
Millions of beneficiaries face office closures and phone service cuts as Trump’s Social Security pick, Frank Bisignano, refuses to commit to reversing policies.
The first 50 days
While there are already all too many examples of that very sort of perversification, let me just focus on several that could prove crucial when it comes to the future of our imperiled democracy.