Monday, March 31, 2025

Tag: fossil fuel

Survivors of deadly LA wildfires demand accountability for Big Oil’s role...

Victims, scientists, and legal experts unite to hold fossil fuel companies criminally responsible.

Students clash with UW Board of Regents over divestment and transparency...

Student activists demand divestment and transparency from the University of Wisconsin, facing police crackdowns and administrative pushback.

North Carolina town files historic climate deception lawsuit against Duke Energy

Carrboro’s lawsuit against Duke Energy alleges decades of misinformation, greenwashing, and obstruction of climate progress, demanding accountability for millions in damages.

Lessons on building independent progressive power in a city

An interview about the policy impact and political lessons of Richmond Progressive Alliance-led municipal reform efforts in a majority-minority city of 115,000.

Maine becomes ninth state to sue Big Oil for climate deception

The state will take fossil fuel companies including Chevron, BP and ExxonMobil to court for climate lies and damages.

Taxing Big Oil could boost UN loss and damage fund by...

Targeting the world’s seven largest publicly traded oil and gas companies—ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, TotalEnergies, BP, Equinor, and ENI—the tax would hold major polluters accountable for their contributions to the climate crisis.

Is your bank financing the climate crisis? And what can you...

“Almost everyone has a bank account—and so almost everyone can be part of the solution.”

Revealed: Big Oil told 70 years ago that fossil fuel emissions...

Compelling new evidence shows this pattern of behavior was already hardwired into the industry’s DNA by 1955 and persists today. 

EU accused of inviting fossil fuel executives to COP28 under false...

More fossil fuel lobbyists were granted access to the Dubai summit than any previous year.

Billions in fossil fuel subsidies worsen global health threats amid record-breaking...

2024 Lancet Countdown Report calls for redirection of $1 trillion in subsidies to combat health impacts of climate change.

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Honey bee colony decline to impact agriculture production in 2025

Commercial honey bee colony losses are projected to reach between 60 and 70 percent up from 40 and 50 percent in the past decade.

Wisconsin AG sues to stop Musk’s voter cash giveaway as courts allow $1 million...

Attorney General Josh Kaul argued Musk’s multimillion-dollar voter giveaway violated state bribery laws, but legal challenges failed to block the handouts before Wisconsin’s high-stakes Supreme Court election.

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 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.

Make America Worse – the corrosive blueprint driving Muskrat-Trump’s high-risk demolition derby

Where’s the great Trump hustle, what he does best, that promises the moon while taking away the earth? The battle is now how much scorched earth Trump inflicts without any positive deliverables to offset the pain.