Thursday, April 3, 2025

Tag: fossil fuel

European energy giants conceal nearly half of their biodiversity damage

New research reveals how major energy companies in Europe are hiding the ecological destruction caused by their operations, with nearly 50 percent of adverse impacts going unreported in official sustainability documents.

Moms and kids demand end to fossil fuel funding at Citigroup...

Activists demand Citigroup cease funding fossil fuel projects amid rising global temperatures and climate displacement.

Biden’s Arctic drilling protections: Indigenous and environmental groups urge further action

Indigenous groups and climate advocates welcome Biden’s proposal to protect the Western Arctic from oil and gas drilling, urging further action for long-term preservation.

Governments resume debate on International Seabed Authority’s practice of seabed mining

The debate on the protection of the deep sea reaches the final agenda after being blocked by pro-mining countries last year.

Marathon Oil to pay record settlement for pollution in violation of...

It is the largest penalty for Clean Air Act violations at stationary sources, including power plants, factories and refineries, the EPA said.

Elders arrested protesting Citibank’s billions in fossil fuel financing amid record...

Dozens of senior climate activists, including 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben, arrested in New York City while highlighting Citibank’s leading role in financing fossil fuel projects amid worsening climate crisis.

Global consensus: Majority support quick fossil fuel phaseout, even in top...

A new UNDP poll reveals overwhelming global support for a rapid transition to clean energy and stronger climate action, including in major fossil fuel-producing countries.

Navigating the energy transition: Renewables abound, but grid challenges loom

Renewable energy doesn’t matter if we can’t distribute it.

Big Banks have funded climate crisis with nearly $7 trillion since...

The financial institutions lavished $705 billion on oil, gas, and coal in 2023—the hottest year on record.

Biden should end the fossil fuel industry’s secret weapon

Using a little-known provision of trade agreements, oil and gas corporations are able to pit their profits against democracies and our climate. It’s time to end the practice.

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10 organizing principles for defeating Trumpism 2.0

We need principles that build power now and for the long term. 

GOP plans to sidestep Senate rules to force $4.6 trillion tax giveaway for the...

Republicans aim to make Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent by bypassing the Senate parliamentarian—an approach Democrats refused to take to raise the minimum wage.

Why more environmental justice organizations must join the call for a militarism-free future

An open letter initiated by CODEPINK urges the world to take the arduous baby step of recognizing the deadly intersection of war and environmental destruction.

A lawyer who helped the Kushners crack down on poor tenants now helps renters...

This attorney used to represent companies owned by Trump’s in-laws, whose apartments were known for shoddy maintenance and aggressive legal tactics.

You deserve our hatred Elon. Your budget cuts are killing people.

Could Elon and his savage cuts to USAID. cause a subsequent resurgence of drug resistant TB?