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Oil industry inflates job impact from Biden’s new pause on drilling...
“I welcome an end to federal fossil fuel leasing and the necessary transitions to more sustainable economies for the Navajo Nation.”
Here’s how big oil wants the Supreme Court to help delay...
This industry push is a concerted effort to squash climate liability lawsuits.
The pandemic and oil
With oil prices down and wealthy countries bungling COVID-19, the pandemic has exposed the weaknesses that wealth papers over.
Hoboken, New Jersey sues oil industry for climate impacts from its...
“We want to be compensated for the costs of climate damages both past, present and future.”
The end of oil? Pandemic adds to fossil fuel glut, but...
“The pandemic has taken essentially every weakness that already existed in the oil industry and then made each of them much, much worse..."
Trump’s Christmas gift to big oil: Killing hopes of electric car...
While AEA is calling the defeat of the EV tax credit extension a “holiday reprieve for taxpayers,” the move is perhaps more accurately described as a holiday gift to the oil industry.
Oil industry ponders getting ‘dragged into low-carbon future’ while claiming it...
As the DeSmog series Fracking for Plastics notes, Saetre is not alone in his ambition to either burn all the oil and gas or turn it into plastics.
Portland, Oregon wins court battle to ban new oil infrastructure
With the latest ruling in Oregon, it appears the legal basis has been laid for what the oil industry considers a catastrophe.
Oil industry plans to keep workers safe—by firing them and having...
Industry isn’t safe and worker safety still isn’t a priority.
Infographic: How the oil industry is pushing plastic
The fracking boom is flooding the world with Ziploc bags, ketchup packets, and single-use spoons.
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‘No nonprofit is safe’: Trump escalates federal crackdown on civil society organizations
From Ivy League universities to climate and justice nonprofits, the Trump administration is deploying tax threats, federal takeovers, and embedded agents to suppress ideological dissent and dismantle nonprofit independence.
Sick and unsafe: Trump attacks on workers’ rights is an attack on public health
This power shift hasn't just changed paychecks—it has fundamentally altered the physical and mental health landscape for millions of Americans.
‘Zero care left’: UN says Israel has destroyed Gaza’s last hospital amid mass graves...
Mass graves, targeted killings of medics, and relentless hospital bombings mark the collapse of Gaza’s health system under Israeli siege, UN and forensic reports confirm.
Facing Trump’s America
As we experience Donald Trump’s twenty-first-century version of White nationalism, how we dealt with that difficult past should help us remember that we lived through terrible times by confronting them and that we can do so again.
Trump fast-tracks Great Lakes oil tunnel, triggering outcry over water and climate risks
Environmental groups and tribal nations warn the Line 5 tunnel project could endanger drinking water for 40 million people after Trump administration classifies it as an emergency.