Oil Refineries Face Shutdowns as Demand Collapses
By Nick CunninghamA growing number of refineries around the world are either curtailing operations or shutting down entirely as the oil market collapses.Oil prices have fallen precipitously to their...
View ArticleShell's Latest Annual Report: More Greenwashing?
By Dana DrugmandTwo years after internal documents surfaced showing that Royal Dutch Shell, like ExxonMobil, knew about climate dangers decades ago, the oil giant released its latest annual report...
View ArticleExxon Now Wants to Write the Rules for Regulating Methane Emissions
By Justin MikulkaExxonMobil is a company capable of contradictions. It has been lobbying against government efforts to address climate change while running ads touting its own efforts to do so.And...
View ArticleDelayed Senate Energy Bill Promotes LNG Exports, 'Clean Coal' and Geoengineering
By Steve HornThe huge bipartisan energy bill currently stalled in the Senate would fast-track exports of fracked gas, offer over a billion dollars in subsidies to "clean coal" efforts and make...
View Article‘Fossil Fuel Companies Knew’: Honolulu Files Lawsuit Over Climate Impacts
By Dana DrugmandHawaii has officially joined the fight to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for the climate crisis. On Monday the City of Honolulu filed a lawsuit against 10 oil and gas...
View ArticleLongtime Climate Science Foe David Schnare Uses 'Scare Tactics' to Bash...
By Dana DrugmandOpponents of a regional proposal to curb transportation sector emissions in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic are using a number of deceptive tactics to attack and criticize the...
View ArticleCanadian Town Evacuated After Another Oil Train Derails and Burns
By Justin MikulkaEarly in the morning of Feb. 6, an oil train derailed and caught fire near Guernsey, Saskatchewan, resulting in the Canadian village's evacuation. This is the second oil train to...
View Article1982 American Petroleum Institute Report Warned Oil Workers Faced...
By Sharon KellyBack in April last year, the Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency decided it was "not necessary" to update the rules for toxic waste from oil and gas wells. Torrents...
View ArticleFormosa Plant May Still Be Releasing Plastic Pollution in Texas After $50M...
By Julie DermanskyOn the afternoon of Jan. 15, activist Diane Wilson kicked off a San Antonio Estuary Waterkeeper meeting on the side of the road across from a Formosa plastics manufacturing plant in...
View ArticleYoutube Still Promotes Climate Disinformation, Report Finds
By Dana DrugmandYou don't have to look far to find misinformation about climate science continuing to spread online through prominent social media channels like YouTube. That's despite the...
View ArticleJoaquin Phoenix, Martin Sheen Arrested at Jane Fonda's Final DC Fire Drill...
By Zach RobertsEvery Friday for the last seven weeks, actress and activist Jane Fonda has held a rally and act of civil disobedience in front of the U.S. Capitol, calling for action on climate change....
View ArticleRick Perry Rejoins Pipeline Company After He Steps Down From Trump Admin...
By Sharon KellyFormer Trump administration Energy Sec. Rick Perry, who resigned from his cabinet-level post effective last month, has joined the board of directors of the general partner of Energy...
View ArticleAs Fracking Companies Face Bankruptcy, U.S. Regulators Enable Firms to Duck...
By Justin MikulkaIn over their heads with debt, U.S. shale oil and gas firms are now moving from a boom in fracking to a boom in bankruptcies. This trend of failing finances has the potential for the...
View ArticleTrump's Christmas Gift to Big Oil: Killing Hopes of Electric Car Tax Credit...
By Dana DrugmandThe oil industry, a staunch opponent of electric vehicles (EVs), received an early Christmas present from the White House as President Trump reportedly intervened to quash an EV tax...
View ArticleNew Film 'Dark Waters' Shines Light on Chemical Pollution History in Ohio...
By Sharon Kelly Dark Waters, the new film starring Mark Ruffalo as attorney Rob Bilott, is set in the Ohio River Valley city of Parkersburg, West Virginia — a place about 150 miles downstream from...
View ArticleTexas Petroleum Chemical Plant Explosion, and Our Petrochemical 'Collective...
By Julie DermanskyA plume from the Texas Petroleum Chemical (TPC) plant hung over Port Neches, Texas on Thanksgiving as emergency workers continued to fight the fire following explosions at the plant...
View ArticleSignificant Renewable Energy Growth in U.S. Very Soon, New Estimates Predict
By Justin MikulkaAfter revising its three-year U.S. power forecast, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has predicted major declines for fossil fuels and nuclear power alongside strong...
View ArticleEnvironmental Justice Activists Arrested Amid Growing Concerns Over...
By Julie Dermansky Mounting concerns over pollution, public health and the expansion of the petrochemical industry came to a head when two activists were detained in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Oct....
View ArticlePolling Experts Bash Koch-Funded Electric Car Survey as 'Highly Biased' and...
By Dana DrugmandFossil fuel interests appear intent on swaying public opinion about the electric vehicle tax credit, based on recent polling on the policy. A deeper look at these efforts reveals oil...
View ArticleMassachusetts Sues ExxonMobil For Climate Disinformation, Greenwashing
By Brendan DeMelleMassachusetts filed a lawsuit against ExxonMobil Thursday over the company's misinformation campaign to delay action to address climate change.NoneAttorney General Maura Healey told...
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