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New Permian Methane Leakage Study Confirms What We Already Knew

A new study published last week confirms what we already knew about oil and gas in the Permian Basin. It's an unmitigated disaster.

COVID-19 fallout threatens “long-term survivability” of Big Oil

Big Oil faces a new reality where "everything has changed.” Even their long-term survival.

Trump’s Earth Day gift to Big Oil: We will buy your near worthless product

There is no doubt we are at a historical moment with the industry in deep structural and financial trouble and where a post-COVID-19 recovery could see a radical shift away from oil and into a just transition into renewables. But will that happen?

Ten years after Deepwater Horizon “another deep-water blowout is inevitable”

On the 10th Anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, “If anything, another disaster is more likely today as the oil industry drills deeper and farther offshore."

As Shell spins a commitment to “net zero” by 2050, critics wave red warning flags

Shell, a company often vilified for being complicit in human rights abuses in Nigeria, of rampant pollution and ignoring the risks of climate change for decades, belatedly wants us to believe it is central to the climate fight.

Trump’s loosening of environmental rules amid pandemic are “increasing risk of death in COVID-19 patients”

By all accounts Trump’s handling of the Coronavirus pandemic has been a disaster for months.