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In Solidarity with Ogoni People: Condemnation of Plans to Resume Oil Production

Oil Change International, in solidarity with civil society organizations in the Niger Delta, condemns in the strongest terms the Nigerian government’s plans to resume oil production in Ogoni land. This decision disregards the longstanding environmental destruction, economic hardship, and social injustices endured by the Ogoni people due to decades of exploitative oil operations. Rather than addressing these historical grievances, the government is choosing a path that will deepen the suffering of communities already devastated by the toxic legacy of extractivism.

Solidarity With Tiwi Island Communities

Our Movement Stands In Solidarity With Tiwi Islanders And Environmental Defenders: We Denounce Attacks By The Australian And Senator Susan McDonald

COP29 Dispatch: A $300 Billion Smokescreen

COP29 concluded this past weekend with a deeply flawed agreement on climate finance that plans for fossil fuel phaseout failure and has been carefully crafted by rich countries to dodge their responsibilities to pay the climate debt they owe to the Global South.

People gathered outside Minneapolis City Hall to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Biden’s Final Climate Test: Time for Bold Action on Fossil Fuels

What we need to see from the Biden Administration before Trump takes office.

COP29 Dispatch: The Biggest Stories From Week 1

The first week of the UN climate negotiations just wrapped up in Azerbaijan. Our team on the ground has been working hard to push back against industry spin and pressure rich countries to pay up. Here are the highlights.

Bright orange liquefied natural gas tanker.

US LNG Flies in the Face of Mainstream Climate Analysis: the Department of Energy must stop all expansion now.

Oil Change International, frontline communities, and other partners have provided ample evidence for the need to end LNG expansion. But if we needed further evidence that permitting more US LNG export capacity is a surefire way to cook the planet, we certainly got it with the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) latest annual report.

Why The Department of Energy Must Reject New Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) Exports

The explosive growth of the U.S. LNG sector is harming communities' health and threatening to put our climate goals out of reach.

People on flooded streets

Seeking Climate Justice: Civil Society’s Crucial Role from Courtrooms to Communities

The climate movement is turning to courts to hold corporations and governments accountable for their role in causing the climate crisis. The number of cases filed each year has nearly tripled since the Paris Agreement in 2015. With courts becoming vital battlegrounds, civil society organizations (CSOs) play a key role, pushing legal cases forward and ensuring public engagement in the critical climate debate. 

If UK Labour scrapped billions for false solutions like CCS and hydrogen, it could fund pensioners’ winter fuel allowance 

In the UK, despite hundreds of millions being spent and no commercial projects in operation, a further £25 billion has been promised in new subsidies for Carbon, Capture and Storage (CCS) and Hydrogen. This is greater than the supposed £22 billion black hole that the previous Conservative Government left the new Labour government. If Labour is looking for a quick fix to find money to fund the winter fuel allowance, they should scrap these wasteful handouts to the fossil fuel industry.

Refinery in Norway at night showing a flare

Carbon capture has a 50-year record of failure. Why are governments throwing billions of dollars at it?

The current wave of carbon capture projects and government subsidies will only further entrench the fossil fuel industry and its impacts.