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Another Side to the Story: A Look at Colorado’s Ballot Fight

Yesterday, news broke that the Colorado ballot initiatives on fracking failed. But that's only half the story – the other half is the multi-million dollar industry campaign meant to silence our people-powered movement.

“President Obama: More Drilling = More Floods”

As Louisiana recovers from the worst flooding in the US since Hurricane Sandy, you would have thought that the chaos and lives lost in the flooding would force an immediate rethink from the Obama Administration regarding energy policy and our continued use of fossil fuels.

The American Petroleum Institute’s Desperate PR is Failing

The American Petroleum Institute is desperate. They want to clutch onto the past while the world changes around them, and the public really isn’t buying it.

North Dakota Pipeline Protest Heads to Court

The growing protest against the highly controversial North Dakota Access pipeline will end up in court tomorrow in Washington DC, when the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s lawsuit against the US Army Corps of Engineers will be heard.

BP’s New Plans to Drill the Great Australian Bight Criticised

Despite growing international condemnation, oil giant BP seems intent on drilling in the highly sensitive Great Australian Bight off the country’s southern coast, which is home to one of the largest breeding populations of endangered southern right whales in the world.

“We don’t want this black snake within our Treaty boundaries”

One of the most important battles against pipeline expansion in North America is happening right now in North Dakota.

As Renewables Soar, Oil Industry Launches New PR Offensive

As the renewable revolution gathers a pace, the oil industry has launched yet another PR offensive trying to rebrand fossil fuels as sustainable.

Louisiana Floods: A “classic signal of climate change”

The US state of Louisiana was under a state of emergency over the weekend with at least six people dead and 20,000 people rescued due to an "historic" flooding event affecting the state for the previous few days.

“Why don’t people demand action on climate change?”

As Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton campaign in one of the most deeply bruising, personal and vitriolic Presidential campaigns ever witnessed, many are questioning the current venomous state of our polarized political discourse and how it needs to radically change.

BP Greenwashes the Olympics … Again

As BP yet again sponsors different Olympic teams as well as the Paralympics, other athletes ask: “Is it right to steal the future of millions of people”