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Post-COVID-19: Norwegian oil industry plans huge offshore expansion after tax break by Gov.

The Norwegian Government has just given lucrative tax breaks to the oil industry to carry on drilling, despite the urgent need to tackle our climate emergency.

“Tell me Donald. Exactly how much is a human life being sold for?”

Two years into his Presidency, the fullblown cost of Donald Trump’s assault on human health, the environment and on science is becoming brutally and painfully clear.

15-Year Old Oil Spill Could Become Bigger than Deepwater Horizon

It may be a New Year, but there is an old oil spill that keeps on spilling

California administration’s opposition to drilling offshore should extend onshore too

As we approach the Global Climate Action Summit, hosted by Governor Brown later this year, the governor himself has an opportunity to show true leadership and announce new steps to limit fossil fuel extraction across the state. After all, the case for a managed phase out of fossil fuel production in California has now been clearly laid out by his own team.

States Vow to Fight Trump’s “Disastrous” Offshore Drilling Plans

As Washington continues to digest the explosive revelations in the book Fire and Fury about the chaotic and dysfunctional White House and whether the President is mentally fit for office, the Trump Administration continues its full-frontal assault on the environment.

Trump’s Interior budget: More drilling, more mining, more handouts

The myth that opening up more public lands and waters for fossil fuel production will result in a windfall for America is dead wrong. The only windfall from this production is enjoyed by oil, gas, and coal executives.

Big Oil Faces Legal Challenge Over Amazon Reef Drilling

We have known for years that the days of finding easy oil outside the Middle East are over. It means that the oil industry has to go into fragile ecological areas like the Arctic or exploit dirty unconventionals like the tar sands or shale gas.

President Obama just applied the Climate Test to Arctic drilling

A closer look at the withdrawal of Arctic waters from offshore drilling shows a critically important detail to how the White House made this decision: They used a climate test as one of the rationales for ending drilling in the Arctic.

The Deepwater Horizon disaster killed 11 people. Then BP made you and me pay for it.

BP was responsible for Deepwater Horizon, a disaster that killed 11 people and caused one of worst oil spills ever – and then they made us foot the bill.

Victory: BP Abandons Drilling in the Great Australian Bight

Conservationists and environmentalists in Australia are celebrating a major victory after the oil giant BP announced that it is abandoning its hugely controversial plans to drill for oil and gas in the Great Australian Bight.