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Shell gags British Museum in greenwashing sponsorship deal

Oil giant Shell continues to excel as a climate villain, happy to drive humanity beyond the limits of a liveable future. And now it has been caught "gagging" the British Museum in a major greenwashing sponsorship exhibition on climate change.

Big Oil & API spending millions on Facebook & Instagram to misleadingly spin “gas is green”

A great joint investigation by Channel 4 news in the UK and InfluenceMap has found that oil industry lobbyists are using social media such as Facebook and Instagram to promote the continued use of gas and the myth that gas is a green fuel.

Dear Shell: After 25 years, are you finally willing to accept your role in the murder of Ogoni 9?

Another grim, painful milestone is reached. It is now a quarter of a century since Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni 9 were murdered in Nigeria by Shell.

Chevron hires PR company to paint Green New Deal as “racist” — while claiming to support BLM protests

For years Big Oil has repeated the dirty tactics of Big Tobacco. And once again it has been found doing so again.

Shell Criticized for “Cynical” Co-option of International Women’s Day

Shell’s latest grotesque greenwashing propaganda was put out for International Women’s day, when the company rebranded its logo to “She’ll”, along with the strapline: “#Makethefuture gender balanced.”

Week Two: UN Climate Talks Need to ‘Kick Polluters Out’ Now

It is time to kick the polluters out of the UN climate negotiations. They should have been kicked out decades ago. But it needs to happen now. Once and for all.

Elite British Cycling Team Sells Out to Shale Boss

One of Britain’s elite cycling teams has just announced that its new sponsor will be the UK’s richest man, petrochemical and fracking boss, Sir Jim Ratcliffe.

UN head warns it is not only “immoral but suicidal” if we don’t act now on climate

Just as the people of the Niger Delta have been demanding justice from Shell for decades, many of us have been demanding climate justice for decades too. But the hour glass has nearly run dry. The time to act is now. We cannot allow another COP to pass with just empty promises.

As the World Warms, King Coal Rules the UN Climate Talks

It is that time of year again, when the annual international UN climate negotiations take place. This year, the Conference of the Parties – or COP for short – is happening in Katowice, in Poland. It starts next week.

BP’s Blatant Climate Hypocrisy on Show As it “Buys” Vote to Defeat Carbon Tax

As millions of people digest the saturated press coverage of the mid-terms, and wonder what the next two-years of a chaotic and destructive Trump Presidency will mean with the Republican loss of the House, it is easy to miss other issues that were also voted on this week.