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Stretching back a decade, Shell is once again brought to court over landmark pollution case

Why does the fight for justice take so long? Why is it so difficult to hold Big Oil to account? Why does it take years even decades to drag oil executives, kicking and screaming, into a court-room?

It’s a climate emergency: Time to “Kick Polluters Out” of COP26

Some of the world’s worst polluting companies, including BP and Shell, have been regularly lobbying the UK Government offering money to be part of next year’s UN COP26 conference.

Spoiler alert: Big oil companies are still failing on climate

Being a “leader” among laggards doesn’t cut it when we’re in a climate emergency – a crisis that the oil and gas industry has done the most to cause.

Despite COVID-19 and climate emergency, U.S. Big Oil says it’s “folly” to invest in renewables

Despite our climate emergency and the massive demand reduction caused by COVID-19, American oil executives say it would be "folly" for them to switch to renewables.

We have entered the “end game” for oil — with “permanent demand destruction”

As we have been repeatedly saying for months, we are witnessing the end of the oil age. Even once great giants are now crumbling at their core.

Investigation reveals Big Oil funds the police across the United States

Divesting from fossil fuels and ending environmental racism goes hand-in-hand with defunding the police in the fight for racial justice and reinvestment in Black and Brown communities.

It’s not just oil that’s in trouble: “Gas is over-supplied, over-hyped, and out of time”

"Shell has been a leader in peddling the gas myth for a decade or more, and it’s now clearer than ever that gas is over-supplied, over-hyped, and out of time.”

Despite COVID-19, activists will still pressure Shell over climate failure at AGM tomorrow

Despite COVID-19, activists plan to protest about Shell's climate failure at its Annual General Meeting tomorrow.

Oil and gas news and insights: Week of May 11

OCI is producing weekly news and resources updates for allies as part of our response to the COVID-19 crisis.

From Supermajors to Superminors: the fall of Big Oil

Shell is in trouble. BP is in trouble. So too is Exxon.