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Despite COVID-19 & 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.

As Shell spins a commitment to “net zero” by 2050, critics wave red warning flags

Shell, a company often vilified for being complicit in human rights abuses in Nigeria, of rampant pollution and ignoring the risks of climate change for decades, belatedly wants us to believe it is central to the climate fight.

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.”

After 25 years, will the courts finally find #ShellGuilty?

2020 is the year that the chickens finally come home to roost for Shell. It can evade justice no more. It has run out of places to hide.

In Remembrance of Ogoni 9: will the “Desk Killers” ever be brought to justice?

It is now 24 years since the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa, and other Ogoni in Nigeria in 1995. The Ogoni 9, as they are called, were murdered for their campaign against the oil giant Shell, whose rampant double standards and pollution had caused the Ogoni community to mobilise.