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Pressure grows on U.S. regulators to investigate U.S. certified gas industry

Pressure is growing on US regulators to investigate and radically overhaul US Certified Gas after shocking revelations were published last week in a report by Oil Change International and Earthworks.

As Biden expands Gulf of Mexico drilling, new research finds it has significantly greater climatic impact than previously thought

A new scientific paper, published yesterday in the PNAS, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has concluded that government inventories of methane and carbon dioxide significantly underestimate the amount of gases which are released in the Gulf of Mexico from oil and gas operations.

Explainer: Latest data shows the World Bank Group and its peers are still locking in a fossil future

Ahead of the 2023 World Bank Spring meetings, we have compiled the major MDBs' 2022 energy finance data for the first time.

Climate crisis: Is it time to charge Big Oil with homicide?

A new academic study, accepted for publication in Harvard Environmental Law, asks the pertinent question about Big Oil and climate change: “Given the extreme lethality of the conduct and the awareness of the catastrophic risk on the part of fossil fuel companies, should they be charged with homicide?”

As IPCC demands urgent climate action, Pacific nations step up, but Italy and UK reach new lows as rogue climate states

Yesterday, the message from the world’s leading climate scientists was their most brutal and stark yet. It was unequivocal.

Cop City: Police “assassinated” activist with their “arms in the air”

The old saying is that the truth will come out. The state may lie and try and bury evidence. It may use brute force to cover up its tracks, but eventually, the truth will come out.

“Read my lips”: Biden blows up campaign pledge to approve the Willow “carbon bomb” in the Arctic

In one of his most controversial decisions so far, President Biden yesterday approved the Willow oil and gas mega-project on the Alaskan North Slope.

Sámi wind turbine protest shows there can be no just transition without Indigenous rights

We have known for decades now that we must end the disastrous dirty oil age and transition to clean, renewable energy. The wording often used by scientists and activists is that we need a “just transition”. There is where society enables an equitable transition from polluting, undemocratic fossil fuel industries to cleaner community-led renewable technologies.

COP28 President pushes false fossil fuel solutions, such as CCS, at CERAWeek

For anyone in the oil and gas industry, there is only one place to be this week. The great and good of the industry has converged on Houston for CERAWeek, which bills itself as the world’s premier energy event.

As Japan drives to expand fossil fuels, experts reveal pathway to generate 90% clean power by 2035

This week sees two crucial energy meetings in Japan, a country which remains one of the most prominent financiers of fossil fuels.