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Oil Change International is a research, communication, and advocacy organization focused on exposing the true costs of fossil fuels and facilitating a just transition to clean energy. For media inquiries, please contact: Valentina Stackl at [email protected]

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UK Government Gives Green Light to Expensive, Unproven and Harmful Hynet CCS Project While Hosting IEA summit on Energy Security

CCS and blue hydrogen have been criticised by environmental groups, academics and communities globally due to their technological and economic ineffectiveness, lack of energy security and environmental benefits, safety concerns, and financial burden on taxpayers along with overstated job benefits. 

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Oil Change Response to Interior’s Drastic Reduction of Opportunities for Public Input on Energy Projects

The Department of Interior’s announcement is an attempt to silence the public’s voice in decision-making, taking away tools that ensure our communities have a say in the fossil fuel project proposals that threaten our water, land, and public health.

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Asian Civil Society Organizations Warn European Leaders about the ‘Japanese Model’ of LNG Investment

At the International Energy Agency Summit, 27 civil society organizations from 9 countries in Asia sent a letter to European Union decision-makers warning them not to follow the ‘Japanese Model’ of using public money to invest in LNG. 

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UNSG says: Path out of climate hell is paved with renewables

Geopolitical volatility is no excuse for more delay when the world is burning and the case for leaving fossil fuels behind has never been clearer.

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MPs Demand More Help for North Sea Workers as UK Shifts to Renewables

Call comes as world energy ministers descend on London for energy security summit

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Germany’s Coalition Agreement Threatens to Break International Fossil Fuel Finance Commitments

The incoming German government has presented a draft coalition agreement that is already drawing controversy and raising concerns about Germany’s commitment to ending fossil fuel finance.

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No more giveaways for billionaires and Big Oil: Oil Change International Response to House passage of joint budget resolution

This budget would further harm the millions of working people who are facing rising costs and a potential recession thanks to Trump’s tariffs, while giving Big Oil more money to pollute and push us towards catastrophic climate change.

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Norway’s climate proposal is hypocrisy dressed up as climate leadership

While the world races to phase out fossil fuels, Norway clings to oil and gas like it’s part of the climate solution — not the root of the crisis.

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France Risks Backsliding on Leadership in Ending International Fossil Fuel Finance

The French government opens up possibilities for French public financing institutions to support gas power projects. This move represents backsliding on the leadership shown by France on ending international fossil fuel handouts and comes after Trump pressuring the European Union to buy more US LNG.

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Most effective retaliation against Trump tariffs? A fair fossil fuel phase-out

The sweeping tariffs Trump announced on Wednesday 2 April risk locking in fossil fuel dependency and a cost-of-living crisis.