Oil and gas news & insights: Week of May 11
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Exxon lobbyists caught saying quiet part out loud on climate obstruction
In what can only be described as both shocking and unsurprising at the same time, yesterday Greenpeace’s investigative journalism outfit, Unearthed, released video of two high-ranking ExxonMobil lobbyists (one current, one recently left the company) saying the quiet part out...
Could Oregon offer a blueprint as tens of millions of Americans experience extreme smoke and heat?
So it has come to this. A nation on its knees, struggling to breathe under extreme heat and choking smoke. For millions of Americans this morning if you go outside, you will be be hit by a wall of smoke...
Our energy system has changed since 1913 – why hasn’t this subsidy?
Standard Oil has long since been broken up yet the subsidy designed to do so has only grown over its 100-year lifespan in terms of total value to the industry.
Another “watershed moment” as UK’s top court rules Nigerians can sue Shell too
The UK Supreme Court has ruled that two Nigerian communities – of more than 50,000 people - can bring their legal claims for clean-up and compensation against Royal Dutch Shell and its Nigerian subsidiary in the English courts.
Kicking off AGM Season, Eni and Equinor Are Fueling Oil and Gas Expansion, Not Clean Energy Transition
Eni and Equinor are on track to rank as the world’s third and eighth worst upstream oil and gas expanders, respectively, in 2023.
Hundreds of Groups Support Halting Fossil Fuel Leasing, Permitting on U.S. Public Lands, Oceans
Environmental justice, Indigenous, and climate groups from announced today that they have delivered millions of petitions and letters from hundreds of organizations supporting a halt on new fossil fuel leasing and permitting on public lands and oceans.
Cashing In On Carbon: How Taxpayer Dollars Greenwash Dirty Energy
From the Wyoming coal mines, to the gasification plant in Penwell, to the oilfields of the Permian Basin -- this subsidy spotlight explores the human impact of government subsidies gone haywire.
As billboards call out Big Oil for causing extreme weather, Exxon says climate targets “will fail”
If one oil company is synonymous with funding decades of climate denial, it is Exxon. For decades, the oil giant copied the deadly playbook of Big Tobacco of sowing doubt about the evidence and delaying action.
Chevron Fights Rights Abuse Allegations
Check out this AP article re: Chevron in Ecuador and Nigeria. Quotes from Oil Change, Earthrights, and Amazon Watch. By TERENCE CHEA The Associated Press Sunday, January 1, 2006; 8:32 PM SAN FRANCISCO -- A young boy holds out a...