This is a guest blog from Munir Chalabi, an Iraqi political analyst living in the U.K. As deadline after deadline and benchmark after benchmark passes and with all the pressure imposed by the IMF, the US Administration, the US oil...
As US gasoline prices hit a near-record $3.05 a gallon, Democrats in Congress are promoting legislation taking aim at Big Oil - although industry experts say that the efforts aren't likely to have any effect at all. Sen. Charles Schumer,...
Russia seems to be toughening its position on energy sales to Europe. An adviser to President Putin said Moscow had no intention of observing guidelines in the EU's energy charter that would allow non-Russian companies access to the country's vast...
Oil Change International, frontline communities, and other partners have provided ample evidence for the need to end LNG expansion. But if we needed further evidence that permitting more US LNG export capacity is a surefire way to cook the planet,...
Public support for fossil fuel exploration in rich countries is nearly triple the amount pledged to the Green Climate Fund.
Ireland is on course to miss both its short-term climate commitments within EU legislation, and its long-term target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the energy sector by between 80 and 95 percent by 2050. Expanded gas extraction will only...
For release: May 18th, 2015 (The Hague) Royal Dutch Shell will face questions and concerns from shareholders and investors tomorrow on its plans to attempt another season of offshore drilling in the U.S. Arctic Ocean this summer. These concerns come on the...
In an unprecedented display of unity, a diverse global coalition of activists, impacted peoples, lawmakers, celebrities, and concerned communities came together from September 15-17 to demand an end to fossil fuels. This historic event, endorsed by over 3,800 organizations around...
In these dark times, with daily doses of bad news of our growing climate emergency, we have to celebrate every climate victory we get. And last Friday there was one such victory.
According to a new analysis of data, last year solar was the “star performer” in terms of new electricity generation, as renewables once again outstripped fossil fuels.
