China has acknowledged an alarming rise in birth defects, amid concern that heavy pollution is damaging the country’s children. Babies born with conditions such as cleft palates and extra fingers and toes now account for up to 6 per cent...
BP yesterday accepted blame for failures to protect employees, the environment and consumers as it agreed to hand over a total of $373m to settle a string of criminal investigations into its conduct across America. In an effort to put...
Anyone in DC today, please get involved in the No War No Warming day of direct action to protest against war and global warming. The purpose of today’s action is simple. It is to hold Congress accountable by taking over...
Global coalition calls for an end to ‘oil aid’ October 19, 2007, Washington, DC. – More than 200 organisations from 56 countries are calling on the World Bank and other international financial institutions to end subsidies to the oil industry....
The oil and gas industry will need as much as $21.4 trillion in capital expenditures between now and 2030 to meet sharply growing global demand for hydrocarbons forecast by experts, according to analysts. Larry G. Chorn, the chief economist for...
As the government of Iraqi Kurdistan reiterates that the oil deals it has signed with foreign companies this year are legal and says most of the returns would be shared with the rest of Iraq, the New York Times wades...
Poor old Condi, being sent to bat for the President again. Yesterday the poor US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, had to defend Bush's climate change conference in Washington against accusations that it was a spoiler intended to undermine UN...
A US federal judge has dismissed a case brought by California against six leading carmakers over damage caused by the emissions of CO2 from cars. The legal action, the first of its kind, demanded millions of dollars in compensation from...
Iraq's parliament must overcome major disagreements before it can pass Iraq’s controversial oil law, Iraqi officials have admitted. Abdul-Hadi al-Hasani, deputy head of Iraq's parliamentary energy committee, said the new rules would pass before the end of the year --...
On Monday, the Moscow Times ran a story on one of the most watched projects in the Caspian region. Kashagan, an offshore oil project in the Kazakh sector of the Caspian Sea, is the largest oil field to have been...
