Oil and gas news & insights: Week of April 20
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New Report: Climate lawsuits being filed against fossil fuel companies have nearly tripled
86 climate lawsuits have been filed against the world’s largest oil, gas, and coal producing corporations, with two in five cases involving claims for compensation for climate change damages linked to fossil fuels. The number of cases filed against fossil...
Stop the Money Pipeline to Turn Up Heat on Financial Institutions during Earth Day Live
This Earth Day, activists will turn up the heat on Wall Street through mass online actions. Organizers say the need to pressure Wall Street to stop funding polluters and start supporting communities is more important now than ever.
Don’t Look Now! With clean energy disruption looming, pipeline developers are rushing to dupe consumers
As clean energy accelerates, it's time regulators stepped up to protect ratepayers from rip-off gas pipelines.
Stop the Money Pipeline Responds to President Biden’s Executive Order on Climate-Related Financial Risk
The Stop the Money Pipeline Coalition welcomes Biden's Executive Order as an important step for the climate finance movement and urges the administration to deliver strong reports and action plans ahead of the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow.
CSOs condemn G7 leaders for dangerous backsliding on gas, breaching commitments to end fossil fuel finance
"At a time when we rapidly need to phase out fossil fuels, this year’s G7 host has pushed for the expansion of gas and LNG and technologies that would prolong the use of coal," said Susanne Wong, Asia Program Manager.
Advocates Blast DOE Approval of LNG Exports from CP2 For Raising Costs, Imperiling Communities and Climate
The decision by the Trump Administration’s DOE comes amid glaring warnings about the impacts of LNG exports and widespread opposition to new LNG.
Germany Fails to Lead at E3F Summit and Threatens Decades of Fossil Fuel Lock-In
Rather than building momentum towards COP27 through delivering strong policies and a harmonized approach to implementing the collective promise to end international public finance for fossil fuels by the end of 2022, the Summit was overshadowed by backsliding.
A day after IEA calls for no new oil & gas development, UK approves vast Rosebank oil field
Barely is the ink dry on the IEA’s report which called for no new oil and gas development, and yet today, the UK Government gave the go-ahead to the huge Rosebank oil field, which is seen as the UK’s last...
Despite our growing climate emergency, Eni and Equinor double down on fossil fuel expansion
It's that time of year again when the oil industry has to face its shareholders and investors in public: AGM season. Over the coming days, Big Oil executives will have to respond to questions about how they are reconciling the...