Later today the Republican Senator John Hoeven will try to introduce legislation seeking to bypass President Barack Obama and empower Congress to approve the highly controversial Keystone XL pipeline. Hoeven's bill, that would seek to take control of the Keystone...
New report shows institution lacking clean energy lending strategy and instead considering a new loan for coal power in Kosovo BASIC South Initiative - Campagna per la riforma della Banca Mondiale (Italy) - Friends of the Earth U.S. - groundWork...
The World Bank Group is experiencing clear difficulties in synching its core lending and its energy strategy with climate goals, and the institution has taken steps that can easily be viewed as creating a conflict of interest. Given these difficulties...
It wasn’t meant to be like this. After nearly a decade of war, chaos and bloodshed, the Iraqi oil industry was meant to be controlled by the bureaucrats and politicians from Baghdad. But Big Oil obviously has other ideas, and...
(Washington, DC – October 5, 2011) Today leaders of 52 national and state organizations sent a letter to the members of the Super Congress (formally known as the Congressional Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction) demanding that the elimination of...
Find out how much oil money your elected representatives take by visiting the Dirty Energy Money site. Washington, D.C.---U.S. Senators that blocked a vote on legislation to end taxpayer subsidies to oil companies have received five times more in campaign...
Media Contacts: Adam Smith, Public Campaign Action Fund, (202) 640-5593, [email protected] Steve Kretzmann, Oil Change International, (202) 497-1033, [email protected] For Immediate Release May 12, 2011 Senate Finance Committee Awash in Campaign Cash from Big Oil Committee Republicans take 4 times...
We need your help this Friday to call on the World Bank Group to direct its energy lending to provide healthy, clean energy access to the world's poor. Currently, 1.4 billion people mostly in rural Asia and Africa are without...
When you think of the Deepwater disaster earlier this year, of course the main company responsible for the spill that springs to mind is BP, the operator of the rig. The next villain in the story is Transocean, the owner...
With only a few days to go in the UN climate talks in Cancún, many questions remain on the outcomes, including on one of the most important issues currently on the table – climate finance. Finance in the context of...
