Today, environmentalists delivered a letter to Energy Information Administration (EIA) Administrator Adam Sieminski requesting that “the Energy Information Administration produce a safe climate scenario or scenarios that are consistent with our nation’s climate goals.” The letter comes as the EIA’s...
The already jittery oil price has risen even further after Nigeria's powerful oil unions began a strike yesterday at the state-owned oil company, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company as well as the Petroleum Ministry. They are also threatening to target...
The fighting in Basra could soon affect Iraq’s oil supplies. Oil production and exports from Iraq's southern oilfields could be disrupted in three days if workers cannot reach their offices due to fighting in Basra. "If the military operations continue...
Oil may be at its lowest level for years, but Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has warned consumers that the "era of cheap gas" is coming to an end. At a meeting to create a new forum of gas exporting...
Impractical, hugely expensive, and fiercely opposed by Alaskan civil society groups, Alaska LNG and similar projects have failed to get off the ground for 60 years.
When faced with a PR battle, one of the fossil fuel industry’s tactics is to set up a supposed grass-roots organisation or “Astroturf” organisation. So Citizens for the Environment had no citizens in it – it was just a front...
Don’t be fooled: the Energy Permitting Reform Act is another dirty deal to fast-track fossil fuels above all else. It would unleash more drilling on federal lands and waters, unnecessarily rush the review of proposed oil and gas export projects,...
Each year, G20 countries provide nearly four times more public finance to fossil fuels than to clean energy. In total, public fossil fuel financing from G20 countries averaged some $71.8 billion per year, for a total of $215.3 billion in...
This new legal opinion finds that export credit agencies could be in violation of their international legal obligations if they do not take action to reduce their financing of fossil fuel-related activities imminently.
“By voting for a dirty deal that fast-tracks the Mountain Valley fracked gas pipeline and guts bedrock environmental laws, Congress betrayed people and the planet."
