Some say that corruption always starts at home. The CEO of VECO, an oil field services company, has pleaded guilty in an American federal court to bribing Alaska lawmakers during negotiations over a proposed natural gas pipeline. Bill J. Allen,...
Occidental has been accused of contaminating an area of the Peruvian Amazon where it and its successor company have drilled for oil for the past 32 years, creating misery for the local Achuar people and widespread lead and cadmium poisoning....
In the end it was not BP’s safety record or its leaking pipes in Alaska that was the final undoing for BP’s chief executive, Lord Browne, but it was his lying in court documents to try and protect his private...
An investigation by the Financial Times has found that the millions of dollars being spent on “carbon credit” projects yield few if any environmental benefits. In some cases, companies are paying emission reductions do not even take place. In others...
Global warming pollution increased in all but two states nationwide between 1990 and 2004, according to “The Carbon Boom,” a new analysis of state fossil fuel consumption data released earlier this month by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S....
Oil giant Shell is expected to pay out more than $700m in fines and compensation to settle the reserves fiasco that has dogged the company for the last few years. The figure was revealed by Shell after it offered to...
Halliburton has said that its subsidiary in Iran had completed all its commitments and was no longer working in the country. In January 2005, the company said that it would not accept new work in Iran but that it would...
It is being billed as the concert that will awaken the world to the dangers of climate change. It took Bob Geldof’s persuasive powers to rally support in aid of Africa. Now, over twenty years after the first Live Aid...
The New York Times reports that the latest IPCC report to be released today has found with “high confidence” that greenhouse gas emissions are at least partly responsible for a host of changes already under way, including longer growing seasons...
A report released this week by the Government Accountability Project (GAP), a whistleblower protection organization based in Washington D.C., demonstrates the politicization of climate science. According to GAP, political policies and practices "have increasingly restricted the flow of scientific information...
