Opinion: COP29 Has Become A sad, Sad Circus Where Big Oil is the Boss
As a measure of progress against agreements made at earlier Conference of the Parties climate change organized by the…
Climate non-catastrope: Why Trump pulling out of Paris agreement (again) doesn’t matter
As climate negotiators descend on Baku, Azerbaijan, this week for the United Nations annual climate summit, COP29, the one…
Big Oil Hit Again For Climate Crisis
States and municipalities have begun a series of lawsuits against Big Oil, the club of multinational crude producers that…
Rare EPA Court Victory Hints at Fossil Fuels Future
On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to uphold new EPA air pollution rules that tighten limits on emissions…
Will the F-word swing the presidential election?
(Bill Sternberg is a veteran Washington journalist and former editorial page editor of USA Today.) PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla….
Burning Tanker Attacked By Rebels May Be Environmental Disaster
The Sounion tanker carrying crude oil through the Red Sea was hit by rockets from Houthi rebels and is…
Falling Oil Price To Cause Jump In Pollution
Oil prices may be capped at $75. At least, that is what Bloomberg is reporting. Production by OPEC+, which…
Big Oil Says It Will Stay Very Big
The world will need more oil in the coming decades—at least, that is what oil executives have recently promoted…
Gas Above $5.20 In San Francisco Lifts EV Sales
EV adoption in California is almost beyond belief. About 25% of all EVs sold in the US are sold…
Vermont Will Force Oil Companies To Pay For Climate Damage. Court Fight Next
Vermont’s Climate Superfund Act has a benign name but does not have benign intentions. Vermont is the first state…
How oil divestment plans backfired at Exxon, Shell meetings
Ask any of the student protesters who shut down college campuses across the U.S. this past month what their…
Exxon’s Horrible Reputation
According to a new Axios-Harris poll, the reputations of two huge oil companies fell based on Americans’ opinions. The…
Deep in the heart of Texas is … a yearning for the latest darling of the renewable energy sector
One of the huge ironies about renewables — and we mean a humongous one — is that the U.S….
BlackRock Gives Up On ESG
Mark Wiedman, head of the global client business at BlackRock, said, “Transition investing is specific and concrete. Clients know…
Oil Spill Threatens Red Sea Environment
One of the ships–Belize-flagged bulk carrier Rubymar– hit by missiles from Houthi rebels has caused a significant oil leak….
Ghost ship dumps oil across miles of coast off caribbean island
A mystery ship with no crew of has been ditched off the Caribbean Island nation of Trinidad and Tobago,…
Fossil Fuel Polluter Giant Created By M&A
Diamondback Energy and Endeavor Energy Resources are merging to create an oil-and-gas behemoth worth over $50 billion. It creates…
Heard of the Houthis? They’re not only causing chaos, but they’re also Boosting global warming.
Remember the 2013 movie “Captain Phillips”? It starred Tom Hanks in the true story of an American sea captain…
Yes, 70 years ago, the oil and auto industries knew all about CO2. And then covered it up.
Guess who were major funders of the pioneering 1950s research that established the dangers of pollution in warming the…
Surprise! Under pressure, Big Oil digs up the tawdry 50-year-old tactics of Big Tobacco.
Remember the Tobacco Institute, the lobbying group for the smoking industry that, 50 years or so ago, claimed that…
Think fiery oil-company AGMs are a long way off? Well, The flare-ups have already started.
The first volleys have been fired in what has become an annual series of skirmishes between environmental activists and…