How bankruptcy lets oil companies evade cleanup
How bankruptcy lets oil and gas companies evade cleanup rules. A battle over who is responsible for cleaning up hundreds of oil and gas rigs in the Gulf of Mexico …
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NAACP Report: Fossil Fuel Industry Uses Deception to Conceal Damage to BIPOC Communities
The fossil fuel industry continues to use a long list of deceptive tactics to conceal environmental destruction that harms Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and low-income communities. That’s the …
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Analysis: UK is now halfway to meeting its ‘net-zero emissions’ target
The UK’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2020 were 51% below 1990 levels, according to new Carbon Brief analysis. This means the UK is now halfway to meeting its target of …
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Dirty coal to hydrogen: Trial aims for clean-energy solution
A Japanese-Australian venture has begun producing hydrogen from brown coal in a 500 million Australian dollars ($390m) pilot project that aims to show liquefied hydrogen can be produced commercially and …
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Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi are among the world’s worst hit by climate change
Five African countries: Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Malawi, South Sudan, and Niger, are among the world’s top 10 nations to be the worst affected by climate change through disruptions to productivity in …
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UK government won’t block first deep coal mine in three decades
Despite pressure from green groups, the UK Government has said it will not intervene in a county council’s decision to approve a deep coal mine – the first facility of …
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IEA: Coronavirus ‘accelerating closure’ of ageing fossil-fuelled power plants
This year will see the largest ever drop globally in both investment and consumer spending on energy as the coronavirus pandemic hits every major sector, according to the International Energy …
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Oil, gas, petrochemical financial woes predate pandemic
The oil, gas, and petrochemical industries have taken a massive financial blow from the COVID-19 pandemic, a new report from the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) concludes, but its financial troubles preexisted the emergence …
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Officials undermine rooftop solar movement in Puerto Rico in favour of natural gas
In the wake of Hurricane Maria, the power system’s failure was a key factor in the estimated 4,645 deaths associated with the storm. Hospitals and senior homes lost air conditioning …
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Fossil Fuel Trade Associations Spent $1.4 Billion on Ads in Past Decade
The American Petroleum Institute spent over half of that total on contracts with the PR giant Edelman, says Kert Davies of Climate Investigations Center. Click here to read full story
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