“Rescuing fossil fuel production is absolutely the wrong direction for public health amid a global pandemic.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) The Federal Reserve came under fire Thursday for expanding its emergency Main Street Lending Program ...
“Taxpayers shouldn’t be required to backstop oil and gas companies that were already in trouble prior to the pandemic.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) Climate advocates are slamming banking interests after a report Thursday revealed ...
In May Washington state joined New York state, Vermont and Maryland in passing fracking bans. Of these four states Maryland is the only one that has known oil and gas reserves. According to the U.S. ...
Hydraulic fracturing, savior or sin? That depends on who you ask. The fossil fuel industry and its proponents tout fracking’s economic benefits as this oil and gas extraction technique has led the march toward the ...
“It was really a matter of lobbyists scratching each other’s backs. ‘We’ll throw a pile of coal money at trying to destroy Bears Ears, if you grazing chaps will throw some cow money at our ...
The fracking revolution has led to private equity’s highest allocation of investment in fossil fuels in 20 years, but is it basically a Ponzi scheme? United States natural gas consumption increased 10% in 2018. The ...
Estimates published Wednesday by the U.S. Energy Department show the U.S. is the world’s largest crude oil producer for the first time since 1973. American oil production has doubled over the past decade, with much ...
West Virginian state senate candidate, Lissa Lucas, was removed from a hearing on a proposed pro-oil and gas industry bill, for reading oil industry donations to state legislators. Democratic Party candidate for West Virginia’s House ...
The Puyallup tribe has won the latest battle in the years long fight over construction of a new Tacoma LNG plant in Washington state. Permit approval of the Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) plant in Tacoma, ...
Responding to activists call for a ban on fracking at the U.N. climate summit in Germany, California Governor Jerry Brown tells protestors “Let’s put you in the ground.” (Watch the full video here: https://www.democracynow.org/2017/11/13/ca_gov_jerry_brown_tells_indigenous) Democracy Now! ...
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