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- Conservative leader says it is ‘absurd’ to shift away from fossil fuels and leave ‘vital resources untapped’
- Air pollution from oil and gas causes 90,000 premature US deaths each year, says new study Sat, 23 Aug 25, 4:00amStudy analyzed health impacts of fossil fuels from exploration to end use, and found communities of color bear brunt of harm
- Time to Stop Endangerment of Developing Economies With CO2 Regulation Wed, 20 Aug 25, 7:00pmNow is the time for policymakers in developing economies to stop treating plant food as public enemy number one so that their societies can take advantage of energy resources that make economic – and environmental – sense.
- ‘It’s destruction disguised as progress’: how the oil industry is sucking Iraq’s ancient wetlands dry Wed, 13 Aug 25, 5:00pmHawizeh’s wetlands once had abundant fishing and wildlife. In a land threatened by drought and desertification, oil drilling is draining the last of the water
- Millions of litres of oil seeping into UK soil from ageing electricity cables Wed, 13 Aug 25, 9:50pmFOI requests reveal leaks beneath cities, residential areas, riverbeds and fields in ‘huge problem for environment’
- UK electricity firms leak oil underground in ‘huge problem for environment’ Wed, 13 Aug 25, 9:50pmMillions of litres of oil has seeped into soil and watercourses from ageing fluid-filled cables over past 15 years
- Iraq’s marshes were considered an Eden. Now the oil industry is sucking them dry Wed, 13 Aug 25, 5:00pmHawizeh’s wetlands once had abundant fishing and wildlife. In a land threatened by drought and desertification, oil drilling is draining the last of the water
- BP Defies Ed Miliband to Reopen North Sea Oil Field Mon, 11 Aug 25, 3:00pmThe energy giant is reviving the Murlach field, which was declared uneconomic and taken out of use in 2004, has now become viable partly due to new technologies.
- ‘Erasure of years of work’: outcry as White House moves to open Arctic reserve to oil and gas drilling Sat, 9 Aug 25, 10:00pmUS Bureau of Land management is working to rapidly strip protections to largest tract of land in the US
- ‘We’ve begun oil spill response training’: Patagonia prepares for the largest crude oil export port in Argentina Fri, 8 Aug 25, 8:00pmWildlife experts warn huge facility on the Valdés peninsula in Patagonia could be devastating for ‘a treasure chest of wildlife’
- ‘Where’s the money going?’: why Brazilian towns awash with royalties from oil are still among the poorest Wed, 6 Aug 25, 9:00pmSince the first big finds in the 1940s, Brazil’s politicians have vowed all of its people would benefit. But in some oil towns, one in four people still live below the poverty line
- BP makes its biggest oil and gas discovery in 25 years off coast of Brazil Mon, 4 Aug 25, 11:56pmCompany to carry out more tests on its Santos basin find as it continues shift from renewables back to fossil fuels
- BP makes major oil and gas discovery off Brazil coast Mon, 4 Aug 25, 7:01pmCompany renews focus on fossil fuels and believes Santos basin could be its largest find since 1999
- Gorilla habitats and pristine forest at risk as DRC opens half of country to oil and gas drilling bids Tue, 29 Jul 25, 2:01pmGovernment launches licensing round for 52 fossil fuel blocks, potentially undermining a flagship conservation initiative and affecting an estimated 39 million people
- Australian taxpayers on the hook to pay Chevron more than $500m to clean up oil wells Wed, 23 Jul 25, 11:00amDeal struck in 1980s refunds about half of what the US multinational fossil fuel company paid in royalties, documents show