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Energy giant promised to turn 1m tonnes of plastic waste into oil each year, but now says goal is unfeasible

Fossil fuel and petrochemical campaigners at Ottawa summit outnumber scientists, EU and Indigenous delegates

Almost half of products cleared so far under a new US federal ‘biofuels’ program are not, in fact, biofuels

Americans throw away an estimated 2.5m plastic water bottles an hour. We need international cooperation to protect our planet and our health

President Biden’s climate policy is not “the root of all evil,” but it’s close. Instead of improving the earth’s climate, it is causing or at least substantially worsening several economic and national security...

Project does not meet EU’s requirement for environmental impact assessment, NGOs say

Steve and Dee Allen say sponsorship deal and ‘gagging clause’ show it is no longer a credible scientific institution

Researchers also find impact of bottled water on ecosystems is 1,400 times higher than that of tap water

Ocean plastic pollution is less than 1% of what we've been screaming for decades, but is still as big a problem as ever

Owners of Queensland’s controversial Carmichael mine say plant will use 3.1m tonnes of coal a year to make PVC

To keep economies, lifestyles, and prosperity continuing their growth among humanity, the world’s focus should be toward the development of clones or generics to the oil derivatives that have made possible the robust economies...

The effort to find a replacement for the dying climate crisis has plumbed new depths.

Late last year, Solugen, a startup using synthetic biology to take hydrocarbons out of the chemicals industry, decided against pursuing a new round of funding that would have valued the company at over $1 billion, TechCrunch...

A new investigation by NPR and PBS Frontline reveals that for decades, executives in the oil and plastic industries invested millions of U.S. dollars into misleading the public about the recycling of plastics....

Oil will be replaced by clean electricity, BP predicts, as demand may never recover from Covid-19 pandemic