Category: Oil and gas companies

Climate groups launch national tour for Green New Deal

Exclusive: multistate tour, launching in Michigan on Sunday, aims to pressure Biden on climate action before 2024 electionOne year after the passage of the much-lauded Inflation Reduction Act, a coalition of organizers and representatives are relaunchi…

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New fossil fuel projects ‘very unwise economic risk’ says global energy chief

Fatih Birol, head of International Energy Agency, says countries planning expansion are ‘misjudging market trends’Countries and companies planning to expand their fossil fuel production are taking “very unhealthy and unwise economic risks” as their inv…

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Fossil fuel companies have a secret weapon. Here’s how Britain can help take it away from them | Cleodie Rickard

Eleven countries have already pledged to exit the disastrous international charter treaty. We must join themIf Labour wants an energy transition in which working people don’t foot the bill, it has to address fossil fuel companies’ secret weapon against…

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Will Ghana’s gas gamble perpetuate a cycle of fossil-fuel related debt?

West African country is enduring hard times – and critics say plan to import liquefied natural gas will only make things worseJohn Gakpo has milled corn to make kenkey – a cornmeal dumpling and Ghana’s staple food – in a dimly lit wooden shack in a sub…

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Invasion of Ukraine ‘has fuelled funding boom for clean energy’

International Energy Agency says investment will hit $1.7tn this year, well ahead of fossil fuelsRussia’s invasion of Ukraine has helped ignite a boom in clean energy investment which will significantly outpace spending on fossil fuels, according to th…

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