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I’m asking BP to take its share of responsibility for my ...th, and will take it to UK court if I have to | Hussein Julood
Ali died of cancer last year. He was 21, and had to live in the choking smoke of the Rumaila oilfield A year has passed since my beautiful boy Ali Julood died. Not a day goes by when I do not t...
‘Privileged access’: pro-plastic lobbyists at UN pollution talks increase by a third
Fossil fuel and petrochemical campaigners at Ottawa summit outnumber scientists, EU and Indigenous delegates The number of fossil fuel and petrochemical industry lobbyists has increased by more...
Activist groups not directly involved in Tiwi Island lawsuit must hand over documents to Santos, court rules
Broad terms of subpoenas a ‘chilling’ precedent that could undermine future climate litigation, legal experts say Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast ...
Students at US universities file legal complaints over fossil fuel investments
Organizers at Columbia, Tulane and the University of Virginia write to attorneys general arguing schools’ investments are illegal Campus organizers at three universities filed legal complaint...
Major investors leading push against Woodside’s climate plans ahead of AGM
Norway’s KLP and the UK’s LGIM among those who say they have concerns over energy giant’s carbon transition goals Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and...
Louisiana’s flagship university lets oil firms influence research – for a price
Louisiana State University allowed Shell to influence studies after a $25m donation and sought funds from other fossil fuel firms This story is co-published with the Lens, a non-profit newsroom i...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/21/louisiana-state-university-oil-firms-influence
Biden administration moves to restrict oil and gas leases on 13m acres in Alaska
Environmentalists celebrate new rules but Alaska politicians call it an ‘illegal’ attack on state’s livelihood and predict lawsuits The Biden administration said on Friday it will restric...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/19/biden-alaska-oil-gas-restrictions
Plastic-production emissions could triple to one-fifth of Earth’s carbon budget – report
EXCLUSIVE: By the middle of the century, pollution from plastic industry could ‘undermine world’s effort’ to control climate crisis By the middle of the century, global emissions from pla...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/18/plastic-production-emission-climate-crisis
‘We can’t hunt or fish’: the villages in Ecuador’s Amazon surrounded by abandoned explosives
In 2002, high explosives were laid in oil wells across 20 sq km of forest. The firm has gone but the pentolite remains, despite a court ruling, putting lives and the ecosystem at risk Living on...
EVs are booming but electric bikes are really cutting emissions
Ebikes and mopeds, known as electric micromobility, were responsible for two-thirds of the 1.5m barrels of oil displaced a day by EVs in 2022 Australians are really getting on board with electr...
Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016
Analysis reveals many big producers increased output of fossil fuels and related emissions in seven years after Paris climate deal A mere 57 oil, gas, coal and cement producers are directly lin...
Surge of new US-led oil and gas activity threatens to wreck Paris climate goals
World’s fossil-fuel producers on track to nearly quadruple output from newly approved projects by decade’s end, report finds The world’s fossil-fuel producers are on track to nearly quadr...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/28/oil-and-gas-fossil-fuels-report
Calls for international criminal court to end ‘impunity’ for environmental crimes
Campaigners say activities leading to severe environmental harm usually also violate human rights The international criminal court (ICC) has been urged to start investigating and prosecuting in...
World’s top fossil-fuel bosses deride efforts to move away from oil and gas
Executives at Texas summit claim clean-energy transition is failing and say world should ‘abandon the fantasy’ of fossil-fuel phaseout The bosses of the world’s leading oil and gas compan...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/20/fossil-fuels-oil-and-gas-clean-energy
Climate activists across Europe block access to North Sea oil infrastructure
Blockades at facilities in Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden, with protests in Scotland and action expected in Denmark Climate activists in four countries are blocking access to North...
Fossil fuel firms must plug methane leaks to meet climate targets, warns watchdog
Spending to clean up their operations would be equivalent to only 5% of profits made last year, IEA estimates Fossil fuel companies must pay tens of billions to reduce the emissions of methane ...
Officials investigating 2.5-mile long oil sheen off southern California coast
Unified command was formed to look in to the origin of the sheen, which did not seem to be expanding since it was first detected Authorities in southern California are investigating a 2.5-mile ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/08/huntington-beach-california-oil-spill-investigation
John Kerry doesn’t get it: the US can’t be a force for good on the climate until it stops fossil fuel expansion | Letter
ALLIE ROSENBLUTH of Oil Change International disputes a claim made by the special presidential envoy in a Guardian interview John Kerry’s recent claim in an interview with the Guardian that t...
Campaigners get go-ahead to challenge plans for oilfield in Lincolnshire Wolds
Permission granted for judicial review after Planning Inspectorate overturned local council’s decision to reject plan Campaigners have been given permission to challenge plans for a new oilfi...
John Kerry: US committed to tackling climate crisis despite fossil fuel growth
Outgoing climate chief says he is ‘not ready’ to give up on 1.5C target he helped negotiate in Paris agreement The US continues to be a force for good in tackling the climate crisis, despit...