Oil Change International is a research, communication, and advocacy organization focused on exposing the true costs of fossil fuels and facilitating the coming transition towards clean energy. The production and consumption of oil, gas, and coal are major sources of global warming, human rights abuses, war, national security concerns, corporate globalization, and increased inequality.
News
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Air Pollution Kills 9 Million; Costs $5 Trillion A Year
Pollution is the largest environmental cause of disease and death in the world today, responsible for an estimated 9 million premature deaths.
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Community Responses to FERC’s Terrible Pipeline Approvals
Last Friday, FERC continued it’s rubber-stamping ways. Fortunately for pipeline fighters, fights against these two fracked gas pipelines is far from over. Here’s a selection of community voices responding to FERC’s terrible pipeline approvals of Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast’s certificates.
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Trump stamps his mark on mid-Atlantic pipeline fights: time for McAuliffe & Cooper to take action
FERC’s approval of the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley pipelines lacks credibility. Trump’s new FERC appointees pushed them through over rare dissent from Cheryl LaFleur. Governor’s Cooper and McAuliffe need to take action.
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U.S. export credit agency spends nearly $6 billion to finance fossil fuel projects abroad
The U.S. Export-Import Bank (USEXIM) is the third-largest supporter of fossil fuels among all G20 countries, according to a new report out today from Oil Change International, Friends of the Earth U.S., and WWF’s European Policy Office.
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From Ophelia to the Amazon: the Unthinkable Becomes Thinkable
Nearly every week now we have a new, previously unthinkable climate event
Resources
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Financing Climate Disaster: How Export Credit Agencies Are a Boon for Oil and Gas
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Cross Purposes: After Paris, Multilateral Development Banks Still Funding Billions in Fossil Fuels
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Dirty Energy Dominance: Dependent on Denial – How the U.S. Fossil Fuel Industry Depends on Subsidies and Climate Denial
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Art of the Self-Deal: How Regulatory Failure Lets Gas Pipeline Companies Fabricate Need and Fleece Ratepayers
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Saudi Aramco’s IPO: A Test of whether Investors Are Serious about Climate
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The Sky’s Limit Norway: Why Norway Should Lead the Way in a Managed Decline of Oil and Gas Extraction
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Dirty Distraction: The Energy and Natural Resources Act of 2017 (S.1460)
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Talk is Cheap: How G20 Governments are Financing Climate Disaster
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Reality Check: The End of Growth in the Tar Sands
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Banking on Climate Change: Fossil Fuel Finance Report Card 2017
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The Rover Pipeline: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Briefing
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Fossil Fuel Finance at the Multilateral Development Banks: The Low-Hanging Fruit of Paris Compliance
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Unequal Exchange: How Taxpayers Shoulder the Burden of Fossil Fuel Development on Federal Lands
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The Money Behind the Mountain Valley Pipeline: Is Your Bank Financing Another Fracked-Gas Disaster?
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Private Gain, Public Risk: Guarantees & Credit Enhancement for Coal-Fired Power Plants in Indonesia
Projects
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Crude-by-Rail Resources
The Crude-by-Rail Resource Hub includes our interactive map charting major rail routes and terminals for the transport of crude oil by rail in the U.S. and Canada. The hub also contains our latest crude-by-rail reports and actions.
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RefineryReport.org
The Refinery Report project will develop and publish data on North America’s refineries, beginning with the amount of crude oil refined from the world’s dirtiest and most destructive source of oil: the Canadian tar sands.
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ShiftTheSubsidies.org
The Shift the Subsidies database is an interactive tool to visually track and analyze the flow of energy subsidies from international, regional and bilateral public financial institutions around the world.
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DirtyEnergyMoney.com
Dirty Energy Money is an interactive tool that tracks the flow of oil, gas and coal industry contributions to the US Congress.
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The Price of Oil Wheel
The price of oil per barrel doesn’t include all of oil’s hidden costs. Learn more about the true cost of oil by using the flash navigation tool.