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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RELEASE: Fossil Fuel Expansion Has Reached the Sky’s Limit: Report
The embedded carbon emissions from the oil, gas, and coal in currently operating fields and mines, if they run to the end of their projected lifetimes, will take us just beyond the Paris Agreement’s 2C warming limit, and even further from the goal of 1.5C, a new study has found.
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The Sky’s Limit: Why the Paris Climate Goals Require a Managed Decline of Fossil Fuel Production
A new study released by Oil Change International, in partnership with 14 organizations from around the world, scientifically grounds the growing movement to keep carbon in the ground by revealing the need to stop all new fossil fuel infrastructure and industry expansion.
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Briefing: Dakota Access Pipeline’s Massive Government Subsidies
Dakota Access should be stopped immediately for a long list of reasons. But we must also stop billions of taxpayer dollars from flowing to fossil fuels.
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Dakota Access’s owners got over $650 million from taxpayers last year
Hundreds of thousands have joined Native water protectors in opposing Dakota Access. So why are taxpayers subsidizing its owners with millions of dollars?
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Dakota Access Pipeline Company Vows to Continue Despite Worldwide Protests
Despite worldwide protests yesterday, Kelcy Warren, the billionaire owner of the company building the Dakota Access pipeline, has defiantly vowed to “complete construction” of what has rapidly become the most highly controversial fossil fuel project in the world.
Resources
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The Sky’s Limit: Why the Paris Climate Goals Require a Managed Decline of Fossil Fuel Production
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Briefing: Dakota Access Pipeline’s Massive Government Subsidies
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A Bridge Too Far: How Appalachian Basin Gas Pipeline Expansion Will Undermine U.S. Climate Goals
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Shorting the Climate: Fossil Fuel Finance Report Card 2016
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Swept Under the Rug: How G7 nations conceal public financing for coal around the world
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Still Failing to Solve Energy Poverty
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World Bank Group Funds Fossil Fuel Exploration
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Factsheet: The Dirty Energy Money Cycle
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Briefing: BOEM 5 Year Offshore Drilling Plan and the Climate
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Tar Sands: The Myth of Tidewater Access
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OIL TAX FACTS: Dispelling North Sea Oil Myths
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New #COP21 Analysis: Start funding climate action, stop funding climate chaos
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Empty promises: G20 subsidies to oil, gas and coal production
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Tracking Emissions: The Climate Impact of the Proposed Crude-by-Rail Terminals in the Pacific Northwest
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Hidden Costs: Pollution from Coal Power Financed by OECD Countries
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.