The U.S. Department of Defense is the world’s leading consumer of petroleum, sucking up about 340,000 barrels of oil every day, more than the total national consumption of Sweden or Switzerland.

Representatives Maxine Waters (Democrat from California) and Spencer Bachus (Republican from Alabama) have introduced the 2007 Jubilee Act for Responsible Lending and Expanded Debt Cancellation (HR 2634) in the United States House of Representatives.
Oil Change International has been working with Jubilee USA on the connection between oil dependence and the debt trap, and the Jubilee […]

Nigeria’s Community Research and Development Centre (CREDC) has released a study on the impacts of climate change in the Niger Delta and the adaptation strategies that the people of the Niger Delta are using to deal with growing problems.

Development, debt and environmental organizations called on the G8 and other wealthy countries today to pay more than $50 billion a year to help cover the costs of dealing with climate change. This amount will only grow if the G8 fails to show leadership at the G8 Summit in Heiligendamm, Germany.
The group included Oil Change […]

A coalition of about 30 U.S. development and environmental NGOs called on President Bush today to stop standing in the way of a landmark deal on climate change at the upcoming G8 Summit in Heiligendamm, Germany.
The coalition, which includes Oil Change International, Friends of the Earth U.S., Oxfam America, the Sierra Club, Action Aid USA […]